US Stove GW1949 Wiseway Non-Electric Pellet Stove

The media could not be loaded. Smokes a lot with bad fumes on first start up. Recommend running first outside. This stove heats really well. Easy to start but so far it would be nice if I could control heat a little better. I will update after in use for a while. Update: after using for a while it kept smoking in the house. It had a bad weld which I had someone fix for a small fee Amazon helped with the cost. Really works great so far. I will update with more use. Update: After a couple months of use it is working great. I have a 2500 sq foot 2 story house with an addition on the back. I have it installed in the addition and it will heat my addition kitchen and dining room pretty well with the help of 2 heat powered fans mounted directly on stove surface. After some trial and error I have found I can control the heat pretty well. I can typically keep constant 400 450 500 and 600 temps. If you purchase the triangular slow burn basket you can keep the temperature at just about 300-350 and one 40lb bag lasted 38 hours. The 3rd video is with the slow burn basket.

The media could not be loaded. So it worked great for the first week or two heating a detached garage. After that it’s been a no go. I have taken it apart cleaning it for the past month and it keeps smoking out of the fill bin and that other bin in the video. And after a wile with the heat of the smoke it heats the pellets up in the fill bin and they get damp and clog up. The ten will go from say 500 start up down to 100 probably because the smoke is going the wrong way. It also fills garage with smoke. 100% do not use in a living space.I figured I’d give it a try In my garage butdoesn’t look like it’s going to work out. It was an expensive try but you live and learn I guess.I have not yet called there support line.I’m a licensed plumber/gas’s fitter and insulator. So I’d say I’m a professional on this type of stuff. I also have a pellet stove and wood furnace in my home.

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 week or so of getting to understand how best to light and when to clean. I like to burn it full speed as I was once taught by a chimney sweep to burn "hot" to reduce creosote problems. So far, I clean every two days and have been burning about 60 pounds of pellets per 24-hour period. I hooked it up to my existing 6-inch chimney which extends 12 feet straight up. It tends to light best if I don't allow the chimney to get too cold. Overall, at this point, I am pleased with this heater. :)

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 would highly recommend doing this as it put off LOTS of smoke). It feeds pellets well and gets up to temperature quickly. We opted for this option for one simple reason: there is no need for electricity. This is our only viable, long term heat source in our home and we simply couldn't take the chance of losing power and thus losing heat. I have some apprehension about its ability to keep our home warm during our coldest winter months but time will tell. I will update after next winter.EDIT: Ive been burning this stove for about a month now and I have to say, I am really enjoying it. It does take a little tinkering to get the right pellet, draft, etc but once you know your stove (and when to clean it) it puts off quite a bit of heat. I will update this again sometime next winter when the cold has really set in here in northern Montana.Update - Year 2: We are 3.5 months into operating our stove this winter and I thought I'd share our experience. We changed or chimney setup from a ~20' vertical pipe to a 15' vertical pipe with 2x 90 degree angles to take the chimney out our wall and up through our eve. This goes AGAINST the manufacturers recommendations and they are absolutely correct in recommending against the installation of elbows.The stove heats our living space well enough but it does not burn nearly as hot as it was before (previously 550-650F fully closed, currently 400-500F fully closed). While it does heat our home there are a few big problems created by this change in function. First and foremost, the reduced operating temperature creates SIGNIFICANTLY more ash. Due to constant smoking and low operating temps I check on the condition of my 3" ID stove pipe used to draft/vent the stove. It was constricted by over 50% due to the build up of ash which is incredibly problematic considering the amount we've burned the stove this winter. Secondly, the fuel efficiency is reduced fairly significantly because it isn't fully consumed. This causes more frequent clean outs of the bottom ash tray as well as clearing the clinker tray because the partially consumed pellets die and clump up on the plate.While Im not yet regretting this purchase I certainly did not do myself any favors when installing my new chimney. If you are going to install this chimney yourself make sure you follow the manufactures recommendations of running it straight up, no matter how inconvenient that may be.NOTE: If you do decide to order this product, be ready to wait quite a while for it to be delivered. If it is shipped with NSD they took an additional 3 weeks past the anticipated delivery date. Call them right off the bat and hound them until its delivered. They had dismal customer service but the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

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 out. It's a lot of work for a very little amount of heat.I would highly recommend getting any other pellet heater and stay away from gravity feed!