Not bad actually the wood does most of the work and the pellet fires up occasionaly to help out. it's our first year with pellet and wood together and man it's nice! Tthis morning I forgot to load the woodstove and had to play catchup it was cold in the house so I put them both to work lol...
I though it was a furnace heat chamber. A new invention. Must have a blower takes heat from that room & moves it around the house. Stay warm !
That's the coolest pic I've seen for quite some time, two, COUNT 'EM, TWO stoves, one room...... With that setup you can overfire without overfiring
The pellet stove has an Oak kit. The wood stove has one to the secondary air. I actually should buy the oak kit for the jotul as of right now it's a homemade one.
Good deal there Use outside air for your combustion air is efficient. How you liking the pellet stove ? Think it'll have enough heat output to keep up when January gets here?
So far it's great Dave. The hight I've gone is about 1/4 up on the feed. It keeps it a steady 70f at night. The wife likes it warmer during the day so we use wood for that. We have been using pellets while we are gone and the house on low is 66f when we get home. Good enough for me!
Getting more popular here too. Pellet plant in Fairbanks says pellets are the cheapest heat Some of their data a little off for here though.
Unless this is specific to Alaska pricing, their cord of wood is waaaaayyyyy over-priced, as is their fuel oil prices.
Like lots of studies, surveys & polls What do you want the outcome to be, is the first question. Then the the study is designed to match that outcome. They're way over priced on everything but pellets & I'm not sure of the cost of their pellets , think they cost more here.
For this area, pellet pricing is between 250-350 a ton. Cheaper is available, but I suspect they are the lower quality pellets that the pellet form complains about. I have my eye on pellets as I am thinking about doing a pellet add-on boiler in the future.
