Pellet fireplace reviews?

[RS3579]

I’m interested in pellet insert. Any feedback on brands?

 

[Rob960]

Harman is a solid brand.

 

[dieselchessy]

I have a Quadrafire stove. I think it’s 17 years old now. Have replaced the door gasket, the igniter heat coil and burn pot trap door once or twice each. They are $50 or less each.
I empty the burn pot every few days, and brush out the ash every week or so. Takes just a few minutes. You pull some levers and sweep with a paint brush.
On power outages it runs off my 2000 watt generator.

I’d say you for sure want thermostat control. Way nicer than the constant run setups.
Pellets here are $320 a ton or so. Same price as a cord of seasoned fir. Way easier to deal with a 40# bag every day or so than firewood. Takes me maybe 2 hours total to go purchase and store my years supply of pellets. I grew up cutting cord wood, so smile each time I finish with the wood pellets.

 

[Fogalo]

Do you have a forced air furnace? My old house had wood stove that the furnace pulled the hot air from and heated through the ductwork of the house. It was awesome - only problem was I’d get a little fire happy and had to open the windows. In Wisconsin. In January when it was 10 degrees outside.

I learned to adjust and never had to run the furnace (aside from the blower fan that automatically kicked on when the stove reached a certain temp). Didn’t use nearly as much wood as I had thought.

We moved to a new house - I’m looking into a outdoor wood boiler so we can do floor heat, furnace, and hot water. Running that off propane is expensive.

 

[ShooterB]

I switched to wood a couple of years ago due to the cost of pellet and I have no regrets, the heat is nice.

 

[Trimbandit]

I have had pellet and wood stoves. There is no doubt a pellet stove is great. Low maintenance, automatic feed and even heat. The downsides are they require electricity and only burn something you get from the store.
Its for those reasons I went back to wood burning.
Completely agree that Harmon makes a great stove. Both pellet and wood burning stoves have been Harmons.

 

[CoffeeGoat]

We had a rental in school and it had electric baseboard heat which is outrageously expensive in upstate NY. I convinced the landlord to allow me to pick up a use pellet stove on Craigslist, I think is was a Thelin gnome, and it was great. We went through about $800 bucks per year which was much cheaper than the alternative. It was in the first floor and headed the entire place with no problem. Replaced the auger once, and I heard the circuit board a couple years after we left, but still way cheaper than electric. I'd use it again, but make sure you can find good pellets locally for as reasonable price, they do vary in energy content and the cheapest may not be the best value.

 

[Mi_fiveo]

Did a lot of research before jumping into a pellet stove. Everything pointed towards getting a Harman. I picked one up and have nothing but good things to say about it. They are a great source of heat when properly maintained.


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[brunobear]

My only advice is to make sure you get one with a thermostat to regulate the feeder and also a battery back up. the model i had ( dont remember it) had a 12 volt battery so when the power would go out, it could safely shut itself off