Wood stove or Pellet stove?

[Danny]

But wait.....there more! Winter's not over.

[TJDave]

Bringing this old thread back from the dead with an update.
Well, we did it. The wood stove has been yanked and replaced with a pellet stove.

And then, we were left with a big hole in our ceiling from the old stove pipe.

Pellet stoves exhaust out the rear and to the side. We did not want to have a goofy looking bend in the pipe at or near the ceiling. The installers did a great job matching up the pellet stove pipe with the old wood stove chimney.

The pellet stove sits a little more forward than the wood stove did, but I think it looks better than the alternative. I posted a pic below of what that would of looked like.

So far, it heats the house warm and toasty on only the med/low setting.
We will see how it goes.

What we started with


See Ya


What we wanted to avoid


Here is our end result




And the MOST important thing? Barb is happy. Just one push of a button is all it takes to be warm.

[scumby]

overall $ ? PM if you wish.

[TJDave]

overall $ ? PM if you wish.

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Fixing the Jeep has been put on hold for a couple months.

[Livin4Today]

overall $ ? PM if you wish.

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Fixing the Jeep has been put on hold for a couple months.

What's left to fix Dave? We know a guy...lol

[TJDave]

^ Control arm bushings are toast....again. Will be replacing them soon with something much better.

So I just picked up a ton of pellets (one pallet). Equal to 1.5 cords of wood.
It took all of 15 minutes to re-stack on a pallet in the garage.

For comparison, this was just 1/2 cord, and still needed more splitting into smaller pieces.