Ceramic-masonry heater/stove

[derbygreg]

A friend of mine lives in Romania. He has this wood heater/stove and says they are very common.

Anyone know about them? Small firebox, but the burned gasses travel through a good portion of the 'box' and it maintains heat for a long time

 

[begreen]

These are common in Europe. They're known as kachelovens (sp?) They work very well on making a small amount of wood burn cleanly and extracting a lot of heat from it.

 

[derbygreg]

BeGreen, thanks for the reply, it gave me direction. Things have changed in the way these are built.

http://mha-net.org/html/gallery.htm

Shows a big gallery of photos.

They keep hot for 12-24 hours and ideally have a quick burning hot fire.

 

[Charlie Z]

Most of the home in the countryside have those type heaters (there, and other eastern eur and northern countries). You have 1 or 2 per home. One pretty small load lasts the night - to a 'cool' morning. If you ever wondered how people heated homes before oil and coal...

See Tulikivi for those available in US.