We went into Kamloops on Tuesday and exchanged the refractory mortar that did not work very well for a different product. Right away we could tell that this was a much better mortar for this job; there was no large aggregate in it, and it was … [Read more...]
Right ... so I stripped the form work off of the footing for the rocket mass heater. The footing looks good; the perlite gives the footing a rough look, almost like having rice krispies in it. We did not do much to smooth the surface of the … [Read more...]
We poured the footing for the rocket mass heater!. We dug the footing down so that its top is level with the unfinished floor of our building. The finished floor will be 4-6 inches higher than the top of this footing. This should mean that the … [Read more...]