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Core for Masonry Heater with Oven, 3-Side Heated Bench & Hot Water Heat Exchanger

February 2, 2021 / Leave a Comment / By Max

Here is a summary of recent design work showing the core of a versatile masonry heater design. We offer pre-project design assistance, full course-by-course drawings, parts, and hardware for projects like this. If you have questions or want to provide feedback, use the comments section below.

Masonry Heater in Meditation Space

December 29, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

A beautiful masonry heater, built by Noel Adams, with heated benches and finished with natural plaster. Firespeaking provided design, training, a core kit and hardware for this project.

Basic Masonry Heater Design

November 18, 2020 / By Max

These are some common variations for basic masonry heater design. These heaters are symmetrical and show how you can choose to include an oven and benches around the main volume. Additional options include the see-through firebox which includes a door on both sides and choosing to have the oven face the opposite direction as the firebox.

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Making Pizzas in a Masonry Heater

October 18, 2020 / By Max

What a pleasure to help a family get to know their masonry heater by making pizzas with them! We want more people to know that masonry heaters are not only the best way to heat your home with wood but also offer many options for cooking food throughout the cold months of the year!

Rocket Mass Heater Cookstove

October 11, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

A Rocket Mass Heater with a custom fabricated cooktop replacing the metal barrel and a long heated bench constructed for the 2016 Masonry Heater Association annual meeting.

Locating a Masonry Heater in your Floor Plan

September 7, 2020 / By Max

This article goes over the basic options for placing a masonry heater in a floor plan you are designing and includes some sample layouts.

The Pizza Farm Concept

July 14, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

Building an oven on a farm is a great way to generate business and create community! “Pizza Farms” are becoming popular venues where people can go to have excellent wood-fired pizzas topped with fresh farm-to-table ingredients and enjoy the country environment.

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Masonry Heaters: Part of an Ecological Cycle

April 13, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

This illustration demonstrates the role of masonry heaters in providing heating and cooking capacity for homes in a long-term sustainable flow of energy and resources. Masonry heaters are essentially a solar energy solution. Well-seasoned firewood acts as “batteries” for the solar energy captured by trees in forests through photosynthesis. When the wood is then burned

The Inspiring Plastered Heaters of L’Esprit du Lieu

January 31, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

We are excited to share with you the exciting design and beautiful execution of masonry heaters by a Canadian collective name L’Esprit du Lieu (Spirit of Place). A plastered finish on masonry heaters allows for both a timeless feeling of tradition as well as an elegant modern look.

Tulikivi Design Tools

January 17, 2020 / By Max

If you are an architect, designer or homeowner… try a Tulikivi Soapstone Heater in your next home design or remodel! Here are specs and .dwg files to incorporate into your floor plan.

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Lost Creek Masonry Heater Completed!

December 7, 2019 / Leave a Comment / By Max

This masonry heater features a â€œwhiteâ€ oven, ample wood-storage options, and a heated bench. The heater is faced with Idaho Bitter Root Ledge Stone, Sage Ledge Stone and the slab details are Pennsylvania Blue Stone. It serves as a visual focal point, as furniture, and as a resilient energy source for the home!

Outline for a Resource on Masonry Heaters

November 25, 2019 / Leave a Comment / By Max

Here is an outline for a project about masonry heaters. Ideally it would be a publicly available web resource which was developed dynamically. Items would become links as they were written and discussion generated would be incorporated into the text. The big question is how to fund the project. Ideally, people would be moved to

Journal – Patterns for Fire