The stove is considered a simple and inexpensive solution for heating small rooms. Water-bearing stoves have much more potential, however. Read at Effizienzhaus-online what to look for and where homeowners can buy a cheap pellet stove without any risk!
The stove: a lot of comfort for little money
A free-standing fireplace stove combines the advantages of a tiled stove and a wood-burning stove with a pleasant fireplace atmosphere. It offers a simple solution for flexible heating in the installation room. And it scores with high comfort thanks to automatic loading: Simply fill the depot two to three times a week. The combustion chamber is automatically filled and, in the case of high-quality models, automatically ignited.
However, specifications for the installation site must be observed. Before you buy a pellet stove, you should consult with the district chimney sweep to ensure that the appliance can be operated safely later on.
Advantages
- clean and flexible space heating
- favorable in the acquisition
- Upgrading the atmosphere of the room
- Comfortable due to automatic filling of the combustion chamber
Disadvantages
- low efficiency
- not suitable as building heating
Cost
Heating support with water-bearing pellet stoves
If you buy a pellet stove that has a water pocket, you will use the generated heat even more efficiently. The water-bearing stove as a heat generator is connected to the heating circuit and feeds part of its heat into the buffer tank. This way, you can still use the fireplace to heat the building and hot water, in whole or in part. This heating support goes all the way to primary building heating, depending on the design and output. An ideal combination partner is a solar thermal system for hot water outside the heating season.
Benefits
- clean, flexible space heating
- enhancement of the room atmosphere
- Heating support
- Power classes from 4 kW to 20 kW and more
- relatively cheap to buy
- eligible under certain circumstances
Disadvantages
- Lower efficiency and therefore higher consumption costs than similarly sized pellet heating systems
- higher installation costs
Room air independent pellet stoves in low energy house
A KfW efficiency house is very well insulated and requires only a small amount of energy input. Therefore, many owners like to buy a relatively small sized pellet stove as a heat generator. However, low-energy homes have a controlled ventilation system. As a result, it is not readily possible to operate a stove in such rooms. Because that would extract additional oxygen from the air in the room.
In a room sealed pellet stove, air is supplied through the chimney. This must be equipped accordingly. Only devices with corresponding DiBT certification are suitable for this purpose.
Advantages
- Can be operated in combination with automatic ventilation systems
- clean, flexible space heating
- Upgrading the atmosphere of the room
- suitable as primary building heating in case of low energy demand
- eligible under certain circumstances
Disadvantages
- Slightly higher consumption costs, than with comparable pellet boiler
BAfA subsidy for pellet stoves
If you want to buy a pellet stove, under certain conditions you can get funding from the BAfA programs. The first requirement is a heating system renovation. For the new building the sponsorship is excluded. Also must use a water-bearing pellet stove to heat the building. Requires proof of compliance with current emission requirements, hydraulic balancing and more. Up to 2.000 EUR basic amount plus possible bonus and innovation promotion are worth the additional effort in the best case. Your heating contractor is the contact for all questions about heating subsidies.