Yes, high on the to-do list

Yes for sure :)

Hi Joshua! We use special wood/metal combination blades, they definitely last longer than one pallet. The only problem we have is that they warp, but we straighten them again

Hi there, Malama is situated in Alentejo. You can get in touch via the website.

Hi Beetooex, I asked the builder of the stove, Lucian, for a reaction, this is what he said: So, the bottom line is yes, obviously, the presence of soot means it's not burning completely, and that's not good. But there are lots of reasons that can happen. First of all, no rocket stove, especially a batch rocket stove, burns perfectly through the whole burn. When you first light it up, it's not burning efficiently because nothing's hot yet. The chimney hasn't heated up, and the heat riser hasn't heated up. The oxygen mix is wrong, so you're going to get some degree of soot deposit. The longer the outflow is from the main stove, the more opportunity there is for that to deposit as carbon. Especially if you've got imperfect combustion and a big tank of cold water, it will drop all of the soot really quickly onto the heat exchanger. One thing you could do, and what we do these days more, is to leave the up and door open to access a bypass, but we could have built a more dedicated bypass for that, I guess. That's one suggestion. The other thing is that the whole stove is at the limit, really, of what it can handle, especially with the heat exchanger in the flue gas path. We're on the edge of putting too much load on the main core. Peter van den Berg explained that it's possible to overload the combustion material for the secondary burn. If you put lots of small bits of wood on the stove after it's already going, you can generate so much smoke and carbon monoxide that it overwhelms the stove's capacity to burn it all in the secondary burn chamber. This is a limitation with this batch box rocket design; it's hard to tune the loading so that you don't get that effect. The first few times we ran it, we got some thermal runaway, where if you put loads of paper on it, you can end up with so much material burning so quickly that it can't suck in enough oxygen to burn it all in complete combustion. That produces a layer of soot out of the end of it. So, bottom line, yes, there is imperfect combustion. But sometimes imperfect combustion doesn't mean the thing is not working correctly; it just means it takes a bit of tweaking. He's probably right that the whole thing is a little overloaded. We had to make some approximations because we wanted another that wasn't a pure bell. We wanted to keep some heat in, which effectively reduces the load for the load calculations. But the heat exchanger increases it. We insulated down the back because we didn't want a completely four-sided structure; we only wanted to lose heat out of the front. So, a lot of the calculations were pretty approximate. It's not perfect, but I don't think the presence of soot immediately means the whole thing is totally wrong. It just means sometimes you're not getting full combustion. Hope this helps!

@@CreateYourOwn_Paradise Thanks so much both of you for going to the effort to educate me 😁 Please do make a follow up some day- I'd like to see if Lucian makes the modifications I've guessed he might lol.

Liebe Connie, Danke Dir für diesen Herzlichen Gruss! ♥️ Alles Liebe zurück 💫

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Ahhhh wat lief 🥰 wie schön zu wissen das du uns entdeckt hast. Es kommt bald wieder mehr🤞🏼

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Hello back from Portugal

Thanks for your advice! We just did a crowdfund and are ordering a low one. We will dig a hole underneath AND anchor with metal wire to the ground! Never again! ;)

Sorry to hear that

Obrigado! 🤗

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Thank you! ❤️

Yes, indeed! Matavenero, a beautiful off grid community in the North of Spain

@@CreateYourOwn_Paradise my friend his going two mount a go...is good place and good people but its hard do some money to live here;/i want going but i dont have money and time now...

Dear Serene, thank you so much for this! We are ending 2023 with your words in our mind ❤️ Keeping it as our goal for 2024 “staying positive amidst huge challenges” We’ll be back in Malama by February. Looking forward to meeting you. 🤗

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That sounds lovely, we just found one next to the road the other day. Still wondering what we are gonna make out of it

Thank you ❤️ Same for you!

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Hi Arjan, looking forward meeting you next year. Take care ❤️

Thank you so much ❤️ Watch out for the final reveal. 😃

Yes, we are 😃 Thank you so much for your support ❤️

Hi Lidija, that’s so funny that you see the similarities 😃 Actually they are friends of ours and we started this KZbin journey together ❤️ Sending lots of love your way 🤗

Exactly!! 🤣

Thank you so much Fiona ❤️🙏❤️ You are our hero! Living with 5 kids in a caravan 😲 sounds really intense. Great tips as well. The ventilation is sometimes hard as you say. After three days of rain and mist everything just feels damp. We use ceramic stones (made from silica) in the wardrobe to absorbe the moist and dehumidifier under the beds. We’ll try the socks filled with woodbased cat litter 👍 The most difficult area is our (still) open kitchen. We love wooden spoon’s but they turn black already after some days. We turned to using more stainless steel and some things are made from plastic 🫣 Luckily that will change after our final kitchen is built. We are curious, what is your living situation at the moment? Still out in nature? Sending love your way ❤️

🫣Yes 3200 without us inside 😬 We won’t do that again 🤞🏼