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Wood pellets are becoming increasingly popular as an alternative to heating your home with oil. They are cleaner for the air, cheaper, and burn very efficiently. You can use the remains of the pellets, which is potash, for the garden. This is very fertile stuff!
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One important thing you have to remember is that pellets must be kept in a very dry place. When water is poured over pellets they become a mush and reduced back to their primitive state - saw dust. This is useless for using in your wood stoves, wood pellet furnace or boilers. Also, if the pellets are reduced to
saw-dust they can clog up any automated machinery which is transferring them to the burners.
There is dust from the pellets, so having them in an isolated room with a door is recommended to reduce dust spreading throughout other rooms.
Cost
Per 1000 kilos of pellets is around $280. Depending on the weather and your settings on your furnace this can last from 1 month in the hard winter (around -20) or all of the summer. Summertime use is really only to heat up your water for showers, baths etc.
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