The Benefits of a Soapstone Wood Stove

A Soapstone wood burning stove /masonry heater is unlike any other conventional wood burning stove. Our appliances provide comfortable, long lasting radiant heat. They have been used to heat homes in Northern Europe and Scandinavia for centuries. M. Teixeira Soapstone is now offering these soapstone masonry heaters in America.

Unlike standard wood burning stoves, a soapstone masonry heater uses the soapstone mass to store the heat, and slowly radiates it over a period of time. The heat released by the soapstone, very much feels like the heat from the sun when you sit in a sunroom. This type of heat is a lot more comfortable than the heat created by standard wood stoves, which heat by convection , like your baseboard and radiator heaters do, creating an intense uncomfortable, short lived heat which gives you dry skin, dry nose, etc.

The soapstone wood stove/ masonry heater, works like your cell phone battery : When you are burning wood for 2 to 3 hours, is like when your cell phone is plugged in the charger. Then you stop burning wood, but the soapstone will continue to radiate heat for hours , like when you unplug your cell phone and continue to use it all day long.

This is achieved by the efficient way in which wood is burned and used. The soapstone masonry heater is a contraflow heater, which is designed with inner channels that guide the burnt gases , circulating it up and down the inner channels and by doing this, all stones absorb that energy/heat, before releasing out the chimney. In standard wood stoves, all that energy goes straight up the chimney, and for the most part wasted.

Our soapstone wood stove benefits include:

1. Soapstone woods stoves provide the most comfortable radiant heat. Conventional wood stoves, made from steel and /or cast iron, sometimes lined with thin soapstone tiles, will not provide the heat a real soapstone stove will; instead they will heat by convection, which literally means burning the air and creating a very uncomfortable heat which creates dry skin, runny noses, etc.
2. Our stoves provide even and consistent heat over a longer period of time when compared to conventional wood stoves. The soapstone stove works like a battery, you burn wood for 3 hours, the energy is stored in the thick soapstone slabs then evenly distributed over a period of about 20 hours(depending on house insulation) after the fire is out. The wood burns in the firebox, then it travels up and down through the inner channels of the stove, heating the outside stones and storing the energy.
3. The soapstone does not overheat because the material is 2 3/8" thick and is actually touchable.
4. Unlike other heaters that use thinner soapstone inside the firebox, all our heaters are manufactured with 60mm(2 3/8") thick soapstone inside and outside, improving the heat storage and capacity of the unit.
5. Our Warme24 heaters, are environment friendly because of the additional two secondary air flows to our firebox, un-ignited gases are burnt before exiting.