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Are you trying to decide between a traditional wood stove or a pellet burning stove?
Well your not alone there is a real movement towards pellet stoves and there are many good reasons to consider one yourself.
The main reason is usability. You can’t beat the convenience that a pellet stove provides. Less work (no cutting, stacking or lugging heavy wood.) Not to mention the mess associated with bringing wood into your house.
You will find a continuous flow of helpful information on our site as well as stove reviews and the best prices on stoves and stove parts. So bookmark us now and please feel free to submit any questions you have, our email is on the contact us page.
What Is A Pellet Stove?
A pellet stove is a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat for residential and sometimes industrial spaces. A pellet stove does not stir your fuel and will not burn corn.
Pellet burning stoves require less attention than regular wood burning stoves do.
There are over 70 different companies in our United States that manufacture pellets and each a has a different formula - trying to make our best pellet. There are two types of wood pellets: standard grade, which contain more ash, and premium grade, which burn a bit cleaner but are a bit more expensive.
Like wood burning stoves pellet stoves heat using convection air, but they also incorporate an exhaust fan that forces air from your firebox through special venting specifically made for pellet fuel. Because pellet stoves have a forced exhaust system, they do not usually require a vertical rise to vent, although a three to five foot vertical run is recommended to prevent leakage in the case of a power outage. Programmable wall thermostat and remote control options are available on most models.
Pellet Stove Advantages…
Your heat form a pellet stove is easily regulated by using a thermostat or changing your heat output directly on your stove itself. Fuel for this type of appliance comes ready-made in small pellets that resemble rabbit food. Pellet stoves burn more efficiently and create less ash than wood stoves.
Many burn so cleanly, in fact, that even your Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t require emissions testing on them. They are clean burning and therefore excellent for air quality. These stoves are run from many pellets made primarily from waste materials such as sawdust and agricultural byproducts.
The Down Side of Pellet Stoves…
Pellets cost more than wood and can be in short supply from time to time. Pellet stoves need ongoing maintenance to keep them performing OK. Your fires are not as pleasing to look at as those of a wood stove or even a gas stove.
Modern pellet stoves also increase the completeness of combustion by capturing many of our heat from your combustion and exhaust. As anyone who currently uses pellets knows, there are good and bad quality pellets.
Poor quality pellets can be loose, crumbly and produce a lot of fines, poor quality pellets do not burn efficiently.
Like a modern gas appliance, pellet stoves can be vented horizontally through an outside wall and terminated below our roof line, making it an excellent choice for structures without an existing chimney.
To choose your right sized pellet stove, work with a knowledgeable dealer who can take into account our many variables and factors that will determine your best choice. Pellet stoves are relatively versatile appliances. A pellet stove usually needs to be refueled once a day or so depending on where you live and your severity of our winters.
Fueling the pellet burning stove is very basic and convenient. Normally, a would only need to fill it up in our morning for it to provide heat for the entire day. Perhaps many important to note is that wood-burning and pellet-burning appliances require constant attention–loading, lighting, tending, and cleaning–especially compared with your “just press start” ease of most gas- and oil-powered appliances.
Pellet stoves are in high demand, people are replacing their old wood stoves and fireplaces with a corn or wood pellet stove that can warm your home better, easier to use and very convenient.
There are about 800,000 homeowners are already using pellet stoves as an alternate heating source. Turning wood waste and other biomass, like shelled corn and wheat hulls into energy-dense fuel results in less waste being heaped onto landfills which just makes good “GREEN sense!
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