hi folks,
i recently bought a 2nd hand pellet stove from a co-worker and its approx. 2 yrs old.
i know its not a top of the line stove as its a cheap charlie/pelpro hcf120, so this is my problem.
he stopped using the stove because he said it was burning way to many pellets and he wasnt getting enough heat out of it. keep in mind that he has a huge 2 story house.
i did some looking up on the stove and found that it is a 15-50,000 btu, and is rated for 2000 sq. ft. i figured he just bought to small of a stove for his house,so i offered to buy it from him.
i bought the stove about 2 weeks ago , pulled out my wood stove , sold the remainder of my wood, and installed the stove.
i have 1100 sq ft to heat and figured " man this thing ought to drive me out with heat" right? wrong
my home is an older mobile home with a 16x40 addition. the stove is in the addition where my living room is , and 16' of the mobile home wall is removed so the stove can send heat there with nothing blocking the path.
well, on a fairly warm day(above 30 deg.) the house may get to 70 - 75 deg...that is with the room air blower on hi and the auger feed on 3. with this setting i am going thru 2 plus bags of pellets per day regardless of outside temp... when the outside temp goes below 25 deg. i am lucky if the stove warms the house to 60 -65 deg. and the furnace kicks on.
something doesnt seem right. i have thouroly cleaned the stove and replaced the door gasket.dont know what to do from here.please help...
i realize i bought the cheapest of cheap and you get what you pay for, but this thing should be more efficient than it is shouldnt it?
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i bought what i could afford at the time
thanks in advance,
mike
i recently bought a 2nd hand pellet stove from a co-worker and its approx. 2 yrs old.
i know its not a top of the line stove as its a cheap charlie/pelpro hcf120, so this is my problem.
he stopped using the stove because he said it was burning way to many pellets and he wasnt getting enough heat out of it. keep in mind that he has a huge 2 story house.
i did some looking up on the stove and found that it is a 15-50,000 btu, and is rated for 2000 sq. ft. i figured he just bought to small of a stove for his house,so i offered to buy it from him.
i bought the stove about 2 weeks ago , pulled out my wood stove , sold the remainder of my wood, and installed the stove.
i have 1100 sq ft to heat and figured " man this thing ought to drive me out with heat" right? wrong

my home is an older mobile home with a 16x40 addition. the stove is in the addition where my living room is , and 16' of the mobile home wall is removed so the stove can send heat there with nothing blocking the path.
well, on a fairly warm day(above 30 deg.) the house may get to 70 - 75 deg...that is with the room air blower on hi and the auger feed on 3. with this setting i am going thru 2 plus bags of pellets per day regardless of outside temp... when the outside temp goes below 25 deg. i am lucky if the stove warms the house to 60 -65 deg. and the furnace kicks on.
something doesnt seem right. i have thouroly cleaned the stove and replaced the door gasket.dont know what to do from here.please help...
i realize i bought the cheapest of cheap and you get what you pay for, but this thing should be more efficient than it is shouldnt it?
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i bought what i could afford at the time
thanks in advance,
mike