Masonry Stoves & Heaters - Wood Heating - Cost Estimate

TAKOMA PARK, Md. - Sept. 3, 2024 - PRLog -- Masonry stoves are an extremely efficient way to heat your home and are very popular in Europe but remain only a very niche technology in the US and Canada. (One theory is that skilled masonry heater builders were always in high demand in Europe and very few emigrated to the US from 1500 to 1900.) Besides the lack of awareness about masonry heaters, the main hindrance of wider deployment is their cost and size. They start around $8,000 for factory-built models and often go up to $20,000 for site-built ones.

Masonry stoves work by circulating the hot flue exhaust through a series of baffles that heats up the surrounding masonry, and greatly reduces the temperature of the exhaust leaving the chimney. Unlike wood stoves, fires in masonry stoves are burned hot and fast, for more complete combustion.

Masonry stoves, usually called masonry heaters, are built with masonry, ceramic, tile or bricks. What distinguishes a masonry heater is the ability to store the heat from the fire in the masonry thermal mass, and then slowly radiate into your house for the next 12 to 24 hours.

Masonry stoves, usually called masonry heaters, are built with masonry, ceramic, tile or bricks. What distinguishes a masonry heater is the ability to store the heat from the fire in the masonry thermal mass, and then slowly radiate into your house for the next 12 to 24 hours. (https://www.forgreenheat.org/interiors)

Masonry stoves, usually called masonry heaters, are built with masonry, ceramic, tile or bricks. What distinguishes a masonry heater is the ability to store the heat from the fire in the masonry thermal mass, and then slowly radiate into your house for the next 12 to 24 hours.​https://www.forgreenheat.org/masonry-stoves (https://www.forgreenheat.org/interiors)