moisture on the bags

I have noticed that in my garage several times when the weather conditions are just right. It has never affected my pellet stash and some of them have been stored for over a year.

Yes, it happened to me a few years ago. I always used to store my pellets out under my screened in porch. I never had a problem until a few years back when the bags started to get moisture on them.

I had about 1/2 of a ton go bad....the pellets inside the bags just turned into saw dust.

After that year, I never stored my pellets in my screened in porch.

Obviously, storing your pellets in a garage is a bit diiferent that outside in a screened in porch.

I would not worry about it. I have this happen all the time, and the pellets always burn fine. It happens when ever there is a big warm up after a cold snap. The pellet bags are ice cold and the warmer air temperature combined with humidity in the air makes moisture on the outside of the bags. Works just like a cold drink in a glass on a warm summer day.

I store my pellets outside in a 4' x 4' pellet shed. I occasionally get moisture on the outside of the bags. It's never been a problem when burning the pellets. What I normally do is bring 3-4 bags into the house and store them in the furnace room to remove any excess moisture before loading them into the hopper.

I had half a pallet of bags sitting outside since last spring. Only cover for them was the original cover they came with, no tarp. They got rained on in the summer and the only damage I found was one bag at the very bottom that had one small corner that apparently managed to get damp and the pellets in the corner broke down. One bag with a cup and a half of breakdown out of 30 isn't bad.

Sawduster said:

I would not worry about it.
I have this happen all the time, and the pellets always burn fine.
It happens when ever there is a big warm up after a cold snap.

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X2 what Sawduster said.

X3 what sawduster said,i noticed that other day after the warm weekend and brought a few bags in the underside had a wet feeling, look at your garage floor, when the moisture dont dry and the floor is damp looking you get damp bags, as long as there's no holes in bag's your fine, i did wash my hand's after as thing it was was mice piss...................yuk!

X3 what sawduster said,i noticed that other day after the warm weekend and brought a few bags in the underside had a wet feeling, look at your garage floor, when the moisture dont dry and the floor is damp looking you get damp bags, as long as there's no holes in bag's your fine, i did wash my hand's after as thinking it was was mice piss...................yuk!