Used Wood Stoves and Wood Pellet Stove Facts and Information

Today, with the cost of oil and gas constantly increasing, more consumers are moving back to using wood as a source of heat. This has lead to some consumers looking at used wood stoves. At your local market or on internet website such as eBay, you will find a wide selection of used wood stoves. Some do actually have their benefits over newer stoves. Today, many products are built to a certain standard to achieve a certain limited life span. However a lot of the older wood stoves were built with no compromises. You will find older used wood stoves have thicker castings and can generally take more abuse without showing the effects. Therefore in many cases used wood stoves are best suited to heating an outside shed or workshop. However, in terms of been used to provide heat for your home, this probably isn't the best idea. For example older wood stoves do create more ash and require more cleaning.

The Complications of Used Wood Stoves and Wood Stoves In General

One of the significant problems with old used wood stoves is that they are not very efficient. You will be using a lot of wood, and most of the heat generated will be leaving the stove through the chimney, not into your home. Therefore more modern wood stoves can offer you a much better efficiency rating of around 70% as apposed to the 50% of older used wood stoves. New more modern wood stoves will also produce less ash and require less cleaning due to the improved efficiency as well as using less fuel. However, the problem with most wood stoves, is the fuel most people put in them. Most consumers use wood which is too wet, and has not been properly seasoned. Burning wet wood generates a whole series of issues. Firstly, its very hard to get the fire going, and you will consistently see smoke coming from the stack, as the fire will not reach high enough temperatures. Also you will not generate anywhere near the same heat as burning dry wood. However, there is a improvement over simply burning logs, wood pellets burn much more efficiently and require less work.

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The Benefits Of Wood Pellets and Debunking Some Of The Pellet Myths

One of the frequent obstacles we hear when talking about pellets, is that they are so much more expensive than logs, so what's the point? Well, firstly compared logs and wood pellets directly is not a fair comparison. Wood pellets can be used in automated systems, such as advanced wood pellet stoves and boilers. In fact there are some systems that can run completely automated for up to 6 months running off an external pellet silo and using an ash compression system. The reason you cannot directly compare the cost of using wood pellets and logs, is wood pellets are much dryer than logs (below 10% compared to around 40%). Therefore with a ton of pellets there is much more fuel, as when buying logs, half of what you are buying is actually water. Due to this fact, wood pellets burn more efficiently and create much more heat. Therefore to reach the same temperature you use less wood pellets than you would wooden logs. You don't have to have a pellet stove or boiler to use wood pellets, you can use them in a wood stove or even used wood stoves with the help of a wood pellet basket

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