This is the best place to keep up on our work. our blog includes the latest information from the Firespeaking team and is the best way to stay in touch. You’ll find an in-depth look into our work with masonry heaters and wood-fired ovens. Make sure also to join our mailing list to stay updated.

The Pizza Farm Concept

September 7, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By

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.

Read More …

New Masonry Heater and Oven Hardware Now Available

December 10, 2021 / By
Firespeaking Masonry Heater Hardware Catalog Image

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.

Read More …

Masonry Heaters: Part of an Ecological Cycle

October 29, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By

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 …

Masonry Heaters: Part of an Ecological Cycle Read More »

Read More …

Tulikivi Design Tools

December 18, 2020 / By

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.

Read More …

Lost Creek Masonry Heater Completed!

March 20, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By

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!

Read More …

Outline for a Resource on Masonry Heaters

April 5, 2021 / Leave a Comment / By

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 …

Outline for a Resource on Masonry Heaters Read More »

Read More …

Plans for a Masonry Heater Core

March 20, 2020 / By

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.

Read More …

New approach to masonry heater building!

March 20, 2020 / By

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.

Read More …

Masonry Heater Clearance to Combustibles

March 20, 2020 / By

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….

Read More …

Shopping Cart
Scroll to Top