MASONRY HEATING SYSTEMS AT THE
HEART OF THE HOME

• Granite facing with 3" marble slabs
• Domestic hot water coil, heated bench, rear bake oven
• Wood storage with Woodwaiter from basement
• Finish mason: William Davenport, Turtlerock Masonry Heat, Montpelier, Vermont
• Built in August, 2001
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Heat Kit with bake oven.
Heater core delivered and installed Aug 24/05
Saint Adele, Quebec.

• Client's preliminary design
• proposed dimensioned footprint, modified footprint
  
• installed core
  
• progress photo, Oct 15/05
  
• Finished heater, Jan 5/05

• Sandstone facing
• Heated bench, rear bake oven
• Mason: John Fisher
• Location: Birmingham, Alabama
• Built in April, 2003
• more details
• John Fisher's heater art

• Stone, brick and stucco
• Heated bench, oven
• Finish mason: Alex Chernov
• Uxbridge, Ontario, June 2005
• Located in a 100 ft. diameter strawbale horse riding facility

• Stucco and brick facing with clay flue tile trim
• Bake oven
• Extra heat exchange panel above heated bench
• Mason: Norbert Senf
• Location: Greermount, Quebec
• Completed January, 2004

• Wraparound raised heated hearth
• Custom soapstone tile facing over clay brick
• Stucco chimney.

• Curved masonry heater, white 3-coat stucco and gray tile
• Heated sitting bench with slate top
• 2800 sq. ft. R-2000 house near Ottawa, Canada.
• Like-new appearance after 18 years of use.

• Heat Kit with heated bench
• Clay brick, bluestone, thin lime mortar joints
• Elmore, Vermont, 2003
• William Davenport, mason

• Brick masonry heater with angled sides
• Brick cookstove on kitchen side
• Ottawa, Ontario

• Brick contraflow heater built in 1981
• First modern contraflow heater built in Canada, (Greermount, Quebec)
• Recycled soft clay brick with thin lime mortar joints
• No chimney deposits after 23 year of use - this heater is 1 mile from our shop, so we inspect it regularly

• Stucco and stone, with curved heated bench, 2002
• Owner built strawbale house, Wakefield, Quebec
• Finish mason: Udo Kohrmann

• Custom bake oven and fireplace for rammed earth house, Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
• Family room fireplace is used to fire large kitchen bakeoven. In this photo, the bakeoven is being fired separately  
• More details on this oven   

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• Prototype compact Heat-Kit 22 with front bakeoven
• Brick with stucco directly onto core
• Experimental heater number 5 in our own home.

• Heater with heated bench and rear bakeoven
• Stucco finish with tile trim
• Envirotech loading door
• Heater facing and finish by local mason
• Client feedback

• Contraflow heater built in 1985
• First masonry heater in a Canadian R-2000 house
• House engineered and built by Allen-Drerup-White

• Built in 2002
• (not shown) metal chimney connection at top of woodbox

• Retrofit into heritage house
• Shawville, Québec

Be Sure to Visit:

Client Gallery

Heat-Kit heaters built by clients with the help of local masons

Mason Gallery

The Masonry Heater Association Gallery

Featuring work by some of North America's top masons

John Fisher's Heater Art

GALLERY 2

Featuring: The Virtual Straw Bale House. A Viridian Project

Simon Wills Illustration

Talented local kid who moved to NYC and works at Harper's

Lopez Labs Gallery of Fire

Images from Recent Testing