I'm scratching my head over this one:
We installed a pellet stove a few years back and the installers said that it was going to knock us out of the house due to the heat it puts out (45,000 BTU's). What's really happened is that we have to run the thing on high for hours and the far end of the room that it is in (25 m2), it can still be cool. Our house is really small (64m2) and very well insulated. I did all the insulation myself and doubled the amount of insulation in the attic making for an R-value of 4.4. I come from New England, which means it's not in my genetic make-up to live in something other than a well insulated house.
We've heard stories of others in the Chch area that also jumped on the pellet stove bandwagon a few years back but are now also dissappointed with pellet stoves and replaced them with heat pumps.
I thought that maybe this is just the way pellet stoves are until I caught up to a friend (back here in the US) and his pellet stove, rated with the same BTU as mine, puts out an incredible amount of heat! We couldn't get within 0.5m of it. I can sit on mine even when it's on high.
So, now I'm wondering if it's the quality of the pellets.
For pellet stove owners, especially ones buying pellets made in the Canterbury area, what's been your experiences?
I'm not looking for comparisons of pellet stoves, log burners, etc. since they are two different types of heat (convection vs. radiation). I'm just wondering if your pellet stove is putting out heat.
If it isn't, we may need to scrap ours and look at other heat sources. Ours has always done this right from the get go, so it's not like it needs maintenance.