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sloweather
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# Posted: 5 Apr 2018 18:48 - Edited by: sloweather
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I never could find the right size fireplace screen for the masonry Rumford style fireplace in our little cabin in the dingle.
So, finally, I decided to make one. This is made out of polished half inch copper water pipe, and 8 mesh bronze screen.
All of the joints are soldered and the screen is pop riveted on the back with copper rivets.
It looked a little plain when it was done, so I cut and hammered some oak leaf and acorn accents and added them.
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Just
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# Posted: 5 Apr 2018 20:38
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Well done ,, nothing like original.
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snobdds
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# Posted: 5 Apr 2018 23:42
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Curious about your rumsford fire place. I read his book on how to build one which I found very interesting.
Did you build it and how does it work for you.
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sloweather
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2018 00:09
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Quoting: snobdds Did you build it and how does it work for you.
You must be talking about the Vrest Orton book, The Forgotten Art Of Building a Good Fireplace.
Yup, Dad and I built it. We purchased the molded clay throat, the damper, flue tiles, and chimney cap spark arrester from a local dealer. Dad laid up the fireplace, cutting and fitting all of the stone by hand, while we built the cabin of glu-lam logs up at the same time.
The dimensions are true to a classic Rumford fireplace of that size.
There is a website dedicated to this style of fireplace, http://www.rumford.com/, where you can see pictures, buy parts, ask questions, etc. We purchased the ceramic paper for insulating the flue from them.
Here's the page about ours: http://www.rumford.com/Arndt.html.
In one of the pictures, you can see a swing-out cooking grill I made for it.
That 24" wide fireplace is the smallest we could build and is almost too hot for the small cabin.
One thing about Rumford fireplaces... It's a different way to build a fire than you may be used to. You lay a little tinder at the back of the chamber, and then build a half-teepee around it against the back wall. Works, well, lights fast, and heats nicely. As you know from the book, the sides and back reflect radiant heat out into the room.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2018 07:48
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beautiful work. Love a fireplace, but just no room to add one to my cottage so will just live with the heat of the wood stove.
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Eddy G
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2018 09:08
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Nice work, very original
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Cabinmaster
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# Posted: 22 Jun 2018 14:51
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Very nice,good job
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Borrego
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# Posted: 22 Jun 2018 18:15
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sloweather
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# Posted: 22 Jun 2018 18:34
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I realized that I hadn't included pics of the fireplace itself and the chimney. Here they are:
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Fanman
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# Posted: 22 Jun 2018 20:03
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Very nice!
I've always been intrigued by the Rumford design ever since I picked up a "how to build a fireplace" book that featured that design (not the one mentioned above) from Loompanics (anybody remember them?).
My college thermodynamics textbook had a footnote about Count Rumford. As I recall, it went something like "... to his credit was [major contributions to thermodynamics]. To his discredit were several instances of fantastic duplicity and intrique."
How long will it burn before you have to tend it?
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sloweather
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# Posted: 22 Jun 2018 22:02
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Quoting: Fanman How long will it burn before you have to tend it?
Honestly, I've never had to test that. First, as I noted above, the fireplace is too big for that cabin. Second, we live along the central California coast, about 5 miles from the ocean, We rarely get below freezing, and almost always get up to at least 50.
So, when i go down there, I build a fire that will last an hour or 2, out of our coast live oak, and/or Monterey cypress, read, have a beer, maybe nap, and then go up home.
And, it depends on the wood. The cypress burns fast, hot and crackly, while the oak burns slower and longer.
If I got it gong and then propped up a couple three bigger oak logs (6-8" or so), it would last 3-4 hours at least.
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gsreimers
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2018 23:31
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Very nice
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