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Resources for Domestic Hot Water Systems for Woodstoves and Masonry Heaters

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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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Towards Functional, Beautiful AND Affordable Masonry Heater Construction….

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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Bioconstruyendo: Argentinian Natural Building Festival

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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Our Vision: Towards a Craft School

Download file, view and print it out to keep and share! Vision of Craft School Document Other Media Links…. Latest News: [catlist id=27 excerpt=yes date=yes] Videos: [catlist id=47 excerpt=yes date=yes] Articles & Essays: [catlist id=43 excerpt=yes date=yes] Front Page Archive: [catlist id=48 excerpt=yes date=yes]

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Firespeaking wins two awards at this year’s Masonry Heater Association annual gathering!

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 …

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CIDEP Rocket Mass Heater

Rocket Stove @ CIDEP

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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Hawthorn Farm

Hawthorn Farm is 10 minutes away from the town of Woodinville with several grocery stores, library with internet access, bookstore, restaurants etc. This three-acre farm is 20 miles northeast of Seattle. There is plenty of space to pitch tents, and the living room has lots of floor space if people prefer to be inside. The …

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Natural Living Workshops at Hawthorn Farm

Woodinville, WA August 12-21, 2010 Wood-Fired Barrel Oven Workshop (August 12-13-14) In this weekend workshop you will learn all the skills necessary to build yourself an affordable, practical and productive wood-fired oven. Basics of making and laying adobe bricks Construction of a vaulted arch Principles of building for fire Develop basic natural building intuition Rustic …

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