Greeting from WI, been lurking on here a few days. Thought I would give it a shot. I have a few crazy ideas to run through you guys so I am interested in getting started. This will just be my introductory post though.
I got a deal ($250) on a used American Harvest pellet stove with almost all the double lined pipe and thimble from a guy at work. He's a part time cash cropper so he burned corn, but the price of corn and his wife not liking all the dust from the corn in the house, he scrapped it! I installed the stove myself (almost killing myself carting it down the stairs) had it all inspected for insurance reasons and my own piece of mind. I like the stove a lot, although I wish the hopper was a little bigger as it only holds 40lbs of pellets. Its a continuous run stove, not sure if this is normal to have a stove you just light and let burn. I live in a 110 year old house here in NW Wisconsin, I just planted the stove in the basement and kinda rigged a house fan up in the cold air return of my forced air furnace. I figure that way if the furnace should have to run it wont blow in the basement also I dont have to run my hot air through the (cold) heat exchanger on the furnace. The temp was 0 today so I had to turn the stove up to 6 out of a possible 9 and its 71 in the living room. Here are a few pictures of my rig.
Kinda messy down here I just filled the hopper earlier today and have not had a chance to vacuum, tommorow is stove cleaning day so I will take care of then. The hopper holds about 25 forty pound bags. There is chute outside that I fill from.
I can't remember the brand of pellets I am using right now but I do know I got them at Fleet Farm for 189/ton, and they are hard wood. No problems with them so far.
The hopper chute and thimble, I still got to put an electrical outlet in!!
I had a hard time here, I exited the exhaust though an old window that I had boarded up years ago. I didn't feel like dealing with the window well so I flashed a piece of treated plywood and bolted it to the window well itself. The problem is the vent came out just a little above grade so I had to this craziness. The hopper chute now sits to the right of the vent (I took the picture before I built it) Naturally I caulked everything up after the money shot here.
This the (trial) fan I rigged up to blow in the cold air return. HaHa it used to be on a stand and oscilated until I got a hold of it. I think it works good so may be just tidy it up a bit.
I got a deal ($250) on a used American Harvest pellet stove with almost all the double lined pipe and thimble from a guy at work. He's a part time cash cropper so he burned corn, but the price of corn and his wife not liking all the dust from the corn in the house, he scrapped it! I installed the stove myself (almost killing myself carting it down the stairs) had it all inspected for insurance reasons and my own piece of mind. I like the stove a lot, although I wish the hopper was a little bigger as it only holds 40lbs of pellets. Its a continuous run stove, not sure if this is normal to have a stove you just light and let burn. I live in a 110 year old house here in NW Wisconsin, I just planted the stove in the basement and kinda rigged a house fan up in the cold air return of my forced air furnace. I figure that way if the furnace should have to run it wont blow in the basement also I dont have to run my hot air through the (cold) heat exchanger on the furnace. The temp was 0 today so I had to turn the stove up to 6 out of a possible 9 and its 71 in the living room. Here are a few pictures of my rig.
Kinda messy down here I just filled the hopper earlier today and have not had a chance to vacuum, tommorow is stove cleaning day so I will take care of then. The hopper holds about 25 forty pound bags. There is chute outside that I fill from.
I can't remember the brand of pellets I am using right now but I do know I got them at Fleet Farm for 189/ton, and they are hard wood. No problems with them so far.
The hopper chute and thimble, I still got to put an electrical outlet in!!
I had a hard time here, I exited the exhaust though an old window that I had boarded up years ago. I didn't feel like dealing with the window well so I flashed a piece of treated plywood and bolted it to the window well itself. The problem is the vent came out just a little above grade so I had to this craziness. The hopper chute now sits to the right of the vent (I took the picture before I built it) Naturally I caulked everything up after the money shot here.
This the (trial) fan I rigged up to blow in the cold air return. HaHa it used to be on a stand and oscilated until I got a hold of it. I think it works good so may be just tidy it up a bit.
