CHANGE OUT YOUR 20 YEAR PLUSWOOD STOVE !

If your wood stove was made before 1990 its time to step up to the plate and get a new EPA certified wood, gas or pellet stove. Why? You ask.

From a purely health stand point your old wood stove that you love so much is putting up to 50 per hour grams of emissions into our ( the Sacramento Valley). Your old wood stove is putting out as much smoke particles as 10 new technology stoves and up to 50 times more than a pellet stove.

Secondly our local government WILL OUT- LAW all stoves if we the “Wood Burning Citizens” of our region don’t clean up our act. That means burning CLEAN stoves with SEASOND wood or gets a clean burning pellet stove.

One option our board of supervisors has given us is we can have up to thirty no burn days a year. I don’t know about you but I don’t really like that option! This was the recommendation of our air board to bring us into EPA limits on PM2.5

You are truly being a good neighbor if you install a cleaning burning appliance. Your neighbors your children and your friends are entitled to clean air. You get a more efficient stove and clean air.

. Clean solid fuel alternatives are important. We go to war for petroleum, it is carbon negative (wood fuels are carbon neutral) and fossil fuels add to global warming and they are NON-RENEWABLE energy sources. Wood and fiber fuel is totally renewable.

Read your local news paper this is a very serious situation email or give this letter to your neighbor if he is smoking up you neighborhood. Visit your local stove dealer and see what’s new in clean burning wood and pellet appliances. Do your part and we can all enjoy low cost solid fuel fired appliances in our homes for many years to come.

Robin McDonell

Its That Time Again!

Well it’s that time of the year again; time to take care of your good friend the pellet stove that gave you so much warmth, atmosphere and enjoyment over the cold winter and wet spring.

(Note side panel full of ash

this stove can't breath!!)

When I ask my customers if they have given their pellet stove a good cleanout, they always reply YES we clean it every day. Well folks at the end of the season you really need to do a little deeper cleaning than what you can see with your eyes. So I put a little list together for you:




1. Emptying ash traps and cleaning exhaust passages behind the fire chamber.

2. Cleaning and lubricating fans and motors.

3. Cleaning the hopper and fuel feed system.

4. Cleaning the heat exchanger system.

5. Cleaning exhaust pipes and resealing the venting system if needed.

6. Verifying and adjusting the stove settings with proper gauges and meters.

7. Mechanical and electric components may eventually wear out and need repair or replacement.


Since service is needed at least on an annual basis. Many stove shops and service technicians offer a service plan that specifies a service schedule, what is covered, travel costs, and other details. If you plan to do your service yourself I recommend hiring a proffesional and watching the first time.

Thanks again,

The Pellet Stove Guys


Do you have Questions?

Send your emails to robin@pelletstoveguys.com

This was where it all started for me back in 1987, I was tired of cutting and splitting wood. I told Vince my side kick in the wood cutting business that there had to be a better way.

Between 1988 and 1995 I ran two retail stores specializing in wood, pellet and gas.

Today my good buddy and I sell and service pellet stoves over the internet. We are THE PELLET STOVE GUYS.

We sell new stoves with a focus on reconditioning pellet stoves for resale.
We buy used stoves or take trade-ins on new ones.

We know that everyone who wants a good pellet or gas stove can't afford the three thousand dollars plus required for a new one. We don't have the overhead of a store front so we keep our cost down and pass that on to our friends.

It is our aim to work with stove owners to answer what ever questions pop up and to insure the proper operation of their stoves for years to come.

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