The Ecco stove works much the same way as a conventional masonry heater, with its winding flue passages heating up the thermally efficient silicone carbide, which it slowly releases the heat long after the fire has gone out.
Over the past 10 years we have seen a portion of our business move to this off grid type of living. We have been involved all types of property from shipping containers to huts / cabins and family homes, there is no real stereotype now for off the grid living.
This is currently becoming a bit of a hot topic with our customers, who are becoming aware of more options in the wood heating arena, steel or masonry?
As a business Gondwana has been in wood heating industry for over 12 years now, with in house experience of all wood fired heating systems from the humble cast iron or steel stoves to masonry heaters to pellet and chip boilers, not to mention pellet stoves and all those boiler stoves.
So why is kiln dried wood cost more than air dried? Well simply, kiln dried is timber logs stacked into crates put into a “kiln”. The kiln normally has heat panels above a bit like big radiators which heats the logs to remove the moisture. To heat these heat panels above we need hot water, this is heated in various ways , projects we have been involved with use large log gasification boilers to heat the water to dry the logs, however different heat sources can be used.
As a business we are constantly having the conversations about fire wood, we always amazed by the theory’s people come out with, for example yesterday I was at a potential customers home, who has a small ash plantation. He proceeded to explain that ash wood could be burnt wet, I asked him why ash had these magical properties. His answer was its true I read it online.
