Ventless Propane Stoves

Country · 2011-11-01T14:27:02+00:00

I'm seriously considering replacing my pellet stove that I use to heatthe downstairs of my house with a ventless propane stove.The pellet stove is to problematic and when it gets to the point itneeds cleaning it will dump still smoldering ash into the ash pan andtoo much smoke gets into the house. And when the wind blows in acertain direction hard enough in the winter it effects how easily thesmoke gets out the chimney and backs some of that up into the stoveand some of that gets into the house and the stove doesn't burnproperly. And when an igniter goes out and has to be replaced, italmost always happens in the middle of the night and is a PITA toreplace.My problem is that I don't know much about those propane stoves. Howmuch crap does the ventless ones put in the air inside the house? Idon't think you can have combustion efficient enough to not put somesmoke or contaminants in the air. Do they break down all the timetoo?In the stores I've visited, I've only seen the ventless ones. Do theymake one that I can add a chimney too and vent the smoke outside?I don't have the most air tight house in the world but it's not toodrafty either.I don't have a propane tank so I will need to get one. I would alsoget a CO detector, an O2 detector and and see if there is somethingthat will detect a gas leak. One stove I looked at already has a lowoxygen detector but I would want to make sure I have some sort of lowoxygen warning system if the stove doesn't have it or maybe evendouble up on it even if the stove does.What other questions can you folks thing of I should be asking.Any tips and advice would be appreciated.-C-

Nov 01, 2011 22 Replies

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Cheeseball 14 years ago

They can't tell you the precise content because the actual content varies hourly.

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Ed Pawlowski 14 years ago

See the comment by the OP above. It answers his question. The gas company would/could not. I did.

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Ed Pawlowski 14 years ago

No one can answer that exactly. The source of the gas can change day to day, thus there will be some variations. It can be from one field or a blend from many.

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