You're missing out if you don't have such thick mass of warm brick/stone. If you only knew how great it is to sleep on top of it (my grandmother had similar to

You're missing out if you don't have such thick mass of warm brick/stone. If you only knew how great it is to sleep on top of it (my grandmother had similar to that in her house :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove Modern fire codes require large space between a stove and walls which is usually goes unused where it could have been really filled with such a thick brick structure with the smoke passage snaking through it like in Russian and German stoves. Or like this: https://www.mha-net.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/stucco-heater.jpg https://www.mha-net.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05...