Gus
08-Jan-06, 23:04
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out here...
What with the ever rising prices of oil and coal, we've been considering installing a domestic wood pellet stove with which to heat both the water and the central heating.
After doing some calculations, we reckon we can save about half of what we spend on oil (about £400/year) and, if we were to replace the multifuel stove in the living room with another, smaller wood pellet stove, we could more than halve what we now spend on coal.
Wood pellet stoves would appear to be environmentally sound and, after the cost of the initial outlay (which can be cut up to a third with grants) would let us be warmed by a renewable and sustainable energy source for a fraction of our current costs.
However, the closest place we know of who sell and install these stoves is near Melrose. (There was an ad in the P&J the other day, but I've not heard back from the gentleman who placed it).
Does anyone have a pellet stove?
We have a couple of brochures which show how the pellets are fed through a hopper into a fairly normal-looking stove on an electronic timer system, but have yet to see one working and yet to determine with what regularity the sacks of pellets (akin to the wood-chip cat-litter) can be delivered to Caithness. Also, what would happen in a prolonged power-cut?
Can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks...
I'm hoping someone can help me out here...
What with the ever rising prices of oil and coal, we've been considering installing a domestic wood pellet stove with which to heat both the water and the central heating.
After doing some calculations, we reckon we can save about half of what we spend on oil (about £400/year) and, if we were to replace the multifuel stove in the living room with another, smaller wood pellet stove, we could more than halve what we now spend on coal.
Wood pellet stoves would appear to be environmentally sound and, after the cost of the initial outlay (which can be cut up to a third with grants) would let us be warmed by a renewable and sustainable energy source for a fraction of our current costs.
However, the closest place we know of who sell and install these stoves is near Melrose. (There was an ad in the P&J the other day, but I've not heard back from the gentleman who placed it).
Does anyone have a pellet stove?
We have a couple of brochures which show how the pellets are fed through a hopper into a fairly normal-looking stove on an electronic timer system, but have yet to see one working and yet to determine with what regularity the sacks of pellets (akin to the wood-chip cat-litter) can be delivered to Caithness. Also, what would happen in a prolonged power-cut?
Can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks...