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My parents have this in Hungary. In fact most old houses does. Usually it’s very and plain square design like this https://www.ohegyi-cserepkalyhas.hu/images/cs

My parents have this in Hungary. In fact most old houses does. Usually it’s very and plain square design like this https://www.ohegyi-cserepkalyhas.hu/images/cserepkalyha-sarga-torokmintas-bontas-tarolas.jpg https://www.ohegyi-cserepkalyhas.hu/images/cserepkalyha-sarg... But it can be fancier too, more arts-y tiles or building the heater in a shape where you can sit down etc. Anyways it’s incredibly good! You really only need a single small fire and the heat can last a long time. Perfect for cold winter nights.

vasco 4y ago
Old regular polish houses and generally castles and palaces through northern Europe make use of the same device you shared by I'm not sure it's the same thing as OP.
- saiya-jin 4y ago
  Not the same thing per se, but same principle - you have big mass absorbing much more of the heat produced by burning, and then slowly glowing it off for another 12-24h. We have same in Czech republic and Slovakia, physics of it are simple and discovered probably millennia ago and people also install it in new homes (I know few newly built homes it massive stove like this). You can actually ie bake bread in it if construction allows it. My parents have another kind of stove - they can switch mode to a regime which doesn't burn the wood violently in 1h but rather lets it burn slowly for around 8-10h. The stove looks like generic small ones, but if you load it in the evening it still radiates a bit of heat in the morning from just few pieces of wood. They can easily make it through harsh winter with just this and moderate pile of wood, even if cut off form everything.
paganel 4y ago
We have the same wood stoves here in neighbouring Romania. Whenever I go visit my parents in the countryside and they heat up the stove I realise how cool of a "technology" it is, that is to still have a heat source many hours after the fire the had done its thing. Unfortunately building/making wood stoves is a dying art, you can find less and less people who are good at it. And the trouble is that if you build a defective wood stove you risk all sorts of nasty stuff, like dying from carbon monoxide intoxication.

vasco 4y ago

Old regular polish houses and generally castles and palaces through northern Europe make use of the same device you shared by I'm not sure it's the same thing as OP.

saiya-jin 4y ago
Not the same thing per se, but same principle - you have big mass absorbing much more of the heat produced by burning, and then slowly glowing it off for another 12-24h. We have same in Czech republic and Slovakia, physics of it are simple and discovered probably millennia ago and people also install it in new homes (I know few newly built homes it massive stove like this). You can actually ie bake bread in it if construction allows it. My parents have another kind of stove - they can switch mode to a regime which doesn't burn the wood violently in 1h but rather lets it burn slowly for around 8-10h. The stove looks like generic small ones, but if you load it in the evening it still radiates a bit of heat in the morning from just few pieces of wood. They can easily make it through harsh winter with just this and moderate pile of wood, even if cut off form everything.

paganel 4y ago

We have the same wood stoves here in neighbouring Romania. Whenever I go visit my parents in the countryside and they heat up the stove I realise how cool of a "technology" it is, that is to still have a heat source many hours after the fire the had done its thing. Unfortunately building/making wood stoves is a dying art, you can find less and less people who are good at it. And the trouble is that if you build a defective wood stove you risk all sorts of nasty stuff, like dying from carbon monoxide intoxication.