Depending on the interior design of your home, a mass heater will create a toasty, warm zone all around it.
Fans can be used for back rooms.
Heat registers can also help keep your whole house warm.
Imagine having 500 bricks radiating 150F all night long, sitting in your living room; everything warms up!
In northern Montana, temperatures were below zero at night and in the low teens during the day all last week.
In our 97-year-old house, we burned one small fire in the morning and the same in the evening.
The temperatures were even throughout the entire rambling structure, and there was no fire all night or all day!
With a traditional steel box stove, it is hot near the stove, warm five feet away, and chilly the farther away you get.
In colder climates, a steel box stove is lit 24-7 all winter.
Your chimney can become plugged with creosote, and chimney fires are always a possibility.
Our new Mass Heater is like having central heating in a 100-year-old home!
Most new
RMH builds do not use a long low bench, rather they use a Stratification chamber (brick bell)
It is much more comfortable to sit on a couch or a recliner than on a cob bench.
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