This journal includes the latest information from Firespeaking .
Filter posts by category
- All
- Barrel Ovens
- Brick Ovens
- Builders
- Bypass Dampers
- Cooking
- Cookstoves
- Customer Projects
- Documents
- Earth Ovens
- Forms
- Heat Water
- Installation Instructions
- Inventions
- Journal
- Maintenance
- Masonry Heater Construction "How-To" Articles
- Masonry Heater Design
- Masonry Heaters
- Masonry Heaters
- Natural Building
- Natural Plasters & Paints
- Outdoor Kitchens
- Portfolio
- Premium
- Products
- Projects
- Recent
- Rocket Mass Heaters
- Student Contributions
- The Cabin Stove
- Tile and Mosiac
- Tulikivi
- Uncategorized
- Videos
- Wood-Fired Ovens
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!
Wood-Fired Barrel Oven Video
High-Speed Video of Barrel Oven being built!
Project was led by Eva Edleson at the Natural Building Extravaganza.
Details of Plumbing for a Thermosiphon Hot Water System
This article is flagged for needing updating soon! The purpose of this article is to share the specifics of one way to plumb a masonry heater to provide hot water for a home. In this project, a stainless steel heat coil in the firebox was connected to a well-insulated water tank above it which then
Resources for Domestic Hot Water Systems for Woodstoves and Masonry Heaters
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
New heaters in the world – a summer update!
This summer has been an exciting time to deepen our craft in masonry heater building. Here, Jerry Frisch of Lopez Quarries and I are standing in front of a heater that I assisted him on in a new house on the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. It is a basic Finnish contraflow design