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Increase wood stove efficiency with a Heater Hat: Free plans!

August 18, 2014

Free plans to increase wood stove efficiency Lovely friend Erica Wisner (she's the cute one on the right w/out the fuzz) put the heater hat details down on paper and gave them to us to share -- and I've finally figured out how to post them as a new "product" in the bookstore -- available as a free download, here. If you wonder what the heck I'm talking about, a masonry heater hat is a smallish amount of masonry (300 lbs or so) that you can add to a conventional metal box stove to improve performance, reduce wood consumption, and increase your comfort. Downloaders beware: this is an . . .

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Protected: Adding Mass to Existing Wood Stoves

February 22, 2014

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Improving woodstove efficiency: Rocket Stoves & Masonry Heaters

January 27, 2014

Improving woodstove efficiency: Rocket Stoves & Masonry Heaters: Editor's introductory note: Masonry heaters, many of them self-built, warm millions of homes in the former USSR, where Alex Chernov grew up. Now working as a certified heater mason in Canada, Alex designs and builds heaters and ovens, and consults on projects all over the world through his company, Stovemaster (his website offers a wealth of background info). In the article below, he combines his professional expertise with his own background and experience in a culture where most people have long experience heating with . . .

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Hand Print Press began in the early 90s, when I self-published Build Your Own Earth Oven. I was thinking of myself as a capital A  Artist. However, as I learned from the garden and other teachers, art just means “to fit together” — it’s how the world works — flora, fauna, humans — all must fit themselves together, with each other, with the landscape, with wind and weather. In addition to the bookstore (which now includes a few other authors), the site contains stories and updates on ovens, heat, baking, beauty, agriculture, fire, community, culture, (spoon) carving, etc. It’s all art! Thanks for visiting. You can contact me at handprint at cmug dot com, or thru instagram.
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