Home Depot has the PelletVent kit...Model # 3300, And almost everywhere else has it from like $125.00 to $250.00 any ideas on why there is such a huge price difference?
Pellet stove venting ( Pricing for PelletVent Pricing at Home Depot
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pelletdude
Feeling the Heat
Home Depot and Lowes sell the old style Dura Vent. The stove shops sell the Dura Vent PelletPro. The Pellet Pro is a nice clean look and is an all Bio Fuels pipe. Our kit does not include the straight pipe. You should check to see if the #3300 includes any pipe.
The kit comes with 5 1 foot pieces of straight pipe. I went with this kit... Is it right? http://www.tractorsupply.com/home-i...eg-for-multi-fuel-horizontal-pipe-kit-3190993
pelletdude
Feeling the Heat
It's alright. Will do the job. We prefer to have a 60" straight pie instead of 5 1 footers. Less couplings and a cleaner look. Good luck with your new stove.
DaveyWoodard said:
The pipe in this kit is the same thing, but is corn rated, so it will handle anything you run in the stove.
These kits includes only a horizontal end cap....were you planning on horizontal termination, or vertical?
BTW, you can get the corn-rated kit at Ace for $266
www.acehardwareoutlet.com/productdetails.aspx?sku=998025927&source=GoogleBase
summit
Minister of Fire
hate those "kits".. I get about 100 calls a year from people who need one or two extra pieces for some "kit" he got at a hardware store.. especially since we stopped dealing with the simpson stuff as much: ICC is wayyy better, cleaner, and easier for PV. It does make some sales, but oh the headaches...
Fsappo
Minister of Fire
Yup, all year we have people coming in with the cheaper version of the duravent home depot kits looking for an extra part. They get mad when we tell them we only stock the pro stuff. Funny thing is, I sell a 3' pipe, adapter, thimble, vent cap for about $175. That was about $20 more than the Home Depot kit and folks still went to Home Depot even after I showed them the difference in the pipe. And those same folks still got upset when I would give them a price for special ordering them a 45 degree elbow of the cheap pipe version. "$40! I saw them elbows on my uncles computer machine for $35 free shipping! You guys are a rippin me off!"
Ahh, it seems silly, but I still love this business.
Ahh, it seems silly, but I still love this business.
geek
Minister of Fire
imacman said:
dam, that is pricey compared to what I paid for the same kit 2 years ago at home cheapo at the end of the season (clearance item) for $65.
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kinsmanstoves
Minister of Fire
That pipe is still in production but it is the Pellet or Corn Vent (crimped seams). Pellet Vent Pro is "Bio fuel" rated and has welded seams and better o-ring seals. You should be ok with the Pellet and Corn Vent but do not spare the heat rated silicon or you will be sorry.
Eric
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