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We changed our wood burner for a pellet burner. So much easier to manage and more controllable. Wood burners are a lot of work and more expensive to run than the pellet burner. The pellet burner is cleaner therefore better for the environment.
we had a pellet burner in our last house. It cost a lot to be serviced, if you could find a registered engineer and we did not have hoppers, We all (small development) had to each order a tonne at a time and we had to carry the sacks into the garage to be stored on a pallet. It was efficient in that the house was built eco. After a while we had emissions from the flue joins and you could smell the smoke. We used only the highest grade of pellets and had very little ash. One year, pellets were almost unobtainable due to the bad weather plus they were needed to fire power stations. That stove also provided hot water when the solar thermal panels did not efficient in winter
I moved after 10 years and was more than happy to have a clean emission certified multifuel stovax installed here, I now have fuel backup with stored kiln dried logs and smokeless eggs