Cleaned the stove and vent. Gave it a test fire. Noticed come cracks in the burn pot liner, Ordered replacements. Ready for the season. What do you all do with the pellet bags? Seems wasteful to just toss them. Between chicken feed and salt for the water softener I got enough trash bags for years. Lol When do have your first fire?
I use softener salt bags to dispose of my spare ashes in the trash, after they cool in metal 5 gallon buckets (often til spring) I say "spare ashes" because some of it goes on the yard/garden...but if it has any nails/metal that goes in the trash for sure. Once in a while I'll find a good use for using one for some kind of "heavy duty" trash, but not often enough, they be stacking up!
Congrats! And good call on testing it out now and finding that minor issue. I hear you on the bags; it’s pretty wasteful. I don’t believe our trash hauler deems them as recyclable. I should look in to it more.
I use pellet and cat food bags as trash bags and to scoop the waste from the cat litter into. Most years I still have a bunch of last season's bags going into the new season so I end up taking them to the transfer station. Our household trash is transferred to a plant that burns the waste for electricity production. So, I don't feel too bad about it, but really do hate to see the waste. Closest place that claims to recycle the bags (in a Google search) is the Goffstown dump - but that is for locals (as they all are) and I'm not sure that is entirely accurate as it just might be plastics. I did start the mini split a couple of days ago to keep the house at 68*. Haven't uncovered my exhausts or hooked up the OAKs to either stove yet. The basement is starting to get cooler, so it may not be long until that gets turned on.
I use the empty bags for dog poop. They still end up in the trash, but at least they served a purpose. what kind of stove is that Warner? It’s purdy.
Nice!! Darn good looking stove IMHO. I'm a fan of the cast iron look. She purdy!! There are places that recycle them. Some of the supermarkets have drop off area's. We use ours for kitty poop!! And recycle the rest at the local Stop and Shop.
Thank you sir! I’ll keep an eye out for recycle spots, We don’t have any stop and shops close by and are strictly market basket shoppers unless we pass a Wegmans in our travels.
I found our recycle location online from a list. But can't locate it. I did find this list which I found on nextrex website. Its listed by state. Some of the land fills and recycle centers do as well. NEW HAMPSHIRE DeMoulas Market Basket Hannaford Kohl’s Price Chopper Shaw’s Stop & Shop Whole Foods Edit, Found the old site, But they don't have a list anymore! Plastic Bag and Film Recycling
With daytime temps still reaching the mid 70's and overnight temps in the upper 40's we haven't had the need for heat yet. Still have the a/c's in the windows. Likely be getting them out here shortly and firing both the stove and the oil monster. Not sure what we will start with. Still see lower than usual oil prices, So very tempted to just fire the oil and sit on the pellets.
