Kandice Trickett

Oh my lawdddd Nathan that almost made me cry hearing you say Rocket Mass Heater hahaha. Please feel free to email me if you'd like! lowerslashroad@gmail.com! That makes me SUPERRRRRR excited to know I have someone else on the island that is into the stuff I am! I drive by Wiikwemkoong all the time!

I'm building with cob up on Manitoulin! Nice to see someone else in Ontario planning a build :)

I'm just wondering what the significance of the slightly crushed aluminum cans are in the Earthships. Are they for any insulation value or just a filled for less concrete/cob? I'm working with cob and lime..wondering if I should be saving my cans or if it isn't really applicable to a full cob style home.

I have fossils all over my property! I'm on a beautiful limestone alvar

Anyone in the Northern Canada region? I'm looking for permie friends as I'm moving with my two little ones to a secluded island plot. Not sure about romance right now lol, but would love some people to vibe with, and maybe even some people to move onto the land with me, even if temporarily.
-Kandice

Hey there, so I am totally new to the game. I move to my vacant land in less than 2 months and I have a question. If I build a Rocket Mass Heater inside my home, and attach a copper coil to a thermosyphon style water tank... can I run the "cold water" lower pipe into some PEX and through my floors and then up to the base copper in the unit to be heated, and then re-added back to the water tank as hot water? Or am I grasping for too much here? I lay in bed in my forced air city home thinking of this over and over and can't see why not other than the thermosyphon wouldn't be strong enough to bring the water through that length of piping. Any ideas or thoughts? Would I need to introduce a small pump to help the water along or am I just a lunatic all around.

-Sincerely a crazy-minded single mom about to run away into the untouched depths of a northern forest on a Canadian Island.
AKA Kandice.