Heating is one of the most crucial aspects of keeping your home comfortable and inviting, especially if you live in an area where temperatures drop significantly in the colder months. Stoves that run on wood pellets are a fantastic alternative to traditional wood stoves and fireplaces. Below are the benefits for your family of installing a wood pellet stove.

Top Advantages of Wood Pellet Stoves

1. Simple Installation

Wood pellet stoves are easier to have installed than equipment like fireplaces, as they don’t require a chimney to funnel out the smoke. You can install them with a vent that goes directly out a side wall or through the roof.

2. Easy to Use

Pellet stoves maintain the temperature of the room they’re heating by gradually adding pellets to the furnace. Modern stoves have digital screens that allow you to set your desired temperature, which automatically determines how quickly to burn the pellets.

3. Low Maintenance

You don’t have to stoke a wood pellet stove like you would if it were burning regular wood, or if it were a fireplace. Many pellet stoves have a chamber that holds multiple pounds of pellets that it releases into the furnace. You should only need to replenish the pellets once a day.

4. Minimal Mess

Pellet stoves produce less smoke and ash than wood-burning stoves and fireplaces. Because of this, you’ll have a much easier time keeping it clean. You also don’t have to worry about opening it up and having the residual smoke fill up the rooms of your home.

5. Environmentally Friendly

The fabrication of wood pellets comes from recycled tree lumber, and are generally carbon-neutral, so you feel better about burning them. Pellet stoves are also more efficient to burn than regular wood fireplaces, and they heat rooms in your home using less overall material.

Wood pellet stoves make a fantastic addition to any home that needs help staying warm. Bethel Feed & Supply Pet & Garden Center in Bethel, OH, can provide you with a pellet stove, or one that burns wood or coal. Check out their website to see a few more of the products they have to offer for your home and garden, and call (513) 734-2246 if you have any questions before visiting them in-store. To stay up to date on their latest arrivals, follow their Facebook page.