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Masonry kitchen stove
We builded a new small heater that we think will be very popular. This stove combines direct heat and stored heat. It is a fast and simple build, but it performes really well. This stove responds to many of the neads expressed by the people here. Learning for Winiarskis design principles I figured that a pushing the fire in a narow gap under the coock surface should result in a more effective heat transfer. (Sketchups are on the way) This stove is amazing to coock on because on one side you have frying hot temperatures and on the other side it is suitable for slow boiling and simmering food. The design makes the coocktop a more effective heat-exchanger than it normally...
Read MoreSmall masonry heater video
This stove performs way better than you should think. Offcource flu gases dont come down towards the most effective larger masonry-stoves but it heats the room really well with going through less than a 1 kubik meter of wood in a month ! And the room temperature in the morning is just slightly colder and heats up quickly. Comfort and dryness of the room is very different than with a conventional stove. Total cost of the stove is around 65 AZN. That is less than 100 USD. With the wood price here in Azerbaijan it pays back within one winter! Expected lifetime? Ill give it some decades with minor maintainance.
Read MoreSome reflections on materials
Obviously we are making our heaters with completely different design criterias than what we would do back home. We recieved some questions about this. And here I want to clarify why we are doing this, and why you should consider mabe not to do the same thing in your place. There are different conciderations that make us to do things differently here than back home, to point out some: Different general expectations to qualities of products. (If a heater here lasts 20 years it is 20 times better than the local heaters that burn hole in them through one heating season) The desire to make things available for everyone. Economy is bad, and making a heater that costs 10 000...
Read MoreSmall Masonry Heater
This heater is a small masonry heater made after Kuznetsovs drawings that can be found here: OVIK 25 I like this heater, because it is small and cheap to build and heats one normal sized uninsulated room in Azerbaijan. And it has a quite effective small cooktop that also can have a door for doing small bakeries. If floor structures are up to EU-standards it can go on top of a wooden floor. (remember to use some type of insulative bricks at the bottom.) In this case we had to strengthen the structure, because it was a weaker structure. More details (1 azn is about 1 Euro) Door 5 azn Bricks 24 azn Other metal parts 3 azn Chimney 15 azn Decorative tiles 6 azn...
Read MoreFinished masonry stove
Hi just wanted to update you on our first masonry stove. It came out pretty nice. The longer up we came, the nicer mix we got with the mortar made from local mud. At the end it was actually better then the mortar I worked with in Sweden, probably because of a higher clay content. We used: about 570 red bricks 100$ 10 sacks of mud !! Free 0$ 3 sacks of sand 9$ 50 used firebricks 30$ 2 local made doors 10$ 1 local made cook-top and damper 30$ Chimney: 50$ It took us 10 days to finish the whole process with means a local could build it for around 200$ In sum that makes a local business able to install a heater like this for about 430$ . Thats pretty impressive when...
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