[tcostell]

It's slightly off topic, but my wife and I have decided not to turn on our natural gas heat at all this year. The whole house is being heated with our pellet stove burning a mixture of wood pellets and dry corn.

It's saving us thousands.

[true_blue_texican]

<> How much do you burn daily/weekly to warm your house? Are wood pellets something you have to buy or are these just some kind of wood chip? Thanks

[RedRightReturn]

"It's saving us thousands."

Thousands???

Just exactly how BIG is your house? :-)

I wish I could talk Mrs. Red into a pellet stove, she likes the open fire too much...

[Jack of all Trades]

We're doing a similar thing here, heating with a '70's vintage Vermont Castings woodstove. Total cost for the stove and installation: $250. I go through somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 cord per week. My cost for the wood is only in fuel for the truck, saw and splitter. We normally spend about $1500 on oil between November and April. This year it will be about 10% of that.

Wood is good.