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  • From: David Neeley <dbneeley@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fires in pits; was: Re: Soapstone
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:09:01 -0800 (PST)

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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