[Greenbuilding] An Austrian Pellet Stove

[JAY WALSH]

If you are installing the pellet stove (in the USA) and it will be inspected
by your local building inspector or fire department it will need to have the
EPA Emissions label on it. Old stoves (per 1988) or stoves from other
countries cannot be installed without this emissions label. While the info
below states "wood stoves" pellet stoves fall under this provision as well.

Source - EPA Web Site ----
Information Resources 
Since 1988, EPA has required manufacturers of wood stoves to certify that each
model line of wood stoves offered for sale in the United States comply with
the EPA particulate emissions guidelines in the Clean Air Act. EPA-certified
wood stoves are cleaner and more efficient than a wood stove manufactured
before 1988. As part of the certification process, each wood stove model line
is required to undergo emissions testing in accordance with EPA Reference
Method 28 and sampling methods 5G or 5H by an EPA-accredited laboratory. Only
after successfully passing these tests can a wood stove be offered for sale in
the United States.


Hope this is of some help.

Sincerely,

Jay Walsh

> Hello to all...........
> 
> I have recently acquired (by "gift"  -  and I remember the line about
"beware of Greeks 
> bearing gifts.....) - an Austrian pellet stove that is fairly good sized,
and is purported to be 
> worth $4,000.
> 
> The label on the back of it says that it is made in Austria by Hersteller  -
 with the following 
> additional info, which I take to be a model # and a S/N.  
> 
> WFGA P 41605     Fa: RIKA   A-4563  Micheldorf
> Austro Flamm
> A-4631  Krenglbach
> 
>