Hi,
I've been using the Quadrafire 1000 pellet stove in my house for the first season.The main heating comes from a radiant floor system. Last year that was all I used but it was quite expensive. So this year I was trying to save money and so I kept the radiant system at 60 degrees F and used the pellet stove to get it up to about 68 degrees during the daytime but shutting it off at night. It would come on about 6 times a day and go through almost a bag of pellets a day.
Seems cheap enough. But here's the thing.While my gas bill went down quite a bit in the last month, my electric bill is way up. It's not so straightforward to calculate the difference between my energy bill this year vs. the same time last year,because there are other factors involved but It seems like I'm really not saving any money at all.
So now I'm wondering how much electricity the quadrafire uses to operate the blowers. The are very powerful and maybe they are using so much electricity that they are eating up my savings.
I've been using the Quadrafire 1000 pellet stove in my house for the first season.The main heating comes from a radiant floor system. Last year that was all I used but it was quite expensive. So this year I was trying to save money and so I kept the radiant system at 60 degrees F and used the pellet stove to get it up to about 68 degrees during the daytime but shutting it off at night. It would come on about 6 times a day and go through almost a bag of pellets a day.
Seems cheap enough. But here's the thing.While my gas bill went down quite a bit in the last month, my electric bill is way up. It's not so straightforward to calculate the difference between my energy bill this year vs. the same time last year,because there are other factors involved but It seems like I'm really not saving any money at all.
So now I'm wondering how much electricity the quadrafire uses to operate the blowers. The are very powerful and maybe they are using so much electricity that they are eating up my savings.