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 […]
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
This year, during the Village Building Convergence 2010, Eva led the installation of one of Portlands first residential straw-clay retrofit projects. In just a few days, with many hands, we filled walls that previously had no insulation. The new insulation is estimated to have an R-Value of between R-1.6 and R-2 per inch. When finished,
