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Sassy Colombian said:
Thanks, it is an old one. Our house was built in 1927 so the fire place works but it was not super efficient as an additional source for heating the house. Thus we added the pellet stove a few years ago. We were trying to decide between a wood stove or the pellet and for environmental reasons settled on the latter.
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Yeah, I went back and forth on the pellet stove versus wood stove and settled on the pellet stove about 7 years ago (as secondary heat) for environmental and other reasons (burns compressed sawdust, much more efficient, easier to use), but it kept breaking down (given all the moving parts) and doesn't work when the electricity is out, which occasionally happens where I live due to ice storms. So this past month I just replaced it with a wood stove, and to be perfectly honest I'm not so sure I like my new choice. It's certainly a better type of heat (radiant versus "cooked hot air"), but there's lots more work involved in getting/chopping wood and every time you feed new logs into it it releases bits of ash into the air. On the upside, it's not loud and it will work forever, since there are no moving parts/electronics. But I would say for smaller living spaces, pellet stoves are a far better option than wood stoves, since they don't take a high fan setting to heat up the place. In my place that has open ceileings, I had to run the blower on high, which was a bit loud.

And wow...when I joined GOT I never would have thought I would be writing about home heating in the Carlos thread to sassy Colombian!

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