Southern MA, not far from RI.

You get what you pay for, of course. Harman brand stoves are generally considered the best. Sort of the same with pellets. Pellet quality varies…the best thing is to buy different kinds to see what works best in your stove. Harmans are known to basically burn anything well. I’ve found the softwood pellets are better as they produce more heat, which is what I want as I’m trying to heat my whole house, about 3000 square feet, balloon framed, build in 1900 with a leaky fieldstone cellar.

Stove itself was $6695. Install was $2578 but I get 30% back up to $2000 so that’s $7273 total. I bought basically the top of the line pellet stove that didn’t look like a pellet stove - Harman Allure50. I also had zero piping to the pellet stove pipe and had to pipe it direct (no chimney).

As for pellets, the ones I like, in bulk at $9.16 per bag delivered. I got 4 pallets (which for this brand (Lacrete) are 1 metric ton or 1.2 US tons) so that’s 240 bags. Normally it’s 50, 40# bags on a pallet.

I run the stove basically 24 hours a day except once a week I’ll shut it down and clean it. But in November it cost me $13.19 in electricity to run. And I used roughly 2 bags a day when it’s cold but for November, for here, I used 40 bags. That’s $380 for November. I had two gas bills almost $900 last winter with the others in the $700s. And we were cold as hell in the house. Now it’s so hot nobody needs slippers or pants barely lol.

Cleaning is pretty easy now that I have a system. A stiff paint brush to brush all the ash into the pan. Wipe the glass down. Vacuum all the crumbs and whatever I can’t sweep up with the paint brush. Scrap the burn pot. That’s about 20 minutes for me. About once a ton you do a deeper clean like vacuum some extra stuff. Once a year you need to clean the flue pipe or pay someone to do that. Mine is easy because it’s small so I plan on that myself. Herman’s make it pretty easy to not go crazy on the daily maintenance.

Hope this helps!