The Maine Wood Heat Co. offers the following publications for sale: The Finnish Fireplace Construction Manual, copyright ©1984, with a 2006 ©Update The manual was written in 1984 and updated in 1988. This is the only complete English language primer on hand-made masonry heater construction. The text covers from footing to chimney top and everything in between. It is complemented by step-by-step photos, course-by-course drawings, section drawings and elevations. This is a must for the owner builder or mason. $30.00 plus postage and handling. The AlbieCore™ Construction Manual copyright © 1995. This manual is fully illustrated with scale drawings and step-by-step color photos of five different heaters using the AlbieCore™ kit. The heaters include three brick heaters in rectangular, five-sided, and six-sided formats, as well as a cut granite cobblestone heater and a hand-made soapstone heater, the last two each having heated benches. This manual is highly recommended for anyone wishing to build with a core kit system. $30.00 plus postage and handling. Russian Fireplace Plan, using horizontal baffles and including two-story and bake-oven options; copyright © l981 and updated in 1992. $20.00 plus postage and handling. Finnish Masonry Cookstove Plans Our first Finnish Cookstove plan was published in 1983. In 1992, we added new instructions and drawings for cookstoves using the new larger cooktop and modular loading and oven doors. In 1995, we have added to the new plan step-by-step, highly annotated photos of the cookstove construction process. We build more and more cookstoves in combination with heaters every year. $30.00 plus postage and handling Finnish Fireplaces: Heart of the Home by Heikki Hyytiainen and Albert Barden, Copyright © l988. Full of color photos of a wide variety of Finnish Fireplaces. This book is an in-depth study of Finnish Fireplace history, design, performance, layout, health benefits and aesthetic options. It is a must for owner-builders and anyone trying to properly incorporate a masonry heater or cooker-heater complex in a new home. Finnish Fireplaces Heart of the Home is now out of print. We are currently waiting for a new book soon to be published. Video Sales Our work was recently honored in a documentary segment of a weekly Public Television program called Made in Maine. We have copies of the program for sale. The cost is $15.00 plus postage and handling. We have also documented with our own video camera much of our recent work including standard Finnish Fireplaces, five-sided Finnish Fireplaces and six-sided Finnish Fireplaces. Masons and homeowners have found these videos useful to supplement our written plans when they commit to an actual project. These videos, while not of professional quality, can be copied as necessary and are made available at cost plus postage and handling. Supplemental Construction Manuals For years we have documented most of our projects with a step-by-step color photo series for file reference. Recently we have selected a few of these file series and added captions for several unique heaters. We can now offer color photocopy reprints of these series for: A. Five-Sided Brick Heater $24.00 (16pp) B. Six-Sided Brick Heater $24.00 (16pp) C. Granite Paving Stone Heater $55.00 (40pp) (Prices are equal to our cost) Masonry Heater Burn Instructions Click to download Burn Instructions for Finnish Fireplaces including the "Top Down Burn Method", short and/or long version. Bob Earnest has prepared and lit his top down burn. Fire burning down through from the top of the firebox The fire has become well established and flames are extending into the bake oven/secondary burn chamber. (Fireplace is drafting in down draft mode even with bake oven door open.) Fully established burn shows dramatic clean combustion in both chambers. (Gas combustion in the bake oven chamber swirls left and right from the top center of the dome down to the floor and back up again in a double ram's horn pattern before exiting in a narrow slot parallel to and just inside the oven door in the dome.) 9. AlbieCore™ Heater Owners Manual, copyright©2006. Click here to download the Operating and Maintenance Instructions   10. Finnish Fireplace Top Exit Construction Manual 2006, copyright©2006. The Top Exit Construction Manual offers step-by-step instruction with color photos for the construction of a Finnish Fireplace with a flue exit located on the top of the heater. $30.00 plus shipping and handling.

Contact us: Maine Wood Heat Co., Inc. 254 Fr. Rasle Rd. Norridgewock, ME 04957 Phone: 207-696-5442 Fax: 207-696-5856 E-mail: mwhcoinc@prexar.com

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