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It is an efficient ecological alternative to ordinary wood burning stoves.
It is an efficient ecological alternative to ordinary wood burning stoves.


Useful links:
==Useful links==


[http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=15] Demotech simple brick stove
*[http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=15 Demotech simple brick stove]
*[http://www.dataphone.se/~ncteknik/We_are_setting_up_a_Swedish_ceramic_stove.html Swedish ceramic stove aka kachelofen (German name)]
*http://mha-net.org/ - the best site on the internet about masonry stoves, there was a original german book written in 1940 about traditional ceramic heating stoves , kachelofens. It was a complete how to book, but I don;t know is it still online.
*[http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub781.pdf How-to manual] for a Missouri design masonry brick heater.
*http://www.diymasonryheater.blogspot.com/ - the name says it all


http://www.dataphone.se/~ncteknik/We_are_setting_up_a_Swedish_ceramic_stove.html
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Swedish ceramic stove aka kachelofen (German name)
[[Category:Stoves]]
 
http://mha-net.org/
the best site on the internet about masonry stoves, there was a original german book written in 1940 about traditional ceramic heating stoves , kachelofens. It was a complete how to book, but I don;t know is it still online.
 
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub781.pdf How-to manual for a Missouri design masonry brick heater.
 
http://www.diymasonryheater.blogspot.com/ the name says it all

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Masonry stoves are heating stoves developed in medieval Europe, or even earlier. Some sources are mentioning some kind of similar Roman stoves.

It is a wood burning stove with high efficiency and high thermal mass. Because of that mass it can accumulate heat in the fireplace and the result is a great efficiency because most of the wood gases are burnt. It is an efficient ecological alternative to ordinary wood burning stoves.

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