Need New Heaters - Any Opinions or Information?

The cost of operation would be something that would concern me.

We live out in the boonies and use propane to run the furnace and water heater.  In the winter, our propane bill can be $500 a month.  We are considering a pellet stove too.  Either corn or wood.  We have been kicking it around for a couple of years now and still haven't done anything.  Storage, especially of corn, is a real issue for me.  Corn attracts rodents.

What I would like to do, especially since we just finished our basement, is put a wood stove down there.  We have 20 acres of woods so we could run that for really no cost.  But wood is messy too and attracts rodents and snakes.

I feel your pain.  We can't decide what to do either.

From what I can find, the energy efficiency of these IR Heaters is one of their biggest selling points. Here are some more articles if you're interested. I would really investigate the IR for your basement.

We just bought a brand new large pellet stove and we buy our pellets by the ton. But we can smell it in the house, it's loud and it's the kind that runs all the time. We HATE it. It's a Harmon, top of the line and we're going to return it. If you want reasons to hate pellet stoves, just let me know. It could be that we just can't get good service because we shouldn't be able to smell the fumes in the house... It's got a leak or something.

We also have plenty of wood (boonies) and we have a fireplace in our kitchen, but I don't like to have to build fires all the time, and like you said, it's messy.  

Thanks for the input.