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Also nice. We have taken a fancy to a fire pit from gartenmetall:

Shall we make a campfire thread?

...in the morning it has to be heated up, then it has to burn down and only then can you close it. If we come home too late in the evening, it has already cooled down and it takes a good hour until it warms up

This handling of a masonry heater is not necessary. There are indeed modern devices. Ortner, for example, offers a combustion control. This measures temperatures with sensors and controls the combustion in several phases. This not only achieves optimal energy use but also a clean combustion (provided good firewood is used). Of course, you can also operate the stove manually without the electronics – it would be ridiculous if a masonry heater didn’t work during a power outage! A load of about 10 kg of beech wood easily lasts 24 hours in our house at 0 degrees outside temperature.

Tumaa, is that your fire pit? Is that a slab made of polished concrete?

Are there any more photos of it?

This handling of a masonry oven is not necessary. There are indeed modern devices. Ortner, for example, offers a burn control system. It measures temperatures with sensors and controls the combustion in several phases. This not only achieves optimal energy use but also a clean burn (assuming good firewood). Of course, the stove can also be controlled manually without the electronics - it would be ridiculous if a masonry stove didn’t work during a power outage! Filling it with about 10 kg of beech wood easily lasts 24 hours at 0 degrees outside temperature in our house.

I admit I am clueless. But how do you distribute the heat in the house? With a normal tile/fireplace stove, a simple door is enough and nothing reaches the adjacent room anymore. That’s why we have a breakthrough with a grille in the living area. But nothing still reaches the upper floor. How is this solved with a masonry stove?

...when you always read "no stove in new buildings," I can only encourage everyone facing this decision to "Do it!!!"
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Could you please tell me why you shouldn’t have a stove in a new building? We currently have a stove in our old building and will also have one in the new building. Also for atmospheric reasons, but of course to have an alternative if everything else should fail. In an emergency, you can cook something on the stove and it also provides heat. And no, we are not preppers.