Use to heat the 1800 SqFt house all winter. Just set to "2" and it runs perfect. Use 4 ton of pellets each year. Get a good ash vacuum and clean 2x / week (turn off stove, let cool for 2 hours, vacuum for 10 minutes be sure to get the baffles using a fish tank brush). As long as you never turn it off, you can make it all winter (mid October mid April) without cleaning the chimney (FYI they recommend chimney cleaning every ton and I'm not suggesting you do anything different) after 2 months if you turn it off for even a day all the ash will come off the vent pipe (4 inch 20 ft vert.) and clog the chimney. Taking the insert out for annual maintenance is a bit of a pain. Have had this for 5 years and replaced the auger motor once and the convection blower. Even considering this, the stove has easily paid for itself.
I've done firewood my whole life (until now). You don't get as much heat out of the pellets, but feeding and cleaning (no bugs/no bark) is so much easier. Fill every 12 hours.
Spend the extra $ for the fake firebricks in the back, skip the fake logs.
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