This is the best place to keep up on our work. Make sure also to join our mailing list to stay updated.
Cookstove + Masonry Heater Hybrid
The impetus of this project is to create a single unit that combines a functional cookstove with immediate heat production with an efficient firebox for prolonged masonry heat storage. We will draw from medium-sized “batch-box” development and use bypass dampers as switches to significantly alter the flow through the heater depending on the output desired. An important part of the project will be to experiment with an open-source flow for project development. This project is being developed in the context of a hands-on workshop that will be realized at the Masonry Heater Association’s 2022 Annual Meeting.
Share this:
Corner Masonry Heater Designs
A design review of corner masonry heater designs.
Share this:
Masonry Heater Foundation Details
An in-depth article including detailed drawings of a basic foundation strategy for masonry heaters including footing, stem wall, base slab, insulation, and rough opening specifications.
Share this:
Updated 2021 Masonry Heater Hardware Catalog!
Our new 2021 catalog is hot off the press! It includes a variety of firebox door sizes, ash doors, cleanouts, oven doors, cooktops, sliding and pivoting bypass dampers, grates, core kit components and plans. All to make masonry heater construction more familiar and accessible.
Share this:
Continue Reading Updated 2021 Masonry Heater Hardware Catalog!
Masonry Heater in Meditation Space
A beautiful masonry heater, built by Noel Adams, with heated benches and finished with natural plaster. Firespeaking provided design, training, a core kit and hardware for this project.
Share this:
Basic Masonry Heater Design
These are some common variations for basic masonry heater design. These heaters are symmetrical and show how you can choose to include an oven and benches around the main volume. Additional options include the see-through firebox which includes a door on both sides and choosing to have the oven face the opposite direction as the firebox.
Share this:
Making Pizzas in a Masonry Heater
What a pleasure to help a family get to know their masonry heater by making pizzas with them! We want more people to know that masonry heaters are not only the best way to heat your home with wood but also offer many options for cooking food throughout the cold months of the year!
Share this:
Rocket Mass Heater Cookstove
A Rocket Mass Heater with a custom fabricated cooktop replacing the metal barrel and a long heated bench constructed for the 2016 Masonry Heater Association annual meeting.
Share this:
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.
Share this:
Continue Reading Locating a Masonry Heater in your Floor Plan
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.
Share this:
New Masonry Heater and Oven Hardware Now Available
Firespeaking, LLC is happy to announce that we will now be selling the Fireway line of masonry heater and oven hardware. These products include a variety of sizes of firebox doors, oven doors, ash doors, cleanout doors, bypass dampers, grates and cooktops. They feature high quality cast iron, refractory glass, high-temperature paint and gasketed connections.
Share this:
Continue Reading New Masonry Heater and Oven Hardware Now Available
Masonry Heater Hardware Coming Soon!
BIG NEWS! Firespeaking will now be offering well-made, affordable cast iron hardware for masonry heaters, rocket mass heaters, ovens, cookstoves and other wood-fired cooking and heating appliances. More information and pricing will be published in the coming weeks.
Share this:
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.
Share this:
Continue Reading The Inspiring Plastered Heaters of L’Esprit du Lieu
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.
Share this:
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!
Share this:
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.
Share this:
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.
Share this:
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….
Share this:
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.
Share this:
Continue Reading Design Development for a Tulikivi Masonry Heater
Yakisoba-style Noodles with a Wood-Fired “Wok-et”!
A fun DIY project to take the heat outside and cook delicious food!
Share this:
Continue Reading Yakisoba-style Noodles with a Wood-Fired “Wok-et”!
Wood-Fired Barrel Oven Video
High-Speed Video of Barrel Oven being built!
Project was led by Eva Edleson at the Natural Building Extravaganza.
