Warm Front is a high quality premium grade pellet which is packaged in a clear bag in order to showcase the product to consumers. Warm Front can be found throughout the Northeast, typically in areas where the New England Wood Pellet label cannot be found. They are manufactured from the identical proprietary blend as our New England Wood Pellet brand. To find a dealer in your area check out our dealer locator. Quality characteristics are as follows.
It all starts with the raw materials. We proudly source our sawdust from local mills and put it through a filtering process to ensure only the purest raw materials are used.
The raw material is kiln-dried, eliminating 97% of the moisture in the wood, and then pressed under extreme heat to extract a natural bonding agent. The result is a dry, compacted, all-natural wood pellet that will burn hot, for a long period of time, and leave little to no ash.
Our tried and true blend is 90% Hardwoods and 10% Softwoods all regionally sourced close to our Northeastern Plants.
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I have not burned these pellets yet and would love to get a bag in the mail for this 2018 season.
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I posted the warm front review saying I was not having luck and they were a replacement for other pellets that had been ordered. While I still think they have a high ash content, I need to retract my review as I found a large blockage in my stove that was making everything burn bad, I will post a new review when I get more of them in. (yep, posted without a thorough cleaning of the stove…bad bad bad) please delete my review or post this.
I have been burning these for about a week without good luck. They seem to have a very high ash content, and I am having to clean the ash out of the burn pot 3 times a day. We had ordered 4 tons of another brand which apparently had quality problems related to shipping and moisture according to our supplier, and were given these to try as a substitute. I am using an Enviro Maxx VF170.
***NOTE TO ADMIN, modified the comment to reflect we were given these pellets to fulfill an order that had been rejected by our supplier, the way I had worded it before sounded like previous pellets I was burning had problems.
These pellets have been horrible. We have a Whitfield stove and had always used pellets from Canada sold from Cyr Lumber. This year they changed to this brand. To light the stove you need to put the feed way down otherwise it will never light. After it does light, you have to put the feed way up. There have been some beetles around the stove which I have no idea where they are coming from but it could be from the pellets. THESE PELLETS ARE NOT RECOMMENDED IF YOU ASK MY OPINION.
I just bought 20 tons of warm front (new england wood pellets) so far I have burnt 2 bags and very little ash, it produces a very nice hot flame. I also tried to break a few of the pellets, the were very difficult to break nice and hard as it should be.
I have a Quadra-Fire 800 and I’ve had good luck with Warm Front pellets. I’ve used a lot of other brands from local dealers and these are the best I’ve found. I clean my stove once a week anyway to make sure it’s efficient, so ash build up is not much of a concern for me. The heat out put is what I’m most interested in when it comes to the fuel I use. The Warm Front pellets are very dense and stay together well. Dense pellets will burn longer and produce more heat per pound. You also wont have as much dust in your hopper. Think about soft, fast burning wood like pine compared to hard, slow burning wood like Oak.
I have a Quadrafire Classic Bay stove, and I’ve had nothing but trouble from every other sort of pellet due to irregular size. This Quadrafire is very particular: the pellets all have to be the same size. No inch and a half like I get with every other brand I’ve tried. These Warm Front pellets are the only ones that don’t cause my stove to shut down when it gets clogged with longer than normal pieces. They give excellent heat, though I can’t comment on how much ash they produce because this Quadrafire requires daily cleaning even with the best pellets.
I would go out of my way to buy Warm Front.
I bought 4 tons from local dealer which is all I have ever used for the whole winter before. After about 3 tons, the heat output has been lower ,even with Harman XXV stove on highest feed rate it couldn’t keep the house as warm as in past years. The ash buildup requires weekly cleaning instead of biweekly last year with different brand. I am having to buy another ton (will get Dry Creek which I have used well before) just to get through the winter. The original “bargain” on Warm Front wasn’t worth it.
My husband and I bought 3 tons of these pellets from a retailer in Connecticut, from whom we had purchased pellets two years before which had been fine. These Warm Front pellets were guaranteed to be top quality, but we have had the same problems expressed by the above customers. In order to make sure it was the pellets and not our stove which was causing the problems, we bought 10 bags of Freedom pellets at Home Depot and tried them out. No problem at all with the Freedom brand. So now we are stuck with about 2 more tons of the Warm Front stored in our garage before we can buy a better brand for the same price.
These pellets did not burn well for me at all. The burn pot would fill up with a clumpy ash quicker than other brands, resulting in a lot more cleaning. The heat output was not good. I had to set my stove at a higher feed rate in order to even keep it lit.
Burned three tons of these two winters ago. Did not care for them at all. Ash would accumulate while stove was burning and “squirrel tail” out until it almost touched the glass door of our Harman XXV. Very clumpy ash would fill the bin faster than the New Englands I burned previous winter and last winter. I will only burn New Englands.