Most single family homes do have gas. Apartments are generally all electric. Most clothes dryers are generally electric. Residential propane tanks are sometimes as small as 60 gallons and as large as 1,000 gallons.

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  1. I have never encountered a home using gas in Sweden. I think some might exist in Stockholm, and would then use piped gas I would guess.

  2. Vast majority of homes using gas are connected to piped gas mains. Exception would be holiday homes (like cabins) or people living in really remote areas, as far as I know in these scenarios all appliances would run off one large tank.

  3. During the 50’s our government discovered a large gas bubble near the town of Slochteren, so many new houses were installed with gas appliances that were linked up with pipes, so we don’t really use propane tanks to my knowledge. However, we don’t extract much gas from that bubble anymore because of it causing earthquakes in local areas, so I don’t know which type of energy is mainly used today.

  4. If a home here has gas it’s normally natural gas from a main. There will be one meter per house. Propane isn’t that popular, I’ve only come across it a few times and most have larger tanks feeding the whole house/building

  5. The [gas transmission network](https://gasgrid.fi/en/gas-network/gas-transmission-network/) is quite limited in Finland. The main ways to heat a building is either district heating or direct electricity.

    [Statistics](https://www.kaasuyhdistys.fi/kaasu-suomessa/tilastot/) on gas customers from 2019:

    * gas stoves only: 25.419 (popular for example in restaurants)
    * houses for heating: 4.025
    * row houses and apartment buildings for heating: 1.084

    So it’s quite rare, I have never seen a gas stove here. But they do exist.

  7. As far as I know, gas always comes from a main in Switzerland, with one meter per house or apartment. Electric appliances are more common these days, though. Most of the houses and apartments that use gas are relatively old, i.e. were constructed before 1950.

  8. Before we were forced to convert to a heat pump. We had a heating oil furnace with a tank in the cellar which still is there.

  9. Depends on the building. In the city you might be connected to the city network, or use small bottles (only for cooking in that case).

    Rural areas it’s usually bottles (for cooking and/or water heating), or a propane tank if it’s used for heating the house or for an apartment building (not sure if it’s common, but my appartement has that and it’s great).

    Electric is more common for heating though.

    And I had no idea that gas clothes dryer existed, it’s non existant there (and lots of people don’t have a dryer anyway)

  10. The vast majority of houses here have a gas connection to a centralized main line. The other houses not connected use 40kg LPG gas tanks.

  11. Alot of houses in Germany use a gas heater as a central house heater

    They don’t have tanks but have established infrastructure so a central meter in the cellar mostly

    If you choose to use gas appliances you can use the central meter however it is really uncommon to have gas appliances in Germany

    Propane tanks for gas powered barbecues are however quite common and can be bought at Alot of gas stations or even supermarkets

  12. We have an extensive network of gas pipelines which means households use almost exclusively main lines. Tanks are usually for camping or holiday cabins.

  13. Small bottles here, no main gas pipeline that goes to homes. The gas man comes round once a week, collects the empty ones and replaces them (obviously for a fee). You can also go to the main gas ‘warehouses’? And do this yourself.

  14. I think propane tanks are relatively common in Spain. I know plenty of people with them, in fact I have it in the garden as well.

    The small one is 990 liters, I don’t know about the big one, maybe 10000 liters?

  15. In Austria most gas heatings/cookers are connected to a wide area gas network, it’s mostly a city thing. In rural areas you will either find old oil heatings/electric stove setups or in modern ones you’d either have wood pellet fired heatings or Air/Ground Heat Pump/Solar setups.

  16. I don’t know what a gallon is but in Belgium everybody that I know who uses gas for cooking and/or heating takes it from the gas network no tanks involved.

    Only for bbq’s gas cannisters are used.

    In France I have been to vacation homes which were to remote to have a gas line or to hilly to put one in. There some stoves used the same cannisters as bbq’s.

  17. >Apartments are generally all electric.

    Aren’t apartments a central boiler? It heats water and pipes it to the apartments.

  18. Households that use gas generally have it piped in. For example I have a gas stove for heating, a gas cook top in the kitchen, and a gas fueled tankless water heater, all connected to the same meter. When I was growing up I had a friend who lived more rural (for Belgium, so nothing compared to the US) and gas wasn’t available on his street, so his parents had put in a large gas tank next to their house. This is quite rare though.

    You can buy gas bottles though for things that need them, for example for space heaters (great-grandparents had one, don’t know if they still sell them), gas grills, gas powered deep fryers, etc.

    Nowadays though, I think people would just opt to go all electrical if there’s no gas line available. Maybe with a wood pellet stove for heating instead of a heat pump if possible.

  20. My house has no gas. But the connection is available. We cook and bake with an induction cooker. It reacts just as quickly as a gas cooker,
    We heat with an automatic wood pellet heating system. This is only rarely necessary, because I have insulated a 20000L hot water tank in the core of the house. In summer, the water is heated with solar collectors on the roof of the house.
    Many others heat with natural gas, which comes from the supplier via a pipe network.
    I only know gas bottles from camping or from remote villages in the 70s.

  22. I use natural gas and it’s piped. It is used for heat, water heater and cooker. Not a lot of people here use gas, but for those who do, it’s mostly piped

  23. The last time I was off the gas network was in rural England couple of decent size gas bottles hooked up for the gas cooker. Heating and water was done through oil, every house had a large oil tank, good for 6-12 months of supply, and a couple of local firms who do the rounds filling them up as required.

    Unless it’s some sort of caravan, mobile home construction then you’re going to have oil, and if you are so far off the beaten track that you have no mains gas network then you are going to have the space for a tank.

  25. I have lived in homes in the past that were exclusively electric and presently live in one that is mostly electric, but portions are gas operated, but have never used a tank and the line is connected to the main city supplier, they just send me a bill each month. I think only the heating system is gas operated, I would not even know how to use a propane tank. Even my outdoor grill is electrically operated.

  26. I grew up in a rural part of England (although only 20 miles from a city) and all the houses nearby had large raised gas tanks in their gardens. For some reason we didnt (we were all electric). We did have a massive underground septic tank though. It was fun when the tanker lorry came to suck it all away.

  27. We usually have three options:

    – mainline gas
    – large gas tank buried in the yard
    – small gas tank for the stove only

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