Highbeam
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Heating with Pellet Stove???Wth?
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Our pellet stove (avalon astoria) is our main heat source,it heats our 1650 sq.ft.house.I buy our wood pellets in late june or early july.We burn about 3 ton per year cost per ton is around $175-$185.Cheap heat IMHO.Go to this website hearth.com and read about pellet stoves.coobie
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coobie
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WOW how old is your pellet stove?We also have propane heat and a pellet stove.Our stove heats our whole house(1650 sq.ft.) and our propane furnace NEVER comes on.coobie
buckeyefarmer
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Love my pellet stove, Harmon XXV. I burn it almost non stop all winter, puts out lots of heat, I actually run it on low. Last winter used 2 tons of pellets. Like someone else mentioned, price on pellets went up in early 2000's, but have since remained steady, and have even dropped some. I keeps my entire 1st floor warm in the winter, last 2 winters I never used my downstairs oil furnace.
If I had access to no cost firewood, Id burn it, but since I have to buy firewood, pellets are way cheaper to buy, much cleaner, much less work. I still have about a cord of firewood stored from when I last used my wood stove, over 14 yrs ago. One of these days I'll install the old woodstove in the barn/shop.
If I had access to no cost firewood, Id burn it, but since I have to buy firewood, pellets are way cheaper to buy, much cleaner, much less work. I still have about a cord of firewood stored from when I last used my wood stove, over 14 yrs ago. One of these days I'll install the old woodstove in the barn/shop.
clemsonfor
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I have never heard of bulk pellets here in the US. I go to Hearth.com which is a fireplace/stove site and never heard of that? It may be a Euro thing? After all many of the pellets we make here end up in Europe i have heard. I dont burn them so i dont keep to close of tabs on it but would of thought i would of read about it before if it was availible here. As far as our exports go i have heard we export a good but because of our endless wood supply,and the high cost of energy over there. Also im a forester and we always look at it as an extra market if it would ever take hold and more facilities would be built to manufacture pellets.
Highbeam
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Also, unlike Europe, most folks that use pellets for heat use a freestanding stove. There are a handful of furnaces available that use ductwork but they are really the exception. What really is lacking in the US is pellet boilers. I have never heard of one installed in the US. I really think that Europe is ahead of us on utilizing this energy source that is so available in our own backyard.
I have an 1800 SF garage with radiant tubes in the slab. I need to heat the water somehow and a pellet boiler would be the cheapest way to do it on a $/btu basis. If only there was a pellet boiler market here.
We don't have bulk pellet delivery available in my area. That pellet pumping truck in the photo is expensive and I'd bet the largest reason. Also, since we use stoves, it is easier to dump a 40 lb sack of pellets than to try and fill a bucket from a heap and then dump that bucket into the stove. I suspect in Europe that there is some sort of auger system to supply the boilers from the silo automatically.
I have an 1800 SF garage with radiant tubes in the slab. I need to heat the water somehow and a pellet boiler would be the cheapest way to do it on a $/btu basis. If only there was a pellet boiler market here.
We don't have bulk pellet delivery available in my area. That pellet pumping truck in the photo is expensive and I'd bet the largest reason. Also, since we use stoves, it is easier to dump a 40 lb sack of pellets than to try and fill a bucket from a heap and then dump that bucket into the stove. I suspect in Europe that there is some sort of auger system to supply the boilers from the silo automatically.
Oaktree
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I've heard them advertised as being available in bulk, but apparently this translates to "by the pallet" as opposed to having a dump truck just dump a pile in your driveway or a bin. At least that's what I was told by a neighbor whose daughter-in-law buys them that way.
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Highbeam, That idea of the boiler outside does appeal to me here too..I currently have a neighbor that uses a woodburning boiler to heat Glycol-water for the heating of the home. This puts the smoke and any ashes outside the home, or under the deck for protection?ro
clemsonfor
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Yea thats all i have heard to. You buy them buy the ton, they deliver them on pallets.
I always buy them by the ton and haven't had any problems., well, yes I have from certain producers,with fines causing quite a burn problem, but, insuring the house when they know you have a pellet stove. That is the problem. Most insurance companys want a fortune if they know you have one or will decline you. Tell me why? A fireplace will catch on fire more often than a pellet stove. I have no intention of giving any insurance company a wavier if it is the fault of my stove any more than a wavier if my central elec. furnace burnt the house down. Both have extreemly good safeguards, and with like anything, you must be careful.