Pellet Stove Problems

      There is nothing like the heat from a wood stove. We have always heated our home with one but in this new house we went with a pellet stove. We didn't have time to stockpile wood for this winter. So we got this stove off of craigslist. It is every bit as warm and really easy to start. You don't have to open it up and poke at it. You can leave it run all night and its still warm in the morning (as long as you remember to pour a bag of pellets in before you go to bed).  The ash is minimal and its easy to clean out. No more ash bucket and shovel! Just as I was thinking  how wonderful this new stove was it did me wrong!  Some kind of gunk clogged a pipe in the back of it and I had to take it off and clean it out. But as I was doing that a big gust of wind came by, traveled down the pipe, and blew out all that gunk from the pipe into my kitchen! Since my face was down there at the time I came up looking like a coal miner! and my kitchen looked like this!

      A layer of black gunk was all over everything! Did I mention I was in the middle of making my Christmas goodies? I spent the rest of the day cleaning. It was on EVERYTHING!

Finally got the stove back up and running and The Daughter was toasting her buns again.