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So,
we got a little carried away and ended up with a stove ten times bigger
than we planned. Just kidding... but this slide show is the first
glimpse of our new stealth project, a soapstone masonry heater, which we
just built in concert with our soapstone supplier.
We're
working on re-designing the doors (loading door, bake-oven door, and
ash door), to make them a little more contemporary. (Excuse the doors in
the photos!)
Masonry
heaters work on the same principle as our other stoves, which use the
thermal mass of the stone to absorb and radiate heat slowly. A masonry
heater has serpentine flame and exhaust paths throughout the large stove
body, so eventually the whole stone structure is warmed. A morning and
evening fire can heat an entire home.
We
built our masonry heater on a welded steel pallet so we have the
ability to move it in and out of our test booth, and we can't wait to
get this monster going. We expect to start selling and installing
masonry heaters this spring along with the other new stove we've been
promising, which is also coming along quite nicely!