Hi gang...my wife and I just got the oil bill from our fill up on Sunday and have started to look towards other options for heating our house...its frickin cold in here and costing us a small fortune to be cold...our house design with the sunroom addon should lend itself very well to a pellet stove as it has a large open doorway between it and the kitchen/dining room...one issue is that we live what you guys would consider "in the south" so our winters usually are much milder than yours...our average temps are around 30 degrees for an average winter...knowing this and you guys knowing your stoves how much tonnage would it take to keep a 1700 sqft house warm...now I know warm is subjective...say 68/70 degrees with the bedrooms at the ends of the hall being colder...thats ok we have down blankets and know it will be cold down there...electric heater can warm a room if needed...I would like to use only pellets from a freestanding stove or the Buck Stove fire place insert we currently have (another option I am going to be looking at is replacing the Buck insert with a harmon pellet unit)...we also might have a small problem actually getting the darn pellets down here...I have only seen a few dealers and they are not very close...any and all advice is welcome...thanks for your time...