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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

A just plain old house we used to rent way back in the dark ages had a 
fireplace that really produced heat.  We used it to heat the livingroom and 
two downstairs bedrooms (the kitchen and diningroom had their own heat 
source)  It had heat vents in all the upstairs rooms.  It didn't seem to 
build up anymore soot than we'd had in flues for woodstoves.

Haven't a clue how it was done.  The house was build in the late 1800s. 
Whoever built the thing was quite a craftsman.  It was in a corner and had a 
twisted brick chimney.  It was huge but very efficient for a fireplace.  The 
house was well over 2,000 sq. ft., a big Queen Ann type farmhouse.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> I have zero experience with it. I would expect heat extraction to be
> good but chimney soot buildup to possibly increase. The heat-up-the-
> chimney dilemma has always been: enough to keep the flue clean but
> not waste heat.
>
> Does anyone know how the European design mass masonry heaters manage
> to have that super-hot burn and then labyrinthine flu gas passage
> without flu buildup? The only thing I can figure is that there is
> such complete combustion that there is little left to gunk up the flu.
>
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