How Long Does One Bag Last You?

Our usage has been pretty consistent. On low a bag lasts about a day and a half. On high, I use a bag and a half a day. The big difference I've seen is the amount of ash that I've had to deal with.

Fireside ultras the first year. Loads of ash and some pretty big clinkers.
NEWP last year, still quite a bit of ash, but clinkers were better.
Potomacs this year. I'm amazed at how little ash ends up in the pot. I haven't had a clinker yet.

Thanks!

With temps 25-35 and running at 70 ish 24/7 we are using about 1 bag daily

Just got my Pf100 installed and running. I'm heating a 2200 sq foot new house. Its about 30F outside I got my thermostat running about 73F. Looks like Im burning close to 2 bags a day using Kentucky Kernel. I'm not sure since now I'm starting to have some combustion blower issues.

lessoil said:

With temps 25-35 and running at 70 ish 24/7 we are using about 1 bag daily

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That is exactly what my use is. When temps dropped to -10 - 18, bag and a half a day.

In the coldest parts of the year, we typically burn 1 1/2 bags a day... One of the only reasons I actully like our Big E, is because it holds 3 bags in the hopper. So we only have to fill it every 2 to 3 days. We looked at a bunch of the newer stoves this year, and were very un-impressed with thier hoppers... I even seen one that only had a 30 pound hopper. Why in the heck would anyone want to deal with that?

We burn full time on the weekend, and can't push a full bag through in a day. That keeps the 1st floor at 75 and the upstairs around 70.

Approx averages for my stove running 24/7 during
the heating season is 1 to 1 1/2 bags a day depending
on the different variables.

I have been averaging between a bag to bag and a half using somersets as well. Its been mostly low 30s to high 20s wit.h lows in the teens at night heating a early 1900s uninsulated house on heat setting 4 with t-stat on 70 I have been thinking of mixing some corn with the pellets if i can find some reasonable?

Depending on the outside temps, I can use as little as 1/4bag to as much as 2 bags a day. The biggest equalizer for different pellet brands I know of is a thermostat. I use a programmable stat and it saves me on the times I am sleeping or out of the house. While I am home/awake its a toasty 72ºF.

I sure hope you tried the Somersets before purchasing the large amount! Its something we preach here as YMMV from what someone alse saw. There could also be a moisture issue with your pellets. Moisture kills the BTU output. Do the microwave test to see if there is alot of moisture.

Moisture test thread

Have you done a complete cleaning of the stove since last year? I burn somerset's, but that's what my stove seems to run the best on. We heat our old farmhouse with just our pellet stove, burn a bag a day or less, with temps in the 20's to 30's, and 1-2 with temps below 20's.

We burn Atlas ultra premium and we use 3/4 bag when 15 degrees outside.Per day.

Depends on the setting but on my Glow Boy (feed-rate options 1-4, 1 being the slowest) I usually burn on setting 2 or 3. Full 40# burn averages 15 to 22 hours. Using Somersets as well this year.(Black bag) seem to be good quality, nice burn with low ash. One suggestion: I did have to adjust my feed-rates depending on pellets and how quickly they burned. I think after four years I found a happy medium for "good" pellets such as the Somerset and Hamer Hot Ones. Both seem to burn nicely and consistently in duration at the following auger cycle times..

Example: off-on-off cycle

1=11 seconds
2= 8 seconds
3= 6 seconds
4= 4 seconds

I had 1 bag last me all summer long...... :cheese:

One bag of what? ;-P

Running through about a bag a day. Has been extremely cold here for a couple of weeks, so the stove is on all the time except when I let it die to be able to clean it. I put it in hi/lo mode right after Thanksgiving (and the new igniter install) and it runs in low most of the time until I decide to bump the temp up a degree for a couple of hours in the evening to take the chill off the edges of the room. My bedrooms stay in the 60's as a result, but I like a cooler room for sleeping so that works ok.

Also on the very last bags of last year's supply, so I'm really anxious to start my new pellets and see what they do.

Our stove is used as the sole source of heat in a 1800sq ft home on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

At this time we are going through about a bag a day, we never used more than 1 3/4 bags per day last winter.

1500 sq foot house(1880's colonial), using the pellet stove only for heat, I am using just shy of a bag a day in Room Temp mode set to 78. Temps are 40-50 during the day and 20-30 at night here now. The main living area is about 71-74 and the bedrooms are about 66-68.

Running about 1 bag a day right now at medium heat settings.

Glosta said:

One bag of what? ;-P

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silence=guilt...

Burning a bag a day right now.

Burning 1-3/4 to 2 bags a day in a Harman insert.

12 years the first time... now going on 22 years with the second wif.....Oh... you mean how long does a bag of PELLETS last me?

never mind...

krooser said:

12 years the first time... now going on 22 years with the second wif.....Oh... you mean how long does a bag of PELLETS last me?

never mind...

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LMFAO! :lol: Not quite a bag a day at this time.