Need your help please,is this a good price?

Harman P series are known to not need so called premium pellets

kniffin50 said:

thanks, I thought it would burn lesser quality pellets. Rusty

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Paid 3700 for a new Harman P 61A So sounds like a good price..
Nix on the " must burn" hardwood Premium pellets..
I don't think any Pellet stove comes with a Must burn whatever Tag....
Harmans will pretty much burn anything with no problems..Even pellets that are Not consistant in size.
Unless u buy crappy Dog food looking pellets in which case you'll do a lot of un-necessary internal cleaning you should be fine with almost any name brand used here in the forum.
Have burned many tons of Energex Hardwood premiums[250.ton] along with HD Stove Chow hardwoods [229.00 ton].
Also your choice of Softwoods as many here like to burn them...Not sure what the draw is for softwood pellets. someone prob chime in about them.
Either way, should prob buy a few bags of any brands u can and try them out before getting a huge quantity.

One of Harman's selling points is that it can burn any type of pellet well due to it's 'automatic' features, etc. - but there is definitely no need to burn premium pellets.

Of course the question of "should you burn better pellets", well, just check out all the threads on here - you will find more opinions than you might imagine. My philosophy is better pellets = happier stove! (less ash, less cleaning, higher btu output can equal less pellets required to burn... bla bla bla)

DAKSY said:

{{Also your choice of Softwoods as many here like to burn them...Not sure what the draw is for softwood pellets. someone prob chime in about them.}}

More BTUs in the softwood pellets due to the resins. Tend to burn a little cleaner & leave less ash. I'm gonna give the Cleanfire Softwoods a try this winter. Placing my order this week. A little more pricy, but if they keep the new GF warm, BOTH of us will be happy...

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Regarding your softwood's description.... that is what I'm hoping to discover this upcoming season - I hope all the hype is true - I have 3 tons of hype in the garage!!

A harman will burn anything. From my experience when using green supreme that cost less after my pull out cleaning every ton and a half it was filthy.When I put my 25 ft fiber Glass rod up the flu .there was buckets of white ash.after burning a ton and a half of green team.it was 60% less ash in the flu.So this year I spent the extra and got my 4 tons of green team.So yes a harman will burn it but if you do your own cleanings it will be a bit more dirty .I am also in Ct and valley fireplace in canton gave me the best price and great customer service on my harman p35i

kniffin50 said:

thats the shop,good to know your happy with the service. Thanks Rusty

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Paul did my install .i had a list of questions for him.he was nice answering everything.Get some pics when she's up and running.tell paul the optician from newington says hi

Where in ct? I'm looking for an installer in brimfield ma if anyone knows of a person .. Need to put a 4" liner in my existing stainless steel chimney .. Just a tricky pitch to get upon the roof ..

Is running a liner up the wood stove chimney the best option? I know you can get adapters to reduce opening to pellet pipe size...

Prefer the softwoods but local suppliers are interesting in their pellet purchases...

I thought that in order to connect a pellet to an existing wood stove chimney you had to put a liner insert..

Joe B One925 said:

I thought that in order to connect a pellet to an existing wood stove chimney you had to put a liner insert..

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What would be the cost difference of installing a complete pellet pipe with adapter to reduce exterior hole from wood chimney vs. the liner? How tough is the maintenance on a liner vs. pellet pipe? Are they installing an OAK (outside air kit)? Just the questions I would ask...

Well since I would have the pellet stove in our finished basement I'm dealing w concrete walls and my wife isn't thrilled w the idea of drilling a new hole... So we thought of using our existing setup from the wood stove

You could remove existing wood stove piping, install reducer in existing hole in the wall, install pellet pipe. If you use the existing wood stove chimney, you do have to use a liner.

How long of a run is your existing chimney and what size liner did they quote - 3" or 4"?

Just trying to make sure your new install does not give you grief later on...

My existing chimney has a run of about 18 - 20ft (excluding of course the pipe from the thimble to the outside. I called an installer this morning, coming on Monday.
I'm gonna see how much it costs to install my englander 25PVD, and using my existing wood stove chimney noted above. Anyone have an idea of what I should expect to pay for something like this? Sorry if i'm getting off topic..

Thanks for the input Daksy. I was even considering removing a portion of the chimney outside to reduce the amount of run.
I took a few pics to show what my setup is...

I definitely won't be going back to wood since we put a new addition on home, which is why we are switching to pellets. So does anyone think its possible to remove a portion of the chimney or will it all just tumble down to the ground? I know its braced pretty good up on the roof. To avoid having to fix that hole in the roof from the chimney, I guess I was thinking of removing a portion of it, and then just putting a 4" line insert into the part that is still existing below.

I ripped my wood stove pipe out completely... much cleaner looking. Not a terribly difficult repair job on the roof. You will enjoy not climbing up a ladder to clean the pipe. Mark my words.

Even if i took out the existing chimney, I have no clue how I would get the outside air kit setup since I'm dealing that concrete foundation wall. In my head its tough to justify paying $1K, when the englander will cost me the same. Sounds ridiculous..