Rocket Mass Heaters Instructional DVD

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Rocket Mass Heaters are a super-efficient, wood-burning heater.
- Provide safe overnight warmth from a daytime fire
- Use 1/4 to 1/10 of the firewood compared with common wood-burning stoves
- Burn clean, producing very little smoke and no creosote
- Can be owner-built with local, non-toxic, and recycled materials
- Adaptable design for cozy seating, heated floors, beds, greenhouses, and more.
Join us for a step-by-step walkthrough of proven methods for building your own rocket mass heater.

[@reggiepplee5759]

Excellent cutout view of the rocket stove in action. Just amazing going the extra mile.

[@solfeinberg437]

I'm sitting here freezing my ass off without a ton of money but with a lot of wood tree company's have dumped outside. Gonna have to build one of these and get better with the axe. I'm motivated right now.

[@michaelcee8348]

we used their dvd to build our rmh over two winters ago. it works fantastic and we love it. we use maybe a fourth of the wood we used to with standard wood stove. but the house is warmer and the "bench" is really nice. if you are considering doing it i recommend you do it !

[@michaelcee8348]

btw erica was very helpful as we used the video to build our stove

[@reggiepplee5759]

Amazing that you can achieve up to a 95% or more efficiency rating with a complete burn of wood when the rocket stove is correctly designed.

[@frankfromupstateny3796]

Ernie and Erica.....you're helping alot of people....thanks for being born...Blessings.

[@highdeserthollow4447]

This looks like a great DVD, these folks in my opinion some of the most knowledgeable out there when it comes to RMH.

[@lancerudy9934]

Always enjoy the builds you folks do!

[@wulfclaw4921]

If people only knew how awesome they are. I love mine! You guys ROCK ! WULFY

[@JourneyOnLife]

Wow, your mass heater is really nice. And it looks like a lot of fun too : )🕊☕

[@hf5909]

Fred Flintstone would have liked that warm settee to sit on in the winter.

[@f.m.s4436]

You're intelligence is just amazing to me, this is just beautiful,❤️!!.

[@romyjugroo4542]

It would seem that the fire is sucking warm air from the room.Cold,oxygen laden air could be brought in,from outside, through a pipe to feed the fire,reducing heat loss and increasing the efficiency of this nice setup.

[@kevinfrench4740]

Weaton labs tried that and Paul Weaton didn't speak too highly of the outside air intake. I was surprised, because I thought it would have been a good idea too.

[@jeremiahchace5314]

Preheating outside the air might give an advantage. Outside oxygen intake, somehow, would improve the air quality inside.

[@aureas]

​@@kevinfrench4740 Hm. I wonder what he didn't like about it. It doesn't really seem like there's any alternative or other safe option, -- because w/o an external air intake, the fire is going to suck out the oxygen from your house! 😳

[@RainEntertainmentNE]

can you coil with copper tubing and insulate the top of the barrel to maybe thermosyphen some hot water?

[@wulfclaw4921]

Awesome! And they work so well !!!

[@dinajohnson3435]

I am looking to do something like this in my 24x88 high tunnel... would this work?? I love the designs! Absolutely beautiful work!

[@markschroter2640]

Make sure your floor is up to a ton or two concentrated in one spot.

[@michaelcee8348]

ours is an old farm house pine floor single layer. i put one 4x6 beam under the mass and no problems. just use four standard "floor jacks"

[@rogerjensen5277]

It looks like it would be hard to get enough air drawn thru the piping to keep enough oxygen flow to the fire. Enough oxygen is key to efficient complete combustion, isn't it?

[@edndonna3]

sweet, real nice job.

[@radgrad06]

Informative video--I enjoy your instructions and the time you have taken to learn and teach by trial and error. Can you explain why I haven't seen one person out of the very many people building these stoves using chimney flue pipe to build the heat riser? It must be my ignorance for lack of experimenting for not being able to figure out why no none is using the chimney tiles. They are fired (so they are better at heat resistance) so they should be able to handle the rough environment inside the heat chamber.

[@village_video]

The gasses coming out of the stove aren’t very hot. Having a thin exhaust tube near the burn barrel helps warm those gasses and help them rise out of the chimney. We talk about this in the full length DVD.

[@slrs3908]

@@village_video Did you answer the question?

[@calenkennett]

I'm a filmmaker but my understanding is that you want the barrel close to the heat riser and the heat riser made of metal so it warms quickly and primes the hot stack effect that makes the whole heat pump system work.

[@billkaroly]

I am downloading the video right now and cant wait to watch it. I want to make one in the house we are purchasing. Wood floor. I'll probably make one for the garage first though.

[@michaelcee8348]

ours is on a wood floor over a basement. reinforced floor and mass raised off of floor thickness of brick. our steel barrel can reach over a thousand degrees in 20 minutes or so if we want, but the floor never gets too hot. it seems to work very well

[@michaelcee8348]

we do not run our stove at a thousand degrees. it "idles" at 500 to 750 or so on the top of the barrel. i have measured over 1700 degrees in the "burn chamber" tunnel. so not much ash and very little if any smoke it measures no more than 150 degrees where it goes thru the ceiling and usually less than that. the surface of the "bench" can be from 90 degrees at one end to 150 at the other

[@BBBYpsi]

many are going to the batch box style instead of the J-tube style

[@preciousmetalhead5155]

Very cool

[@billblood5316]

Would it be more efficient if it was fed with air from outside, rather than draw in cold air from cracks and crevices' in the house?

[@randalmoroski4423]

Love the look ... except.... the Barrel.

[@somsongcharoenpon168]

Beautiful

[@heatherevamckinnon]

Looks awesome. One question I have is how do you clean the pipes under the bench. Surely there is creosote build up.

[@village_video]

There are 3 clean outs built into it. We made a whole instructional video. villagevideo.org/rmh

[@ceceliaryan]

Very nice production values, nice looking video :)

[@evgeddyvangerven6108]

I love how she says its a very clean burning system while @.14 a huge cloud of smoke outside the window at ground level. Next....

[@siulanainad]

EvG, Eddy van Gerven it is Steam and c02

[@village_video]

Yep. It's steam. You can put your face in the chimney, though it's probably not highly recommended.

[@Mr.Autodelete]

I'll put this in my future aircrete dome

[@charlotteskiftun753]

Please send me pics or post the build week by week

[@maguika]

masterpiece

[@chicinthewoods]

Soooo beautiful

[@davehoover8214]

Just wondering if there are any hangups with home insurance people on this kind of build? Loving the videos.

[@village_video]

Hi Dave. You need a permit for your stove to be in compliance with your insurance. How a permitting works varies by location. Check with your local building department. There is a section about this on the DVD.

[@tolkus53]

neat!

[@stahbaumer7688]

Extramocne

[@AdonaiZedek]

Does anyone thinks these could be modified to be a gasifier and produce energy for the home also

[@rhoula]

Man I was just thinking about the same thing. I just watched another video of a similar heater and couldn't stop thinking about it :)

[@tolkus53]

+Adonai Zedek iBBloW33D420 Abdu ElRhoul anyone find a good answer to that question?

[@l0I0I0I0]

Do you still do Rocket stove space heater stuff?

[@user-nd5yz7yj2r]

Air supply must be outside! And on the furnace make a fireproof glass cover!

[@wiredforstereo]

I have seen this RMH in the book and around because it is a really great example and a good looking machine. Is this specific heater the subject of the DVD? This is the one I want to emulate, so if it is, I will buy the DVD.

[@nighthiker8872]

Great vid, but for a marketing tool extra, have a beautiful brass skin that slips over the oil barrel, with your name of your company on it and email. The cost would be fair.

[@nighthiker8872]

Give the customer the options.

[@richardbryant5773]

How about floor support looks heavy

[@village_video]

We cover that in the instructional video.

[@scottbenzing1361]

What about keeping your home insurance?

[@village_video]

If it’s permitted, you’re good. In order to be permitted, you need an engineer to sign off on it, or be in a place that has code for one of these. So far I think that’s only Portland, Oregon.

[@samanthashaw4669]

All the information I've found on this system is more than 2 years old. Am I not looking in the right place or is this not a long term solution for heating a house?

[@village_video]

We made the video 10 years ago. It’s still just as relevant now as it was then.

[@SweetChillieBeat]

So is the seat heated?

[@village_video]

Yes! It's wonderful. And it's nice and cold on hot summer days.

[@cooldaddy2877]

wouldnt it be more efficient 'not' to add cob/cement/mass and just run the large pipes under a sofa? Surely more heat would be released into the room as well as warming a sofa? Would love any advice on this. Thanks.

[@sylviajk1]

Would Hempcrete be much lighter?

[@wiredforstereo]

You don't want lighter. The mass is there to absorb heat.

[@Memento-_-Mori-_-982]

Where can we get that instructional video, the full version from A to Z?!

[@village_video]

Villagevideo.org We have streaming videos and DVDs.

[@beebob1279]

How is the barrel holding up for you? Can that be replaced when it's wearing thin? What about local building codes?

[@village_video]

Yes. The barrel can be replaced, though this barrel is still looking good 8 years on.

[@chrisjones7542]

Can I still get fire insurance if i install one of these in my home in ontario

[@calenkennett]

If you get permits you can typically get fire insurance. They are safer than a traditional wood stove. I would talk to your insurance agent. We cover this in the DVD.

[@michaelcee8348]

we have fire insurance in kansas. rmh are safer than our old regular wood stove

[@combatman91]

it could be even more efficient is you build it in the very middle of the house ;)

[@charlotteskiftun753]

My thoughts exactly

[@KittyGooris]

Only if you have an available chimney in the middle of the house.

[@combatman91]

that would be awesome...

[@salmonhunter7414]

Do you have to use a barrel or can you build a round brick tube?

[@michaelcee8348]

we used standard steel barrel and it works so very well we love the looks of it. we have pics somewhere on permies.

[@lbjackson5179]

is there any lighter weight substance besides cob that can be used to contain the thermal mass heat? I'm thinking about making a small version using mortar but I'm not sure of what to wrap or how to contain the heat.

[@JustinAlessi]

I am very interested in one of these and will be purchasing your DVD. I am concerned about the weight and if my floor will support it without some sort of foundation underneath. Was something like that done for this build? How much does that weigh?

[@village_video]

They are very heavy. This one weighs about 6 tons. We do talk about that in the video. I think that section of video is on youtube. Just browse the channel. If you have a suspended floor you may be able to brace it, or you may need to pour a concrete slab. If your house is slab on grade (a concrete floor poured on the ground) then you're probably good to go. We recommend working with a contractor for a couple parts, this is one of those parts.

[@missmix48]

Village Video sure wish I could have one in my mobile home but the weight would probably upend it. LOL

[@wh8085]

+Sue Woods Cut the floor out where you want it to be. Pour a stem wall circumference, back fill with sand then pour a top. I would make the stem wall a 12 to 18 inches above the floor level. JMHO. : )

[@missmix48]

hmmm good thought. I will have to give that some thought while I heal up from my cracked vertebra.

[@michaelcee8348]

if you build it against a wall as most do and we did then just one extra beam and some floor jacks and you're ok. that's my opinion and experience

[@spturks]

if you have too much ducting,wouldnt the exhaust flow cool to the point where it wont updraft?whats the max you want in ducting?

[@village_video]

That's why the chimney is next to the burn barrel and inside the house.

[@michaelcee8348]

no. it draws perfectly and we have about 20 feet of horizontal 8 inch pipe in the bench just like in the video which we followed religiously

[@alexandramedichi4668]

Please Contact Us on Your Product.We Need To Do Something ASAP.

[@konradgiesiger5247]

Movie is nothing. Can not see, how heat is to build :-(

[@village_video]

This is a teaser for a full length video teaching you how to build one from the ground up. There are a lot of other clips from it on our youtube channel.

[@liveandletlive2894]

Sure it's safe for 3k pounds to sit on a wood floor?

[@village_video]

It wouldn't be if it wasn't seriously reinforced. We cover that in the full video.

[@alexandreian]

I don't want the low-res DVD. I want the full HD version. I can't imagine why you made a DVD out of obviously full-HD footage. It's just wrong... Besides, there's enough plastic in my home as it is. Make a downloadable full HD version and I'll pay for it, you get more profit/purchase that way.

[@village_video]

Considering that 1/3 of Americans don't have access to broadband internet, and those are the most likely to build these stoves, we opted to create a physical media. It's encoded at the high end of the data rate, so the MPEG2 compression is pretty low; it probably looks better than streaming a highly compressed "hd" netflix movie. Sometimes compression is more important than pixels. If there's enough interest we might consider a streaming version but the DVD is currently pretty menu driven. Honestly, we'll probably put our money into making a PAL version before a streaming version. Thanks for your interest! You can stream almost half of the DVD on our youtube channel for free.

[@alexandreian]

Village Video You've got a great product, but maybe you are a little confused about your market? The people that don't have access to broadband internet are actually the *least* likely to pay 47 $ (+shipping?) for a DVD. Your target is young, semi-urban people, who own laptops (most of which don't have optical drives anymore) and handheld devices. If you don't have a streaming version available, they'll probably reluctantly buy the DVD and then rip it on their hard drives (further decreasing the quality) so that it can be viewed on devices without optical drives. Thanks for sharing this interesting knowledge.

[@village_video]

alexandreian Thank you. You are absolutely correct. Our intended market are the people who are longing for meaningful transformation, the ones who are well equipped to consume media. At the same time, it is important for me to not technologically cut out those who have already taken the red pill, who are already building RMH's that often have issues, or are not operating at full potential. An initial print run of DVDs and establishing digital distribution cost about the same, but most digital sellers take a large percentage. We went with DVDs. How do you purchase your video content? Itunes, google play, amazon prime, vimeo, other?

[@STW1964]

Village Video

[@metallitech]

Yo what kind of mortar is that? White cement? It looks almost like it could be lime.

[@village_video]

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[@metallitech]

Oh thanks; clay slip.

[@dvoraisdancing]

🌸

[@RoseBud-fk4qg]

👍😍

[@violettaschmieder2096]

Where can I buy this dvd?

[@village_video]

From Amazon, or from our website, villagevideo.org We also sell streaming videos on our website.

[@violettaschmieder2096]

@@village_video i couldnt find the dvd on amazon. maybe that could be an issue for your sales

[@village_video]

www.amazon.com/Make-Scandinavian-Turnshoe-Jason-Hovatter/dp/B01MR8ZOBE/

[@darkkenzi]

so do you come to folk's houses & build (for a fee) ? We want one when we move back out to the country early 2018 we will have a slab under where the stove is going up, & will be your willing slaves while it goes on...

[@village_video]

+darkkenzi We have an instructional video that teaches you how to make one yourself!

[@fn5758]

I WANT IT

[@village_video]

It might be a good time for a project...

[@fn5758]

​@@village_video Thanks for the encouragement. Maybe this summer or the next :)

[@TheBubba1033]

so this is the lady that is always cutting you off when your trying explain the functions of the rocket stove.. sorry but it much easier to understand when one person speaks and the other one keeps quiet..... but anyway if that is one that you built nice very nice!!!

[@calenkennett]

No. This is the lady who teaches everyone about rocket stoves. I don't know if there's anyone out there who knows more about them than she does. If she ever cuts you off I'd advise you to listen to her.

[@250kent]

It is a comon misconception that the rocket stove is clean burning if it was it would not need cleanouts. No smoke at the raiser exit is not a good indication. Unburnt fuel condences along the exaust passage, also the dangerous gasses don't always have a visible color and some are oderless.

[@michaelcee8348]

we haven't cleaned ours out in three winters in kansas. but we've checked it every winter. it is very clean burning. this is our experience.

[@svetlanikolova7673]

Do you feel.like comming to Bulgarian mountains to build me one of these? Lol

[@Patricio24601]

I believe this company is I Bulgaria, have you heard of them? rocketheatergamera.wordpress.com/

[@vladimirtsarkov8568]

китайці так роблять сімейні кроваті кан зветься

[@31i453]

中国北方的“彻炕“和这个原理一样，没想到老外挺落后的，中国人不知道用了几百年的东西倒成了所谓的新发明，呵呵

[@IanClarkOM]

中國是個巨大的垃圾箱。即使有徹炕，其中原理並沒有被漢人把握

[@ClovisX]

it amazes me how everyone is using a very stupid design for all their indoor rocket stoves and yes I am talking about the one in this video believe it or not it is a very wasteful design.

[@village_video]

Oh yeah?

[@abdueltio8512]

what do you propose

[@user-bq9tx8co2v]

Korean floor heating system =구들

[@DanielaRouge]

So full of themselves!