budget76
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Shopping around for alternate heating source for the house to the oil burning furnace. Previously asked about wood stove insert viability, now looking at pellets. What's good vs shit in the pellet stove insert world, are they all relatively the same if I'm looking at a 5-10 year life before I move?
heat desire: stove in 1000ft finished basement with open stairs to 2200ft main living area. would like to add a passive floor vent or two to let heat rise and heat 1200-1500ft of the main living area
have 30" wide x 24" tall x 24" deep opening in the downstairs fireplace.
Until the baby wood was the play. I have a bunch so its free except labor, and requires no electricity. BUT the wife ain't gonna be as comfortable using it as she would loading a bag of pellets, and the house isn't gonna be able to be kept at 62* like last year with the baby. Main source of heat is a large oil burning furnace, I figure I'll burn 500-750gal this winter easily @ $4-6/gal.
yeah pellets aren't as cheap as they used to be. I see theres a 26% tax credit for purchase+install in 2022 which helps a lot with the up front cost of the unit itself.
options to look at? not ruling out wood, but there's a large appeal to simplicity and confidence in use for the wife vs a wood burner
heat desire: stove in 1000ft finished basement with open stairs to 2200ft main living area. would like to add a passive floor vent or two to let heat rise and heat 1200-1500ft of the main living area
have 30" wide x 24" tall x 24" deep opening in the downstairs fireplace.
Until the baby wood was the play. I have a bunch so its free except labor, and requires no electricity. BUT the wife ain't gonna be as comfortable using it as she would loading a bag of pellets, and the house isn't gonna be able to be kept at 62* like last year with the baby. Main source of heat is a large oil burning furnace, I figure I'll burn 500-750gal this winter easily @ $4-6/gal.
yeah pellets aren't as cheap as they used to be. I see theres a 26% tax credit for purchase+install in 2022 which helps a lot with the up front cost of the unit itself.
options to look at? not ruling out wood, but there's a large appeal to simplicity and confidence in use for the wife vs a wood burner