Mass Rocket Under Floor Heater

I am often asked if it s okay to install a rocket mass heater in a home.

Mass rocket under floor heater.

The whole stove is built around an 8 flue system that exits outside of the greenhouse below floor level under the greenhouse end wall and then turns towards the sky. This beautiful cob mass heater is custom made with cob for this home. The floor will warm up to the upper 70 s at most and it s just wonderful to walk around on barefoot in the winter. I ve heated my home with a traditional wood stove since i bought it 3 years ago and from what i can tell the rocket mass heater is both inefficient no secondary combustion and unsafe.

Low in pollution this clean heating option keeps you closer to living off the grid and is a great eco friendly alternative. Rocket mass heaters are developed from rocket stoves type of. We call it the epic greenhouse rocket mass heater because of it s sheer size and multiple modifications we designed into it. Most installations i ve seen discussed use the exhaust pipe to heat the thermal mass.

If you have a concrete slab floor can get a code variance and cross your t s and dot. Variations of rmh can also be extended for the functions of cooking heating water and producing warm air for distribution. Started in april 2010 we wanted to heat the floor of our yurt with this innovative stove. The dvds will cover cob style rocket mass heaters pebble style rocket mass heaters shippable cores and even the rocket mass heater innovators event paul hosted out at his land.

I ve recently been thinking of building a new house and using a rocket stove to heat it. This time there are two innovatio. It is a non moveable permanent fixture not quite as efficient as a rocket mass heater but nearly so. They recommend that first timers do not attempt to build a floor heater but that s what we did.

We are happy to report that it is working swimmingly. As more and more people learn how simple efficient and eco friendly the rocket mass heaters are the faster the world will begin moving scratch that sprinting in the right direction towards saving this. Rocket mass heaters are efficient when looking at the small amount of wood burned compared to the amount of heat gained. A fire for 4 6 hours keeps the temperature of the yurt above.

I say unsafe because of the length of your horizontal chimney as it goes through the floor and the very poor draft that would results also i assume the purpose of this length of chimney is to reclaim the heat. Owners claim an 80 90 reduction in wood usage compared to heating the same space with a metal wood stove. We used the book mass rocket heaters by ianto evans and leslie jackson as our starting point.