Wow, I never knew. We have a massive masonry heater in our home my father built. He passed when I was young so I never knew the details. What I thought was just a fancy fireplace has much more thought put into it than I ever thought. Thanks for the info.

We live in a old farm home built in 1949, and we have something like this. We might be able to own it soon, and my husband keeps telling me he's going to convert this into a masonry heater/ stove. Now I know what he means. Thank you for the information.

06:07 the design of this one is magnificent, I really wish to find more of these elaborate designs for masonary fires.

What a wonderful explanation of a masonry heater’s function!

I dunno if these designs incorporate this but you wanna bring in some unburnt air to mix with the flue gasses above the fire for secondary combustion, this halves the amount of soot and particulates produced and increases the efficiency of the burn by a lot. The designs that take some air in from the door might do this. The ones that only get air in from below are the old fashioned type. On my finnish built one there is a slot infront of the firebox that goes down into the ash pan, where primary air is sucked in, so part of the air goes up this slot and flows up infront of the fire instead of through it, then it can mix with the hot flue gasses and combust a 2nd time. We've had our chimney swept once since 2014 and the sweeper said it was almost clean.

Lovely warmth. And a beauty to look at.

Really informative and well presented video. Thanks!

Very cool video. I had never seen anything like this before. You could incorporate a smoker (hot and cold smoker) into the unit as well as an oven and a cook top. This is the perfect way to go. Going to have to look up design plans and learn more about it. Thanks for the idea!

holy bat stove! i have never heard of these or seen them. love it!!! now I am going to google it.. and may add this to our remodel! thanks for taking the time to show us

Expensive boiler and stove manufacturers dont like these videos....this is planet saving stove heaters...thnx for posting

A lot of good information. Thanks :)

"Kakelugn" is what he's saying at the end... it's swedish and is directly translated as "tiled oven"

My dad owns a company called all about masonry:) that's why I came here

With the separate chimney, I would assume that the heater could be added and attached to an existing brick fireplace?

I notice the masonry heaters you show have glass doors on the firebox, an advantage over a rocket mass heater, plus do they burn larger wood? And do they use ceramic glass, to take the high heat? Our house has a fireplace with a metal back heatilator, which is only moderately efficient (see my video). I do burn short hot fires which heats up the house, but doesn't heat the masonry mass well. Unfortunately to convert it I think I'd have to tear the old one out and start over, but it would be easier to build a masonry heater than a rocket mass heater in the same space.

Interior Diagrams: 2:25 4:17 Exterior Designs: 5:39

Thank you! Could you please help us to find online to purchase a Cast iron oven insert for a brick masonry wood stove. It’s also called Bake oven inclosure It’s pretty much an Oven Box with the door, that made of cast iron or metal insert in to the space left in the brick wood stove.

6:06 This is one beautiful arrangement. Do I see an auxiliary stove top system on the right? If so, how does that work and does it have a separate firebox sharing the same flu?

The Germans that went to Russia in early 1800's had these in their homes. They also had their beds on top of them that kept them warm at night.

Chimney fires are typically a concern for metal chimneys and typically short chimneys. Because the metal CAN melt or be destroyed by the fire causing a housefire. And with shorter chimneys the creosote can build up close to the exit causing fire, embers, and sparks to exit the chimney and catch the roof on fire. Masonry heaters don't typically have these issues because the creosote is deposited on refractory brick very early in the cooling process. Therefore if it catches fire it just heats the brick up causing no damage and is too far from the final exit to spit sparks and embers onto the roof.

A cat had to be lying on the heated bench lol 🤣

Hi there, can you send me the blue print of this heater? I am from Kashmir and we do not have the know how of constructing one of these. But the temperatures do fall to the same extent for sure.

Thank you for video. How would you clean crosote, if any, from flue. Or does high temperature ensure no build up of creosote. If masonry has cooled down from lack of use, is it difficult to light fire. Is there sufficient draft ?

Excellent video. I am also quite interested to build a masonry heater. What temperature does this one get, to ensure the complete combusion?

The creosote buildup that causes chimney fires will not burn hot enough or long enough to have any negative effect on refractory brick. Because masonry heaters effectively have a gigantic network of refractory tunnels before exhausted up the chimney, chimney fires aren't as much of a concern. All of the creosote would build up on refractory brick early in the process, and if it lights up would simply burn off.

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Must be hell to clean up chimney.

Love the cat endorsement

so what are the indirect and wide? ovens?

I have a similar type stove and I'm wondering if it is possible to convert it into a rocket stove and it seems like not have you dealt with those? I really don't understand why anyone is using a normal wood stove or I think like you have when there is such an amazing technology as rocket mass heaters

hi there, is it possible to put a broiler on top of the fire place so it can heat up the entire house instead of the room where is the fire place located?

i´m currently building a house and i was going to build a fireplace. Now that i have found the masonry heater / russian stove. I´m sure this is the way to go. Where can i find schematics on how to build one?

What are your favorite book references on the topic?

What is the difference between this, and a rocket stove mass heater?

Do you use outside air for combustion?

We heat with a masonry heater

Snore. He killed it. I kept thinking about the SNL NPR skit with those two women talking slow about schwettie balls

How do you clean it?

In Finland we call it "leivinuuni"

Nooooooot necessarily. "Massive masonry stove" is the general term, encompassing the Russian designs (both the vertical and the horizontal bed style), but also designs from Germany, Scandinavia, and other areas. A Russian wood stove could involve brickwork like this one, but could just as easily be a little cast-iron box, with no masonry involved-- a totally different animal.

Off he talks any slower and without enthusiasm the world will stop and start going backwards I'm asleep now ibet there some great conversations in the winter wlth him lmfao

I bet a lot of the inception of this type of heater derives from typical Russian stoves.

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Russian woodstoves is the real name

If you were a real mason you wouldn't have dutch-mans in your brick work.

No one actually show's how to build or how it works. 🤬

THEY WON'T TELL YOU HOW TO SWEEP IT !!! CAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW !! I KNOW BECAUSE I AM A MASTER SWEEP . THEY HAVE NEVER SWEEP THERE'S !!