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Why should you choose a pellet stove
Pellet stoves are a technology that is good for you and your family, as
well as being an environmentally conscious way to heat your home.
Most pellet stoves come with a battery back up, enabling them to
continue to provide your family with clean, efficient heat, even during
a power failure. Manufactured from recycled waste wood, pellet fuel is
lower in cost than any other source of fuel for home heating. Pellet
stoves provide you with heat, as well as with that extra something that
people seem to get from a crackling fire. The comfort and warm, radiant
glow of a wood fire, combined with the efficient heat, make pellet
stoves the obvious choice for home heating.
Wood burning stoves and fireplaces manufactured before 1988 are very
hard on the environment. Not as efficient as they should be, these
stoves send non-combusted materials and particulate matter such as soot
high into the atmosphere where it contributes to unhealthy air quality
in many cities around the country. Stoves of this period are also
seriously ineffective at heating homes. They consume far more wood than
is made up for by heat produced. Add to this the time and cost involved
in purchasing, chopping, splitting and stacking wood, and it shows that
wood burning stoves are not an ideal solution to your home heating
concerns.
Pellet stoves give you the look, feel, and ambiance of a wood fire
roaring in the hearth without all of the pollution associated with wood
stoves. Introduced more than a decade ago by Whitfield Stoves/Pyro
Industries, pellet stoves are the ideal solution to your heating needs. Far more technologically advanced than standard wood stoves, pellet
stoves look like regular wood burning stoves on the outside, but on the
inside they are serious combustion appliances designed to provide the
user with clean and efficient heat.
The fuel for pellet stoves is made from recycled sawdust, wood shavings,
and even walnut and peanut shells that is compressed and dried to the
optimum moisture level. Similar in appearance to rabbit feed, pellet
fuel is available in convenient 40-pound bags.
Pellets are a much better heat source for your home than firewood.
Pellets take scrap materials that would ordinarily be discarded and put
them to great use providing you with clean heat for your home.
Compressed until they reach a moisture content level of less than 8%,
compared to the 20 to 30% moisture content of cordwood, pellet fuel
produces much more heat than traditional firewood.
If you experience high heating costs due to fluctuating energy prices, a
pellet stove may be the solution for you. You can even install a pellet
stove in your home as a second source of heat to help you lessen your
heating bills. Compared to other sources of fuel for home heating,
pellet stove fuel is incredibly affordable.
You can purchase a years supply of pellet fuel at one time, so you will
know exactly how much you are going to spend on heating your home for a
year.
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