The pellet stove almanack
Subtitle: home heating joins the 21st century
By: by Ken MacDonald ; with illustrations by Sam Guay
Contributors: Guay, Sam
Publisher: [Self-published]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780615745589
Subjects: Wood Stoves; Wood pellets
Description: Pellet stoves have an aura of mystery surrounding them. There's quite a bit of buzz about them, but accurate information is hard to obtain, and apparently conflicting claims abound. I set out a few years back, not to write a book, but to buy a pellet stove for my home. As I probed deeper, my fascination with this astonishing technology grew until I concluded that pellet stoves are what other heating systems want to be when they grow up. Nearly all conventional heating systems today are centered on post-Civil War technology. The modern pellet stove is truly the only 21st Century heat source in terms of safety, cost savings, and unparalleled comfort.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Why would I want one of these contraptions?; title: Will it work for me?; title: For wood stove owners; title: What type of pellets?; title: Controls and what they do; title: Other stuff you (might?) need; title: Maintaining your stove; title: Planning for installation; title: Back to the budget; title: Safety (a.k.a. boredom); title: Non-obvious stuff; title: Our own installation; title: Other pellet appliances; title: When things go wrong; title: Final thoughts; title: Appendix.