dylan
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Post by dylan on Feb 15, 2024 11:54:56 GMT 1
Mine was 4500 euros 12 years ago but I got 1100 euros back from the government scheme. I use 1 bag per day in very cold weather but we are well insulated. I don't miss stacking and humping logs, cleaning the old wood burner daily, relighting afterwards and the dust they cause. Ours doesn't heat water, it isn't noisy unless front and rear fans are going full blast (never). Not as nice to look at as a wood burner but it suits us.
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Post by jackie on Feb 15, 2024 12:26:25 GMT 1
Ours is a Palazetti which came with the house. Had it for nearly 5 years now and is so much easier than the 2 wood burning stoves we had in our last house. Positives - a timer like central heating so can come on/go out when you’re not at home or first thing in the morning etc. Also Thermostat etc and many other functions. We clean ours out once a week. Use a bag of wood pellets every 3 days but ours is just for heating. Granules are much cleaner and easier than logs.
Negatives- not as pretty as a woodburner and glass door needs cleaning everything couple of days. The fan makes it noisier than a wood burner but we have got used to it. Granules can also be subject to big price increases and profiteering as happened last year during the start of the Ukraine/Russian war. Thankfully things have settled down now and the price has been the same all winter…
IMO woodburners are nice as long as they’re not your main source of heating, we nad both ours for 12 years and don’t miss them at all and all the work they involve. All very well when you are fit and young but OH is approaching 70 now and certainly doesn’t miss all the wood stacking, chopping and humping logs around….
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mysty
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Post by mysty on Feb 15, 2024 13:37:11 GMT 1
One bag a day sounds a lot less than the amount of wood a wood burner eats.
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Post by omegal on Feb 15, 2024 14:15:11 GMT 1
omega:Sorry. I have not described the situation correctly. The unit my friend paid over €2000 euros for was not actually a boiler as such. Only a burner. It was professionally installed in the main room of the house (lounge/dining). Heat rose by natural convection to the upstairs living spaces. It was noisy because there was a fan and some mechanism that drops the pellets into the burner area. At the time he offered it to me there was no new owner in the frame. He knew it would be some time before he got a buyer and he was moving out ahead of time. From seeing it in use and being made aware of ongoing maintenance costs I was not tempted to take it. Apology not necessary, we all make mistakes. Noisy, that was a shame we now know at least six people with pellet burners and only one appeared noisy the rest were fine, I wouldn't say there are silent but it isn't a hard or medium noise and barely any noise. When the pellets drop and I had forgotten about that part, it is no longer even noticed. Outgoing costs, a yearly clean of the flue, we find that does work out more expensive than the woodburner being swept but not hugely. Shame as you might have been able to get it set up better and the noise level negligible.
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Post by sw31girl on Feb 16, 2024 18:17:54 GMT 1
A friend had one installed. It was very efficient but there was one flaw which concerned us. The pellet burner was quite tall. The hopper for the pellets was at the top. In order to load the pellets he had to use a small stepladder. Lifting a heavy bag of pellets up a stepladder didn’t seem like a great idea for a small seventy year old man.
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Post by Polarengineer on Feb 17, 2024 6:47:11 GMT 1
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Post by omegal on Feb 17, 2024 12:56:40 GMT 1
Wouldnt work with ours, if we leave the pellet door open too long it shuts the fire off. And we can put just over 10-11kgs in ours at a time, so not much point in having another hopper but might well be useful in other pellet burners?
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Post by omegal on Feb 17, 2024 13:00:10 GMT 1
A friend had one installed. It was very efficient but there was one flaw which concerned us. The pellet burner was quite tall. The hopper for the pellets was at the top. In order to load the pellets he had to use a small stepladder. Lifting a heavy bag of pellets up a stepladder didn’t seem like a great idea for a small seventy year old man. TBH was it a standard pellet burner? We looked in several shops but can't recall ever seeing one so tall as needing a stool to climb on to, to fill the hopper. Perhaps it was one that had a very large hopper to feed the burner as it was one that fed to a boiler as well?
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Post by jackie on Feb 18, 2024 13:54:11 GMT 1
A friend had one installed. It was very efficient but there was one flaw which concerned us. The pellet burner was quite tall. The hopper for the pellets was at the top. In order to load the pellets he had to use a small stepladder. Lifting a heavy bag of pellets up a stepladder didn’t seem like a great idea for a small seventy year old man. Wow! Must admit I have never seen one as tall as that, is it a very early model? ours, and all the ones I’ve ever seen are smaller than me…..
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Feb 18, 2024 15:37:04 GMT 1
There is no doubt that pellet stoves are efficient and, for the most part, their looks are not off-putting. But I worry about their need for a constant electrical connection. I loathe being reliant on just one power supply. OH and I have not lived in an area where mains gas has been available for more than 40 years so we are used to having either an electric or, even better, a bottled gas fueled hob. Where we lived in Lincolshire in the early days was prone to power cuts so having an anthracite gravity-fed boiler was useful as it meant constant hot water and a warm bathroom even if the power went off. Having a gas hob and oven meant that we could cook and keep the kitchen warm during the (sometimes long) power cuts.
Here the electricity suddenly cut out at 17h30ish a fortnight ago - on the Saturday. Immediately I lit the insert fire with the thought that we will at least have light and warmth from that. The heat would rise to prevent upstairs becoming glacial. Our evening meal could be produced on the bottled-gas hob if necessary. Fortunately the power came back on within a shortish time - no idea what caused that. Hence why I prefer mult-fuel options.
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Post by jackie on Feb 18, 2024 16:03:16 GMT 1
There is no doubt that pellet stoves are efficient and, for the most part, their looks are not off-putting. But I worry about their need for a constant electrical connection. I loathe being reliant on just one power supply. OH and I have not lived in an area where mains gas has been available for more than 40 years so we are used to having either an electric or, even better, a bottled gas fueled hob. Where we lived in Lincolshire in the early days was prone to power cuts so having an anthracite gravity-fed boiler was useful as it meant constant hot water and a warm bathroom even if the power went off. Having a gas hob and oven meant that we could cook and keep the kitchen warm during the (sometimes long) power cuts. Here the electricity suddenly cut out at 17h30ish a fortnight ago - on the Saturday. Immediately I lit the insert fire with the thought that we will at least have light and warmth from that. The heat would rise to prevent upstairs becoming glacial. Our evening meal could be produced on the bottled-gas hob if necessary. Fortunately the power came back on within a shortish time - no idea what caused that. Hence why I prefer mult-fuel options. Good point! If the leccy goes here we’re completely stuffed. Ive heard of people being trapped in their homes by electric shutters!!!!
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Post by iolar on Feb 19, 2024 14:59:30 GMT 1
jackie, you've raised a point that virtually everyone blanks or doesn't even think about - electricity. Without electricity the modern world disappears completely - that's everything - heating/light/cooking, unless using a gas hob/cooker/i/net/fridge/freezer/telephone (mobiles have to be charged)/hot water and like you said electric shutters and gates. I too use a gas hob via bottled gas but when the natural light goes you will still need electric light to work by.
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exile
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Post by exile on Feb 19, 2024 15:09:56 GMT 1
I suppose in your bit of the world, candles and paraffin/oil lamps have not been invented.
Yes electricity is behind almost all that we do in our daily lives but for many activities there are alternatives. 2019 we lost our electricity supply for 47 hours and guess what, the world did not come to an end. The whole village was impacted and we were offered use of a generator which we declined because we had gas cooking and a wood burner. There were others in the village who were not so independent and so had greater need.
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Post by robertarthur on Feb 19, 2024 15:24:15 GMT 1
Sometimes these guys are looking for a parking place. You should book them in advance....
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Feb 19, 2024 16:05:29 GMT 1
No leccy = no wifi. We're all doomed.
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