pellet stove help
Looking for a motor?
You may be looking around my site for a part to match your stove and you see something like what you need but you’re not sure if it will fit your stove. No problem. First thing you should know is a lot of the same motors and blowers are used on many different brands of […]
“My Auger Stopped”
When an auger motor fails it usually just quits but sometimes they can also get weak or slow. If so, replace it. Can you repair or rebuild and auger motor? I have had a lot of people try to repair an auger motor but I have not found anyone successful at it. The other issue […]
Worst Case Scenario for an Austroflamm
Hi Jason, My name is Mike. My mother has the Integra and last spring the fire started going out and finally started actually “coughing” out smoke around the door seal. We had a local “expert” come to see if it needed to be cleaned. My mom had forgotten about the cleaning rods and so the […]
How To Find Glass For Your Pellet Stove
It seems like once a week I get a call or email from a customer with an older stove that is looking for replacement glass. This can be because the glass has cracked or in the case of gas fireplaces the soot can actually bake into the glass and be nearly impossible to remove. For […]
The Best Pellet Stove Fire Starter
About 15 years ago my Dad starting selling for a company that had finally broken the pellet stove fire starter code. The stuff was magical. It was one of the first ethanol products to be used in the U.S. mass market. To use it you just sprayed it on the pellet and lit them and […]
The Best Pellet Stove Glass Cleaner!
In my 14 years as a pellet stove repair technician I have cleaned enough stoves to keep me up at night dreaming about them. I have seen all varieties of pellet stove glass cleaner and dirty class and some work better than others. There have been one or two that I’ve really like that worked […]
Amperage For Auger, Convection, Combustion/Exhaust Motors…What Should It Be?
I got a question today about the amperage listed on a motor that I sell. The amperage on my new motor was different than the one he was replacing and he was concerned that it would not work correctly. Depending on when your stove was made there may be any variety of revisions on the […]
How to Replace a Austroflamm Integra I Convection Fan.
It is easy to replace. You access the fan by removing the side panels of the stove. To do that you open the hopper and look for some screws at the top of the hopper towards the front of the stove pointed in the general direction of the sides. Take off both front side panels. […]
Should I Even Try To Fix This Thing???
I just got an email the other day from a guy who has an older pellet stove in need of some replacement parts. His question to me was should he even bother trying to fix it or just buy a new stove. This is a great question and maybe one you’re thinking about right now. […]
Troubleshooting Pellet Stove Motors
Not everyone has a local pellet stove repair guy they can call to come fix a problem. Many of us are left with one of two choices: fix it ourselves or freeze. You may run your pellet stove 24/7 during the winter as some of my friends in Montana do. If the motor is very […]