9781603582131-1603582134-Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun

Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun

ISBN-13: 9781603582131
ISBN-10: 1603582134
Edition: 1
Author: Ken Matesz
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback 352 pages
Category: Technology
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ISBN-13: 9781603582131
ISBN-10: 1603582134
Edition: 1
Author: Ken Matesz
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback 352 pages
Category: Technology

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Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun (ISBN-13: 9781603582131 and ISBN-10: 1603582134), written by authors Ken Matesz, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Technology books. You can easily purchase or rent Masonry Heaters: Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Technology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $11.5.

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Masonry Heaters is a complete guide to designing and living with one of the oldest, and yet one of the newest, heating devices. A masonry heater’s design, placement in the home, and luxurious radiant heat redefine the hearth for the modern era, turning it into a piece of the sun right inside the home. Like the feeling one gets from the sun on a spring day, the environment around a masonry heater feels fresh. The radiant heat feels better on the skin. It warms the home both gently and efficiently. In fact, the value of a masonry heater lies in its durability, quality, serviceability, dependability, and health-supporting features. And it is an investment in self-sufficiency and freedom from fossil fuels.

The book discusses different masonry heater designs, including variations extant in Europe, and explains the growth of their popularity in the United States beginning in the late 1970s. For the reader who may be familiar only with open fireplaces and metal woodstoves, Masonry Heaters will bring a new understanding and appreciation of massive heat storage and gentle-but-persistent radiant heat. Masonry heaters offer a unique comfort that is superior to that from convection heat from forced-air systems, and more personal than that offered by “radiant” floors. As Matesz demonstrates, the heat from the sun or from a masonry heater is genuine heat instead of just insulation against the loss of heat.

Those who are looking to build, add onto, or remodel a house will find comprehensive and practical advice for designing and installing a masonry heater, including detailed discussion of materials, code considerations, and many photos and illustrations. While this is not a do-it-yourself guide for building a masonry heater, it provides facts every heater builder should know. Professional contractors will find this a useful tool to consult, and homeowners considering a new method of home heating will find all they need to know about masonry heaters within these pages.

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