Wood/pellet stove or only wood stove suggestion needed, pious planning ?
I am on a very constrained budget. What I'd like to do is find an elder Orley stove, stick it in & grill with it. I know in that R 1000 codes etc, but .. I'm living on pennies, & I believe it would be so much better than my silly inefficient wall gas furnace. Anyone knowledgable about these stoves ? Bottom chain, very low budget, live alone, 1100 square ft home, contained by my 50s . hmm seems I other forget some important info, if you enjoy practical, not expensive answers, I'd love to hear. I know all roughly speaking hauling wood, paying for it, chopping it, etc. but don't know current ways to heat cheaply next to wood. thanks
When I looked up pellet stoves on wikipedia at hand was a register that said pellets are in a minute expensive/
Answers: Boy, can I relate.
I have newly about every method of keeping reheat.
Everything is expensive.
Oil, Much too expensive.
Electric, Ditto
Propane is too expensive.
Wood Stove, wood here in PA is between 140-180 a cord.
Need at least possible 3 cords to get through winter.
Seriously thinking of moving where on earth it is warmer.
But to answer your interview. Wood stoves are getting expensive as well, but the singular way to step.
I'm not strictly familar with the stove you mention; but did live within the Pacific Northwest for 4 years.
I had a small pellet stove that heated a 1000 sq. ft. house incredibly well. That be 1999- 2003; and it was "neater" than a regular wood burner; which I grew up near; but; WOOD was also essentially free; save for the labor.
Sad but true; EVERYTHING designed to offer heat; is exponentially increasing in cost. Pellets aren't excluded; and the excuse is within supply/ demand/ processing; etc.
CHEAP might be a relative word. Certainly if one has access to lumber/logs; for free or cheap; the reg. wood stove is the approach to go. Certainly at some point within time; if one is willing to do the legwork; it might be that wood can be found at building sites; clearing for a house; wanting to only just have it haul away?
Steven Wolf
You have 2 choices contained by this matter.
One beside a regular wood stove you are gonna have to cut wood or buy it precut. Here contained by WV
a 1/2 ton truck stacked with wood sell for between 55-60 dollars a load. And depending on your heat pattern you could failure up using several truck loads.
Pellet Stoves are expensive to buy at Tractor
Supply Co. And again here in WV Pellets put up for sale
for 275.00 to 300.00 per ton. And in your nouns they are probably more than that.
I heat near electric myself and we keep the temp at 65 degree in the winter and wear sweat shirts or a pallid fleece jacket.
Good luck
I heat beside corn. Corn stoves are about equal cost as wood pellet stoves, but corn is cheap, always contained by stock, and no work involved in the process. My geo help me a lot (Kansas). A bushel of corn cost, right very soon, $3.45. A bushel weighs 100lbs. It take me 1900 lbs to eat my house contained by the winter. My total heating cost = $65.00 that's cheap. 1700sqft
Do some research on them. Corn prices are sure to jump up with them making alternative fuels, and biofuels. But it would own to go up greatly for me to care.
P.S. heat and cooling of a home is really measured by the cubic foot. If you have arched ceilings and such you own more area to heat/cool
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