It's my first year with pellets and i'm nervous about leaving it on all night when sleeping and all

RELAX, as long as you have a sfae install and proper maintance the stove will be fine. I leave mine on every heating day when i am there and away for the entire day. Been doing it for sometime now and have not had any issues. I have mine set on a thermostat when i am not home it goes to 62 and back on befroe i arrive.
Relax, it will be fine. Make sure nothing is in front or to near the stove and you will be fine...

Want a HUG????? will that help....

i leave mine on

usually turn it down to 1/2 feed rate and 3/4 fan, then turn it up when i get home

only thing you have to say is, "is it fine when im home? no leaks and set up properly"

only thing i worry about is if the power goes out and im not there to get the generator running

I have had a stove for about 4 weeks and have been burning quite a bit for the past week as the temps dropped down into the thirties. I too was/am nervous about leaving the stove burning at night, or while I'm out. I had the discussion with my installer and he assured me that in the 10 years that he has been in the business he has never geard of anyone burning sown the house with a pellet stove. He said that he could not say the same about woodtsoves and traditional fireplaces. When I began asking other folks in town about this subject they all assured me that as long as I keep up with the maintenance, I should be very safe. So, I have been sleeping with the stove on and I'm excited to say that we have not had to have the heat turned on upstairs because I'm getting great air-flow.

I'd love to hear what the experienced burners on the board have to say to us newbies.

Good luck!

sydney1963 said:

Woodsman,

Hug, Hug. thanks

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Geez now i am so hoping you are a female........

No different than a furnace in the house. You just can't see it because it's usually in the basement. But I assure you there is a fire down there too. Good luck.

I have a woodstove My son works nights I work days . Came home no wood in firebox
said so wtf . He said he was nervous loading and leaving.
I said son ,I paid for proper install . We have almost good wood (next year will be better)
load it up if I cant burn it when I m not home I wont burn it when I m sleeping
A gas furnance can kill u with ond little hole in the stack

Think of it this way. How many homes have blown up as a result of a corn or pellet stove the past winter? How many have blown up using propane or nat gas?
I have had a corn burner going for the last five years and when it gets cold it is running 24--7 until spring other then a cleaning once in a while. Most of the problems I have had were human error. -- not adding fuel or dumping ash drawer on time that sort of problem.
funny but when people say they are noisy I wake up if there is no noise as then I know something is wrong.

New owner too and it's weird/ scary at first but now look forward to coming down the stairs and seeing the fire flickering, has kind of a Christmas feeling to it.
Enjoy

sydney1963 said:

Yes, I am female.

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Good now i can relax, !good luck with your new stove

Don't worry, I felt the same way at first.
As you get used to it you will feel more comfortable about leaving the
stove running unattended longer and longer.

90durham said:

New owner too and it's weird/ scary at first but now look forward to coming down the stairs and seeing the fire flickering, has kind of a Christmas feeling to it.
Enjoy

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I agree with this post, and it's nice to come down the stairs and actually be warm while I'm having my coffee...unlike last year when I had the thermostat down to 60 at night to save on propane.

We also felt nervous about the stove on when we were not at home.
It has been about a week or so with the stove on auto temp, set to 66 deg.
Kind of nice to wake up to a warm fire on the first floor.
Also nice for a warm house when we get home.
The nervous feeling has gone away and we are exremely happy with our stove and
its performance.

Good luck with your stove

sydney1963 said:

Please help me get over this. Thanks for your help.

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I now have a wood stove & a pellet stove on. i would just lower it a bit and everything is fine.

I think most people are nervous leaving a stove running
unattended when they first get it. If it's installed properly
and maintained regularly no worries. I kick mine down to
low when nobody is home but it's not often that there is
nobody here.

If you don't already have them, I would recommend getting
CO detectors. I plugged mine in approx. 12 feet from the stove
and have another one in the hallway in case the first one fails.

Relax. You will stop worrying in time.

90durham said:

New owner too and it's weird/ scary at first but now look forward to coming down the stairs and seeing the fire flickering, has kind of a Christmas feeling to it.
Enjoy

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Same thing here. We've been leaving ours on all night this week and turn it off during the day, as it's not too cold yet. The first night was kind of strange...hearing the sounds of the stove, seeing the flickering flame down the end of the hall...but that all went away as soon as I fell asleep that first night. Now it doesn't bother me at all to leave it on at night. To wake up in the morning to a warm house, and the baseboards are cold is awesome! I sit in the living room every morning with my coffee to watch the news before work with the flickering fire on low...ahhh, nice feeling.

Relax and enjoy the sound of pellets plinking softly into the burn pot and no furnace humming! ;-P

Lori

I too had my concerns the first few times either leaving the house for short periods of time and going to sleep at night. This may sound silly, but I actually used a baby monitor so I could hear it fire up all the way to cool down which eased my mind. Even though I couldn't see it working, I could at least hear it running.

I clean the burn pot everyday and give it a good thorough cleaning every week so I think I'm keeping up with the maintenance well enough.

Steve

sydney1963 said:

Please help me get over this. Thanks for your help.

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Sydney, I am a relative newbie at this pellet deal too, but after reading so much great info on this forum, I had no problem leaving the stove on. I came from having a wood stove which i would NEVER leave burning if i wasn't home. There are so many safety items in these pellet stoves, I put it on a programmable thermostat, and it works great....no worries!

I was nervous and didn't get much sleep the first night we had ours running last year, but after that it got a LOT easier, I even had a few people aks me if I leave it burning when no one is home...LOL! It ran 24/7 the whole heating season last year and I'm ready for it again this year......you'll be fine ;-) !

you will be fine sydney i burn 24/7 here in nova scotia in winter months. like mentioned if stove properly installed no worries. i shut mine down for regular weekly cleanings thats about it.

Last year was my first year with a stove and I was the same way...very nervous to leave it on when I left or when we went to sleep. It didn't seem right leaving a fire on in the house when I left and no one was home. However, everything I have read on this site and with the place I bought the stove from, pellet stoves are very safe. You just need to make sure you do the required maintenance and everything will be fine. Over time the nervous feeling will reside. Now, I don't even think anything of leaving it on when leaving or sleeping. Installing a cabon monoxide detector also helped ease my nerves a bit at night.

Hi Sydney, we too just installed back in July, fired it up the last couple weekends, I cant sleep either!! As a matter of fact I left it on last night & there must have been a pellet jammed in the auger, I heard it rumble a bit, so I set the thermostat to shut it down for the rest of the night , I got nervous. I guess its just something to get used to. And we had ours professionally installed!! Must be a female thing, hubby keeps telling me its doing what its suppose to do, and I dont hear our furnace kick on !! I guess it will take a bit of getting used to..