Temp-Cast Indoor Fireplace Heater
Have you been through a winter where you lost your heat source, or worse, total power? Traditional indoor fireplaces are a hassle. You have to constantly feed the fire with wood, and then you're left with ashes that need to be cleaned up. Not to mention, they only provide heat when the fire is going and they typically can't help you with dinner.
The Temp-Cast Indoor Fireplace is the solution for you.
What sets this unique fireplace apart from the other units you see on the market is its option to have a bake oven UPGRADE ! This combination uses a masonry heater design that allows you to enjoy radiant heat all day long rather than just when your fire is blazing. As a bonus, you can also enjoy cooking meats, roasting vegetables, baking bread, and making cobblers in the stunning pizza oven feature! This heating system allows you to heat your home with wood in the morning and come home after work to a warm, cozy house in the evening without the need to fuel the fire in between. And even bake a dozen cookies if you want! These stunning units not only add a strong visual impact to your indoor living space, but they also provide delicious homemade meals that bring families together.
Since the oven in this kit is surrounded by a masonry heater, this oven will hold heat longer than a traditional indoor wood-fired oven AND use less fuel. Hours after your fire has gone out, you will still have enough residual heat to bake things like cookies and bread to share with friends and family or enjoy as a tasty treat on your own. With the option to add glass doors to both the pizza oven and fireplace, these kits truly do add an extra level of cozy and functionality to any home.
So What is a Masonry Heater Fireplace?
The main difference between a masonry heater and other wood-burning appliances is that a masonry heater can store a lot of heat. This means that you can quickly and cleanly burn a load of wood, and the heat will slowly radiate into your house for the next 8 to 24 hours. Masonry heaters are also safer and more efficient than traditional fireplaces since they don't produce creosote or harmful emissions in the chambers or flue.
How Does A Masonry Heater Work?
Hot air from the fire flows through a series of baffles to heat up the surrounding masonry. This heat is "soaked up" in the heater walls and then slowly released into your home.
Watch the video by the Masonry Heater Association (MHA) to see how the masonry heater design works to heat your home efficiently.
"Now after three winters, I’m eager to report that our Temp-Cast 2000 has exceeded expectations. This technology is rare in Virginia; several friends, visitors, and subcontractors became immediately impressed with the performance and the aesthetic impact."
"Aesthetics versus performance? I cannot say which feature is best; it’s all wrapped up in one. Having only experienced wood stoves and such, my wife was concerned about indoor air quality. She was astonished by the masonry heater’s total lack of combustion odor."
"As a professor in Wood Science, my career revolves around wood. I cannot explain the satisfaction it brings to heat our home with the most efficient, environmentally responsible, wood-burning technology available to homeowners. We love it."
- Chip Frazier T.M.
Brooks Professor, Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia
Fireplace Heater Features
- Design: DIY / Ready to Finish - create the look you want for your fireplace by finishing in brick, soapstone, or stucco. You control the budget for your finish of choice.
- Construction: Castable refractory material with interlocking features allows the fireplace to be "site-built" and installed with refractory mortar.
- Fuel Efficiency: These heaters can heat a well-insulated house for 12 to 24 hours on one firing of wood. This is much more efficient than wood boilers, which use 10-12 cords of wood, or wood-burning stoves, which use 6-8 cords.
- Safety: Temp-Cast Heaters are acceptable in many areas that have restricted or banned other types of stoves and fireplaces.
- Comfort: Radiant warmth helps alleviate sinuses and dry skin in the winter. The warm walls and heated seats create a cozy retreat in your living space for reading a book or relaxing with family.
- Optional Integrated Pizza Oven : The roaring fire from the fireplace is perfect for heating your wood-fired pizza oven. Use different techniques to cook at high, baking, and slow cook temperatures in your warm kitchen.
Installing The Temp-Cast Fireplace
The indoor fireplace kit shown in this video by Temp-Cast is really simple to build. Watch the video to see how to construct the fireplace resulting in the final gorgeous stone fireplace.
✓ Clean, Renewable Fuel
Having a renewable energy source that you can harvest locally gives you peace of mind. You can burn it cleanly to heat your home without relying on electricity. Testing showed that the Temp-Cast heater has a transfer efficiency of 65.4% and a combustion efficiency of 94.4%.
✓ Ease of Assembly
The modules are manufactured from a castable refractory material. They have a unique interlocking feature so that one piece is precisely keyed to fit the next one. This allows the kit to be quickly and accurately erected and ensures that the completed core is structurally stable and independent of the facing material.
✓ Health & Quality of Life
There is no safer wood-burning fireplace than a well-made masonry heater. It can be fired for a few hours per day while you're awake and never at night when you sleep. Because they burn the fuel so completely, they produce little ash or harmful emissions which keeps your home's air cleaner.
✓ Beautiful Fire Feature
One of the most distinctive features of a masonry heater build is the outstanding fire-viewing. When the fire is lit, it catches quickly and burns fiercely, creating a spectacular show. If a pizza oven is incorporated, you can see the burning gases accelerating through the gas slot, creating an exciting "spark shower" and adding to your enjoyment of the fire.
✓ HEATING PERFORMANCE
Masonry heaters are a household word in colder parts of Canada, Northern Europe, and Australia. Temp-Cast masonry heaters can serve as the primary heater in a well-insulated 2000 square foot home while using less wood, therefore using less storage space.
Radiant heat from a masonry heater is very similar to the radiant heat from the sun rather than the convection heat from a traditional fireplace. Just as the sun warms the earth, the masonry stove heats by warming solid objects in the home, such as walls, floors, furniture and people.
Don't let winter, rising energy costs, or busted pipes keep you from enjoying warmth while still feasting on your favorite wood fired foods! A Temp-cast Indoor Fireplace With Pizza oven is the perfect addition to your home that will allow you to spend quality time in your entertaining space despite the weather outside.
Before placing your order, it's best to check out the Planning Guide and User Manual first to see if this will work for your home.
Ready to order? Pick a variant:
| Standard Fireplace Kit | See-Through Fireplace Kit WHAT'S INCLUDED ☑ All major parts listed below ☑ Different refractory pieces to allow see-through design |
Included With Every Temp-Cast Kit
- Refractory Modules
- Refractory Mortar
- Ceramic Fiber
- Corrugated Spacers
- 1 Black Arched Firebox Glass Door
- 2 Cast-Iron Clean-Out Doors
- 1 Cast-Iron Fire Grate
- 1 Air Intake Door
- Door Fasteners
- Gasket
- Tape
- Construction Manual