Well, I haven't cleaned anything that required a gasket. The former owner was a maintence nut but has passed away, I am assuming he did the regular maintence because he worked on these for a living and everything looked amazing clean when I got it (He even had extra blowers, glass, hood latches, door gaskets, control panel...but no blower, motor, auger or burn pot gaskets that I have found). As for the house, it is old and was drafty till I got the ole hair dryer and window kits going and that keeps me from flying kites in here anymore, no insulation except for the 1/4" stuff over the tyvac house wrap that was installed with the vinyl siding (blown in is on the to do list). the main room that we are trying to heat is 32x15 and has a 10x10 bathroom and a 10x12 kitchen attached, so only 700 sq ft with 9ft ceilings...it should do it.
I did have 15 bags of old pellets that seemed to have quite a bit of moisture but I've put through around 30 (over just the last week) of the somersets, so they are good pellets. Glass is new and is just a bit hazed over, no black at all so it seems to be burning pretty well as far as air/fuel mixture.
I am not sure how to get the propper setting from the control panel for the lower buttons but I'm assuming I just push them and this is what they said: low fuel feed 9, low burn air 5, air on temp 4 (and that looks very different from some of the posts I've seen on the lower control buttons).
Any suggestions would really help on this cold night! Thanks