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Default Ventless Propane Stoves

I'm seriously considering replacing my pellet stove that I use to heat
the downstairs of my house with a ventless propane stove.

The pellet stove is to problematic and when it gets to the point it
needs cleaning it will dump still smoldering ash into the ash pan and
too much smoke gets into the house. And when the wind blows in a
certain direction hard enough in the winter it effects how easily the
smoke gets out the chimney and backs some of that up into the stove
and some of that gets into the house and the stove doesn't burn
properly. And when an igniter goes out and has to be replaced, it
almost always happens in the middle of the night and is a PITA to
replace.

My problem is that I don't know much about those propane stoves. How
much crap does the ventless ones put in the air inside the house? I
don't think you can have combustion efficient enough to not put some
smoke or contaminants in the air. Do they break down all the time
too?

In the stores I've visited, I've only seen the ventless ones. Do they
make one that I can add a chimney too and vent the smoke outside?

I don't have the most air tight house in the world but it's not too
drafty either.

I don't have a propane tank so I will need to get one. I would also
get a CO detector, an O2 detector and and see if there is something
that will detect a gas leak. One stove I looked at already has a low
oxygen detector but I would want to make sure I have some sort of low
oxygen warning system if the stove doesn't have it or maybe even
double up on it even if the stove does.

What other questions can you folks thing of I should be asking.

Any tips and advice would be appreciated.

-C-