Taddah!!!

I wasn’t sure how to fit the chimney.  There wasn’t room behind the cookstove to insert the chimney into the wall.  So I figured I could run it directly through one of the lids on the cookstove top.

The original cookstove top had an extension that was designed to fit over a water reservoir.  It will be useful as a warm shelf to rise bread or for similar purposes.

I got the idea of building a stone oven from a friend who incorporated a Tulikivi soapstone stove into the house he built.  He installed it himself and got a special deal on it – it cost him only $11,000.

Our stove was made mostly with found materials.  The door and top were from different stoves but were free.  The chimneys pieces I already had – and they didn’t even need cutting!  The sand and rocks were collected locally.  The only cost was a little over a bag of cement – about $25 – and about 100 hours labour!

I let the stove I built in the mountains set for two weeks before I lit a fire.  Soon water was boiling out of the cement!  So I will not be putting a fire into this one for a while.  Soon I will have to go to Nuk Tessli for the summer (I am waiting for the ice to go out – like everywhere else, it is very late this year) so I don’t suppose I will be able to try it out until the fall.