so ye old "stove season" is here for some and soon to be here for others so I suggest the "casual pointers for newbs and some old dogs who just get flighty"
I suggest:
fire up your stove before you need it, that way you can address anything at your convenience rather than swearing at it when you want heat.
rotate your pellet stock to use oldest pellets first, they may be just fine, but, you got nothing to lose
double check venting for bees (see thread on beeeeees), birds, goats...what have you...they get in there when your not lookin.
how's your surge protector doing? don't have one? get one...today like.
newbs, please read your manuals, seriously, for the most part they really are helpful, and at the very least it will give you a baseline "terminology" that will assit you in trouble shooting and whatnot.
for funsies, get yourself a notebook to log stove activities, loading, cleaning, pellet observations, ect...one thing I find super interesting is how energy curious the pellet community is. Some of our very own memebers have developed themselves into "experts" (and respected as such) without any real training, just time, energy and curiousity...that could be you too.
Set booty trap for stove gnomes...they always messin with stuff when you sleeping.
What else you guys got???
I suggest:
fire up your stove before you need it, that way you can address anything at your convenience rather than swearing at it when you want heat.
rotate your pellet stock to use oldest pellets first, they may be just fine, but, you got nothing to lose
double check venting for bees (see thread on beeeeees), birds, goats...what have you...they get in there when your not lookin.
how's your surge protector doing? don't have one? get one...today like.
newbs, please read your manuals, seriously, for the most part they really are helpful, and at the very least it will give you a baseline "terminology" that will assit you in trouble shooting and whatnot.
for funsies, get yourself a notebook to log stove activities, loading, cleaning, pellet observations, ect...one thing I find super interesting is how energy curious the pellet community is. Some of our very own memebers have developed themselves into "experts" (and respected as such) without any real training, just time, energy and curiousity...that could be you too.
Set booty trap for stove gnomes...they always messin with stuff when you sleeping.
What else you guys got???