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Even in my Harman PC45 each bag develops about a 6" sub size ash cake. Better pellets would develop a much smaller lose ash pile, and not caked up like Stove Chow.garage door repair in surrey As you can tell by the picture the pellets are very dark in color, which as a general rule does not reflect high quality. double glazed door stuckI was pleasantly surprised by the very low amount of fines in the bags. roll up garage doors for carportsThings does bring me to an important point about stove chow or any other pellet sold in a Home Depot and the like. car window repair shelby nc

When the PFI measures fines the are measured at the gate of the mill, this does not take into account how a pellet stays together after being handled. roll up doors denton txIn the case of the Home Depot's and Lowe's of the world the pellets often get moved around several times after they arrive at the store. price overhead doors utahThe later in the season the more true this is. garage door centre lutonI have seen them being hand loaded onto a pallet, and restocked some where else in the store. Of course then you load them into a cart, and then into you vehicle, and then from your vehicle into your storage area. Needless to say this has a real effect on fines. I intentionally grabbed my stove chow pellets from the middle of a factory mill loaded pallet, and I had very little in the way of fines.

I have gotten pellets from these types of places that were half saw dust for the reasons mentioned above. An other thing about Stove Chow is the actual pellet length goes from one inch to as little as 1/8 of an inch. Depending on the feed system your stove employs this may or may not be an issue. Stove Chow is a cheap pellet, and it performs as such. If you have a stove that is picky about the pellets it eats, don't feed it stove chow. If you have a Harmon stove that will burn just about anything, then stove chow will work fine with more frequent cleanings than a better quality pellet. Ironically the cheap Englander stoves that Lowes and the Depot sells are pretty picky about the pellets they burn, and the brand of pellets they sell are the very type of pellet that often don't burn well in their cheap stoves. There are some fans of these pellets out there, but there are a few things to keep in mind. Stove Chow is a store brand (Home Depot) which means from region to region these can be totally different pellets from different manufactures.

Energex (which I believe mine were) basic grade of pellet is a generally a poor pellet. However, as a general rule never buy a ton of pellets without burning a few bags first, just don't do it. This site is meant to be a starting point from which to begin your search, it is not meant scare you to one pellet, or push you away from an other. I have burned every pellet I review and am giving my honest feedback.1. I need a new: #27  of 33 brands of wood furnaces 43% of customers recommend Read more about United States Stove Company wood furnaces Read reviews of other Wood Furnace brands Contractors: Are you looking for Bought a 1600ef US Stove. Worked good 1st season then blower went out. Replaced it 2 weeks later, then the limit switch went out. Replaced it the next season, and then the limit switch went out again. Then the blower motor went out. This past week I went to TSC and bought a King pellet stove. I ran it for 2 hours on level 3, then when I went to turn it down it flashed error 8,

a blown fan motor fuse due to a bad room fan motor. was to splice wires and hard wire an extension cord to fan! So I took it back and traded for an Ashley, got it home and the control board was missing halfWent back to TSC and they gave me another one out ofFinally got it fired up and the room fan would only kick on at level 5, exhaust fan ran on all levels, but otherwise would sitSo I took it back. Do not buy a stove with US Stove Company on the unit "Terrible company Terrible product" John Journellon February 25, 2015 Junk grates, I also have been through 3 of them in the last 2 years. The 3rd one I have already scrapped, here is 2 of the 3. J U N K ! I have been burning Coal for over 40 years, and never had this kind of problem out of Grates until now. I contacted customer service via email at US Stove Company, to get ignored. Have been heating with wood for 30 years and have owned a couple of homes with different wood burning stoves and furnaces and have never seen

anything so incredibly bad as the US Stove Company 30A that I installed twoIt's absolute complete junk and needs to be replaced. warped and both the heat shield and sliding damper have large holes in them where the metal just fell apart. Very poor customer service. never buy another one of their products. Someone should organize a class "Stay away from US Stove Company" I'm on my second stove in one year. The first one was riddled withIt only worked for 1 week then just stopped. service is friendly but doesn't seem to care. They had me completely rebuild my first stove by sending me all of the replaceable parts inside of it one by one until they decided that the stove was just a lemon. They finally agreed to replace the stove and that took 3 months to finally get the replacement. The replacement stove worked perfectly for 2 months and then the auger broke. I just today received the parts toI just can't believe how bad the quality is on these American-

Us Stove Company sells terrible products. They use us but their junk isI've had nothing but problems with this stove. don't buy anything from this so-called company. Don't buy this junk. They do not honor their warranty. I was on the phone with them for one week. It takes 7 bags of pellets a day for a temperature of 70 degrees. No adjustment allowed this furnace to reduce the pellets and keep the temperature. I have to return this unit. I paid $1651 for installation, which is now my loss because this junk doesn't work. is the worst experience I've ever had with any company. should be put out of business. I've never seen a company that doesn't honor their warranty for a brand new unit that was purchased throughHome Depot will take it back and refund my money. U.S. Stove did not support their products. I will share 8 pages of correspondence with them to anyone that wants it. Then you can form yourI would not deal with Northern Tool either. Stove junk and they wont stand behind the sale.