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Wood pellets stove overview

Wood pellet stoves and wood pellet boilers have been around for many years but it is not until recently that pellet stoves have become a practical heating option (in my opinion) for customers right across the UK.

We can now offer these pellet stoves with servicing engineers, installers, and spares available across the UK. This is a very important factor to bear in mind when choosing a pellet stove - they are not as maintenance free as a traditional wood stove and you do need to know that there are trained professionals (and parts) at hand when needed.

It is all very well installing a new wood pellet stove but it is not ideal if it goes wrong in midwinter and the spares have to come from Canada, for example.....

There is now also a consistent supply of wood pellets across the UK so getting fuel should be no problem.
Wood pellets are a renewable fuel and are a method of very low carbon carbon. This is increasingly important in this age of climate change and also to help comply with new climate change regulations like building regulations part L1 A and B.

Our pellet stoves have an internal reservoir of pellets that you fill up. This means that there are less parts to go wrong with them in contrast to pellet stoves fed by an external auger. This external auger can sometimes get stuck especially if the moisture content of the pellets is too high.

The internal pellet compartment on our pellet stoves will only need filling again in 24/72 hours depending on how much you are using the stove. This makes keeping our pellet stoves stocked up with pellets easy.

The pellets are fed into the fire compartment of the stove by an internal screw or auger. This means that the combustion in a pellet stove is highly controllable - a relatively small amount of pellets are burnt fiercely, with a high oxygen supply. This is the most efficient form of combustion and is why some of our pellet stoves are over 90% efficient. The heat output of the stove is regulated by regulating the amount of fuel being fed into the fire by the auger.

The fire is started electrically so no need for matches or fire-lighters. An ignition coil ignites the first few pellets.

These pellet stoves are very automated you can set the time that they come on and off (much like a gas boiler) and also the desired heat output. If you want the stove to come on an hour before you get in from work then that is easily done.

There are also several central heating Olivieri pellet stoves available that come with a fitted backboiler. There are several heat outputs available form with from 10,000BTU's to 80,000BTU's. This means that you can go from just heating hot water and a few radiators, right up to running your entire house with an Olivieri central heating pellet stove.