The Return of Tradition

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October/November 2000
 
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The last trends in true woodburners worth mentioning are the masonry stove, exterior furnace and the fresh-air vented model. The short, hot burns and lasting heat produced through a heavy masonry stove, such as Tulkivi's TU1000 and similar models by Temp-Cast, take some of the chore out constant fire maintenance and wood hauling. Soon after you light a fire in a masonry stove, the temperature in the firebox rises to 1,200°F or more. The extreme heat results in secondary combustion, which consumes most of the gases produced by the burning wood. Thus, a considerable amount of heat that would otherwise go up the flue heats the masonry instead. Woodstock Soapstone also uses soapstone as a heat sink, but on a smaller scale than full masonry models.

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