Small stove for Yurt?

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AKSHADOW

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Sep 30, 2010
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Fairbanks, AK
Everyone,

Looking for a small pellet (or multi-fuel) stove to heat a 4-season yurt that is about 450sqft. I know very small - but the yurt doesn't have that great of an envelope. So far I've narrowed it down to the St. Croix Element. Seems like a decent price point for features as well as appears to be smallest on market. Am I missing something?

More details on use: this stove will be operated at a University by student employees, so maintenance can't be on the level of a "competent do-it-your-selfer", but more of a "tell me what to do in 4 steps or less and I'll do it".

And one last question: Being a complete newbie with pellet stoves, do multi-fuel units burn different quality wood pellets better than a pellet-only stove? We don't really have good access to the other fuels that multi units burn, but if they burned a wider range of wood pellets better than I would consider one.
 
for a yurt in AK i'd recommend looking at mid sized units( ones rated to heat at lease twice your square footage or more),
they run on a t-stat so you wont over heat your space , and having the extra heating capacity will be nice at times.
 
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