Q: I saw a home show about massive European-style fireplaces that can heat an entire home with only a 30-minute fire during the morning. Do these really work and are they energy efficient? A: These ...

Masonry heater core and wall. Today I’ll be discussing construction styles, not channel layouts or firebox designs, but here I will give a brief overview of some ways that masonry stove durability has ...

— Most homes contain only one heating system. Richard Fenner has four. Fenner, a builder and mason since he was a teenager and now a general contractor specializing in fireplaces, is building a ...

Although forced air is the most common form of home heat in North America, masonry heat benefits make it far superior. Oh baby its cold outside! Time for sweethearts to head indoors. Soft music, a ...

Chilled and wet, they found comfort in the building’s masonry heater, drying their clothes on it and curling up against it to read. Warm as toast: Heavenly Heat Masonry Heaters is Australia’s sole ...

With the price of oil hovering around $90 a barrel, heating a home in the frigid months can daunt even the hardiest of Vermonters. Enter William Davenport, a 33-year-old mason who builds ...

Q: What do you think about slicing brick so it’s 1-inch thick, then gluing it to the outside walls of a garage I’m planning to build myself? I’d like this garage to match the brick on our house. What ...

Neil Manders can cook a pizza in it in five minutes. Patty, his wife, calls it ”better than a microwave.” The four Manders children use it to dry fruit, and it also helps heat their 3,000-square-foot ...

When winter comes, utility expenses can destroy your budget, and most traditional heating methods are also bad for the environment. Fortunately, there are plenty of sustainable types of home heating ...

Wintry Buffalo, New York is about the last place you might expect to find a building with no mechanical HVAC system. Yet that’s where a pair of architects fired up their custom-designed masonry heater ...

The Sunday after Thanksgiving, Anna Campo, one of Leon Hale's customers, told him the way to get rich would be to devise a way to store the heat of summer for use in winter and vice versa. While I ...

It’s highly unusual for a building in a place like Buffalo to go without the need for mechanical heating and cooling of any kind. This café space is still cozy as can be, though, as it relies on ...