Wood pellet furnace/stove users?

[LePaul]

I'm reading a lot about the wood pellet stoves, since I would really like to be free of the heating oil bill.

What surprised me from some of my reading was the size hopper one would need for one to run un-attended for a day. 

I'm curious if anyone is using one as a furnace/home heating system.  How much does it furnace cost, pros, cons...etc.  I would really like to hear some real world experience, good and bad, before talking to the dealers/installers.

[Airhead]

<S> Paul, my mother in law had one she replaced her wood stove with- the advantages were it was less maintenance than the wood stove, but it seemed hard to get her house temperature up to a comfortable level if it were off for a couple of days. Once it was on for awhile it was OK, and it's definately cleaner than a wood stove, less polluting and all that, but we reinstalled a wood stove at her place because she's a reptile, and if her house temperature gets lower than 85 degrees she gets all sluggish and the rats she feeds on are too quick for her.

[Yeager]

Sex with a sweet babe is the best heater.

[LePaul]

Sex with a sweet babe is the best heater.

I've got a great gal, its the hot water for showers and heat we need to work on!   

[james]

Also with a pellet heater you have to use pellets. With a wood stove you use wood, you make the size and shape. Get a log splitter and have some fun.

[Jackal1]

Our last home we had an Ashely enclosed woodstove. It heated the entire house with the assist of one ceiling fan. The stove was very efficient in the context that it used all of the wood with very little ash.
I miss that stove and hate the bills now.

[DYNAMITE]

Sex with a sweet babe is the best heater.

There is only so much of me to go around Yeager... and Mrs. Dynamite gets first dibs...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Modern pellet heaters work fully automatically. You can have a storage big enough to last for a month or so which will automatically feed pellets to the system controlled by a computerized thermostat. They're pretty popular here at nordic countries.

The only downside compared to electric/oil heating is that you need to open the furnace weekly and clean it from ashes.

[NUTTZ]

I'm reading a lot about the wood pellet stoves, since I would really like to be free of the heating oil bill.

What surprised me from some of my reading was the size hopper one would need for one to run un-attended for a day. 

I'm curious if anyone is using one as a furnace/home heating system.  How much does it furnace cost, pros, cons...etc.  I would really like to hear some real world experience, good and bad, before talking to the dealers/installers.

This one i have in the front of the store, it has a 240 lbs hopper. It's good for 5 days and nights before a refill depending on the weather it can go 7 days. 240Lbs holds 6-40 lbs bags Under 4 bucks a bag.
This is a commercial pellet stove. Cost 1199.00 New. Needs to be cleaned every hopper fill. Rated 2,200 square feet.


This is a 40 Lbs hopper. I had it modified to hold 200LBS of pellets. This is put on for a few hours in the morning then turned off since the T-shirt heaters and the Pellet stove in the front is more than enought to heat the building. Cost 400.00  New. needs to be cleaned every hopper fill. Rated 1,500 square feet.

Since using these side by side, I think the smaller unit accually puts out more heat. But i need the stoves to last the weekend since I'm not there.

My house I have one simular to the smaller one, Over the stove is my return for the Air, so I got lucky It sucks up the heat and distributes it rather nicely threw out the house. I still am running off the 100 gallons i put in last year in October. I think 2 or 3 times I had to kick on the oil heat for a few hours.

I don't know if your hot water is Oil also like mine, Hey worse case is you'll still have an awsome fireplace.
 Theres 2 types of pellet stoves "top feeders" and "bottom Feeders" One drops the pellets into the pot from the top, and the other kinda screws them in from the bottom. Most will say "top feeders" are more accurate and reliable. I would have to agree, but BOTH work well.

NUTTZ
P.S. to answer your question Unattended for a day  my 40 lbs hopper at home is unattended all day, on low it will last close to 48 hours on it's next level up (what I leave it on) it will last about 24-30 hours.

NUTTZ