Pellet Stoves Versus Wood Stoves
Customers who are not familiar with the operation of either traditional wood stoves or pellet stoves will require some adjustment time while using either kind of stove. Even though it is referred to as a “automatic” stove, for example, a pellet stove includes a learning curve in which the user will have some length of time to experiment and make mistakes. Getting familiar with your new stove entails a number of different tasks, such as becoming accustomed to lighting the fire, selecting the best pellets, and adjusting the settings.
Burning wood in a wood stove is not the same as lighting a fire in a fireplace. Because the firebox is enclosed, lighting a fire in a wood stove can be difficult. However, if you carefully follow the instructions provided by the stove’s maker and make use of high-quality kindling and wood, you should have no trouble lighting a blaze. Frequent monitoring of the stove’s operation is required in order to prevent the fire from going out or, even worse, overfiring. This is necessary if you are using the traditional method of operating your wood-burning stove, which entails controlling the burn and temperature by adjusting the fuel load and the air shutter.
Before the user is able to feel comfortable with their stove and how it operates, they will need to have some patience and put in some work with either a pellet or wood system. This generally happens after only a few fires, and the sheer delight of the additional heat and ambiance more than makes up for the learning curve that was involved.
Maintenance Issues
After being in this industry for thirty years, one of the most important things we’ve learned is that all hearth appliances require annual maintenance in order to be both safe and functional. Before deciding on a stove that you will spend your time enjoying…or one that will give you frequent problems and have above-average maintenance costs, there are a number of additional aspects of maintenance that you should take into account.
Wood Stove Problems
In both their construction and their operation, wood stoves are often rather straightforward. Sometimes a damper will become sticky, or the door glass may fracture. Sometimes both of these things will happen. On the other hand, they have been known to endure for decades provided that they are supplied with seasoned wood, cleaned and inspected on an annual basis.
If you overfire your wood insert or stove, you run the danger of damaging it; however, if you use a stove thermometer and carefully monitor its performance, this kind of damage is unlikely to occur. Maintaining your wood burning stove in the appropriate manner on a yearly basis is essential to ensuring its longevity.
Stoves that burn wood are undoubtedly the best option.
Stoves that burn wood have been used for well over 200 years. Their dependability and long lives in service are a testament to their value. It is important to note that modern wood-burning stoves have a number of modern comforts and electronics, and as a result, they have a few components that are more likely to break than in the past.
Despite all of these additional mechanical capabilities, a wood stove or wood fireplace insert CAN STILL BE OPERATED BY HAND. Something that can’t be done with a pellet stove.
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