Heat stress is a major concern during the construction of masonry heaters.

Masonry heaters were developed to control air flow in stoves.

Several masonry heaters from the 18th century were moved into the castle during this renovation.

The masonry heater has gained renewed domestic popularity recently because of its heating efficiency.

Some contemporary masonry heaters don't have a ceramic-tile exterior.

The fire in a masonry heater burns much hotter than in a metal stove.

Since masonry heaters burn hot and fast, they can accept any dry, split (usually three to five inches in diameter) wood.

She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater.

Masonry heater (similar to Kachelofen in the German Wikipedia).

Another example is the Austrian/German Kachelofen or masonry heater.

A masonry heater is designed to allow complete combustion by burning fuels at full-temperature with no restriction of air inflow.

A masonry heater is warmed by fires that burn for a short time; it is mostly the heat stored by the heater's mass that heats the living space.

Masonry heaters or stoves went a step further by capturing much of the heat of the fire and exhaust in a large thermal mass, becoming much more efficient than a fireplace alone.

An alternative approach is to use pyrolysis to produce several useful biochemical byproducts, and clean burning charcoal, or to burn fuel extremely quickly inside a large thermal mass, such as a masonry heater.

Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun by Ken Matesz (Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2010)

A properly fired masonry heater has little or no particulate pollution in the exhaust and does not contribute to the buildup of creosote in the heater flues or the chimney.

Because the radiant heat is given off at a low level a masonry heater is not likely to overheat a home the way a metal stove might in warmer parts of the year like fall or spring.

Outside China, the concept of a "masonry heater", a large stove made of brick or other masonry keeping a house warm for a long time, has been used in various forms throughout northern and eastern Europe.

When not being fired, the connection from the masonry heater to the chimney sometimes has a damper to prevent heat from escaping up the chimney; the heat is then radiated from the masonry.

As a former editor of poetry and literature, and a poet himself, he has a particular ear "for authors who have an interesting story to tell," he said, even if that story involves composting toilets or masonry heaters.

The period also saw several scientific novelties: The masonry heater, developed in 1767, revolutionised heating and Serafimerlasarettet, the first modern hospital in Sweden, was inaugurated just north of the present-day City Hall in 1752.

Soapstone is sometimes used for construction of fireplace surrounds, cladding on metal woodstoves, and as the preferred material for woodburning masonry heaters because it can absorb, store and evenly radiate heat due to its high density and magnesite (MgCO3) content.

A rocket stove mass heater or rocket mass heater, is an innovative and efficient space heating system developed from the rocket stove, a type of hyper-efficient wood-burning stove, named in the 1970s, but dating back millennia in concept, and the masonry heater.

A masonry heater (or masonry stove, ceramic stove, tile stove) is a device for warming an interior space through radiant heating, by capturing the heat from periodic burning of fuel (usually wood), and then radiating the heat at a fairly constant temperature for a long period .

As in the past once the firewood has burned, the warmed mass of the stove continues to radiate heat, but the size of the flue passages of modern masonry heaters are more exactly calculated than they used to be; this is done to provide increased efficiency and output and use less wood.

Primitive masonry stoves, some with sleeping platforms on top, spread through Europe.

The innovation of his masonry stove system captured the heat from only periodic burning of wood.

In England and America it is called a "tile stove" or masonry stove.

In the early 1900's, the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen designed some masonry stoves; later, Tulikivi used some of those designs.

The Swedes were credited with developing the modern masonry stove in 1767, when Baron Carl Johan Cronstedt, an architect, came up with a more efficient design.

Both in Europe and in America seating and even beds are occasionally built adjoining the masonry stove; this is possible because the heater's exterior surfaces are cool enough to touch safely.

The Book of Masonry Stoves: Rediscovering an Old Way of Warming by David Lyle (Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1984)

It was constructed using local timber, straw bale insulation and locally sourced aggregate as well as incorporating various green technologies (such as a masonry stove, passive solar heating and a wood-fired kitchen).

However, the EPA has had no mandatory emission limits for pellet stoves, indoor or outdoor wood boilers, masonry stoves and certain types of wood stoves that are exempt from EPA regulation.

For a couple of decades in the early 19th century the building served as a masonry stove factory before it was bought by the inn keeper Hans Rasmussen who returned the building to its original function, although stoves were still manufactured on the upper floor.

A masonry heater (or masonry stove, ceramic stove, tile stove) is a device for warming an interior space through radiant heating, by capturing the heat from periodic burning of fuel (usually wood), and then radiating the heat at a fairly constant temperature for a long period .

From the table, warmed by the ceramic stove, he studies the sky once more.

The air is chill, because they had gone to bed early the night before and not stoked up the ceramic stove in the main room.

It consists of two little rooms, with a big white ceramic stove in the inner salon.

Like the European ceramic stove, a massive block of masonry is used to retain heat.

Ryalth smiles as she shakes her head, before turning and walking back to the ancient ceramic stove that is built out from the far wall.

Some models even forsake the macho cast iron in favor of Italian ceramic stove bodies.

There is a Swedish ceramic stove, with two ebony Philippine armchairs before it.

Dirty saucepans littered the white ceramic stove.

A newly created saloon room on the upper floor is furnished with valuable renaissance panelling and an expensive ceramic stove.

Heated in winter by a clever ceramic stove that he also used for cooking, it supplied warm air to the two chambers above it.

The Head cook, Glaaghi, was working over one of the ceramic stoves that lined one massive wall.

"Something's-" he started to say, but then he was back in the apartment in Stockholm, with the huge ceramic stoves.

Arndt, who has a civil engineering background, was born in Berlin in 1945, and started his business, selling cast-iron and ceramic stoves, ten years ago.

Throughout, furniture, pictures and grandfather clocks arrived from all over the world, along with Swedish ceramic stoves and Staffordshire figurines.

He shivered in spite of the crackling fireplace behind him and the great ceramic stove that radiated heat into every cubic iral of his dressing room.

Nylan stood and surveyed the dwelling, the smooth pale walls, thinking about the ceramic stove, the tile floors, the apparent cleanliness-and the chaos behind its creation.

The largest objects in the collection are a series of elaborately ornamented ceramic stoves from the 16th and 17th centuries, made in Germany and Switzerland.

So when those high-efficiency ceramic stoves came into use, and the need for stacks and stacks of wood declined, I figured I needed a new career.

The fact that their Internet business wound up selling airline and travel reservations, not Carter's ceramic stoves, was just another element of the unexpected in Carter's life.

The five-story Victoria gallery resembled a great French country house, with tall ceilings, creaking wood floors, ceramic stoves and antique French paneled walls.

There are brightly coloured and gilded, patterned wood ceilings, curved columns, richly carved doorways under ogee arches and fantastic metal and ceramic stoves.

He sits wearing somebody else's suit - or so the rolled-up pants cuffs suggest - and he is dwarfed by the ceramic stove nearby that looks as if Brancusi designed it.

Laney tried to quit the bedroom, the guesthouse, and found himself surrounded by archaeologically precise records of the restoration of five vast ceramic stoves in an apartment in Stockholm.

Water powered turbines, photo voltaic panels, composting toilets, a wood burning boiler, a wood burning ceramic stove and locally sourced reclaimed interior materials have gone into making the venture sustainable.

The forest-green and white Edelweiss Dining Room, the grandest of the hotel's restaurants, greets diners with a tall white ceramic stove in the anteroom and continues in the same alpine vein.

In one corner, a tall tile stove was set into the wall, ready to provide both warmth and a place to cook.

The old tiled stove and the wood stack beside it.

Wiz helped himself to the porridge on the tile stove.

Originally tile stoves placed in each room heated the palace.

The wall paintings and baroque tiled stove, however, have survived.

The television set is a hollow case, and the tall tile stove has been hammered to bits.

There is a richly decorated hall on the second floor of the palace with original light tile stoves.

The furniture consisted a Rococo tile stove, chairs, and paintings.

Additionally, there are fine baroque tiled stoves in the manor.

The room was furnished with a crystal chandelier, an ornate white tile stove, and chairs.

The servant banished the dogs and threw logs into the great tiled stove before which we had been sitting.

At one end there was a green-glazed tile stove under a mantelpiece on which stood two bronzes, both modern.

The centrepoint of the living area was a centrally-sited tiled stove or Kachelofen.

The orientalist sat beside the tile stove; he moaned as if he had a nightmare.

The tiled stove was much like the one in Alaire's room, except it had a bellows built into one side.

In England and America it is called a "tile stove" or masonry stove.

Ornamental painted ceilings and tiled stoves have been preserved.

The interiors have an extensive collection of historic furniture, tiled stoves, pictures, porcelain and other items.

At least Ryne had a room to himself, a bannerman's room with a tiled stove built in beneath the bed.

The interior also houses a wrought iron staircase and a noteworthy art nouveau tiled stove.

It had a white-golden stucco decoration with one chandelier and a Rococo tile stove.

She did pass a servant, maybe a slave, but he gave her a dull glance and continued scrubbing out a tile stove in the main room.

Although the day had once more been as warm as midsummer the King was almost crouching in an armchair near a tiled stove.

The living room was now heated by tiled stoves, operated from the kitchen, which offered the huge advantage of not filling the room with smoke.

For the 1944 trade show a farmhouse parlour was put together, along with a tiled stove (Kachelofen) and a fireside bench.