"This is a rocket stove." "Rocket stoves generally create much more efficient combustion and are better able to store heat than conventionnal stoves." "And so, I decided I wanted to build this stove rather than use the previous one that I had because I wanted to be putting less pollution into the atmosphere but also this stove, you actually feed wood into the top" "which means that you can put long pieces of wood, directly into the stove and it doesn't have to be cut to be able to burn." "So, I can put the wood in here and the burning actually happens down in the bottom of this area and then, the flue gas will travel through the stove there is a riser up inside the barrel itself" "that creates a draft so that you can actually have the wood feeding in through the top and then the flue gas will travel up, hit the top of the barel on the inside and then there is an opening on" "the outside." "On the inside of the barrel but on the outside of the part that comes up in the middle." "All the flue gas will travel down around the outside of the barrel and out through the back and up, out of the chimney." "All this cob here that surrounds the stove is designed to capture the heat from the combustion so that it's not just all going straight up the chimney." "With a conventionnal stove the heat tends to travel out of the building very quickly." "This allows for more of the heat to be stored in the building and then slowly the heat is released over time out of the cob." "So, this is the sky house rocket stove" "It is a sort of a wall in between our dinning room and our living room." "Basically, you got the intake here the barrel is here and you can see there is a very large amount of cob surrounding most of the barrel here." "This entire wall is actually a cob wall." "Basically we got a lot more mass to store heat in we've got a little bit of area where the barrel is exposed so that is gonna through heat in the room quickly when you first light the stove but for the most part we are looking at the stove" "to store heat for a long time and we burn the fire here in the morning, we can run it for a few hours and all of this cob will still be warm into the evening." "So, here we are on the other side of the wall, in the dining room." "Here is the other side of the barrel encased in cob and then the flue of the rocket stove runs all the way through this bench and up that chimney." "One of the benefit of the rocket stove is that you can have a long horizontal run of your flue pipe and you can monitor a bench or under a bed or wherever you want to store that heat." "Normally we have a table here so this one of the seat of the table, that is very popular when we are in winter cause this area gonna stay warm pretty much all day until the evening if we fire the rocket stove that day." "There is about 4 to 6 inches of cob on top of the flue here on the bench so they can take a few hours before it heats up." "I would say 2 or 3 hours but then it wil stay warm throughout the day." "The front of the rocket stove there is only about 2 inches between the flue and the front and that heats up a little faster sometimes it is almost a little too hot so that 4 inches is really great if it's going" "to be an area, where you are physically in contact with." "Like this bench." "We oil the bench to waterproof it cause it is near the table." "The chimney runs up as cob all the way up into the second story and that, again stores thermal mass up into the bedrooms, upstairs as well." "Subtitles :" "Benitron"