thinking about putting a wood pellet stove in my house, it's a single zone 2 level steam heat right now and oil for fuel. What price range am I looking at? is it worth it?
If you have to buy the fuel, I doubt you'll come out far ahead. Do you have a source of firewood? Can you buy and install a full size wood burning furnace?
this is not about the money savings on fuel, purely about having a fireplace which I think would be nice. I am just wondering about the install part of it.
BypassKid said:this is not about the money savings on fuel, purely about having a fireplace which I think would be nice. I am just wondering about the install part of it.
Why'd you mention you have single zone 2 level steam heat and oil for fuel then?
If I were going to install a wood stove for atmosphere, I'd still want it to serve as a backup, just in case. Since a wood pellet stove needs electricity to work, the same as and oil burner, I'd skip that and opt for a regular wood stove.
Building and maintaning the fire, skinning your knuckles and swearing - it's all part of the experience.
Go with a stove that can burn coal - they are made sturdier, since they need to be able to take higher heat. That way, you can burn either wood or coal, as availability changes. If you can, try to get a model that can be easily refitted to burn natural gas. If you decide it is too annoying having to load the thing with wood or coal, then you can simply put in the natural gas adapter, and still get some use out of it.
I used to have a wood burning stove. Great source of heat, and we used to roast chestnuts on it. Never skinned my knuckles, but I'm sure i singed the hair off my arm once or twice sticking my hand inside to adjust the fire.
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