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Like the feeling one gets from the sun on a spring day, the environment around a masonry heater feels fresh. Not to mention some wonderful stories of the people who have made masonry heaters a part of their lives!

And, indeed, the hearth literally is the floor of a fireplace. Americans are entirely familiar with wood stoves and fireplaces, but have only a hazy notion of what a masonry heater is. Wood stoves and fireplaces also radiate this type of heat, but not nearly as efficiently; as soon as the fire goes out the heat quickly dims away.

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These heaters are often allowed in areas that have tight controls on air pollution because they burn so cleanly.

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But on a cloudy day, you need other cooking options. It is much cleaner than cooking over a campfire. Heatersexplores one of the most promising alternatives, and its message needs to get out far and wide, and fast. Should we put in a fireplace?

and so the architect slaps a fireplace onto the outside wall of the living room. But the word “hearth” means so much more than just the place for a fire. The whole idea with masonry heaters is to fire it only once or twice a day, building as big and hot a fire as the firebox will allow, giving it all the oxygen that it can consume, so that every bit of the fuel and the gases that are released are turned into heat.

and as an author he writes very clearly, even passionately, about what he loves. There are so many variables in size, configuration, and materials that the cost can only be given as a range. There are a number of kits available for either the core refractory materials and all the necessary hardware, or both this and the exterior cladding as well.

The ability of soapstone to store heat is remarkable. About to be released in a new edition.

Smaller models take up about as much space as a wood or pellet stove. The firewood is permitted to burn to ashes. Perhaps the point most difficult to convey is that the fire is not continuously stoked and kept burning. Wood was used not only as the primary building material, but also as the primary fuel for cooking and heating homes and businesses. Instead of letting the hot gases of the fire go up the chimney and out of the house, trap them for as long as possible in a maze of wandering flue passages.

With a properly used masonry heater, creosote is non-existent. Thick, black soot and creosote do not survive these temperatures. Thus it is that a masonry stove uses less fuel and produces much less pollution than a typical woodstove or open fireplace. We have observed wood usage from three to six times less than a woodstove for heating a similar amount of living space!

Because of the extremely low emissions, a masonry heater is an environmentally sane way of using wood as a fuel. It can truly be said that the environmental effects of properly burning wood in a masonry stove is the equivalent of allowing wood to naturally rot on the forest floor!

It may not have been written for the owner builder but the illustrations are clear and understandable. And, equally disappointing was a lack of discussion of modern day masonry stoves. I liked the writing style, which is pretty rare for a book of this type. Certainly, history has a lot of lessons to teach us about masonry stoves. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?

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