Brick Masonry Heater Pictures, Morrisville/Stowe, Vermont

 Contraflow masonry heater, VT Brick and PA bluestone.

 Iron hardware from IronArt (Stowe)

 Flame dragon

 Keystone and stone detail on heater side provided by homeowners.

Masonry heater pictures: Adirondack stone and soapstone. Glover, Vermont

                                   

Masonry heater with Adirondack stone and soapstone.

1 piece @ 400 lbs needs to be on top.

Pictures of Masonry heater, Rumford fireplace, and chimney: Stone and American Clay. Cabot, VT

 Stone Chimney top 

Masonry Heater with second coat of American Clay

Rumford Fireplace after second coat of American Clay

Masonry stove (pre-clay plastering)

From the side: masonry stove, Rumford fireplace, and chimney

Rumford fireplace stonework

Masonry heater in Brookfield, Vermont, with the wood fire in basement and radiant bench/heater upstairs.

first fire!

The heater has it's firebox in the basement...

...part of the process...

...and the primary heater and heated bench upstairs in the living space.

Have a seat.

Functional storage and structure.

Masonry Heater with Clay and Stone facing, Worcester, Vermont

Hi folks and friends! This is my most recent masonry stove, built in Worcester, Vermont. It is a retrofit, and is heating a partially earth-covered home that is being renovated. The fieldstone is from a local source, and the finish is in American Clay, skip troweled, with two shades of the color Moab. Hope you like it!
Also this year, and not yet pictured on my blog, I have done clay plastering of walls and ceilings in two rooms and a stairwell in a home here in north-central Vermont. I enjoyed that project very much, and hope to do more clay plaster work. It is a wonderful substitute for paint. I hope to get some pictures to show you! Other projects have included renovating an old brick fireplace with a new stone face and integrating some wood cabinetry and mantle, and a soapstone hearth and lintel stone. Another renovation was re-finishing some cinder-block chimney-tops with a new stone face and stone rain caps.
Happy Thanksgiving!
~Michael

Pictures from Wolcott: Masonry heater, Rumford fireplace, cookstove, chimney...

Greetings! everyone, here are some pictures from 2009's big project out in Wolcott, Vermont. These are the last ones I took before my camera stopped working, and the work has since been completed and cleaned up, and a lot more progress was made with the rest of the house. So I'll be hoping to get some better pics when a new camera comes into my life. The picture above is the first fire in the semi-circular double-bell (masonry heater) that sits slightly above and back-to-back with the Rumford fireplace you will see in the pictures below. This project also includes a hearth for a wood-burning cookstove and hookups for small wood stoves into the chimney upstairs, one in each bedroom. Essentially, it is a huge tower right in the center of a 12-sided home.
Michael's first hand-built semi-circular double-bell masonry heater

Nothing like cooking with wood fire too!

What you'd see (before finished floor) from the kitchen, or from the hearth of the fireplace.

Wish I could keep it!

In one of the 2 Bedrooms

The 2x4 studs are gone now. Top of stairs hallway.

Chimney top.

'The Center': Masonry heater and Rumford fireplace ...masonry in Wolcott, VT

over the fireplace arch

finally some real sq. footage on the stone work

getting ready for the arch

my first 'convex' arch!

Bluestone bench top

Convex stone bench front

Rumford Fireplace Guts

Bell 1


Bell 1 and bell 2

The Center