Showing posts with label disadvantages of pellet stoves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disadvantages of pellet stoves. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Buy pellet stoves Or Not

Well, let's talk about pros and cons of wood pellet stoves.
  • Pellet stoves are very efficient with 75% to 90% efficiency, and have a BTU output content four to five times higher than cord wood or wood chips.
  • Pellet stoves provide a history of 90% over-all proficiency rating. Their BTU output is 4 to five times greater as compared with a lot of wood stove types. In addition, the particulate emission is really nominal in comparison with EPA-approved wood stoves.
  • Pellet stoves have very low particulate emissions as well. Moreover, there is no smoke created from a pellet stove.
  • Furthermore, for people who have no fireplace or chimney, pellet stoves are the best alternative, as they can often be vented through a small hole in the wall, rather than a whole chimney.
  • Pellet stoves are cheap to run, very easy to set up.
  • Pellet stoves venting system is far cheaper than that of a log burner.
  • Pellet stove requires a lot less time for refuelling.
  • At last, pellet stoves do not require a huge storage area. They can be bought in a shop-filled sack and stored away in a cupboard for when the time comes to use them.
For the cons, namely the disadvantages of pellet stoves are as following:
  • Pellet stoves are more expensive than common wood stoves.
  • Most pellet stoves require electricity.
  • Pellet stoves also require pellets.
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