Jose Teixeira

Peter van den Berg wrote:Jose, there's not a good chance the thing would work properly. A door and air intake in one of the side walls of the firebox is asking for trouble. Having said that, one guy built at least one of a similar configuration. Seen from the door side: the port and riser at the right and the main air inlet at the left or vice versa. Using the door air inlets would disturb the design's aerodynamics in a serious way and the glass won't keep clear almost certainly.
But then, it's your house, do what you think is to be done. It's only that I warned you there's a fat chance of spectacular failure.

Thanks for the informed input! I hope placing the air intake at the far end of the rectangle and double glazing the door, it performs not too much different (aside from the fact that glass probably will not be clean...)
I know i ll be outside the "safe and prooved zone", hence my hesitation and all the doubts. Do you happen to have feedback (or the contacto) from the person who built a similar configuration?
My "red line" is: the stove must burn (a lot) cleaner than a firebox insert.

Thanks again for the reply (and for sharing what you have learned after so many years of study)!

PS: the air intake is put on the bottom to help keeping the door clean or is it mainly for aerodynamics?

Using an existing door (retrieved from a firebox insert) is a must for i wont be able to get a custom door with a good looking aspect.
Also, would be very difficult to make my wife accept a narrow tall door (asthetics reasons).
The bbr will be 7".
My best approach so far, is to put the firebox door on one side (the "front" side) and the door/riser on a sidewinder configuration. Something like this (* is insulated wall and --- would be the box door):
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On top of all this, dont want a too bulky stove

thomas rubino wrote:Hi Gyula
Thanks for replying!
If that is a photo of your new stove then it is very nice looking and I'm sure it keeps you warm.
It is a shame no one was willing to build you a sidewinder Batch box  Rocket mass heater.
Maybe in the future, you will attempt to build your own.
We are always willing to help.

Are the firebox measures (lenght/depth, wide, height) listed on the batchboxrocket.eu critical or can we change a bit with no severe implications?
I am in the process of building a BBR7 but using a wider box door is a must.

Gyula Kósa wrote:

Jose Teixeira wrote:Have you built the rmh? How were the results?
Hope its performs well as i intend to use a quite large double glazed insert door too. I realize it s not the best in terms of insulation but will be a compromise with aesthetitcs...

Unfortunately I felt it too risky to build it myself. I contacted some contractors, but none of them was available/comfortable with building a rocket stove so finally we decided to request a contractor to build a tile stove like this.

WOW!!
What a nice looking stove - hope it performs well (not a rocket but...)

Have you built the stove?
Some years ago, on a rented apartment, i built a "regular" rocket stove in front of the fire place and put que flue pipe into the fireplace itself/chimeney.

Have you built the rmh? How were the results?
Hope its performs well as i intend to use a quite large double glazed insert door too. I realize it s not the best in terms of insulation but will be a compromise with aesthetitcs...

Hello.
Would you be able to give some feedback after these years?
Tanks

Besides the time to erect, what main differences do you see?
What is the feedback after these years built (especially regarding water from rain)?
Ever seen building with on site prefabricated slip straw pannels?
(the idea behind prefab would be to start building them alongside the permission and foundations process)

Thanks