permaculture

[David Neeley <dbneeley@yahoo.com>]

Keith, 

Sounds like a lovely project!

You either were lucky, very bright, or already versed--but
every fireplace or stove used for primary heating is better
when put into such a "pit" so that the level of the fire is
at the level of the floor. Much of the heat is radiant--and
the elevated fires people seem so fond of leave *awfully*
cold feet!

David

"Soapstone is lovely to work with. I got 1/2 a ton from an
old quarry in Virginia in Nelson county. I cut and polished
it to use as heat sink mass around a woodstove that I sank
8  inches below floor level in our 
clay/straw (or light clay) house at Earthaven Ecovillage
(the pit handily confines the wood and ash mess around the
stove)." 

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