I live in Israel and we are considering building a masonry heater.
Maybe I'm being dense, but what are the advantages of a masonry heater for actual heating purposes over a Progress Hybrid by Woodstock?
I wish. I could retire.I wonder how much money Woodstock slips into rideau's pocket, every time he pitches a sale for them.
6. there are just some real unusually cool things about this heater. like, when the outside has cooled to room temperature, when you walk close by it, you can still feel it radiating heat. i don't know how to describe it, but everybody feels it, not just me.
that's a pretty stove - soapstone around a cast-iron core? or a masonry core?
A family friend in Pennsylvania has a beautiful masonary stove. I believe he had a guy from Maine come and build the core. He did the stonework himself, his entire wall is massive stones. I stopped in one morning after a frosty bowhunt and it was toasty. I commented it felt great, he said the heat was still radiating from a 4 hr fire the previous evening. That puts my insert to shame. He has a concrete floor which also holds the heat. Very cool!
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ketoret,
I am going to follow your path. I ordered the plans from the Masonry Heater Association (MHA) today. I am going to build a small house in the spring so I'll just build to support the masonry heater. I don't know which plan you built but I'm going with the small contraflow. I was concerned that a masonry heater would be overkill for a small well insulated passive solar house but it won't be. I'll just fire it less often if need be. The heat is different than a wood stove from what I am learning.
I live in southern Idaho. This year the temperatures have dipped to 20 degrees F below zero two weeks ago, and 10 below zero F last week. So a masonry heater will come in handy. I think I will face it with the green-blue stone in my avatar. I'm cheap, I mean thrift, so I will try to build this heater for less than $1500. I've already got some old face bricks that I can stick the aqua stones to. Firebrick for the core of the small heater will be about $400 and I bet if I can see the hardware I can figure out how to build it.
I am going to go watch professional masons build this small Norwegian designed contraflow at an exhibit. My masonry skills are latent at this point. So this should help. I wasn't going to build a bench or an oven, but from what you posted a bench sounds tempting. Was the bench hard to add on and build? And did the plans come with bench plans or did you engineer it yourself?
Eaglecraft
I live in Murtaugh, Idaho. It is by Burley, Idaho. Are you thinking of building a masonry heater?
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