On Jul 6, 2:00*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:

The only thing I will suggest is that after you get a estimate from a
local contractor, get a price for a gas dryer and see how much you can
get for your electric one. You might find that it's a lot more cost
effective in the long run to sell and switch, unless you're on some
sort of cheap "village electric".

Gas as fuel must then be greatly cheaper than electrcity????
Just estimating based on the average residential cost of electrcity
here of 10 cents Canadian per kilowatt hour.
One dryer load every day of the week for one hour and with dryer
heater elements of say 4500 watts (assume heaters are on 80% of drying
time).
Kilowatts (per month) = 30 x 4.5 x 0.8 = 108 Kw. At ten cents that's
$10.80 per month? Or around $130 per year.
If it costs say $300 to scrap the electric dryer and buy and install,
for the first time in that house, a gas dryer (presuming gas is
available? It's not available here! We tend to be all hydro generated
electric for everything!) that's approx equivalent to two years of
operation using existing dryer.
The OP's post conveys IMO not a great knowledge of electrical matters;
therefore concur with idea of getting an electrician to check that
existing circuit and if possible convert it to suitable 230 volts for
existing dryer. Our dryer is wired with 3 wire 10 AWG (30 amps at 230
= 6900 watts) from a dedicated double pole breaker using the now
standard dryer 4 pin socket.
If electricity in OPs area costs, say twice as much (maybe 20c kwhr?)
the argument may be different and payback for use of a gas dryer
quicker?
As mentioned gas (except bottled propane) not available here and
electrcity is anyway viewed as much safer.