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.
Masonry Heaters: Part of an Ecological Cycle
[Masonry heaters] produce more heat and less pollution than any other wood- or pellet-burning appliance. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) website Masonry heaters are typically very efficient heaters, and currently do not require EPA certification. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website This illustration demonstrates the role of masonry heaters in providing heating and cooking capacity for homes in
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.
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!
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.
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.
Masonry Heater Clearance to Combustibles
I was invited to examine a masonry heater that was built by another mason in a town one hour north of us. One of the wooden studs immediately behind the heater, in the wall adjoining their bedroom, had been heated to the point that it had at least reached a smoldering point inside the wall….
Design Development for a Tulikivi Masonry Heater
Designing a masonry heater into a home can be complex. Here is a design chronicle of incorporating a Tulikivi into a floor plan while navigating other important architectural elements such as a staircase, an important structural beam and circulation space on the second floor.
Masonry Heater Staircases
Staircases and masonry heaters both provide essential functions yet take up substantial floorspace. Placing a heater near a stair case requires respecting proper clearances to combustibles and can sometimes lead to tricky finish details or awkward spaces. Why not combine these two important functions into one!? Here are some ideas…. All images used with expressed
Yakisoba-style Noodles with a Wood-Fired “Wok-et”!
A fun DIY project to take the heat outside and cook delicious food!