A small second shed is part of my plan. Its a matter of if I build, have it build it or buy one from The Shed Place. We have one from there now but the pellet shed would be much smaller. Really bulk would be ideal though. Not sure I can get bulk deliveries here.
Have about 2-3 weeks left. Have exactly what I burned last year. Usually close down around the second week in April. Didn't stock up this year. Got caught as a lot did with the cold. Planning on stocking up early this year.
Here on Cape Cod we could get a random mid 20's degree night into April ( we may or we may not) and very raw days too. My B-day is April 9th I've seen 11 inch snow storms on years like this one then. bUt the snow is gone a week later at least. The bay is only 36 degs right now, get a north wind and that's air conditioning in the spring time here. Fog, drizzle, grey is not uncommon here for spring time for days on end.. It's rare we get one of those beautiful springs everyone waits for so but lawns, gardens of flowers don't really know the difference. The flip side of that is the sun is warmer already when it's out ! Fall by far is our nicest season here, then the bay is warm and hasn't cooled yet. Anyway, looking forward to pellets in the shoulder season to warm the overnights but it won't be the end of the world then if we have to burn oil. I don't consider March part of the shoulder season here, it's just moderated winter. But fall can go on and on !!
I assume that is #2 oil which is about 138,500 btu/gal
138,500 btu/gal x 80% efficiency=110800 BTU/gal
110,800/$3.99=27769Btu// dollar
$6.00 per bag of pellets =40lbs x 8000 btu= 320000 x 80%=256,000 BTU
256,000/$5=51,200btu/dollar
Damn that oil is almost costing you 2 x pellets, if you get pellets for $5 a bag...
That's about #6 oil, very, very bad. Residential oil is #2.Still bad, but not nearly as toxic as #6, which is junk oil.
