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Originally posted by cee_Kamp:
We have run heat five times so far this fall.
This week, I have hauled three tons of premium hardwood pellets home from the store.
50 bags at 40 pounds per bag on a pallet for one ton.
We can practically store three tons here at home.
Two more tons are at the store and are paid for.
Just waiting for space later in the heating season as we use them.
One tank and a partial of fuel oil is about the same money as five tons of pellets.

IF we were still heating with fuel oil only, we would use about five tanks of fuel oil for the entire fall-winter-spring heating season.
Fuel oil was twice as expensive this summer compared to last year.
The pellet stove will have paid for itself in 1.5 heating seasons.

When the better half suggested a pellet stove in the spring of 2021, I resisted.
It has turned out to be a very wise decision.
She reminds me about the pellet stove decision occasionally.

My computer I use during the day for browsing SIG Forum is about five feet from the pellet stove. Normal winter attire for me if I have no reason to go out and about is shorts and a t-shirt. The females in the house prefer the indoor temperature at 75 F° or so.
We would be significantly poorer if we were heating with fuel oil this year.

The one full tank of fuel oil we did buy will heat our domestic hot water for a year.
We use propane for our clothes dryer and the hard line plumbed gas grill.