going to go pick up a new pellet stove tomorrow.... yes

whitfield profile fs30. any comments.
replacing a pellet stove we purchased in '92

or is there no "waste"?

About once a year, the whole thing needs cleaning. Works great. Non-polluter. I love it. Warms the whole house.

But my father-in-law says the pellets are expensive....do you think they are?

Do you not have to externally vent these things?

Can you just feed it pellets to burn and not have smoke/toxins come out of it?

That would be outstanding!

directly through the wall or a chimney, whatever best suits your application

Think again.



http://burningissues.org/health-effects.html

sorry if I misled you. but they are very nonpolluter. 0.41 grs an hr. I believe at full output.

can't win for losing.

and spent most of my life using one, then I got a wild hair and bought a pellet stove and have never looked back.

it from time to time. Our stove now we only empty the ashes maybe 3 times a winter for a total of maybe 2 gallons of ash.
real efficient. Our stove cost $1100.00 in '92 and has saved us 8 to 9 hundred bucks a year.

that stove appears to need no flu. Is the idea that you feed it those pellets that are next to it? Looks like it. What is the cost of the stove and the pellets? How long do they last? I am interested because we have a wood stove that we seldom use for heat, as it cuts off the furnace in our rather primitive dirt floor cellar and then the pipes freeze. We keep it in case of power outage, but have used a kerosene heater most times in that case.

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LOL, I see my questions have already been answered.

for a total lengh of 24 inches.
so clean no mess at all, pellets come in 40 lb bags, little effort to put them in the stove at all.

thanks

Martin services inc.
Seems to be really nice people to deal with.

where do you get pellets? Are they readily available? We're shopping for a new wood burning stove, mainly because I'm uncertain about pellet availability. I haven't spent $ on wood for 3 years since an ice storm took out 3 huge pecans and an oak.

most all feed store, I live out here in the boonies and I have at least 8 or 10 choices. becoming real popular. when we bought our first stove in '92 there were only about 4 or 5 places close, who sold them. check out the pellet stoves at least, we heat all year for 2 ton of pellets.

Our first we bought at sutherlands lumber in tulsa

KS

I has a flue, a rod you pull out and adjust. This is generally speaking, models vary. Out here a ton of pellets is $138. Lowes have them for $2.47 a 40lb bag. I have a wood stove. Cost of wood "0".

pretty much on a different level

we used an ashley wood stove before and we won't ever go back.

Clean the flue once a year....dump the ash pan once per ton....we'll burn about 1-3/4 tons....

Im in wisconsin. We have a Harmon Accentra...



I did a lot of research. Much cleaner than cord wood stoves. (hell of a lot easier too...)

We bought our 90 40 lbs. bags of pellets from local building supply.

It is a renewable - Biomass fuel. Greenhouse gas nuetral.

We also add corn to extend our wood supply. I buy a few hundred punds of corn too.

Infrastructure cost for wood pellet fuel mfg and delivery is many times lss than fossil fuels.

I sure like their heat control system. Would you be able to go back to burning cordwood? Only if I had to.

...since I was curious:

http://hearth.com/what/pelletstoves.html

http://greenfire.pelletstove.com/europa_productinfo.php

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/11/rika_pellet_sto.php

if i could afford it. Luckily we have electric heat at our apartment and it is PAID! :D

the first patent was in '84 to whitfield

I live way out in the boonies, no gas heat, and wood burning is warm and all but work and smoke intensive. The old heat pump just doesn't do much when its below 30. gotta get one of these.

I'm thinking of getting an external wood stove next year, and would be interested in any information you've got.

Pellets compared to regular wood, really no comparison. Pellets you bring in the house in a plastic bag of 40 lbs no bugs under the bark in hibernation or anything, very clean burning. Coming into our home you would never think we use a wood product in heating, no mess no smell.
:toast::hi:

Here in Missouri, any interior wood or pellet burner almost always jacks up your insurance rate, thus I'm going with the external stove.
Also, I've got a 2400 sq ft house, two level, and I need to pipe hot air through the ducts in order to heat the whole place.

But it sounds great for you, congratulations. Anything to get further off the grid, and become part of the solution:toast:

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Bajaj motor scooter, 55-60mph, 100mpg, saves me four-five bucks everytime I go to work.

Hope your pellet stove works well for you, and remember, keep the pipes clean, we don't won't a chimmney fire:hi:

Wood pellet stoves are classifed the same way as a natural gas stove heater would be. They are vented the same way.

That is because the fuel is a controlled feed. the burn box is not exposed to the air and you don't open the door to feed more fuel.

cord wood stove= increase insurance cost.
on edit: like the scooter. but shouldn't you walk instead... Just kidding

Are not as efficient as the newer epa certified indoor models which are as much as 75% efficient.

http://www.woodheat.org/q&a/qaoutboiler.htm

http://www.motherearthnews.com/menarch/archive/issues/189/189-043-1.htm

I'm going with a woodstove instead of a pellet stove, largely because I own woods. :)

Wood and pellet stoves are easier on the environment because they do not add CO2 to the atmosphere. (a tree is grown to replace one that is burned)

http://www.woodheat.org/why/feelgdbro.htm

I not only intend on installing a woodstove in my house, I also intend on placing a water heating coil (heat exchanger) on it to preheat my domestic water.

What I wish, is that I was a skilled enough craftsman to build on of these;


http://www.gulland.ca/homenergy/stove.htm

But the increase in insurance rates with indoor stoves is a big minus for me, as is the fact that a woodstove in the basement would have a hard time heating the house completely or evenly.

convection blower to the ducts in the floor so the warm air expelled in the front room comes from my bedrooms, warm air goes back to replace the cold air removed at the floor level = very consistent heat throughout the house.

... at ceiling height. I can run the furnace fan periodically to spread the heat around.

I will also put convection vents to upstairs through the interior walls, but I don't expect that they'll do too much.