How Long Does One Bag Last You?

got pretty cold this past week, 12 degrees at 5 am a couple of days, I went through 6 bags from monday to friday (that is starting with 11 bags or so in a full hopper monday, and 6 just to get it almost full friday night), and another 4 bags filled it on saturday, of course my stove isn't a space heater, and it heats DHW also...

1 to 1.5 bags on #4, almost 2 bags on #5... but I'm in a leaky old nh house, which is not well segmented across the oil zones, and well larger than my stoves sq footage rating. Having said that..., on #5, it'll get the stove room at 70 on the ceiling, 62 on the floor and a lite breeze from the heat moving in the room/house. Entire upstairs sits at 62-64 from the 1st floor stove being on, which keeps the oil seemingly from coming on upstairs at all thus far this season.

one and a half to 2 bags a day. 4 to 4.5 setting. But nice and toasty warm! Looks like one of those winters that just knocked on the door and settled right in.

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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Krooser, you keep calling your wife a bag and 22 is all you're going to get to... >:-(

Guess what? my stove sucks again. lol

I use 1 bag on low
1 1/2 on 2
2 on 3
2.5 on 4
3 on high

I have no other settings.

I generally run my stove on low most days, but go to 2 on the cold nights (0-teens) and have dipped to 3 a couple times.

4 and high just fill the burn pot with clinkers/unburnt pellets and eventually overflows. worthelss settings IMO.

I have no air or any other fan speed adjustments.

1/2/3/4/5
take it or leave it.

wish i knew better/more when i bought it.

About a day, sometimes when its real cold like in the 20's and below, maybe 10 bags a week.

My Quadrafireonly has settings of Low Medium and High.
LOW settings: 22 hours
MEDIUM settings:17 hours
HIGH settings:11 hours

The last few days, been using about a bag every 18 hours.

To maintain 70 degrees....with heat setting on 4 and blower on 6...

outside temp 40 degrees 1 bag every 30 hours (1-1-1)
outside temp 30 degrees 1 bag every 18 hours (1-2-1)
outside temp 20ish deg. 1 bag every 12 hours (4-3-1)

As I've read that every stove, install and house is different.

Using about 1-2 bags of Uncle Jeds per day depending on our temp outside and if the wife can keep the windows closed! Too hot she says! We keep our ranch about 70. Don't really pay much attention to the amount used, i just keep feeding it. Cold tonight, cranked up the furnace, gobbling pellets now. We'll still won't see the propane guy til summer

Dang, englanderstoves 25pdvp burning 3-4 bags a day right now and barely cutting it on high! What the heck, this thread is upsetting

Dang, englanderstoves 25pdvp burning 3-4 bags a day right now and barely cutting it on high! What the heck, this thread is upsetting

In a 10 1/2 hour work day I am using about 2 bags here and the oil eater keeps kicking on to help out and keep it around 65 in here. :shut:

We had a 24 hour period at 0 (including windchill) and I used 4 bags in my un-insulated split faced block house.

I am heating about 800 sq ft ranch with a Castille. Running the house on an electronic/timed thermostat during the day between 65-69 on high fan. From 4PM until 10PM, we crank up to 74. (Varied temps on weekend depending if we are home average about the same pellet usage.)

Temp outside: 20-30 Just under a bag .... Green Team/Barefoots (less ash with the Barefoots)
Temp outside: 10-20 A bag .... Green Team/Barefoots/Maine Woods (least ash with the Barefoots and Maine Woods on high fan)

With temp range from 0-10, last year, about a bag and a half with the Green Team.

Just picked up six bags of the "new" Maine Woods to try and am liking them. Burn almost as hot as the Barefoots and very little ash when run on high fan. Started the season with a ton of Green Team for shoulder pellets and three tons of Barefoots. If I can get a good price on the Maine Woods in March or April for next season's heating, I will go with them. My distributor is telling me Barefoot is having a problem sourcing raw materials so this situation needs to be watched.

Its in the low teens at night now, I am using abt 1.5 to 2 bags a day. Needed to start my second pellet stove, old 125 yr old house has some insulation.