DUCTED PELLET STOVE HOW DOES IT WORK AND WHEN TO DO IT?
ONLY ONE STOVE TO HEAT THE WHOLE HOUSE
A pellet stove is a home heating appliance that utilizes the combustion of pellets, a natural material derived from wood processing waste, to produce hot air. This heat can be used to warm the environment where the stove is installed or, in ducted air models, to heat other rooms in the house, adjacent or on different floors. Want to delve deeper into the topic? Keep reading: today we're talking specifically about ducted pellet stoves, how they work, and when it's convenient to install them.
DUCTED PELLET STOVE: HOW IT WORKS
A ducted pellet stove aesthetically looks like a regular pellet stove.
It is therefore composed of:
- A hopper for holding the pellets
- An auger for transporting the pellet granules from the hopper to the firebox
- A brazier where the combustion takes place
- A flue outlet to be connected to the chimney for the exhaust of fumes
What you have in addition, in the ducted stove models, are the ducted pipes that start from the stove and transport the heat to adjoining rooms or even to rooms on different floors.
The branches can be installed under the floor to limit the aesthetic impact, or externally, on the ceiling or walls, potentially embedded within drywall structures.
The hot air transported by the pipes is then diffused through grilles, strategically placed in the rooms based on the intended use of the room and the size of the area to be heated.
MCZ offers, instead of grilles, air diffusers that are particularly aesthetically refined, which, in addition to distributing heat, function as elegant wall lamps.
The most advanced ducted pellet stoves also allow you to choose to heat one room more than another, depending on the needs, by adjusting the different air outlets from a remote control or even from a smartphone.
To achieve perfect ducting of the pellet stove, it is essential to know your thermal requirements, so as to choose the stove with the most suitable thermal power. The calculation must obviously take into account the square meters of all the rooms involved in the ducting, not just those of the room where the stove is physically installed.
IS THE DUCTED PELLET STOVE THE RIGHT SOLUTION FOR ME?
If you want to supplement your existing heating system or even replace the old boiler with a generator powered by renewable energy sources, which is therefore eco-friendly and economical, a ducted pellet stove is ideal.
It has all the advantages of a standard pellet stove:
- Energy savings
- Environmental friendliness
- The ability to schedule on and off times, even remotely
- Minimal design to fit any setting
Additionally, you have the ability to evenly distribute heat in different rooms, just like a real heating system.
The ducted pellet stove is perfect, particularly if you are building your house from scratch or undergoing a renovation. Ducting requires some construction work, as the pipes need to be embedded in the walls to minimize visual impact.
If you are renovating your home, you can also take advantage of tax deductions for pellet stoves to recover some expenses.
