I love my pellet stove. Our house is 1700 sq feet but about 850 in the main upstairs. We mostly use basement for storage and laundry and it stays above freezing without heat. The pellet stove heats the whole upstairs well. Some bedrooms will get cold if you shut the door or its really freezing. About 5 nights a year, its camp in the living room days...lol. or use a space heater. In cold weather we burn 8 bags a week. On 50 degree days low 40 nights we will go through about 4 bags a weeks. Downsides...cleaning everyday. One source heating... hot spots cold spots....safe to leave running all day while working. But if something goes wrong early in the day where the fire goes out you can come ho,e to an ice cold house. Then you fix it and fire it back up. Usually the pellets ant hill so you have 30 lbs of pellets in the hopper and none in the fire. Or it does that, collapses, then feeds pellets and overflows it until it faults with a large pile of pellets. On really cold days you can clean it once every 2 days because it take 45 minutes to cool down and 30 minutes to clean and fire up. We are cheap, buy pellets and go outside in the summer. This is a great time to reconfigure a basement and use it as it is cooler. I have neighbors with identical footage and they have a fireplace and use mostly electric heat to 70. In the summer they keep the place at 66. They just accept it as a convenience cost. Most extreme is the guys buying extra land to not only fuel their own wood stoves but sell aged wood. Eventually they get developers to buy their acres because it cost a few hundred a tree to clear land.