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Who makes the good glass cooktops?
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> On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:03:24 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>>> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:01:10 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:57:44 -0300, wrote:
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>>>>> I own a condo and although the furnaces for heating have been
>>>>> converted, the option to cook with it is not available. I do own my
>>>>> condo which is my home, but gas for cooking is not available.
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>>>>I'm pretty sure it would be if the homeowners were willing to pony up
>>>>the money to have the building retrofitted for gas. The problem is
>>>>that it would cost a boatload of money and be messy during the
>>>>process.
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>>> It would be ridiculously expensive ! There are 90 units, eight floors
>>> and it is all solid concrete. We maintain a wealthy reserve fund
>>> against unplanned expenses so it would have to come from a special
>>> assessment and I for one, would definitely vote against it based on
>>> cost and noise, even though I wouldn't mind having the gas.
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>>> It's no different to home ownership, there will always be things you
>>> would like but which are impractical.
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>>When I lived in Malta there was no piped gas on our side of the island so
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>>had tall tanks replaced every week of propane gas. They fitted nicely
>>into
>>their places in the kitchen and bathroom and worked just fine.
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> We can have BBQ propane tanks, out on the balconies I can't see where
> I would want to lose space to anything in my kitchen though. You get
> used to what you have and I have never had gas since we moved to
> Canada in 1967 so I am used to electric now  We had gas for the
> fireplace at our last house but I wasn't about to replace the stove at
> that point.
These gas tanks were what everyone had, not just me.
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