sparke - 13 June 2008 04:45 PM

What do you think will happen to pellet prices in the next few years?

I think they will stabilize once people like us stop speculating about them.  Due to our fear of there being a pellet shortage, WE are creating the increase in price.  There will probably never be the $199 per ton again, but it will be available and it will be cheaper then heating oil.

Thanks so much for all of this - it will be helpful this week as we continue the great search!!!

flyingcow - 13 June 2008 06:29 PM

I’m heading in the same direction as you Sarah. I got a price of 12,000 plus for an out door boiler.   I’ll probably go with tarm, and water storage.About the same price as the OWB option. You’ll burn less wood.And alot cleaner, less creosote problem. I’m putting the furnace in an unattached garage, and the water storage in the basement. The tank that tarm is offering is about 7ft in diameter and about 4ft high.  You can fire the furnace up this time of year, one firing should give me enough domestic water for 3 days.Family of 5! Pretty cool. -----Keep in mind that in maine, you cannot put a wood furnace and a oil fired unit in the same flue. Has to be a double flue chimney.

You can vent UL Approved multi-fuel units into one chimney - but not “add-ons”.