Fellow Maritimers, is it just me or does it seem like your stove is chewing through more Eastern Embers pellets than previous years to produce the same heat? I've got my stove set as last year, but I swear I'm putting far more pellets through the stove. To prove the point, I switched over to Trebios and had a slower burn rate, more in-line with my experience last season.
Anyone else seeing this? Do I have a bad batch of pellets, or is this a trend?
Can anyone explain how different pellets that go through an auger go through at different rates? The auger produces the same volume each time but with longer pellets it may or may not use less or more.
I own a Piazetta Monia and I am having a problem with the Auger motor noise sounds like a Mouse wheel winding up. Also I get a huge amount of creeking and crackling from expansion and contraction of the metal.
Payzants had 1600 bags today and sold out in an hour at 10 bags each of Eastern Embers.
Sobeys has 20 pound bags of Blazing comfort but I have not tried them yet.
I figure I have enough now till mid March, and a heat pump to use when temps are over zero C.
I was budgeting for 100 bags this year at $650 approx cost which saved me about $1000 in electric bills and then more depending upon how much I use. I have an instant Fire Hot water infloor heating system and it is expensive with NS electricity prices going through the roof so I wanted to get off the grid with pellets again. Had a stove in 1994, Whitfield but very noisy and hard to clean back then.
I would like to turn the fan up a little bit at different levels on the Monia, does anyone know how to do this?
My house is almost 3000 square feet and the heat only goes up the staircase, and I get 20C to 21C upstairs most of the time depending upon the sun and how cold outside with the system running 24 hours a day justabout.
One more question, about VENTS, I am thinking of putting a few in the floors in the Kitchen dinning room area to allow heat to come up from nine foot ceilings downstairs to allow heat to rise upstairs and also may by the
garage door at the front of the house. Has anyone done this and does it help? I assume I would have to box in between the floor joists.
Sportster