Ready for winter? COS pellet stove owners.

[jerrymrc]

I know we have our last of the year get-together next weekend but winter is coming. I have a new roof being put on tomorrow and just put in the fuel for the stove friday night. I will make a shameless plug for the company I got them from. They were cheap, courteous and helped me put them right where I wanted.

In the past I have gone and put a pallet of pellets in the back of the truck. Brought them home and one by one stacked them in the stairwell between the garage and downstairs. This time I called a place that delivers and with the help of my son and the two guys on the truck we had them stacked in less than 15 min. So if you are in the springs area I would take a look at Pikes Peak Pellets. $200 delivered and stacked for a ton.

[funkfool]

40lb bags?
2k/40=50
200/50=4.00 a bag....
that is a good price.

[jerrymrc]

40lb bags?
2k/40=50
200/50=4.00 a bag....
that is a good price.

Yep. 50, 40lb bags to a pallet. I paid $190 last year but had to go to canon city to get them. These were delivered and stacked for $200. These are Eco-Flame made here in CO. I did take a look and they seem to be nice pellets.

[DD977GM2]

What is the advantage of having a wood pellet burning stove in the house as opposed to a gas furnace or propane tank outside for the furnace etc?

Always wondered. Its badass if for only $200 you will be able to warm your house for the winter.

[jerrymrc]

What is the advantage of having a wood pellet burning stove in the house as opposed to a gas furnace or propane tank outside for the furnace etc?

Always wondered. Its badass if for only $200 you will be able to warm your house for the winter.

They are not for everyone. Having owned one for 7-8 years now We use ours as augmentation to a furnace that is 37 years old. Also, the downstairs was always colder than the up no matter what we did.

So with the pellet stove downstairs it stays at 71-72 and the up stays at 68-69. We run a programmable thermostat on the gas furnace. Our house is 1700Sf. during the really cold snaps the stove will get run for 8 hours or more per day.

My gas/electric bill runs $80-100 per month in the winter. Before the pellet stove it had got to $150 and that was back in 95. Of course the prices have gone up but back then it dropped to $70-80 per month. We go through a pallet per year normally. A couple of years ago we used a total of 65 bags.

It is on a large battery back up that will run the stove at least 4 hours after the power goes out. There is a lot more than that to make it work and much of it is lifestyle. If your family is home all the time and you need to keep the house at 70 24/7 then I would not recommend one.

If everyone gets up and leaves for the day and are not adverse to a programmable thermostat then this might be for you. If you or anyone else is thinking about one you are welcome to drop me a PM and we can talk about it. In our case it is the greatest thing since sliced bread for the winter.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

I'll stick with my wood burning insert. After loosing power for 10 days in the 2003 snow storm. I bought a Quadrafire insert that works great! And I know a few people that work in the tree cutting business so I get most all my wood for free. Just finished splitting another 1/4 of a cord of wood.

[tmleadr03]

I had two cords of wood delivered today. It made it to the back yard but not much further. I tossed wood over the fence for three hours. I am drinking medicinal whiskey at the moment.

Less then a cord will heat my home all winter with very slight supplemental heat from the heater. 330 for two cords dropped just outside the fence line.

[jerrymrc]

I'll stick with my wood burning insert. After loosing power for 10 days in the 2003 snow storm. I bought a Quadrafire insert that works great! And I know a few people that work in the tree cutting business so I get most all my wood for free. Just finished splitting another 1/4 of a cord of wood.

If I had a fireplace or lived in a ranch style house I would have gone that direction. I can expand the battery backup and use solar but it does take some power to run one.

In my case I wanted it for the downstairs and a wood stove would have been close to $3000 in pipe alone. I got the pellet stove on end of year close out for $800 and the pipe was 1/2 off so only ran me about $100.