Going to buy a pellet stove Need input.

[CalifEd]

Don't forget our DIY friend, YouTube, when it comes to fixing, installing or understanding the 'how-to' of things.

 

[Skeet 028]

My FIL taught me alot about wood and heating with it. I had been using cutting splitting wood for a good while. He was the master. We built a chimney on one house I had...2 flues for just in case we wanted to build an extraroom. when we bought this place 20 or so years ago.. had the inspector check the chimneys.. Both solid brick with liners. I just checked my insurance...It costs an extra 70 dollars a year for the wood stove coverage. Costs an extra 50 a year for propane heat..and an extra 400 a month avg for electric only From first freeze to last (Sept to April)...back east I had my own woods. I bought slab and end wood from the local sawmill...penny a pound. I do have trees I can cut here kinda sortaHad a bunch of Russian olive torn out and piled up...after almost two years I can cut that.. Thorns are mostly gone. I have also bought tractor trailer loads of dead wood cut from Forest service land. 900 dollars a load12 to 15 cords . He just went up in price though. The best heat 've ever had is in floor heat. We even put it in our garage here. Pex line in the concrete with a circulator pump. a tank for extra hot water so it doesn't run constantly and right now a 20 gallon water heater. Keep the thermostat at about 48...stays fair to middling warmAlthough I am in the country I signed up for a project . They are going to run town water...out to our area. They will also run Natural gas...Instant hot water heat. That heat in the garage floor cost the price of the pex...my plumber friend set it up. The circ pump cost me 30 dollars 20 dollars for the extra tank. 5 dollars for the water heater(yard sale)...2 breakers in the electric box.maybe 10-12 bucks a month for electric . November to the end of March..... But still ain't nothing like wood heat...and you know...I actually enjoyed the work.....part of farm life...So was milking cows...glad I quit that

 

[oldbrownhat]

...I actually enjoyed the work.....part of farm life...So was milking cows...glad I quit that

"To everything there is a season..." With advancing age & its challenges, milking cows, cutting, bucking & stacking wood may not be "in season."

Keep us in the loop on the stove

 

[M29since14]

I have a Quadrafire stove, probably at least 10 years old now. The stove works fine and has needed nothing much replaced - just the door gasket. I’m not wild about the noise made by the fan but I can get along with it, and I do enjoy the heat.

Pellets are getting expensive!

 

[StrawHat]

This is my third Quadrafire, the one in the shop. I keep the thermostat at 45 degrees and kick it up when I come in to work.

Kevin

(Okay, I have edited this image 1/4 rotation x4. It still shows sideways. Go figure.)

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Pellets are getting expensive!

No kidding. I thought they were pricey here in BC, but I pay about $5.50 USD equivalent, which seems to be less than they cost south of 49. We used to have a couple of pellet mills here but some nincompoop allowed them to be sold to a UK company that sends them back to Blighty for biomass boilers I think. The ones I get now are either from Québec or Alberta.

 

[StrawHat]

Here in Ohio, I have to “import” pellets from the Carolinas or Virginia. The big cost is the transportation. If you can cut the cost of transport, you can make out.

Ten years ago I would have built a pellet mill to use the by products of the Amish cabinet makers and sawyers. I may do it yet!

Kevin