- Oct 2, 2012
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Hi All!
we recently purchased a beach cabin, a real fixer-upper. we had intended on putting in a wood-burning insert in the fireplace,but just found out that the chimney is in too bad of shape to use with a woodburning insert.
The fireplace shop guuy said that we could put in a pellet stove though, so this seems like a good option instead of spending alot of money on chimney repairs.
On one hand we are disappointed because we like wood heat, but on the other hand a pellet stove would be great if we ever rented the cabin out or had our daughters out there w/o us. ( pellet stove being easier to run)
we are near Seattle, on the puget sound. The house is about 1000 sq feet, no insulation at all ( NONE) and the only other heat is electric baseboard.
Would love to hear about recomendations as far as size/models and sources of inexpensiveellets, as well as any other things we should be aware of.
The fireplace guy just off the top of his head recomended a Regency insert, Greenfire I55, I think is themodel.
thanks so much!
we recently purchased a beach cabin, a real fixer-upper. we had intended on putting in a wood-burning insert in the fireplace,but just found out that the chimney is in too bad of shape to use with a woodburning insert.
The fireplace shop guuy said that we could put in a pellet stove though, so this seems like a good option instead of spending alot of money on chimney repairs.
On one hand we are disappointed because we like wood heat, but on the other hand a pellet stove would be great if we ever rented the cabin out or had our daughters out there w/o us. ( pellet stove being easier to run)
we are near Seattle, on the puget sound. The house is about 1000 sq feet, no insulation at all ( NONE) and the only other heat is electric baseboard.
Would love to hear about recomendations as far as size/models and sources of inexpensiveellets, as well as any other things we should be aware of.
The fireplace guy just off the top of his head recomended a Regency insert, Greenfire I55, I think is themodel.
thanks so much!