This morning we tidied up a bit around the stove. We placed bricks around the ash clean out to protect the pipe from gravel and cob. After that we shoveled and tamped gravel around the foundation to bring the unfinished floor level to the bottom … [Read more...]
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...]