wood pellet stoves

my partner and I have been discussing the possibility of replacing our old wood stove with a wood-pellet stove

any DUer use one? pros, cons? advise, suggestions?

He absolutely loves it and is having another one installed upstairs. I've never heard anything against them.

There's these kerosene ones too. One of our clients sells them, but I imagine you can find them anywhere.

http://www.philssawshop.com/kerosene.htm

We checked into upgrading our fireplace.
Pellets aren't as romantic as wood of course, but if it's a stove (practical), I'd say they seem great. We looked at 3 places with various flavors. One demo on a real unit fired up very fast. Not sure how long they last on a fill-up.

The pellets come in large bags, so if hefting these babies is going to be a problem, well...

is the ability to control the heat and being able to set it for a low burn.

We don't like the wood stove running when we are not home. And during the work week it takes a few hours for our current wood stove to "heat up" the house and by then we are in bed

thanks for your input!

in his basement. It warms the whole house with the baseboard heat coming on only occasionally. If you live in an area where corn is cheap you might think of buying a corn stove. It is the same as the wood pellet stove but is built to take the higher heat of corn. You can burn wood pellets in the corn stove but not corn in a wood pellet stove.

On edit: Buy an UPS system to keep the unit working during power outages.




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