Howdy all. Just found this site today and have been browsing it for a few hours learning. What a great wealth of info.
The wife and I recently purchased a Lopi Yankee Bay insert to replace our woodstove. She refuses to chop and carry wood, so this was the next best thing. On the weekends I wouldn't be home, I would often come home to find her extremely frustrated at the woodstove sitting on the couch wrapped in several blankets. Anywho, I got a good stove from Craigslist, installed it myself and fired it up this monday not due to temperatures but to find out what brand of pellets I want to buy.
I have bought a few different types of pellets to run in the stove and finally settled on the one that I want to buy in bulk from a local pellet manufacturer Atlas Country Pride pellets.
I had a question about how much to buy.
When we ran the woodstove, we usually would start it around 4pm (I get home before her and would get the fire going a couple hours before she got home). We keep our house cooler than most folks (around 64 to 68 degrees). During the weekends when we were home we would burn all day long.
This usually equated to about 1 3/4 cords of wood each winter.
What would this relate to in pellet fuel?
Thanks in advance for your help.
EDIT: Forgot to add. Heating a 1400sq foot home with vaulted ceilings.
The wife and I recently purchased a Lopi Yankee Bay insert to replace our woodstove. She refuses to chop and carry wood, so this was the next best thing. On the weekends I wouldn't be home, I would often come home to find her extremely frustrated at the woodstove sitting on the couch wrapped in several blankets. Anywho, I got a good stove from Craigslist, installed it myself and fired it up this monday not due to temperatures but to find out what brand of pellets I want to buy.
I have bought a few different types of pellets to run in the stove and finally settled on the one that I want to buy in bulk from a local pellet manufacturer Atlas Country Pride pellets.
I had a question about how much to buy.
When we ran the woodstove, we usually would start it around 4pm (I get home before her and would get the fire going a couple hours before she got home). We keep our house cooler than most folks (around 64 to 68 degrees). During the weekends when we were home we would burn all day long.
This usually equated to about 1 3/4 cords of wood each winter.
What would this relate to in pellet fuel?
Thanks in advance for your help.
EDIT: Forgot to add. Heating a 1400sq foot home with vaulted ceilings.