Locating a Masonry Heater in your Floor Plan
This article goes over the basic options for placing a masonry heater in a floor plan you are designing and includes some sample layouts.
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The Pizza Farm Concept
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
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
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The Inspiring Plastered Heaters of L’Esprit du Lieu
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.
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Masonry Heater Door Mounting Strategy
Part of a “How-To” Series: Discusses different methods of mounting and attaching metal doors to masonry.
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Details for the Top of a Masonry Heater
Part of How-To Series: Details for connecting a masonry heater core to the chimney and insulating at the top of the heater.
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Tulikivi Design Tools
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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Expansion Joints in Masonry Heater Construction
Part of How-To Series: Describes how to install an expansion joint between the core and facing of a custom masonry heater.
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Lost Creek Masonry Heater Completed!
This masonry heater features a “white†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!
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Outline for a Resource on Masonry Heaters
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
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Plans for a Masonry Heater Core
The world needs more masonry heaters and masonry heater builders! A shortage of viable plans as well as education opportunities means there are very few masonry heater builders in North America. This design work reflects an effort to simplify things in order to make the process easier for everybody involved.
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New approach to masonry heater building!
For the masonry heater we are currently working on, we took a new approach to the design and construction of the core by casting the most complex parts. The goal of this is to simplify both the design and construction process so that we can streamline the process for our own projects as well as produce a viable strategy and parts for other masonry heater builders.
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