This is a video summary of BioConstruyendo Patagonia 2011 – the second year of this wonderful natural building convergence that takes place in February in El Bolson, southern Argentina. Eva and I were instructors for this event last year. The location of the event is a community where Max has lived and put in a […]
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Download and Print a Flier to post in your local Community! Cost: $1,200 Accommodations: Includes all meals, camping is available free of charge Registration, Discounts and Related Information: https://www.cobcottage.com/registration Instructors: Flemming Abrahamsson, Ianto Evans & Max Edleson Description: In Russia, Scandinavia and much of Northern Europe houses are heated by huge upright brick stoves, often
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The purpose of this article is to share the specifics of one way to plumb a masonry heater to provide hot water for a home. In this project, a stainless steel heat coil in the firebox was connected to a well-insulated water tank above it which then work together through a passive thermosiphoning process to
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This is part of a series of articles on heating hot water with masonry heaters and other wood-fired stoves: See also Details of Plumbing for a Thermasiphon Hot Water System We are currently reading “Handmade Hot Water Systems” by Art Sussman and Richard Frazier. This book has a really down-to-earth late-70’s approach to using your
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OUR INTERVIEW ABOUT MASONRY HEATERS! While working on this corner heater in Northern California, one of the neighbors we met was a woman by the name of “BR” Graham. She is a mover-and-a-shaker at the local community radio station: KMUD. She arranged to do a recorded interview for the Wednesday evening Environment Show and then
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In our continual search to come up with functional, beautiful AND affordable solutions for sustainable living, we are very excited about and currently experimenting with the use of Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) for masonry heater construction. As natural builders, we decided that masonry heaters provide the very best solution for heating homes. It is the
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This summer has been an exciting time to deepen our craft in masonry heater building. Here, Jerry Frisch of Lopez Quarries and I are standing in front of a heater that I assisted him on in a new house on the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. It is a basic Finnish contraflow design
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“Take the German stove, for instance – where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented. To the
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We are really excited about this video. It documents the events leading up to and during the natural building festival: Bioconstruyendo 2010 in El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina. Both Eva and Max were lead instructors for the event which was extremely successful. So many great things were accomplished and so much fun was had! Visit Bioconstruyendo’s
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We won 1st place in the masonry heater design/build contest with the heater that we recently built in Patagonia, Argentina and 3rd place with the oven that we built in Berkeley, California. We will link to the contest results on the Masonry Heater Association page when they have published them. This is the second year
Firespeaking wins two awards at this year’s Masonry Heater Association annual gathering! Read More »
What is a Rocket Mass Heater? A Rocket Mass Heater is a wood-fired device which is clean burning, affordable to build, uses local and recycled materials, and creates a wonderful kind of warmth for heating cottages and small homes. In a very unique way, the Rocket Mass Heater combines both the immediate heat offered by
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