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Heavy metal firebacks are sometimes used to capture and re-radiate heat, to protect the back of the fireplace, and as decoration. Fenders are low metal frames set in front of the fireplace to contain embers, soot and ash. For fireplace tending, tools include pokers, bellows, tongs, shovels, brushes and tool stands. Other wider accessories can ...
In contrast to heaters, such as fireplaces or charcoal-based heaters that leave ash in the room, an ondol does not cause pollution in the room leaving it clean and warm. [9] [10] The ondol has some disadvantages. Mud and stones are the main materials that make up the ondol. Such materials take quite a long time to heat up, therefore the room ...
Hearth with cooking utensils. A hearth (/ h ɑːr θ /) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Fireplace screens are essential for keeping flames at bay, and in some cases—as happened in this James Huniford–designed New York cottage—they can provide the ideal opportunity for tasteful ...
The heat riser is an insulated, vertical channel that draws flames upward and powers the rest of the firebox. The heat riser should be insulated to help hold the flames at high temperatures for a complete combustion. [15] The low thermal conductivity of the insulation material allows temperature to build up within the heat riser to high ...
A classic Scandinavian style round ceramic stove, which fits in the corner of a room, from the porcelaine manufacturer Rörstrand in Stockholm, c. 1900. A masonry heater (also called a masonry stove) is a device for warming an interior space through radiant heating, by capturing the heat from periodic burning of fuel (usually wood), and then radiating the heat at a fairly constant temperature ...
A large kang shared by the guests of a one-room inn in a then-wild area east of Tonghua, Jilin, as seen by Henry E.M. James in 1887. The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold.
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