Drystack Stone Remains a Popular Choice

One of the best ways to increase lost home values is to install Masonry! Updating a home with Masonry gives a defining look of strength and beauty. Mastercraft installed Pheasant Alpine Pro-Fit Ledgestone on this new construction home pictured to the left.

Alpine Pro-Fit Ledgestone is very attractive with its very square, drystack ledge appearance, and comes in many colors to complement most any homes!

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mastercraftmasonry@gmail.com

Another similar drystack ledgestone from Rogue River Stone is pictured below, but with more windswept features than Pro-Fit Ledgestone. Rogue River's Ledgestone panels have proven very popular with our customers!



Professional Masonry Heater Installation

Mastercraft Masonry was established in 1974 by Stan Homola as a masonry contracting business, specializing in fireplaces. In the 1980's Stan was intrigued by a European concept of a masonry stove and built an early design of a Finnish contra-flow heater. After 25 years and over 100 Masonry Heaters built, Mastercraft Masonry offers a superior Masonry Heater core system that delivers high performance and is plenty durable to withstand decades of heating seasons.

Our design utilizes a replaceable firebox, the first area a Masonry Heater can exhibit problems. Mastercraft's firebox sidewalls use ports that feed secondary air in above fuel charge. Heat exchange channels, firebox floor, capping slabs, and bake ovens are shop built, using a dense castable refractory designed to take 3,000 degrees (F). An optional new air frame door surround (pictured below) enhances performance of burn, air-washes glass, eliminates typical heat stress problems at loading door area and solves the issue of using a smaller door with a larger firebox.

The standard core foot print dimensions are 42" wide by 23" deep. Firebox dimensions are 20" wide by 21" high to bottom of heat shield lintel. Typical footprint of finished heater including hearth and chimney is 6' wide by 4' deep by 7' high. Options include heated benches, water heating coils, and see-through fireboxes. Mastercraft can also install the Masonry Heater core by itself, with instructions for facing. Contact us for more details!

Outdoor Living Ideas: Fireplaces

Outdoor fireplaces provide an excellent place to wind down after a long Summer day. Covington brick from Mutual Materials faces this fireplace and its seat walls, while Iron Mountain flagstone serves as the caps and sandbed floor surface.

Mutual Material's Covington Brick:

www.mutualmaterials.com/Professional_detail.asp?pt_id=120&p_id=279&subarea=Colors&detail=83&detail2=472

Interested in creating an outdoor living space? Contact Mastercraft Masonry for a free quote!

Stone & Timber Frame Fireplace

Fireplaces are often called the heart of the home. Whether its a Masonry Heater, Rumford, or a zero-clearance fireplace, it becomes the epicenter of the home, a place to gather.

Pictured is a Mastercraft installation of Cultured Stone's Bucks County Dressed Fieldstone with 1/2" joint application with regular gray mortar.

http://www.culturedstone.com/products/productdetail.asp?id=6

Mantle is Timber Framed by Arrow Timber of Battle Ground, WA

http://www.arrowtimber.com/

Masonry Heaters :: High Efficiency Fireplaces

Ever wonder how to drastically cut your heating bill? Have you discovered that you can heat your home for 24 hours with just one 40 lb. stack of wood? Mastercraft Masonry has the answer.

Significantly slashing utility bills is one of the many reasons homeowners purchase a Masonry Heater. A family of five in Southwest Washington heats their entire 2,000 sq. ft. home and also heats their water with the fireplace - and spends just $70-80 on their monthly electric bill!

These high efficiency fireplaces consume much less cordwood in one heating season than a woodstove, and produce a short, yet powerful 1700 degree burn that significantly reduces emissions. The Masonry Heater begins emitting a slow, even radiant heat, lasting up to 24 hours after all combustion is complete.

Pennsylvania Bluestone Fireplace

Long horizontal lines define this large, contemporary fireplace in a home designed by Boora Architects of Portland (http://www.boora.com/). The stone's deep blue hues bring in the ocean view which is directly to the left of the fireplace.

The photo pictured is the fireplace's back side, descending two stories down the stairway. All stone on the house was cut 3" in height and varying lengths.

Mastercraft Masonry has completed numerous jobs in the Central Oregon coast for Emmerson-Morgan builders. More photos of this fireplace can be seen at:

One Fire - Heats 24 Hours!

The Masonry Heater Fireplace earns the Green Label

A recent customer in Portland decided upgrading their fireplace was a top priority - by replacing an old, inefficient fireplace with a new Masonry Heater. This conversion will allow the homeowners to achieve a 60-70% increase in heat storage, usually from the same amount of fuel!

Despite being popular choices, brick and stone aren't the only options for facing Masonry Heaters. Pictured at left, this version is faced with a white plaster finish that produces a modern design while still employing the high efficiencies achieved with the fireplace.

Pictured to the left is our Masonry Heater flue system constructed at the bakeoven level.

Mastercraft's refractory concrete cores are designed to take up to 2700 degrees (F), and are built with thicker sidewalls than the industry standards - designed to give decades of durable use.

Professional Masonry Since 1974

Mastercraft Masonry offers customers all types of masonry installation. Custom archways, veneer, patios, sandbed pavers and wood fired pizza ovens are among the many design options homeowners can choose from when building or remodeling using masonry!

Pictured above is Rogue River's Glass Mountain Ledgestone Panels, one of the most appealing manufactured stone choices on the market today. With its exotic, windswept drystack design, the ledgestone panel from Rogue River Stone is a proven and popular selection for many of our customers. Call Mastercraft Masonry today for your Rogue River Stone Bid!

Rogue River Stone is a local company based in the Pacific Northwest in Grants Pass, Oregon. Visit their website:

http://www.rogueriverstone.com/

Masonry Heater Association

The Masonry Heater Association's website is an excellent way to get more information about these next generation of fireplaces. Their wealth of knowledge about Masonry Heaters and their steadfast support of this exciting business in the renewable resource arena is commendable. Visit the Masonry Heater Association website today!

Masonry Heater interest climbs

As the cold northwest rain resumes, homeowners are finding ways to combat the higher energy bills as well as become more energy efficient. Residents in Carson and Sauvie's Island are choosing the heat storing fireplaces. What kind of heat source are you currently using? Could Mastercraft's Masonry Heater be an efficient upgrade for your home?

Many homeowners in the Pacific Northwest have warmed to the idea of having a radiant heat source in the center of their home, essentially becoming the "heart of the home." With its efficient use of cordwood, and its gentle, therapeutic low level heating method, Masonry Heaters continue to lead the way in defining the next generation of fireplaces.

Mastercraft Masonry has installed and serviced Masonry Heaters in nearly 100 homes in Oregon and Washington.

Pisla's New Fireplace Door!

North Stone Heat Supply is an emerging retailer of Pisla Masonry Heater products. The company directly imports these high quality fireplace doors and accessories from Finland, and keeps prices low by only selling via internet and phone.

Masonry Heater builders are especially encouraged to stop by and see what North Stone Heat has to offer!

In the market for new fireplace doors, flue access doors, or grates? Consider North Stone Heat's prices and selection! Visit their website today!

http://www.northstoneheat.com/

360.687.2805

The World's Most Efficient Fireplaces!

Don't waste time and effort throwing wood into that empty black hole - the woodstove. Consider building a Mastercraft Masonry Heater! These amazing fireplaces can heat your home up to 48 hours from just a two hour fire!

How is that possible? The Masonry Heater uses a simple system that forces flue gases downward after it exits the firebox. This allows the masonry surrouding this contra-flow design to absorb much more heat than a traditional upward flue only. Smoke gases then exit via the chimney located off to the side.

A traditional fire lasts from 2-4 hours, and most of that heat is stored in the masonry mass, and since the Masonry Heater's intense burn is much hotter than a woodstove, the exhaust particulates are greatly reduced. The Masonry Heater is then shut down after all combustion has stopped, resulting in a cozy, radiant heat located in the center of your home.

Masonry Heaters require little maintenance with the proper burning of dry cordwood. A small amount of fly ash may accumulate in the channels over a year's time. This can simply be vacuumed when the unit is cold, often done when the heating season is over.

Masonry Heaters can be constructed with natural (real) stone as well as brick. The fuel source these fireplaces use comes from a fully sustainable resource - wood!

Contact Mastercraft Masonry today at (360) 225-5699 for more information!

Welcome!

Professional Masonry Since 1974

Mastercraft Masonry opened its doors for business over three decades ago, serving the Portland / Vancouver metropolitan area. Since then, we have built numerous business clients and many thrilled customers. Our commitment to quality begins with quality materials, professional conduct and exceptional knowledge about the trade.

A modest sized company, Mastercraft has always held the belief that superior craftsmanship and customer satisfaction go hand in hand. Don't hesitate to call us! (360) 225-5699
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