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Pellet stoves
Does anyone know if there are pellet stove inserts that you could place in a non working fireplace? We have two non working fireplaces - the chimney would have to be fixed but besides that I am not into the whole lugging logs thing. However we would like them to be useful in helping with heating.
On a slightly different note: If you had to decide would you use a pellet staove or gas fireplace?
Thanks
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Re: Pellet stoves
We just bought the Harmon Accentra freestanding. My parents have it and it works great. After doing our own research we decided that Harmon had the best technology.
They make the Accentra in an insert too.
http://www.harmanstoves.com/products/products.asp?cat=inserts&prd=pellet-inserts
We chose pellet because there is not already gas run in the house and there is no access to natural gas piped in so we would have to get a tank put in outside. Also, we live in a state that manufactures pellets so the fuel is local.
If you buy any (qualifying) biomass stove/insert before the end of the year you can get up to a 1500 tax credit. You can include the cost of the stove and the install costs as well.
another popular brand is Quadra Fire, but there are many others.
I don't know much about the gas brands, we only looked at pellet.
Same here but we got the Accentra insert. It's the only one that fit into the pre-fab fireplace box actually. And oohmygoodness, I wish the tax credit was available when we did 'cause it was about $5K.
We're pretty happy with it and it heats our whole 1100 sf house (mostly open floor plan). Our other alternative was use the electric baseboard heat and besides that it seems like a fire hazard to me, it would be very expensive and never heat up our house like the pellet stove.