Single bell and heat distribution

[satamax]

Benoit, i think it would be pretty much a mass heater, more than anything else.

Look at this!



You plug the front and back of the doorway, to make it a bell, where the heat stagnates, and via conduction, heat will transfer to the wall If you insulate the whole perimeter of the house, outside; with strawbales for example. You will have all the walls heating up eventualy.

I'm prety sure this can be done.


Same as using a "cantou" as a bell

[pyrophile]

Satamax
the idea is nice but, in these conditions, it won't work at all (in my opinion).
As I said, the rising of the temperature in the stone walls will be very low. They will gain only a few degrees.
The house is made with stone like here in Bretagne. The dimensions of the stoves are, IMHO, far two little to heat your rooms surrounded by stone then straw. In strawbales houses where I sometimes build masonry stoves, you can use earthen walls behind a masonry stove, for example, but very thin walls.
For example, a few years ago, I built a mass stove in front of a 10-15 thich earthen wall (not fired bricks, in french : brique de terre compressée). Behind the wall are a sleeping room and a bathroom oriented towards East. The wall succeeds to heat behind, but hardly.

Find a serious person knowing this domain (in french : un thermicien), a good one, and ask.

I often meet this case with my clients and I advise not to do so. I advise to widden the hole to build a large stove which will heat 2 rooms with only two faces (I insulate the two little faces facing the walls).

But, once more, I can be wrong.

Regards
Benoit