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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
The challenge with pellet stoves is vacuuming out the ash - you have to do it regularly or it stops working well, and then not at all.
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Only a problem for lazy people.
If the pellet stove is going to save you $1500 to $2500 a year, you spend 10 minutes vacuuming it out every other day, that equates to 15 to 20 hours of work done over the course of the heating season.
Think of it as a job where you are making at least $75 an hour.
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
And even with sealed bags then covered by two (or more layers) of tarp, sometimes bags are spoiled by water.
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I asked my parents about this. They said no bags have been ruined by water this year but they had one or two bags go bad last year or maybe the year before when ice fell from the roof and hit the bags tearing them open. Then they got rained on.