Anyone out there have an opinion on a good pellet stove? We are building a new home and have decided to use a pellet stove for heat in the downstairs portion of the house. There appears to be a lot of info on the web about these stoves so its a little hard to pick out the real truth of who's is best. We are leaning towards Harman but as yet not committed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
PS: House is 2000 sq ft first floor, 850 sq ft second floor.
PS: House is 2000 sq ft first floor, 850 sq ft second floor.
For years we heated our home with a wood stove and found it to be great heat but messy, dirty and pretty labor intensive. The older I got the less I wanted to buy or cut wood, stack it in the shed (10-11cords) and then haul it in the house, haul out the ashes and have the flue pipe swept each year ($100 a trip), plus swatting the bugs that were wintering in the wood. This fall had a "LOPI" installed; has a wireless thermostat that you set for whatever temp. you want and forget it. Ash pan only needs to be emptied once a month, but you do need to clean the fly-ash from the burning chamber every couple of days. So far have burned about 3/4 bag of pellets each 24hrs. Bought 3 tons and figured 1 bag per day +-. Only drawback..when the power goes out so does the fire. We have a auto-generator so thats not a problem here. Total bill, stove-3 tons pellets, wireless themostat and installation was about $4000. So far (no real cold weather yet) it seems like it will do the trick. Hope this helps.
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