I am 51, I am italian, I still remember the evening at my uncle mountian house around the heater (they are called "stufe tirolesi" becuase they are tipical of that area of Italy) you are right, that heat drag you in, it call you... it is heat for your soul before it is heat for your body... i think this is something we are all missing out, not only becoause of more modern (convenient?) implement, but because we have lost sight of what it is really important... thanks for sharing. Amazing video, amazing product. well done
The modern way of doing this, in Europe, is to also include a heat exchanger that allows you to pre-heat the water for the house or the water for the radiators in rooms that are further away from the stove.
The hearth - the heart of the home. At one time, it was critical that a home be built around whatever wood-fired heat source was employed. Today, it is practical but also provides a comfort and a level of aesthetic that is hard to put into words. Some people don't understand it and never will, and that's OK. For others, a masonry heater is an elegant means of addressing one of the core needs for survival in a cold climate. I currently have something like unto a masonry heater, but when we build our retirement home, it will be built around a masonry heater.
I have seen some rocket stove builds, but comparing this to most rocket stoves is like comparing a mosquito to an airplane. Very impressive. All the benefits of a wood stove and heater put together. Plus, it looks 10X better.
I'm very impressed! I heat my house with a Regency insert and it works well. What you have there is Amazing! I believe you will do well when people really catch on. The efficiency of your system is unmatched. I installed wood and gas units for 15 years and I can appreciate your Temp-Cast system. Like I said, I am very impressed!! Thank you, Jack
Excellent! I’ve often wondered why this system isn’t more prevalent in the US. First saw this type of heating system in Delft. It was a 17th century house and it centrally heated the whole house. Well Done.
Insurance companies often won't cover houses that have them, and they can be difficult to clean or fix. They're extremely heavy and can easily compromise a structure if not built over a sufficiently strong concrete slab. Due to the long meandering exhaust pathway, it can be difficult or impossible to clean them. They're prone to creosote buildup due to low Chimney exhaust temperatures. Combine those two and there's a high chance of a Chimney fire from creosote buildup. If the exhaust path cracks due to thermal expansion/contraction it's also difficult to fix and air seal again. In short, they are potentially more trouble than they're worth for most homeowners. A good high efficiency wood stove or fireplace surrounded with high thermal mass is a better option for most homeowners. Has virtually all the advantages with none of the disadvantages of a masonry heater.
There is no reason for everyone to not be doing this. I have about 10 years before I start building my forever home but I will undoubtedly use this product
I grow up with this heaters. We had in every room one that had beautiful tile work with murals. All this heaters came with our home that was built in 1864 and heaters were built in the home by Austro Hungarian builders including home. They still work till today.
Super common in Russia and the Scandinavian countries. Regulat fireplaces used to be far superior to today's version. I owned a 100 year old Craftsman home and my fireplace had an e terror twist-key that allowed be to gradually open or close the iron flu gate. Fhat is, none of th8s current all open ir all shut on aluminum flu business. There was a large, heavy iron flu "shutter" that I could open just a Crack, which low the noxious fumes to escape while hot air literally shot back into my living room. And the fact that is was all iron mean it absorbed the heat, too. Also had a flu pit, which is * super * convenient and no one today even knows what this is!! All new fireplaces are for cosmetic only (except yours, of course).
Very in love with your masonry heater from both an engineering perspective but also aesthetic. If I recall you went to Italy to help Martijn Doolaard. That's the Minnesota spirit.
Hi Patrick. Great new kit. We have used our Temp-Cast all last winter. It really helped us with my propane consumption up here in Maine. Plus we loved the real heat! I will say anything that consumes wood is a full time job. We have made some amazing pizzas! Keep up the good work.
I’ve always been fascinated by this worked with danish gentleman years ago ago who spoke highly but I’ve only seen a couple guys that had experience with building
This is very cool. My parents built one in their dream home about 60 years ago. They rarely used it in Oklahoma though. My sister did some but my niece and her family use it quite a bit now. No pizza oven though😢 but at least the homestead is in the family and lived in still.
Thanks, I love this video! 🥰 I first learned about masonry heaters, in 2015, from Jessica Steinhäuser in Guelph, Ontario. She makes & designs award-winning Kachelöfen, the German masonry heater. Through her videos, I became _OBSESSED_ with learning the history of these astonishingly efficient, effective heaters! The Chinese developed a similar technology five thousand years ago, calling it a Kang bed-stove. The flue channels run along the floor and people slept upon a raised, heated platform. Ancient Korean’s developed the technology, calling it an ondol, heating their floors. The Romans made something similar, calling it a hypocaust. They would heat their floors, walls, even large bathing pools with the hot smoke from flue pipes running into the building, generated by fires built in an outside fireplace. Isn’t it astonishing the technology never made it to the U.S. in the 1600’s with immigrating Europeans?? Think of how much wood could have been saved, instead of feeding ‘a hungry volcano’ as Twain so aptly put it! Not to mention the _TIME_ . Keeping a wood stove going is no joke and since it’s convective heat, you can lose it all with a door or window left open! I’ve subscribed ✅ I want to see everything you’ve done to promote these remarkable heaters ☮️
Good morning Patrick. This is a great video. I really enjoyed visiting with you when you assembled keeping it dutch heater. Great seeing ya at the okie homestead expo. Your masonry heater is the best ever. So pretty and efficient. Hope you and your family have a great day. Be Safe Randy
I came across videos of women in the Ukraine in villages with these interesting wood stoves that caught my attention. It took me a minute to find out what it was as we are NOT taught things like this in the US. They called it a Russian Stove or Oven. I started looking up into it and find that its what I want in my house! I don't think we build it here so that you cook with it too, but this is DEFINATELY what I would like built in my house! Thank you for a great video. I will need to find a Mason in my area of Michigan, which the more up north you go, the colder it gets, to help me out. Any suggestions from you would be greatly appreciated!
Thank-You! we have been looking for a domestic alternative to a Tulikivi (shipping costs are huge!) for a small home new build and this looks very impressive.
Mosaic and you can create pictures with it, although much greater effort to keep clean. Smallish to medium tiles - almost never used to create a large picture. And harder to keep clean than big and huge tiles. Big or best huge tiles can have complex and connecting patterns painted on them. And are easiest to keep clean as they have the biggest tile face to gap ratio. For people who want to have their masonry heater tiled - I suggest BIG tiles.
Very popular in Northern Germany on the North Sea ! Its cold this heats a home at very low cost ! This need to be built into the home ! This is on of the main reasons for lack of use in North America!
Fireplaces with external air intakes and a built in water heat exchanger seem superior to me, since you can use it for hydronic heating and store the hot water in an insulated tank, giving you more control of when heat is released and how much.
Refectory cement or concrete , formulated using specific clays for very high temperature such as kilns , glass manufacturing industry ovens and these types of stove.you may be able to purchase it online or big builders merchants as pizza ovens are popular now
These have been around for twice the time the US has existed, they are in a 13th century castle in France and many more European houses and if you see any Russian villages, every house has them.
Whats the lifespan like on a masonry heater? Do any components need to be replaced over time? How does this compare to a rocket mass heater built with cob?
Temp-Cast has heaters that are still heating homes for now over 35 years. The only place on the heater that takes a serious beating is the firebox itself. Everything downstream will last almost indefinitely.
I don't understand your website. Do you offer a product? Or is it a service? Are you selling and customizing pre-made masonry heaters, or are building one-off heaters every time?
We sell a product, the pre-made refractory pieces to make a masonry heater core. All the pieces are keyed and numbered. We also sell the doors and hardware. People buy our kit then they go by a custom masonry of their choice to wrap our kit in. You could do brick, stucco, tile, stone.. we help answer design questions and can refer an installer or we do installs regionally in Minnesota and the surrounding area
The core kit is $9000 for the one in the video. If you would like an estimate on installation cost and cost options for different veneer choices I'd recommend taking a look at our website Tempcast.com. The phone number on the website will take you right to Patrick the owner of Tempcast who was in this video!
You can build this in an existing home yes! Depending on the layout of your gas fireplace it might be able to go in the same spot. To know for sure check the number on our website and give us a call!
I imagine the Department of Ecology and the fire ordinance regulations will prevent having a heater like this in your home (not to mention the cost). Barring that, give me the premade materials and an instruction manual, I’d love to build one of these myself for my own home.
WHEN ITS COMMON PLACE IT WONT COST TO BUILD. IN THE US EVERYTHING IS 3 TIMES THE PRICE BECAUSE THEY CHARGE SO MUCH FOR LABOR. rediculous how much it is here to have a simple thing.
Yes, this is true. A top-down burn is more efficient. When the kindling is placed on top the fire is able to gasify the smaller pieces efficiently and with greater heat; whereas if you put the kindling on the bottom, the large logs can't be gasified efficiently, and more particulate is sent up the chimney.
No waaay. I follow this lady on Instagram. She's shown everyone her masonry heater but no more info. And I need one in my life. So I'm out here searching the web. And as soon as I saw that circle window I knew it was hers!
Hi! I'm 'that lady,' and I have a whole highlight about the masonry heater with links to the website and this exact video :) Highly recommend a Tempcast kit!
Masonary heaters have been common in parts of Europe,the old Soviet Union areas and China environs for hundreds of years. The idea is as old as the hills and absolutely nothing new.
I am 51, I am italian, I still remember the evening at my uncle mountian house around the heater (they are called "stufe tirolesi" becuase they are tipical of that area of Italy) you are right, that heat drag you in, it call you... it is heat for your soul before it is heat for your body... i think this is something we are all missing out, not only becoause of more modern (convenient?) implement, but because we have lost sight of what it is really important... thanks for sharing. Amazing video, amazing product. well done
The modern way of doing this, in Europe, is to also include a heat exchanger that allows you to pre-heat the water for the house or the water for the radiators in rooms that are further away from the stove.
Never thought I'd willingly choose to click on and watch an ad to completion. But the masonry is so fun to watch be built.
I just watched an old video of a guy in Russia explaining this heater. I'm sold!
Perhaps the greatest product introduction I've ever seen!
The hearth - the heart of the home. At one time, it was critical that a home be built around whatever wood-fired heat source was employed. Today, it is practical but also provides a comfort and a level of aesthetic that is hard to put into words. Some people don't understand it and never will, and that's OK. For others, a masonry heater is an elegant means of addressing one of the core needs for survival in a cold climate. I currently have something like unto a masonry heater, but when we build our retirement home, it will be built around a masonry heater.
I have seen some rocket stove builds, but comparing this to most rocket stoves is like comparing a mosquito to an airplane.
Very impressive.
All the benefits of a wood stove and heater put together. Plus, it looks 10X better.
I'm very impressed! I heat my house with a Regency insert and it works well. What you have there is Amazing! I believe you will do well when people really catch on. The efficiency of your system is unmatched. I installed wood and gas units for 15 years and I can appreciate your Temp-Cast system. Like I said, I am very impressed!! Thank you, Jack
Excellent! I’ve often wondered why this system isn’t more prevalent in the US. First saw this type of heating system in Delft. It was a 17th century house and it centrally heated the whole house. Well Done.
@@DoneThat891 I'm guessing that wood was everywhere and they didn't need to conserve or put so much in to a stove?
Insurance companies often won't cover houses that have them, and they can be difficult to clean or fix. They're extremely heavy and can easily compromise a structure if not built over a sufficiently strong concrete slab.
Due to the long meandering exhaust pathway, it can be difficult or impossible to clean them. They're prone to creosote buildup due to low Chimney exhaust temperatures. Combine those two and there's a high chance of a Chimney fire from creosote buildup. If the exhaust path cracks due to thermal expansion/contraction it's also difficult to fix and air seal again.
In short, they are potentially more trouble than they're worth for most homeowners. A good high efficiency wood stove or fireplace surrounded with high thermal mass is a better option for most homeowners. Has virtually all the advantages with none of the disadvantages of a masonry heater.
There is no reason for everyone to not be doing this. I have about 10 years before I start building my forever home but I will undoubtedly use this product
I grow up with this heaters. We had in every room one that had beautiful tile work with murals. All this heaters came with our home that was built in 1864 and heaters were built in the home by Austro Hungarian builders including home. They still work till today.
Yup these are by far the best way to heat with wood. Had one in one of my previous homes and miss it a lot.
Super common in Russia and the Scandinavian countries. Regulat fireplaces used to be far superior to today's version. I owned a 100 year old Craftsman home and my fireplace had an e terror twist-key that allowed be to gradually open or close the iron flu gate. Fhat is, none of th8s current all open ir all shut on aluminum flu business. There was a large, heavy iron flu "shutter" that I could open just a Crack, which low the noxious fumes to escape while hot air literally shot back into my living room. And the fact that is was all iron mean it absorbed the heat, too.
Also had a flu pit, which is * super * convenient and no one today even knows what this is!! All new fireplaces are for cosmetic only (except yours, of course).
We had one in France and it was fantastic to have .
Very in love with your masonry heater from both an engineering perspective but also aesthetic. If I recall you went to Italy to help Martijn Doolaard. That's the Minnesota spirit.
Love it. I was looking for something like this. Increase the thermal mass.
I’ve had mine since 2007. Look forward to winter every year! Love it!
Patrick. Nice to see you put up another video. Nice looking project for this client. Nice videography. All in favor, say aaah.
The aaaaaahs have it.
Hi Patrick. Great new kit. We have used our Temp-Cast all last winter. It really helped us with my propane consumption up here in Maine. Plus we loved the real heat! I will say anything that consumes wood is a full time job. We have made some amazing pizzas! Keep up the good work.
I’ve always been fascinated by this worked with danish gentleman years ago ago who spoke highly but I’ve only seen a couple guys that had experience with building
This is very cool. My parents built one in their dream home about 60 years ago. They rarely used it in Oklahoma though. My sister did some but my niece and her family use it quite a bit now. No pizza oven though😢 but at least the homestead is in the family and lived in still.
Thanks, I love this video! 🥰
I first learned about masonry heaters, in 2015, from Jessica Steinhäuser in Guelph, Ontario. She makes & designs award-winning Kachelöfen, the German masonry heater.
Through her videos, I became _OBSESSED_ with learning the history of these astonishingly efficient, effective heaters!
The Chinese developed a similar technology five thousand years ago, calling it a Kang bed-stove. The flue channels run along the floor and people slept upon a raised, heated platform.
Ancient Korean’s developed the technology, calling it an ondol, heating their floors.
The Romans made something similar, calling it a hypocaust. They would heat their floors, walls, even large bathing pools with the hot smoke from flue pipes running into the building, generated by fires built in an outside fireplace.
Isn’t it astonishing the technology never made it to the U.S. in the 1600’s with immigrating Europeans?? Think of how much wood could have been saved, instead of feeding ‘a hungry volcano’ as Twain so aptly put it! Not to mention the _TIME_ . Keeping a wood stove going is no joke and since it’s convective heat, you can lose it all with a door or window left open!
I’ve subscribed ✅ I want to see everything you’ve done to promote these remarkable heaters ☮️
Wish I had one here in Texas. Standard woodstove was really my only option though.
Good morning Patrick. This is a great video. I really enjoyed visiting with you when you assembled keeping it dutch heater. Great seeing ya at the okie homestead expo. Your masonry heater is the best ever. So pretty and efficient. Hope you and your family have a great day. Be Safe Randy
I came across videos of women in the Ukraine in villages with these interesting wood stoves that caught my attention. It took me a minute to find out what it was as we are NOT taught things like this in the US. They called it a Russian Stove or Oven. I started looking up into it and find that its what I want in my house! I don't think we build it here so that you cook with it too, but this is DEFINATELY what I would like built in my house! Thank you for a great video. I will need to find a Mason in my area of Michigan, which the more up north you go, the colder it gets, to help me out. Any suggestions from you
would be greatly appreciated!
You are welcome to contact TempCast and inquire about having them come and do the installation for you.
Patrick
Thank-You! we have been looking for a domestic alternative to a Tulikivi (shipping costs are huge!) for a small home new build and this looks very impressive.
Great video which doesn't try to make these out to be so complicated and expensive that they are beyond normal homeowners.
Do you have a guide on how to build your own? Not too common in the uk unfortunately. Great video too btw ❤
Yeah I’m wondering this too?
Love it
Great video. Good job.
This is the right way. This is how I heat my house here in 🇫🇮. And I have kitchen stove made from bricks too.
I watched when you did Dutch unit. Great job excellent video
I'm sold, I just need to get a house now
Very cool. I will probably have this installed in my house!
Mosaic and you can create pictures with it, although much greater effort to keep clean. Smallish to medium tiles - almost never used to create a large picture. And harder to keep clean than big and huge tiles. Big or best huge tiles can have complex and connecting patterns painted on them. And are easiest to keep clean as they have the biggest tile face to gap ratio. For people who want to have their masonry heater tiled - I suggest BIG tiles.
Very cool, never heard of this technology before.
Fantastic video!
Very popular in Northern Germany on the North Sea ! Its cold this heats a home at very low cost !
This need to be built into the home ! This is on of the main reasons for lack of use in North America!
Beautiful video, hope to have one in the house I own one day.
How will this work in a cob built home?
Fireplaces with external air intakes and a built in water heat exchanger seem superior to me, since you can use it for hydronic heating and store the hot water in an insulated tank, giving you more control of when heat is released and how much.
Had one in Illinois. Still miss it in Texas.
Fantastic. I wish I could promote this idea more.
Looks great! Is the concrete different from regular concrete? Is it formulated to withstand high temperatures? Thanks.
Refectory cement or concrete , formulated using specific clays for very high temperature such as kilns , glass manufacturing industry ovens and these types of stove.you may be able to purchase it online or big builders merchants as pizza ovens are popular now
Have friends in Ukraine with a similar set up. Great job!
These have been around for twice the time the US has existed, they are in a 13th century castle in France and many more European houses and if you see any Russian villages, every house has them.
can this be built with double sides like a see through fireplace?
Yes it can!
Beautiful, is it safe to paint the exterior brick of one of these?
You could paint with a mineral based paint like Keim.
I so want one!❤❤❤❤❤
What the cost of this
Whats the lifespan like on a masonry heater? Do any components need to be replaced over time? How does this compare to a rocket mass heater built with cob?
Temp-Cast has heaters that are still heating homes for now over 35 years. The only place on the heater that takes a serious beating is the firebox itself. Everything downstream will last almost indefinitely.
I love that it has a oven
I don't understand your website. Do you offer a product? Or is it a service? Are you selling and customizing pre-made masonry heaters, or are building one-off heaters every time?
We sell a product, the pre-made refractory pieces to make a masonry heater core. All the pieces are keyed and numbered. We also sell the doors and hardware. People buy our kit then they go by a custom masonry of their choice to wrap our kit in. You could do brick, stucco, tile, stone.. we help answer design questions and can refer an installer or we do installs regionally in Minnesota and the surrounding area
@@temp-castmasonryheaters5970 Great and thanks!
What’s the cost for a unit like this?
The core kit is $9000 for the one in the video. If you would like an estimate on installation cost and cost options for different veneer choices I'd recommend taking a look at our website Tempcast.com.
The phone number on the website will take you right to Patrick the owner of Tempcast who was in this video!
Can you build this in a pre-existing home? I have a gas fireplace that’s useless and want to convert to something like this? Is that possible?
You can build this in an existing home yes! Depending on the layout of your gas fireplace it might be able to go in the same spot. To know for sure check the number on our website and give us a call!
@ I will! Thank you! Do you have distributors in IN?
We sell direct to IN!
What no chimney?
At the 2:34 mark you can see them building the chimney.
0:33 Kitty says: "yessss"
It's lovely.
I want one
His warm voice, the comfy acousic guitar music...I feel sick
I want one ❣️❣️❣️
Amazing!
In poland this ist standard equipment ... well atleast for old houses lol
Hi 👋🏻. Where's the chimney?
On this particular heater it is to the left of the heater, over the wood storage box. You can see it at minute 3:57.
Just need to make the website a clickable link. My mouse had a poltergeist operating it today.
Got it on the tenth try.
I want one bad😊
I imagine the Department of Ecology and the fire ordinance regulations will prevent having a heater like this in your home (not to mention the cost). Barring that, give me the premade materials and an instruction manual, I’d love to build one of these myself for my own home.
It's a good point to consider, that masonry heaters are the only wood burning appliances that are EPA exempt from certification.
great
Average price range???
Our core kits range from roughly $8K - $11K depending on the model and options.
WHEN ITS COMMON PLACE IT WONT COST TO BUILD. IN THE US EVERYTHING IS 3 TIMES THE PRICE BECAUSE THEY CHARGE SO MUCH FOR LABOR. rediculous how much it is here to have a simple thing.
J'en veux un tout de suite.
I’ve heard you light the fire from the top, not bottom
Yes, this is true. A top-down burn is more efficient. When the kindling is placed on top the fire is able to gasify the smaller pieces efficiently and with greater heat; whereas if you put the kindling on the bottom, the large logs can't be gasified efficiently, and more particulate is sent up the chimney.
No waaay. I follow this lady on Instagram. She's shown everyone her masonry heater but no more info. And I need one in my life. So I'm out here searching the web. And as soon as I saw that circle window I knew it was hers!
Hi! I'm 'that lady,' and I have a whole highlight about the masonry heater with links to the website and this exact video :) Highly recommend a Tempcast kit!
Finnish homes, older homes have these. So toasty
uploaded 6 months ago and not even 50k views? yeah I'm starting to believe you get shadow banned for saving people money now
Masonary heaters have been common in parts of Europe,the old Soviet Union areas and China environs for hundreds of years. The idea is as old as the hills and absolutely nothing new.
Nothing new here. Europe and Russia have used it for generations.
No shit freakshow.
What a smart-ass you are.