US Stove GW1949 Wiseway Non-Electric Pellet Stove

Anyone purchasing this pellet stove I suggest you read my review in its entirety along with some other informative input from others to obtain the best results with this product.I first started the stove with a propane torch per instructions and it fired up easily. (Be prepared for burn off smoke for roughly half an hour so either fire it outdoors or set fans strategically to exhaust.) The thermometer climbed to approximately 675 degrees and the unit gave off fairly comfortable heat. Before retiring I "opened" the draft slightly to slow down the burn rate. (This sounds counterintuitive for any

I purchased this stove thinking it should easily heat my 1,200 sq. ft. home, since it is rated to heat a 2,000 sq. ft. home. (I even sold my electric pellet stove.) Hooked it up, and it did fine when the temperatures outside were only getting down in the 30's at night. But I live in Northern Maine where the winter temperatures are well below zero degrees, during the day! Right now, the stove can't get the room it is in above 68 degrees. Last night our bedroom was 48 degrees! And this is after I closed off the hallway, meaning the stove now only has to heat about half of my home. In other words

We've had our pellet stove running for about eight weeks now and it's performing well. We heat our main floor of our home which is about 1800 square feet plus a portion of the upper level (another 900 or so square feet) with this stove plus one auxiliary propane wall heater. While it hasn't gotten really cold (we live in central Nebraska) it has maintained a constant comfortable level of heat on our coldest nights (so far of nine above zero.) The propane heater will cycle off an on at about the same rate it did when we had a conventional wood burner installed in this same location. It took a w

I received this item toward the end of our winter season here in Northern Montana, so take this with a grain of salt. The installation was a breeze and assembly was very, very simple. The stove's simple design was easy to understand when I began fussing with it. The fit and finish left a little bit to be desired but this stove is definitely on the utilitarian side of the spectrum so not really a big deal. My only worry is there might be an issue with the integrity of the welds but its something we can fix. I made sure to burn it outside first to remove the 'gunk' leftover from manufacturing (I

Gravity feed rarely works, the pellets burn into a clump and then clog the chute. Takes forever to get the pellets lit, it is a neat concept but in reality it is a poor design.Once you get it started you have to keep opening the middle lid to shove a rod down the pellets to get them to drop. It's like trying to inseminate an elephant, you really have to go deeper than you think to get it all the way in there.Then you have to shove a flat blade between the basket rungs to get the burned leftovers to drop into the lower catch tray otherwise the new pellets won't drop and the whole thing fizzles

Right off I noticed where the pellets fall into the little feeding box, the cut out on top of the box was longer then why the lid covers. there was a gap and smoke was coming out of it. ( yellow circle). I glued a piece of gasket to cover the gap. The ran great for a month and a half. all of a sudden it started smoking out where the lever is that controls the flow of pellets dropping (second picture). That knob screws off. it's just a rectangle piece of steel that you tighten the knob and the piece of steel tightens to the inside wall of the hopper. So creotote had built up on the bottom of th

Initially, I installed with 3" pipe with a 90 going out through the wall. It was difficult to start the draft and the fire basket would clog causing the fire to fail. Then the draft would fail and it would fill the house with smoke. So, I made and fit a 4" steel tube and routed the pipe straight up through the roof. I also installed a draft inducer and made a controller that would turn on the inducer if the flu lost temp. Turned out the inducer was not necessary, I can now start the fire with no preheating of the flu and leave the stove running all night to wake up to a warm house and find the