Isn't it the way it goes? The boys are off skiing on this fine Sunday, and I'm at home cleaning the pellet stove. Poor me! Cleaning the pellet stove is a dusty job and requires dumping the ash from the previous 8-10 days of burning and sweeping and vacuuming the stove to remove dust. It takes about 30 minutes to clean and restart.
I thought this post would be interesting to any of you who wonder how we heat this big old house in the winter. The pellets come in 40 pound (lbs) bags and each bag costs about $6.00 USD. We usually burn 300+- bags of pellets each winter--that's six tons of pellets. We also burn oil for forced hot water heat and for the hot water we use for washing. The oil furnace is on all year long as a way to heat the hot water.
OK. That's your lesson on cleaning and heating! For some it may be boring... but not me! :-)
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| Vacuum cleaner and scrapers for inside of the pellet stove |
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| Ash bin for 8-10 days of continual burning |
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| First shipment of pellets in November |
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