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Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Piggy Bank


This is our stove in the corner of our livingroom. It is really a kind of piggy bank because it saves us money. It is made by a company called Uunisepät, it would be something like "Stove-Smiths" translated into english. Their website is here: www.uunisepat.fi
If you follow the links to the "Classic" models and then "Nostalgia" you will find some variations and technical details. Our stove is the corner model.
The height is 2.2 meters and the total weight is 1500 kg.
Today, Sunday, we spent another day working in the woods.

3 comments:

grace said...

Hello Hans,

That is beautiful, much more eye catching than a standard wood stove. IS it a wood stove? or an insert type fireplace? Just curious. The tile must generate and hold alot of heat as opposed to a pipe fixed to a standing wood stove. My only source of heat is a wood stove, I am in a small house so it is very efficient, (but I do admit I miss the 'flip the switch' for heat! :) )
Nothing like the woods and quiet.


xox

Hans said...

Hi Grace,
It is a wood stove in this configuration and it can accumulate and release heat for 18 - 24 hours. It doesn't get immediately hot on the surface as a typical iron-stove.
It can however be supplied with electrical heating elements also and there is even an oil burning system that can be installed instead of the fireplace.

So you light the fire and keep it burning for some few hours and this stove is still warm the next day!

grace said...

Fantastic!

 
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