January 11, 2010
Wood Pellet Stove
Your home pellets.
From my point of view you have already made up your mind to purchase a certain volume of wood pellets for this winter. So I don’t doubt that you already know everything as for all obvious benefits of this environmentally friendly fuel. So I can tell you only about how this stuff is usually delivered to our homes.
Wood pellets are delivered to their destination being packaged in plastic bags weighing 20-50 kg. Some customers prefer wood pellets, packed in big bags. I mean big cubic plastic bags about the size of 1 to 1 meters. By the way the application of such big bags may allow abandoning the bunker entirely. The disadvantage of this method is that the big bag weighs about 700 kg and there’s no special equipment provided to unload and move it conveniently. I should add that there is a way to deliver this stuff in special cars, but I can’t say that it’s rather affordable. For some additional information I can say that you can use different vehicles for this purpose but you only need to think about a special mechanism to unload this vehicle directly to your storage.
Theoretically, being packed in plastic bags wood pellets can be stored outside under the canopy, but I don’t advise you to conduct such an experiment. The matter is that if you put wood pellets in a warm room with frost on their surfaces there a condensation can appear which reduces their quality. Although pellets are not afraid of the atmospheric moisture, but the direct contact with the moisture can absorb their weight in excess of their own in a few times. So I hope that you won’t be pleased by this at all. In fact many wise guys are used to storing their wood pellets in their self made bunkers. In most cases they manage to build these structures using only plywood. But as for me I’m likely to use other materials which are considered to be more advanced and reliable. For example I prefer to a concrete bunker with some composite materials inside of it. I mean the cover of wall of course. But if you are out of additional resources then plywood can’t be a bad choice I suggest.
Moreover you shouldn’t purchase wood pellets if they aren’t white. Just memorize that the white color of wood pellets defines their high quality and considerable eco – friendly effect. By the way when purchasing wood pellets you can test them. Just throw a little pile of it into the water. Perfect pellets will go to the bottom immediately while bad ones will stay afloat. I think that such an experiment is rather simple so you can always have an opportunity to conduct it if required.
In the list of different energy saving alternatives, we highly recommend you to read more about wood pellets.
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