Love the way this guy adds thermal mass to the stove, saw this for sale this morning. Wonder if the rocks come with it?
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SpaceBus
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While my wife was recovering from surgery I put some stones heated by the stove in bed with her. She found it better than the electric heating pad.That's not thermal mass, those are bed warmers
SpaceBus
Minister of Fire
Some European stoves are designed to hold stones on top and around the flue pipe. Some have rock chambers several feet high. Kind of like a modern tile stove. Morso used to list a stove with optional top sections to hold stones but I don't see it listed anymore. I bet the 2020 regs have a hand in this.
My stones are designed to hold a wood burner, don't get me wrong, I am not arguing the virtues of rocks..... Just technique. I can honestly say that I have done it as well.
jetsam
Minister of Fire
I keep a rock on my stove. Its two superpowers are looking like a potato and stopping the air vent from rattling at certain fan speeds.
The guy in the photo is losing heat. He might be adding surface area, but he's covering steel with something much less thermally conductive. That heat goes up the flue instead of going into the house.
The ones up on the racks probably aren't hurting him, but the flat ones covering the stovetop are.
The guy in the photo is losing heat. He might be adding surface area, but he's covering steel with something much less thermally conductive. That heat goes up the flue instead of going into the house.
The ones up on the racks probably aren't hurting him, but the flat ones covering the stovetop are.
If that was directed at my pic, no worries, that masonry is, for all practical purposes, part of the earth, 4' x 6' x4' thick on top of 120' of virgin sand and gravel. The whole house moves around the masonry. It has been there since 1987, not going anywhere.
SpaceBus
Minister of Fire
I'm going nuts trying to find the European stove with built in stone storage. It was a cylindrical stove with a top vent and segments that went on top and around the flue pipe. There were two or three segments you could add.
I was referring to the first photo you posted. Add up the hearth, stove and stones and that is pretty heavy for that footprint.
OK, lol, yeah he probably has 250-300 pounds of rock huh? (about 200 pounds per cubic foot). Maybe it's on a slab? Looks like ceramic tile under it. It popped up on "market place" so I have no idea. He wants $500, wondering if that includes the rocks.
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