Pellet Stoves???

[Styx]

OK so I will be starting my build soon just waiting on my variance from the city.
My question is how many people are using pellet stoves for heating in their shops? I will be doing automotive work and some painting. I realize that when using flammables in the shop I wouldn't want to be running the stove. In my area it is very mild most of the year probably only 2 to 3 months that it would be required.
Just trying to get input from others THAT ARE USING THEM or wood burners like them.


Cheers Randy...

 

[Jazz1]

I paint in my garage with wood stove. Its a airtight Pacific Energy. Just don't open up stove ahead of clearing the atmosphere some. Some common sense required. Not familiar with pellet stove other than they are a whole lot less work than wood. Some of the pellet stoves are gravity fed,,no electricity required. That would be my choice.

 

[thickhead]

I've gone through about 25 tons of pellets in the last 8 years in the house.
I put electric heat in my garage.

How big is your shop?

 

[wildstyle]

I run an Enviro Maxx pellet stove in my 28x36. You can run them with an outside air intake which is what I would recommend. I paint with mine on.

 

[LEVE]

For the last 6 years I've used pellet stoves, one in the house and one in the garage. I bought used QuadraFire stoves and resurrected them for about 30% the cost of a new stove. It worked well and I had no issues at all with them.

 

[bigredmf]

Most insurance companies will not write a policy on a home with a garage that has a wood burning device in it, this includes pellet stoves

Not the proper set up for a garage


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[Showkey]

Your jumping to pellet stove.......because NAT gas or propane is not available ?
In most regions NG is the least expensive fuel and you can get a 90+ eff furnace for less than a $1000

 

[Jazz1]

Most insurance companies will not write a policy on a home with a garage that has a wood burning device in it, this includes pellet stoves

Not the proper set up for a garage


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Poster STYX is in Canada where insurance companies require a WETT inspection on garages heating with wood. Inspection assures the stove and chimney are approved and properly installed. The only difference between a home install and garage install is the stove must be elevated 12" and some companies requiring a bollard in front of stove

 

[jomobco]

No problems with my insurance or stove.

 

[Styx]

I've gone through about 25 tons of pellets in the last 8 years in the house.
I put electric heat in my garage.

How big is your shop?

The shop will be 28x37 still waiting on variance application... Such a slow process... Hoping to break ground by the end of March... Heck I could dig the hole by hand waiting for the city...lol...

 

[Styx]

Your jumping to pellet stove.......because NAT gas or propane is not available ?
In most regions NG is the least expensive fuel and you can get a 90+ eff furnace for less than a $1000

I do have LPG to my back yard for the barbeque and could run it no problem I just like the feel and smell of wood burning...

 

[Styx]

I run an Enviro Maxx pellet stove in my 28x36. You can run them with an outside air intake which is what I would recommend. I paint with mine on.

Thanks Wildstyle I will look into the outside air thing... Did you ever get your shop finished on the outside??? you didn't put up pictures of the finished product...

 

[wildstyle]

I just need to finish the gable ends....life was busy last year. I have the siding sitting here...just waiting for spring now...and some spare time.

 

[wildstyle]

And ya just look up an outside air kit....it will have the wall thimble and everything needed for it

 

[Ironhorse74]

Showkey had exactly the right answer, natural gas will be cheaper than pellets. Right now propane is cheaper than pellets. I friggen hate pellet stoves. That is coming from a guy that sells a couple of million dollars worth of pellet stoves a year. They have three or more electric motors, a circuit board, and a host of sensors. Here comes the big one THEY HAVE TO BE CLEANED. Pellet stoves ****, all of them.

Just my .02

Brad

 

[Styx]

Nice ******** what year???
It seems you and I live similar lives just 25 years apart... I did 15 years with ford started out with them as well...
Is that a ranger in the back ground???

 

[Styx]

Showkey had exactly the right answer, natural gas will be cheaper than pellets. Right now propane is cheaper than pellets. I friggen hate pellet stoves. That is coming from a guy that sells a couple of million dollars worth of pellet stoves a year. They have three or more electric motors, a circuit board, and a host of sensors. Here comes the big one THEY HAVE TO BE CLEANED. Pellet stoves ****, all of them.

Just my .02

Brad

Good point Brad, I will look into that for sure... Maybe a nice old school wood burner???

 

[wildstyle]

Nice ******** what year???
It seems you and I live similar lives just 25 years apart... I did 15 years with ford started out with them as well...
Is that a ranger in the back ground???

It's a 67. Yup that is a rather large, highly modified 91 ranger back there. I'm 10 years deep with ford right now

 

[thickhead]

...I just like the feel and smell of wood burning...

...Maybe a nice old school wood burner???

FYI. You will not get any smell of a wood fire with a pellet stove. I like the idea of a back to basic wood burner, just rather spend my garage time working on projects. I don't want to spend time or effort out there just to keep warm.

Simple or basic in this case is a knob on the wall thermostat.

 

[Styx]

I might not smell it in the shop but I will outside...
It's only cold enough to need heat here for like 2 to 3 months max so I will still have lots of time to tinker...

Cheers...

 

[thickhead]

If you have the tinkering time then you have to do what moves you. Be crazy not to.

Cheers back at ya!

 

[tractordude]

I might not smell it in the shop but I will outside...
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Nope, little to no smoke smell outside. Very little smoke when running

 

[danfromsyr]

and if you do smell it it isn't like burning wood. more like burning newspaper..
they can be (and are) finicky to a few different properties of physics to run well.
and you can't let the cleaning (of all internal cavities) slide as once they start to get 'asthmatic' it only compounds the problem and you have a big issue with the stove.
it's not so much constant attention, but it's not a set & forget.
I use Pellets because I like the constant flow of heat in my older drafty uninsulated house than a traditional on-off-on-ff-on furnace.
my friend uses pellets because he had propane and it was (and likely will be) more $$ per BTU than pellets.
Nat Gas is still cheaper per BTU. but in my case I burn about a bag a day on a low yet constant setting. that's $4~6/bag /day (avg)

 

[Styx]

Lots of great information... I'm thinking wood burning stove more and more now...
Thanks for the input...


Cheers...