Masonry Magazine October 2005 Page. 23
Top to bottom: Walter and Jerry lay up new chimney wall: Plumb lines in place. Rod, Norbert and Jerry start laying the brick.
Day Four
WORK PROGRESSED on the chimney wall, with other crewmembers getting plenty of opportunity to lay brick and receiving good instruction from the pros. Mortar mixers, hod and mud carriers kept busy all day.
Rod stirred up a special super mortar with a chemical bond that dries quickly, perfect for the decorative brick corners he was creating. Norbert Senf of Quebec arrived Tuesday evening. On the cutting edge of wood-heat technology, he's a storehouse of information and new ideas for the rest of us. Firefighter Scott Goodman from Rush, N.Y., also joined our ranks.
Day Five
That morning New Jersey mason Brian Klipfel arrived, paddling in on the third branch of the White River that marks the West boundary of the farm.
Rod went over his design with us, pointing out such things as a gas slot to allow for the escape of carbon monoxide, the placement of clean-outs, the use of cardboard for expansion joints, and the gradual "necking-down" of flue-gas channels on their 15-foot journey from firebox to flue in order to maintain the same velocity of flow as heat is absorbed into the masonry mass.
Then Rod, Norbert and Jerry started laying up the heater. "This is the first brick I've laid in two years!" Norbert confessed. After hand-building hundreds of custom heaters over the years, Norbert is now designer-manufacturer of his own modular heater-core kit.
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