The heating season is around the corner and it is a right time to install that wood burning stove or pellet stove you have been thinking about. Which one will it be?

The first thing to ensure is the availability of pellets in your area. At this moment in time, you might not be capable to buy pellets in the vicinity. And purchasing locally is important, since it means that there is a prolong fuel supply in your area.  You can get the list of wood pellet manufacturer from pellet fuel institute. Contact the nearby manufacturers on the list and ask if they sell directly to consumers or who their vendors are. As with anything, shop around and compare prices, nearness, and delivery guarantees.

What is The Difference between Wood burning stove and Pellet Stoves?

Pellet stoves burn more proficiently and cleanly than wood burning stove. All pellet stoves need an electrical connection, while only those wood burning stove with blowers need an electrical connection.

Wood burning stoves need an operational chimney or approved vent, whereas most pellet stoves need a conventional outlet. Important: check your particular model and your local codes!

Pellet stoves dispense the heat by blowing hot air into the room. These stoves do not get very hot from outside so there is no danger if you touch and this will be a main deciding factor if you have small children. Pellet stoves are speedy to provide heat, and speedy to cool down, once the fire is out.

Wood burning stove give off heat. Some models also have fans to disperse hot air into the space. Wood burning stove get very hot from outside and keep radiating heat, long after the fire has been quenched.

How Pellet Stoves Work

Wood pellet stoves need less consideration compared to cord wood burning stove:

  • – Pellets are delivered in bags, or filled into a pellet bin in your vault. You will have to bring the bags into your house.
  • – Pellets are supplied into the stove through augers. You load the pellet hopper, which is incorporated into the top of the pellet stove, with around 40 lbs. of pellets.
  • – You can set the temperature of the stove manually to the desired temperature. The stove can be a self-igniting model or be started with a starting gel and match. The pellets will supply automatically as requisite to uphold the temperature.
  • – A wood pellet stove can heat your home for up to 40 hours, without needing any more of your concentration
  • – You replenish the pellet chamber as needed
  • – You empty the ash bin every few days.

Are Pellet Stoves Worth It?

Heating up your home with wood, be it pellets or cut wood, requires considerably more work than just flipping a transposition on your oil or gas-fired furnace. The benefits though, in my opinion, overbalance the hard work and the sometimes chaos surviving room.

Despite of which thing you choose, you can heat your home with a prolong fuel with either a wood burning stove or a pellet stove.








    *Note: If you have a terra cotta clay chimney
    flue lining, be sure to measure the true length and width of the
    inside of your chimney flue space.

    *If there is a terra cotta clay flue liner, does it protrude out of
    the top of the chimney at least 2 inches? If there are at least 2
    inches and the terra cotta clay is in good condition, you will use
    our stainless steel, terra cotta top plate that has a 1 1⁄2inch edge
    that goes all the way around (like a shoebox lid).

    *If your terra cotta clay flue is in bad shape at the top, you may
    need to just take a hammer and tap all around that terra cotta,
    taking it away to make the surface flat at the top of your chimney.
    In that case, you will simply use the flat top plate that comes with
    our liner kit.



    *Note: If you have a terra cotta clay chimney
    flue lining, be sure to measure the true length and width of the
    inside of your chimney flue space.

    *If it is on the back of the stove, is it parallel with the back of the stove or is it at an angle, like 45 degrees?

    *If it is at an angle you will use an insert stove adaptor (an insert liner kit) rather than a two-part tee with cleanout cap.


    Usually pellet stoves have an exhaust hole id of 3 inches. However, if you are going up more than 15 feet to the top of your chimney you need to use a pipe and/or flex liner that is 4 inches diameter.





    If you are only venting a hot water heater then the exhaust hole diameter is probably 3 inch diameter. If it is 3 inch diameter and you are going up more than 15 feet to the top of your chimney, you must use a 4 inch diameter flexible liner or ridged pipe for proper draft. We also suggest to go ahead and use a 4 inch diameter flexible liner or ridged pipe even if the total length is 15 feet or less.


    Not the depth or any other dimension inside your fireplace.

    Most gas log fireplaces require an 8 inch liner kit or rigid kit. But do not assume that is the case for the gas log fireplace kit you are installing. Obey the requirements for that specific unit that are in your installation/instruction manual.

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