Fire: Pretty
Fire: Useful (and Dangerous)
Fire burns what direction?
Fire: What happens without gravity?
Building a Home for Fire: Fireplace
Rumford "smokeless" fireplace
That Ol' Jug Stove
"Box" or "Franklin" woodstove
Cob (Earthen) Oven
That Guy Ianto
The J-Tube Rocket Stove / Heater
Ernie demos the "Downdraft" combustion core
a Pocket Rocket
bench and combustion unit
Dana Annex Rocket Mass Heater
Step-by-step: Dry-fit and layout
Measure and check proportions
Increasingly realistic layouts
Mixing mortar
Creating the Combustion Core & Manifold
Amateur Brickwork
Semi-Skilled Brickwork
Checking heat-riser gap
Fitted in place, and test fire.
Test-fire exhaust
Temperature check
Insulation around firebox
Local clay subsoil - our "dirt bank"
Cob on Tarp - Mud Burrito
Dry footing; adding "thermal cob" to the next layer
Rubble, cob, and insulation gap
Perlite-clay insulation
Cobbing around heat-exchange pipes
Thermal cob around insulation & heat-exchange pipes
Burying the pipes
Drying Time...
Extra lime plaster over combustion core
Slipping for final plaster; stovepipe chimney installed
Mixing final plaster
Floating the final plaster
Final plaster: Finished!
We did it!
Tile detail and cleanout covers
Combustion code - firing it (plaster dry)
Finished effect
A backyard RMH
Ludwig's RMH: brick base
More insulation
Combustion unit in test configuration
Back of combustion unit
Screen ready to insulate heat riser
Burn tunnel, brick heat riser, and wire cage to hold insulation
Part of the 60 total feet of heat-exchange pipe runs
Basement aerodynamics:
Oven dissection
Oven strata
Cobville
Al Fresco
cob kitchen in progress
Myrtle interior (showing rocket bench)
Myrtle interior - dining & view
Cabana: homestead comfort
Old World style (web image)
roughly 2000 sf earthen floor
<3 Cob
the "brick beehive" approach to the manifold question
VBC - school project
VBC - bike tour with wings!
Puppet theater cob infill in old garage
Pedestrian shelter
Happy pedestrians
