Pellet Consumption this week..

[Tonyray]

How's everyone doin during this weeks Cold wave with Pellets?
I'm Double Consumption.
Easy 2/1/4 Bags for 24 hrs but not used any Oil other than for Hot Water.

 

[Golfeur]

2 1/2 bags for 24 hrs but not use électricity and very cold this week

 

[Chrisnow86]

I went threw 480 lbs this week... Two bags a day ouch..

 

[mr47930]

Cleaned last Sunday and bag #9 is in the hopper right now. Figure 10 bags this week. Not to shabby, electric furnace hasn't kicked on at all this week. The AWF Ultra premium white pines are putting out good heat and low ash. Only problem is I came downstairs this morning to 67 degree house and the stove was off. Looked in the hopper and it was still half full but there were none down by the auger. These pellets don't want to slide down the chute very well. Wont buy them again just for that reason.

 

[Bioburner]

Hardest hit was 90 lbs for the day but temps never got above -4 and winds were over 20 hitting 40+. Not fit for man or beast

 

[fire451]

5 below the other night, it's been pretty cold here in Connecticut, using about a bag and one-third per day, roughly nine bags this week, house stays at 71 quite happy with this stove.

 

[TimfromMA]

6 1/2 bags in the last 5 says.

 

[Tonyray]

Cleaned last Sunday and bag #9 is in the hopper right now. Figure 10 bags this week. Not to shabby, electric furnace hasn't kicked on at all this week. The AWF Ultra premium white pines are putting out good heat and low ash. Only problem is I came downstairs this morning to 67 degree house and the stove was off. Looked in the hopper and it was still half full but there were none down by the auger. These pellets don't want to slide down the chute very well. Wont buy them again just for that reason.

unfortunate but,
some of the best pellets around don't slide too well..
I would find some Posts here about certain fixes for that problem . Waxing, Graphite etc I remember reading about it] before I would Ditch good pellets.

 

[SidecarFlip]

About 300 pounds of pellets and 300 pounds of corn, not bad really. I'm keeping the central furnace set at 66 and the stove at 70. Certainly not fit for man or beast outside. Lots of serious wrecks here in Michigan yesterday, a 120 car pileup on I94 near Kazoo, another on 23 South bound north of Toldeo and another on I75 south of Detroit. Lots of bad hair days.... Lots of people going too fast for conditions.

I'll just stay home and roast my toes.

In 90 days this will all be a distant memory............

 

[roadking88]

8 bags this week.....sun really helps warm the house..

 

[SidecarFlip]

Sun........whats that?

 

[F4jock]

Up half a bag per day. 10.5 per week. Tight house, not heating all of it.and we like it 69 to 70.

 

[lagger]

about 1 1/2 bags a day... 1600 sq ft 69-73 deg... also a well insulated tight house

 

[boo boo]

Cleaned last Sunday and bag #9 is in the hopper right now. Figure 10 bags this week. Not to shabby, electric furnace hasn't kicked on at all this week. The AWF Ultra premium white pines are putting out good heat and low ash. Only problem is I came downstairs this morning to 67 degree house and the stove was off. Looked in the hopper and it was still half full but there were none down by the auger. These pellets don't want to slide down the chute very well. Wont buy them again just for that reason.

rub your hopper walls with wax paper and anything will slid down them.

I am at a bag every 12 hours this week

 

[mr47930]

rub your hopper walls with wax paper and anything will slid down them.

I am at a bag every 12 hours this week

I'll give that a try..it's weird because the omalley pellets would slide with no issue.

 

[MuchoBueno]

I'm not 100% sure but I think I'm at around 2 bags a day running full blast

 

[AndrewChurchill]

I averaged 114 pounds a day this past week.

 

[mr47930]

I averaged 114 pounds a day this past week.

please tell me you have a pellet boiler?

 

[woodmakesheat]

please tell me you have a pellet boiler?

I have near the smallest stoves run around here and it burns 108lb/day maximum (2.7 bags/day), so 114lb is nothing. A P61A will use about 5 bags (200lb) a day if it ran full blast for a day.

In reality I used about 2.5 bags/day this week.

 

[jp99]

About 500 lbs of corn and 100 lbs of pellets this week.

 

[AndrewChurchill]

please tell me you have a pellet boiler?

Yup, I'm heating a 2200 sq. house with a 860 sq. apartment and doing DHW for both units.

If you look at my avatar you can see the boiler and the 500 gallon storage tank behind it.

 

[SidecarFlip]

I'll give that a try..it's weird because the omalley pellets would slide with no issue.

Irishmen slide easier........................

 

[chken]

2.4 bags a day in these sub-zero temps.

So, just scanning the above comments, they break down to:

1.33 bags = 2 people
1.5 bags = 4 people
2 bags = 3 people
2.25 bags = 1 person
2.5 bags = 3 people
--------------------------
2.75 bags = Andrew's boiler

So, in this week's Polar Vortex Redux, once again, it seems the average required was in the 1.5 to 2 bag range, which even the smallest pellet stove can handle. In fact, the highest burn rate, not counting Andrew's boiler, was about 2.5 bags a day, or 100 lbs, which is still a 32k btu stove on its highest settings, so essentially the smallest stoves could have handled the coldest days of the year. This is almost the same result as we had last year.

 

[Jason845845]

Cleaned last Sunday and bag #9 is in the hopper right now. Figure 10 bags this week. Not to shabby, electric furnace hasn't kicked on at all this week. The AWF Ultra premium white pines are putting out good heat and low ash. Only problem is I came downstairs this morning to 67 degree house and the stove was off. Looked in the hopper and it was still half full but there were none down by the auger. These pellets don't want to slide down the chute very well. Wont buy them again just for that reason.

That happened to me this morning too. i will use them on the weekends because they burn so clean, but back to the Hamer's stash otherwise.

 

[Bioburner]

2.4 bags a day in these sub-zero temps.

So, just scanning the above comments, they break down to:

1.33 bags = 2 people
1.5 bags = 4 people
2 bags = 3 people
2.25 bags = 1 person
2.5 bags = 3 people
--------------------------
2.75 bags = Andrew's boiler

So, in this week's Polar Vortex Redux, once again, it seems the average required was in the 1.5 to 2 bag range, which even the smallest pellet stove can handle. In fact, the highest burn rate, not counting Andrew's boiler, was about 2.5 bags a day, or 100 lbs, which is still a 32k btu stove on its highest settings, so essentially the smallest stoves could have handled the coldest days of the year. This is almost the same result as we had last year.

Sometimes though the heat has to have enough difference to move and warm the whole area. Just because the stove can keep an area at 68 does not mean it can move it effectively enough to warm the whole area. I need 2 to 5 degrees difference to get things moving and a fan that can circulate about 175cfm to 200 in this cold weather. The Harman with a fan that's trying to get 135 cfm has a hard time.