Experience reports with pellet heating

It is a single-family house, built in the 70s, prefabricated timber frame construction, uninsulated. Approximately 150 m² of living space. Currently heated with oil. The residents want a new heating system and for whatever reasons, pellets. Since I have no experience with this at all (I only know the argument that it is expensive), I asked around what speaks for or against it.

Often the desire is ideological because of CO2 blah blah.

or ignorance. people think it is cheaper. here the ton costs from seven tons 260€ + 20€ for blowing in. From a price of 200€ per ton, wood briquettes are too expensive. A cubic meter of beech weighs about 550KG and costs roughly 110€ at the hardware store, sawn and split – so it would still be cheaper than pellets. The FM softwood firewood is about 20€.

an Excel sheet helps, in which oil, pellets, and firewood are compared.

against the first. hmm. I quickly googled the CO2 footprint of pellets, but all you find is advertising about how great pellets are.

I myself think little of pellets, as they are complicated and probably also more prone to malfunctions. Since there is no underfloor heating in this case, I simply tend towards gas. It could have been that people write to me, pellets are the best thing ever.... It is and remains an unrenovated house and only the heating is to be modernized with little effort.

Hello

here are some figures from the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association
Gas 6.31 cents, heating oil 5.99 cents, pellets 5.23 cents based on one kWh
around 2012 heating oil was also available for just over 9 cents, last year on average about 6.6 cents

when switching from oil or gas heating value to e.g. pellets, a subsidy of up to 45% is possible through Bafa.

for oil and gas I can also think of things like maintenance costs, TÜV inspections in the water catchment area, basic charges, etc.

Olli

Thank you for the effort!

I am very satisfied!

I am very satisfied!

Susceptible to faults? Dirt? etc ....