Maurizio brought round our last one-tonne bag of wood pellets a few weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to post photos since. He’s been holding the last bag for us since last autumn when we only managed to get five of the six tonnes we’d bought into the pellet store.
We’ve now got plenty of pellets. A few too many, actually, because when you buy pellets you should a) buy in the summer when prices
are lower and b) buy as much as you can so you spread the cost of transport across as many tonnes as possible. We’ve now got enough pellets to get us through to the start of the heating season, which is a problem. If we buy in the next few months we won’t be able to fit more than 3 or 4 tonnes in the store because of our leftovers. If we buy in winter, we’ll buy at a premium and have to wait in line with everyone else. As a solution I’m hoping to find storage space somewhere (like Carletti’s barn or Marco’s cantina) so we can buy maybe 10 tonnes over the summer and transfer them to the pellet store as we need them.
Where does the wood come from, again? Is it all sustainably grown? How many years will it take to pay (in fuel savings) for your wood pellet boiler as opposed to the costs of a conventional heating system? The bonus is that Henry has (or had until you refilled the storage space) a play place, can’t say that about an oil field.