Archive for July, 2011

How commercial boiler parts found in a snow bank transformed our traditional view of chimney lining products and their applications.

Albie started thinking about using large clay flue tiles as the outer skin of a lower cost masonry heater about l0-l5 years ago. It all began when he saw a line of twenty or so 500 pound round two foot tall, thirty six inch inside diameter and 3″ thick tile, laying in a deep snow bank beside the road in Madison, ...