pellet stove

[Willie57]

does anyone heat there garage with a pellet stove? If so do you make your own pellets? Here are som web sites that I have found www.thiswarmhouse.com www.Keep-on-trucking.com www.makeyourownpellets.com

 

[cheap bastard]

I've been heating my house with pellets most of the winter. A freind has offered his corn/pellet furnace to use in my shop next year as he is switching to a boiler. I've managed to find pellets at ok prices, but I will make my own next year. I know of a wood shop that only works in hard woods, so fuel resorces should be easy. The pelletizers are available to rent near here.

 

[nonhog]

I (tried) to heat a pole barn I use to have 24x30 14' walls.
It took hours for it to heat up. Granted the space was just too much for my stove. Just keep all that in mind , how big your shop/garage is.

 

[nate379]

I had looked into it this summer and it was close to 2x teh cost of natural gas to heat with a pellet stove. That was with pellets being $300 a ton and natural gas is $1/CCF

 

[Willie57]

my shop is 30 x 50. I am building a pellet making machine they say that you can make pellet out of just about anything. I will let you know how my machine works.

 

[StanBo]

I would like to see what you come up with. I don't want to break up my driveway to run natural gas out to a heater. So I was thinking a pellet stove might be a good option.

 

[tractordude]

I have a 40 x 50, 11'5" ceilings,cement shop and office, built in 50's, drafty shop, new insulation in 1/3 of roof this fall, heat with corn and pellets, I dont heat it over night, when it is below 0, i can get about 60F in the shop area. on a normal day (10F-30F) it is 68-72F inside. I like it because, when you open the garage door, my gas furnace would run, now I recover the heat loss in a few minutes or so, and I know what it costs to heat ahead of time. I burn about 60 psi on 12-15 hours. 1 ton of pellets cost $189. Corn is $5.00@ 50 psi,I plan on putting one in my house for next year, my wife and dog love this one, and I dont get a giant gas bill. just my 2cents.

 

[Ryan10700]

Any recommendations on where to get a stove? Thinking about building a house and the land does not have natural gas. Propane is ridiculous expensive here and considering a pellet stove when it gets frigid outside and the heat pump can't keep up.

 

[texasOFT]

I use a fire place insert with a catalyst and burn logs. House is 2,200 sf. 3 cords of wood heats it all winter to about 75 deg with the fan turned down low. Can burn pallets, logs, scraps. Big oak logs will burn about 7 hours.

 

[Teken]

I use a fire place insert with a catalyst and burn logs. House is 2,200 sf. 3 cords of wood heats it all winter to about 75 deg with the fan turned down low. Can burn pallets, logs, scraps. Big oak logs will burn about 7 hours.

What does it costs you for 3 cords of wood where you're at?

 

[930dreamer]

Has anyone made their pellets? I've read various articles and It seems you need to add moisture so the chips/sawdust can form a pellet in the press. There's a cabinet shop next door that has a huge sawdust bin of free sawdust.

 

[rowdyhillrambler]

they make them here in cookeville, tennessee. Owner of the company is a friend of ours, i will send you a number for them.

Any recommendations on where to get a stove? Thinking about building a house and the land does not have natural gas. Propane is ridiculous expensive here and considering a pellet stove when it gets frigid outside and the heat pump can't keep up.

 

[LEVE]

I heat my house with a Pellet Stove, a Quadrafire 1000 that I found on Craigs list and fixed. It's heat ouptut is just a bit small for my 2400sqft house to be comfortable. I'd go thorough a bag a day, at $4 a bag. Pellets run about $200 a ton. It's much less expensive than the electric costs.

I started to look for a bigger, used, pellet stove on Craigs List.

I found a Quadrafire Classic Bay 1200 for $500 (it's $2500 new) on Craigs list that needed work. The owner couldn't fix it. It turned out that all I had to do was clean out a vacuum hose to make it fully operational and no parts were necessary.

I'm now repainting it. It will be moved into the house by the end of the week and the 1000 will be moved to the 1100sqft garage... it should do the job nicely. The garage walls, ceiling and doors are all fully insulated.