So this is the darnedest thing. I have been posting a bunch lately about my PE Summit that was installed in August. I have also just moved in May to our new house. 2100sq Colonial 4 rooms and a bathroom down stairs 4 Bedroom and bathroom upstairs.
I brought with us my 6 year old Lopi Leyden Pellet, my last 2 houses where a 1400sq Cape and 1400sq Ranch. I froze every winter In my bedroom both houses needing a space heater. My 2nd house the stove was in an addition room and had to push a long way to get in the main house. So with a bigger house I was convinced it wouldn't do the job. So it sat in the corner of my other living room as an afterthought, While I had the Summit installed in my fireplace in the family room.
Being a new burner, hosed on a 3 cord delivery of partially to unseasoned wood left with burning compressed wood. I had the notion to have the Leyden installed and do the shoulder season and back the family when I'm gone. Well on Sunday I did. I did a 1 1/2 bag burn with windows open to get the oil and alloys out of the new pipes. We'll low and behold that faithful old girl absolutely blew me away buy how friggin hot it cranked the WHOLE HOUSE
The heat was pouring up the stairwell.
Bottom line is my wife sorta chuckled when I told her I think I threw away $3500 on an insert because I had tunnel vision for wood and didn't consider that after all these years I have the optimum floor plan to finally realize the pellet stoves full potential. It's in the low 40 ' s outside and my bedroom is 80 with my ceiling fan going. I shut the stove off about 2-3 hours ago.
I brought with us my 6 year old Lopi Leyden Pellet, my last 2 houses where a 1400sq Cape and 1400sq Ranch. I froze every winter In my bedroom both houses needing a space heater. My 2nd house the stove was in an addition room and had to push a long way to get in the main house. So with a bigger house I was convinced it wouldn't do the job. So it sat in the corner of my other living room as an afterthought, While I had the Summit installed in my fireplace in the family room.
Being a new burner, hosed on a 3 cord delivery of partially to unseasoned wood left with burning compressed wood. I had the notion to have the Leyden installed and do the shoulder season and back the family when I'm gone. Well on Sunday I did. I did a 1 1/2 bag burn with windows open to get the oil and alloys out of the new pipes. We'll low and behold that faithful old girl absolutely blew me away buy how friggin hot it cranked the WHOLE HOUSE
The heat was pouring up the stairwell.Bottom line is my wife sorta chuckled when I told her I think I threw away $3500 on an insert because I had tunnel vision for wood and didn't consider that after all these years I have the optimum floor plan to finally realize the pellet stoves full potential. It's in the low 40 ' s outside and my bedroom is 80 with my ceiling fan going. I shut the stove off about 2-3 hours ago.
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