Wood usage from pellets

Twigster · Apr 21, 2020

Maina said: ↑

Welcome Twigster. I live in southern Maine, so completely different climate however, we did just switch back to wood after about a decade of running two pellet stoves. I now run just the Fireview downstairs, keeping it around 80 most of the time vs 72 with pellets. Upstairs runs 6-10 degrees cooler depending on outside conditions. If it gets into single digits we turn on the heat pump that’s right above where the second pellet stove was previously.
We burned 4 1/2-5 tons of pellets with an occasional 5 1/2 over that time. Last winter we burned slightly over 5 cord of wood and this year it’s less than 4 and we’re not quite done yet. I have about 3 weeks left at the current rate and the long range forecast looks like we’ll use it.
So in our case, I’d say that we burn almost exactly the same amount ton vs cord. The wood is more efficient and effective in our opinion though, keeping the house much warmer even when the power goes out, for less money if we have to purchase firewood locally. Green wood is at least $50 less than pellets per cord.
Different circumstances but I hope this helps!
Oh yeah, electric bill dropped considerably as well, another bonus!
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Maina
Thanks for the great input. That’s kinda what I was hoping what our usage will be, close to pellets. I am excited to purchase the WS and see these long burn times. I have. Quadra Fire wood stove in my shop and it eats the wood,. Probably won’t be in the man cave as often with real wood heat in the house. I never really thought much about a lower electric bill. I am excited for heat when power goes out. Goes out with a pellet stove it smokes you out of the house.

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Wood usage from pellets

Twigster