Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
Gary, please!!! My gas bill is for the house and the garage....My entire heating bill for last winter, which was very long and abnormally cold, wasn't $1200. no idea what you pay for natural gas out there but it's obviously much higher then here! Don't apply east coast expenses to life out here in the middle of nowhere!!!!! I've heard and read all the bs on wood and corn fired pellet stoves, what the literature doesn't include is how much your insurance will go up if you have an open flame wood burner (includes pellet stoves). My furnace is electronic ignition, I wouldn't even want my heating unit to have a pilot light in a shop, let alone an open flame!!!! If I change my heat source at all it would be because I built a new shop and installed underfloor heat....
I do have that bill framed somewhere.The figures I base what I am saying is off a national average.Dave I wouldn't think there is any insurance impact with a pellet stove because it isn't a open flame with a hopper load on the top.In 15 yrs of selling them I have never heard of one from a customer.I hear ya about the under floor heat.Boiler high "E" for that and flip flops in the dead of winter.