Thinking about switching from a pellet stove to a gas stove

[biketony]

We have two pellet stoves. A quadra fire Santa fa in the basement and a ravelli rv 80 in the living room. We have become very accustomed to heating where we are hanging in the winter. Both stoves have preformed well for us. We live n the western Wayne county are of Michigan (west of Detroit) and have natural gas avalible to us. Both of our current stoves put out between 35k to 38k BTU's

The down sides:
Weekly cleaning of both stoves can be a hassle.
Dust from pouring pellet into the stoves. (mostly a problem with the stove in the living room)
Running to get pellets. Not a lot of pellet dealers in our area. I went thru 6 pallets of pellets last year and if was almost a part time job.....lol
Loading pellets every morning.

We are thinking about switching the living room stove to a gas stove.
The two we are most interested in are the Lopi Greenfield 40K BTU's and the Heat & Glow Tiara II 37k BTU"s.

This sounds like a good alturnitive to reduce some of the work. I would apreciate any thoughts anyone would have on the models we are looking at, or any thought on changing to gas that I have not though of.

Thanks
Biketony

 

[Sir_Lancelot]

We just replaced a Bixby Maxfire with the Lopi Greenfield and we’re quite happy with it. We only have very limited experience heating with it, but it is sure a lot easier to use. I really don’t think I’m going to miss the constant cleaning, pellet/corn hauling, etc.

As a side note, I burned it on high for about 6 hours late this week to break it in and it brought our 1,600 sq.ft. basement to over 41 degrees celsius. Don’t think it’ll have much problem keeping our basement warm this winter.

 

[Tech Guru]

A lot of good choices out there. And comparatively the moderate sized pellet stoves and gas DV stoves can have very similar heat outputs. More than anything, whoever does the cleaning will be most thankful (whether that's you for the actual stove and your missus for the dust trailing in, however the chores divide up) as the gas will be clean and simple. My only suggestion is to pick as much for the aesthetic as anything. Most gas stoves in the same BTU range will give similar heat, but you're going to be looking at thing for at least half the year when it isn't running, too.

Good luck!

 

[Trouthead]

Most likely you will save $ with gas over pellets. I switched to gas from wood and would never go back. I like gas stoves with standing pilot lights as they will operate with no electricity, and less stuff to go wrong without electronic ignition.