Hi guys and gals,
Some history, first. My wife and I are leaning heavily towards using a pellet stove to heat the lower level of our split ranch house. Our furnace is 17 years old. It's working great, but, I want to ease it out of the picture before it craps out on us. I've already had a heat pump installed upstairs. It's worked great. It hasn't provided the oil savings that I had thought it would, however. But, it's still too early to tell. Even though home heating oil is cheap today ($2.09/gallon) I know it will go up sooner rather than later.
I've got friends and co-workers that swear by Harman stoves. I saw a nice one, P43, which cost $2,775 new. The salesman says that it'll easily heat a 40x20' area. Our finished basement is roughly 20x20' leaving the un-finished portion heated by excess heat from our forced hot water system. It's done by a "power vent". It's worked great for 17 years. Anyway, I was thinking of cutting some vents in the top of the wall of our finished basement area for heat to bleed over into the un-finished area.
Finally, to my point. I came across a Mt. Vernon E2 that was purchased new in February of 2015. They want to sell it after only putting a ton of pellets through it. The owner is renovating their kitchen and now don't have room for the stove and the area it takes up. They want $2,500 for it. Is this a good deal?
I've also read about the glass "blowing out". I have the owner checking to see if they replaced and parts before/after this situation came up in the field. I don't know how big of a deal it was.
Thoughts?
Some history, first. My wife and I are leaning heavily towards using a pellet stove to heat the lower level of our split ranch house. Our furnace is 17 years old. It's working great, but, I want to ease it out of the picture before it craps out on us. I've already had a heat pump installed upstairs. It's worked great. It hasn't provided the oil savings that I had thought it would, however. But, it's still too early to tell. Even though home heating oil is cheap today ($2.09/gallon) I know it will go up sooner rather than later.
I've got friends and co-workers that swear by Harman stoves. I saw a nice one, P43, which cost $2,775 new. The salesman says that it'll easily heat a 40x20' area. Our finished basement is roughly 20x20' leaving the un-finished portion heated by excess heat from our forced hot water system. It's done by a "power vent". It's worked great for 17 years. Anyway, I was thinking of cutting some vents in the top of the wall of our finished basement area for heat to bleed over into the un-finished area.
Finally, to my point. I came across a Mt. Vernon E2 that was purchased new in February of 2015. They want to sell it after only putting a ton of pellets through it. The owner is renovating their kitchen and now don't have room for the stove and the area it takes up. They want $2,500 for it. Is this a good deal?
I've also read about the glass "blowing out". I have the owner checking to see if they replaced and parts before/after this situation came up in the field. I don't know how big of a deal it was.
Thoughts?
