Pellet stoves are nice, I am considering buying another, but they do have several drawbacks...You need a dry place to store the pellets if you buy them by the ton (which is a pallet of fifty 40-lb bags)...Secondly, if the electricity goes out, so does your heat, so it's not ideal for a sole heat source...Also, except for some of the newer models that have ignitors (which add greatly to the convenience factor) you have to manually light the stove using either something like gelled alcohol or a propane torch...All of that said, still, I think pellet stoves are a great heat source...I have a split-level house with three bedrooms and my pellet stove was in my basement family room...That one stove put out enough heat to do the entire house easily except on the coldest of nights (i.e. in the single digits)...
Right now, I'm using a natural gas heater in my living room but I'm in search of a woodstove or pellet stove to use occasionally...Since I had sold my pickup truck, it wasn't exactly feasible to haul a ton of pellets in my VW so I stopped using the pellet stove I had...Now that I again have a way to haul, I'm looking for a replacement stove to use in conjunction with the gas...Anyone else have a stove for sale?