itworks said:
kinsman stoves said:
Dirty or clogged exhaust.
Please check your exhaust. Not by just thinking it is clean because you have only been running it for two months.
1.) Empty the tee cap
2.) Replace the tee cap and smack the vertical rise. Not in the manner of Hulk Hogan smacking his wife but a smack to loosen the ash.
3.) Check the tee cap again.
4.) Run a brush up the vertical rise.
5.) remove the combustion blower and look what is in there.
6.) If needed clean the blower.
This should take less than 20 minutes.
Sorry I forgot
7.) Drink beer and know you did good and saved $$$$
If you can not do the above this is for you.
1.) Go to your phone and call your dealer.
2.) Wait for him/her to come out and do the above.
3.) Pay $300 for that service.
Eric
I'm sure you're right, but if that's what's required, what's the advantage of installing a pellet stove? ... I guess it only makes sense for those who's only alternative is to heat their homes with electricity, propane, or kerosene to currently buy pellets. I guess pellets will really become a niche market.
What's the advantage of installing a pellet stove? Here are a few to remember...
1: Economical. Your heating dollars employ your neighbors in the harvesting, processing and transportation of that heat, not people from other regions of the world. This helps to stabilize your local economy, keeping more dollars local.
2: Enviromental. You make use of a natural, renewable resource.
3: National security. You don't contribute to a run-up in the worlds total use of oil, allowing speculators to drive up the cost of oil. Iran and other countries that don't care for the U.S raked in cash due to the unreasonably high prices we saw over the last 5 years. The less use of oil there is, the lower the price for crude will stay. and yes, EVERY BIT HELPS.
Pellets make sense on a number of levels for those who have each and every alternative available to them. Even if you believe mankind has no hand in global climate change, the above three reasons still stand. Twenty minutes to half an hour to maintain your stove is a small price to pay.
Pellets as a niche market? Honestly, how anyone can think that oil is going to remain cheap is beyond me. Are we really that short-sighted? Is our attention span so dismal? As soon as the world economy turns around, oil is going to go through the roof AGAIN and people will again be clamoring to buy Hybrid cars, pellet stoves and alternative energy generated electricity. Learn about your stove now and follow the Boy Scouts of America motto... "BE PREPARED". Only an oil dealer who hasn't moved into alternative energy would seriously counsel anyone to stay on oil alone. Keep your heating options open and you'll be better off in the future.
I saw her late one night but the wife tossed her out!
!! I am new to pellet stoves but not heating with wood. We replaced a 21 year old wood burning stove with a Harman Advance-2 pellet stove back in October. So far it is performing like a champ. We live in a 2700 sq ft house and it does a good job of maintaining the temperature at 68-70. I have burned 1 ton of pellets from American Wood Fiber and I am about 1/2 way through a second ton of Energex pellets. Both brands of pellets seem to perform equally well with the Advance. I shut down for a few hours daily and clean the glass, scrape the burn pot, remove the plate from the bottom of the burn pot and clean out that area. I downloaded the Advance Cleaning Guide from the Harman Web site and cleaned the stove following those instructions after burning the first ton of pellets. Since I am coming up on finishing the second ton of pellets within the next few weeks and will be doing a cleaning again I was wondering if there is anything else that I should be doing during the cleaning procedure? Also, what is the standard procedure for cleaning the stove at the end of the heating season? Finally, The stove is vented to the conventional masonry chimney that was used for the wood stove. How often should we have the chimney cleaned?
