masonry heaters
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Ken Matesz first learned about masonry heaters in the early 1980s, built his first one in the early 1990s, and opened the Masonry Heater Store, LLC after the turn of the new century. Matesz’s first solo heater project in 1994, a Finnish-style heater in his own home, gave his family heating energy independence. With his new book Masonry Heaters, he hopes to show many others how they can achieve the same freedom and a better standard of living using this simple but elegant way of heating. He lives in Swanton, Ohio.
$39.95 US • PaperbackISBN 97816035821318 x 10 • 352 pages
Pub Date: September 2010
Designing, Building, and Living with a Piece of the Sun
Ken Matesz
A Hearth for a Carbon-Neutral Home
In Masonry Heaters, author and professional mason Ken Matesz describes how to design and build one of the healthiest, most efficient, and aesthetically pleasing means of home heating that no one knows about. Masonry Heaters is the ideal book for those interested in home heating, energy efficiency, and self-sufficiency from fossil fuels. Professional contractors will find this a useful tool to consult, and homeowners considering building or remodeling will find all they need to know about this fascinating and often unknown form of heating in these pages.Masonry heaters are:• Carbon-neutral• Renewable• 80to90percentefficientvs.averageheaters’55to70• AestheticallypleasingThebookdiscussesdifferentmasonryheaterdesigns(includingEuropeanvariations),andoffersanewunderstandingofmassiveheatstorageandgentle-but-persistentradiantheat.Thebookalsocontainsmanylustrousphotosandillustra-tions of real-world masonry heater projects.
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WhenItravelintheNorthernstatesoftheU.S.—particularlyNewEngland,wheremostpeopledependonheatingwithoil—Ifearforthesemillionsoffolksforwhomdepleting,climate-changingfossilfuelsareall that stand between winter comfort on one hand, and death by freezing on the other. Masonry Heaters exploresoneofthemostpromisingalternatives,anditsmessageneedstogetoutfarandwide,andfast.—RichardHeinberg,SeniorFellow,PostCarbonInstituteandAuthorofThe Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
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