Selling house, no more Pellet Stove! Fireplace or Wood Stove?

[DMbekus]

We burned 3 tons of pellets our first winter and will burn just under 4 tons this year! While I am not a pellet stove experts, I am totally familiar with the hauling of pellets and the weekly and monthly variations of cleaning our pellet stove. ***We will be selling our house this summer/fall and buying a new home before winter. While my wife loves the heat output of the pellet stove, she misses the "smell and crackling" of a traditional fireplace. I don't know what kind of fireplace we will end up with but I assume that fireplaces can be set up with various types of "heat tubes" to throw out additional heat other than having most go up the chimney. I am also assuming that wood stoves muffle most of the snap, crackle, pop and that most of the nice smells go up the exhaust venting. Thanks, hopefully someone can steer me to either Fireplace burning or a Wood stove. Bill

If you’re not passionate about a fire place get a wood stove with large front door. I have jotul 500 and think it’s great. I have fire places which I occasionally burn and love that to, they heat the rooms they are in and cool the rest of the house. If you burn frequently, better with the wood stove, less wood to move around.

 

[soupy1957]

Awe heck.....open the door and take in that wonderful smell! Nothin like it!

-soupy1957