Wood pellet furnace
So you’ve been considering a wood pellet furnace for your heating needs? This can be a very good choice provided that your particular situation calls for such a solution. The wood pellet furnace can be a very good choice for those living in flats, small or large homes.
Most wood pellet furnaces nowadays have considerably large hoppers and allow you to fill them with up to 30 kg or more of wood pellets. What does this mean? Well for starters, you can easily heat your home for a period of 24 hours without having to worry about refilling the hopper. Not only that, but most modern wood pellet furnaces and stoves can pull up to three or four days without the need for cleaning out the ash tray.
This can be one of the most convenient forms of heating that one can come by. Most modern wood pellet furnaces can be found with very elegant and stylish forms to match just about any interior setting. By choosing this form of heating you are not relying on local utilities such as electricity or gas. This can be a lifesaver for those of us who live in remote locations where such utilities are not available in any reliable form.
A wood pellet furnace is very similar to a wood pellet stove except that often times they are designed to either become part of a modern décor, work to be hidden away a unit basement or garage setting. There are many different manufacturers and models of wood pellets furnaces, but I prefer to reference the various Italian makes. This is simply because they are beautiful and functional, as well as affordable.
The efficiency rating of modern wood pellet furnaces is a very high indeed. So high in fact, that they will rival any modern gas or electric furnace on the market. Keeping this in mind, a wood pellet furnace can make an excellent heat source for just about any type of installation.
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August 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I’m not sure if I quite understand what the difference between a wood pellet stove and a wood pellet furnace is.
Are you able to show any examples?
I have yet to buy the stove I’ve been looking at, so if there’s a better solution I’d like to hear about, and I’m sure many others out there would like to know as well.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Well the way I see it, the furnaces are the ugly industrial looking units that you hide away in your basement or garage, attach a huge hopper/feeder to and use to heat the whole house (most likely by way of hot water radiator).
The stoves look nice, can be part of the decore and sometimes even have a cook top to let you reheat food, make coffee and so on. Usually though they’re just made to look nice and heat a few rooms or apartment.
You have to keep an open mind though as there is no cut and dry rules, basically shop around until you see something you like.
PS: I’ll be posting more articles about pellet stoves soon so stay tuned.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I’ve done a lot of research and the difference between a pellet stove and a furnace is that a stove is meant to provide radiant heat (some of the blowers), but the intent is to have them in your living space and you must move the heat the around by means of fans and such if you have a larger home.
Pellet furnaces are designed to piped into duct work to distribute the heat through your entire home. Since furnaces are typically installed in a basement either as a standalone heat source or as “add-on” to an existing forced-air system, they are typically plain/ugly in appearance and stoves will often have a more decorative look as they will most likely be installed in your living space.