This is the curing fire schedule that we recommend all of our clients use for curing a new masonry heater. You basically want to start out small with your fires and gradually add ~ 3-5# of wood per day. You are trying to slowly dry out all of the excess water from...
Here are some updated final photos from the project down by Mt. Horeb WI. We built one of our SR-22 masonry heating systems with a black oven and double bell heating chambers. We also built a 36″x36″ PriorFire/Rosin style fireplace with a...
The Simensen SR-18 Masonry heater with white oven and front heated bench was built up on Lake Vermilion MN. We finished the face of the heater with local banded taconite stone from the MN Iron Range, a custom cut piece of taconite hearth stone and a slate cap.
For the Miller project by Sarona WI we built our SR-18 masonry heater core system with our white oven and a front and side heated bench with the chimney on the side. The heater was finished with a 4″ solid CMU base for a Montana ledgestone thin veneer facing...