Pellet grills

[ucfireman]

Are pellet grills safe to use under a roof?
Say on a porch? with a normal 8 ft ceiling?
Do they flair up?
I was thinking of getting one and placing it on the front porch under the roof. Then hooking up a flue pipe of some sort, maybe a dryer vent or similar.

They are expensive and need a plug, and I don't want to leave it out in the elements.

 

[Geffellz18]

Is this an enclosed porch? If it’s not, no issue what so ever imo other than the potential for smoke lingering under the roof potentially.
If closed in, I would still say yes as long as there’s a safe way to vent it. No different than a wood burning fireplace in a home as far as co2 is concerned.
Only time I had one flair up was ultimately my fault. Had a brisket that was too big for the smaller unit I had and fat started to drip and made its way to the firebox. Never happened again on that one or my current one.
Before my shed was built, I just kept mine in the garage & rolled it into the driveway to cook. Everything still tasted the same-

 

[Big7]

Is this an enclosed porch? If it’s not, no issue what so ever imo other than the potential for smoke lingering under the roof potentially.
If closed in, I would still say yes as long as there’s a safe way to vent it. No different than a wood burning fireplace in a home as far as co2 is concerned.
Only time I had one flair up was ultimately my fault. Had a brisket that was too big for the smaller unit I had and fat started to drip and made its way to the firebox. Never happened again on that one or my current one.
Before my shed was built, I just kept mine in the garage & rolled it into the driveway to cook. Everything still tasted the same-

Do they have a chimney piped through a wall or the roof?

 

[specialk]

My traegar is in my screened in porch and does fine, right next to my blackstone and otto wilde steak cooker......

 

[ucfireman]

Its an open porch. No flue there yet I was going to tack up a pipe of somesort just to vent it up/out above the ceiling.

 

[Geffellz18]

I wouldn’t be concerned at all with using it in an open porch + it seems like you’re thinking on how to divert the smoke already & that would be the only potential concern but only if there’s no normal draft.
Mine is under cover in my shed and I use it often with no issues. The wind blows the smoke out from under cover.