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Heating With a Pellet Basket

A Wood Pellet Basket is for everyday home heating or as a back up heater when a winter storm or a natural disaster takes away your utilities. Most heaters require electricity or natural gas — pellet baskets do not. Lower your heating bill or have a back up plan when disaster strikes.

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What Are Pellet Baskets?

A wood pellet basket is a fireplace accessory in the form of a metal basket which is placed inside a wood stove or fireplace; allowing you to heat your home by burning wood pellets.

Strongest-Built Pellet Baskets Available in the USA

Our pellet baskets are the only welded pellet baskets made in the United States. All joints are welded for extra durability and long life.

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Burns hotter, more efficiently than conventional logs

Our single-bay pellet baskets can hold 12 lbs (5.4 kg) of pellets can produce 35,000 BTUs per hour over the course of 3 to 4 hours—enough heat to keep your house comfortably warm.

Our 3-bay baskets can hold 16 lbs (7.25 kg) of pellets—producing the same level of heat.

Fraction of the cost of oil and electric heat

Pellet prices are more stable and are not as greatly affected by foreign price fluctuations since they can be bought from companies within your own country or continent.

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Burns cleaner, safer and leaves less residue

• Pellets contain only 3% - 6% moisture, compared to 15% - 30% in firewood.
• Wood pellets greatly lessen creosote buildup and the chance of flue fires since they burn cleaner than regular firewood.
• Only a coffee cup of ash is left at the day's end.

Easier to store than conventional firewood

Pellets are easier to store than conventional firewood, with no household litter from bark or bugs.

Wood pellets come in bags which may be bought singly, or an entire season's fuel can be purchased all at once.

Lighting the Wood Pellets

Starting a fire for the first time is easy.

1. Place the pellet basket in your wood stove or fireplace & then fill the basket with pellets

2. Have your damper (or air intake) set for maximum air flow

3. Light pellets with a gelled fire starter

4. Enjoy the efficient heat of wood pellets

Adjusting the Temperature

Use your stove's damper to choke your airflow down and regulate the temperature.

No fan is needed to circulate air within the stove. There is enough air flow through the basket itself to allow the pellets to burn with a flame.

Add more pellets, when needed, if you have hot pellets. Move them over to one side of the basket with a small metal scoop. Then add fresh pellets beside hot pellets. The hot pellets will ignite the fresh pellets and will not smolder.

Readjust your air settings for a safe working temperature.

Note: Fireplaces need some kind of door for optimal results to retain the heat.

Maintenance

Remove the ashes from the bottom of the pellet basket once daily for maximum air flow.

The pellet basket only needs to be removed from the wood stove or fireplace to remove ashes.

As always, remember proper maintenance of your wood stove or fireplace.

Gel Fire Starter

Gel (or gelled) fire starter is a gelled alcohol formula for starting fires with wood pellets in stoves and fireplaces. It's safe, odor-free and smokeless.

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Requirements

Is Wood Pellet Heat Right For Me?

There are very few requirements for using pellet baskets for heating. If you already have a wood stove or fireplace, you're pretty much set.

There is no special stove or equipment required to burn wood pellets. A pellet basket can be used with any wood-burning stove or fireplace, so it does not require a special electric fan or blower.

No installation required—just place the basket in your stove. If later, for some reason, you want to build a regular log fire, the pellet basket can simply be lifted out—it's as simple as that.

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Retail Stores

If you live in the United States, wood pellets can be purchased at national retail stores:

• Home Depot
• Lowe's
• Menards
• Ace Hardware
• TSC Tractor Supply Co.
• Farm and Fleet
• Rural King

Buy Wood Pellets Online

You can also purchase wood pellets online through most of the national retail stores' individual websites.

Search For an Area Wood Pellet Dealer

If you live in the United States or Canada, the Pellet Fuels Institute has a great list of wood pellet dealers, broken down into regions.

Pellet Fuels Institute—Pellet Fuel Manufacturers