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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.

Making Pizzas in a Masonry Heater

October 18, 2020 October 18, 2020 / By Max

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!

Rocket Mass Heater Cookstove

October 11, 2020 February 24, 2023 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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.

Locating a Masonry Heater in your Floor Plan

September 7, 2020 November 14, 2022 / By Max

This article goes over the basic options for placing a masonry heater in a floor plan you are designing and includes some sample layouts.

The Pizza Farm Concept

July 14, 2020 September 7, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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.

New Masonry Heater and Oven Hardware Now Available

June 26, 2020 December 10, 2021 / By Max

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.

Masonry Heater Hardware Coming Soon!

June 18, 2020 July 1, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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.

Masonry Heaters: Part of an Ecological Cycle

April 13, 2020 October 29, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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

January 31, 2020 December 15, 2021 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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.

Tulikivi Design Tools

January 17, 2020 December 18, 2020 / By Max

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.

Lost Creek Masonry Heater Completed!

December 7, 2019 March 20, 2020 / Leave a Comment / By Max

This masonry heater features a â€œwhiteâ€ 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!

Outline for a Resource on Masonry Heaters

November 25, 2019 April 5, 2021 / Leave a Comment / By Max

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

November 13, 2019 March 20, 2020 / By Max

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.

Journal – Patterns for Fire