1stGenSMIB
Active Member
I like my pellet stove
I grew up with wood stoves...but, in my house, I have a Lopi AGP pellet stove (rated to heat ~2000 sq. ft.). A ton of pellets is about $240-260..I go thru about a ton plus maybe 5-10 more bags the entire season.
My usual rule is that once it gets in the 40's (°F) and the efficiency of the heat pumps starts dropping it is time to fire up the pellet stove. We don't usually leave it on during the day, and I'd say the average burn rate on ours is 2-3 bags/week. Pellet stoves seem to vary widly, but they should have specs..mine set on low if I recall burns at 1.4 lbs/hour. On the weekends when we are home all day or colder nights when we crank it up a bit, it burns more..sometimes we get up to burning one bag per day. A real t-stat that will turn it off and on is worth the extra $$ too.
I personally like the easy maintenance of the pellet stove, and I was lucky and was able to punch a pipe thru the wall so my chimney work and cleaning is super easy, and there is almost zero ash/waste. It takes 4 or 5 bags to fill up the tool box sized ash pan.
I keep a 10 gal. can full of pellets next to the stove for the wife in case I forget to fill it..that is enough to run for several hours until I get a bag out of the garage.
Except for the front door/glass area the thing is cool enough that the cat can lay on it too..so I guess that's a plus too, she hangs her paws down over the front where the vent is...
As mentioned, it does require electricity, and you can't cook on it, but way less hassle as compared to a wood stove, IMO.
I grew up with wood stoves...but, in my house, I have a Lopi AGP pellet stove (rated to heat ~2000 sq. ft.). A ton of pellets is about $240-260..I go thru about a ton plus maybe 5-10 more bags the entire season.
My usual rule is that once it gets in the 40's (°F) and the efficiency of the heat pumps starts dropping it is time to fire up the pellet stove. We don't usually leave it on during the day, and I'd say the average burn rate on ours is 2-3 bags/week. Pellet stoves seem to vary widly, but they should have specs..mine set on low if I recall burns at 1.4 lbs/hour. On the weekends when we are home all day or colder nights when we crank it up a bit, it burns more..sometimes we get up to burning one bag per day. A real t-stat that will turn it off and on is worth the extra $$ too.
I personally like the easy maintenance of the pellet stove, and I was lucky and was able to punch a pipe thru the wall so my chimney work and cleaning is super easy, and there is almost zero ash/waste. It takes 4 or 5 bags to fill up the tool box sized ash pan.
I keep a 10 gal. can full of pellets next to the stove for the wife in case I forget to fill it..that is enough to run for several hours until I get a bag out of the garage.
Except for the front door/glass area the thing is cool enough that the cat can lay on it too..so I guess that's a plus too, she hangs her paws down over the front where the vent is...
As mentioned, it does require electricity, and you can't cook on it, but way less hassle as compared to a wood stove, IMO.
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