Wood burner or pellet stove?
May 11th 2012, 10:11 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
It can still be carbon neutral but still polute
Incomplete burning and production of soot are polutants http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv...d-bois-eng.php
Incomplete burning and production of soot are polutants http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv...d-bois-eng.php
Electricity of course is point-of-use non polluting. But overall it rather depends on how the electricity was generated.
May 11th 2012, 12:31 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
Strongly suggest you purchase a cast iron woodstove--it will retain the heat and let the heat out very slowly.If you but a steel woodstove it will be considerably cooler
May 11th 2012, 12:59 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
Available in Canada from here.. http://www.canadiankachelofen.com/
May 11th 2012, 8:05 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
wow, thanks all. Even having skimmed over the reviews (and this is how dumb I am) I totally didn't realise you needed to plug a pellet stove in.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
May 12th 2012, 4:00 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
wow, thanks all. Even having skimmed over the reviews (and this is how dumb I am) I totally didn't realise you needed to plug a pellet stove in.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
May 12th 2012, 4:32 am
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May 13th 2012, 4:22 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
wow, thanks all. Even having skimmed over the reviews (and this is how dumb I am) I totally didn't realise you needed to plug a pellet stove in.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
I thought you just shovelled in the pellets in a similar way to shoving logs in there
I think on that basis alone its good enought to steer towards the wood burner.
May 13th 2012, 3:43 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
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May 13th 2012, 5:48 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
You lot are wicked Have relayed the info back to him indoors and have agreed to revert back to the original plan of a wood burner
Have relayed the info back to him indoors and have agreed to revert back to the original plan of a wood burner
May 14th 2012, 3:23 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
If you really want efficiency from a wood burner you should look at the German/Austrian (perhaps Swiss too) Kachelofen...
Available in Canada from here.. http://www.canadiankachelofen.com/
Available in Canada from here.. http://www.canadiankachelofen.com/
May 14th 2012, 3:29 am
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May 14th 2012, 8:36 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
But thanks for those pages...!
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May 14th 2012, 8:45 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
Have a look at Opal. I have one, an Opal 2 if I remember correctly, in my basement and it burns very efficiently. It will heat my whole house up to 24C by itself even on the coldest winter days. My winter house sitter loves it !
May 14th 2012, 8:47 am
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverli...l/Default.aspx
May 14th 2012, 3:29 pm
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Re: Wood burner or pellet stove?
we have a wood stove here in Canada (a pacific energy one) and had one in Scotland (a morso squirrel i think it was called).
if you can, the morso squirrel is a fantastic stove. the pacific energy stove we have is a lot bigger, but just doesn't burn as well as the morso.
have never had a pellet stove, so can't comment, but wood stoves are fantastic - you just have to climb over dogs lying in front of them to fill them up!
if you can, the morso squirrel is a fantastic stove. the pacific energy stove we have is a lot bigger, but just doesn't burn as well as the morso.
have never had a pellet stove, so can't comment, but wood stoves are fantastic - you just have to climb over dogs lying in front of them to fill them up!
