Heated bench
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Light render and long bench: a heater built by its owner at Westhoffen
Bas-Rhin, 2025 — 9 kW calculated by the workshop, six weeks of building by the owner, from heater core to first fire.
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The Rosny-sous-Bois snail: a masonry heater at the Bois-Perrier nursery school
The sixth masonry heater built for the schools of Rosny-sous-Bois: a terracotta spiral in the hall of the Bois-Perrier school — winner of both categories of the AFPMA 2026 photo competition.
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Green tiles, oven and two heated benches under the beams
A heater in the Kachelofen tradition, designed to measure: moulded green tiles, an oven with cast-iron doors, a glazed firebox and two heated benches set at right angles.
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Corner firebox and tiled bench in a mineral interior
A glazed corner firebox in a lime-rendered mass, ringed by a heated bench in glazed tiles: radiant heat as close as can be to everyday life.
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A see-through heater between two rooms, under the mezzanine
Between two brick walls, a masonry heater with a see-through firebox and a wide bench: the same burn can be watched from both rooms.
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Oven, firebox and two-level bench on cement tiles
In a beamed kitchen, a masonry heater combining a firebox, a cooking oven set above it and a two-level heated bench.
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A wall that heats: built-in heater and log niches in Cordon
Facing the fire, a lit bench niche; beside it, two log stores framed in black steel. The heater disappears into a wall of mineral render that becomes the room’s source of heat.
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PRAC kit: the heated bench, channel by channel
Building a PRAC kit at Marcilly-Ogny: the open heated bench reveals the smoke channels, and the first fire is lit with the mass still bare.
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Earth render, vaulted oven and hotplates
A masonry heater finished in earth render, combining a vaulted oven, glazed firebox, heated bench and cast-iron hotplates in a single volume.
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A wave-shaped heated bench, brick by brick
A masonry seat in a double curve, undulating backrest included: every brick on the radius cut to a trapezium, above the flue path.
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An Alsatian heater? Or not! | Grundofen in Petitmagny (90170)
Spring 2018: we stay in the Grand Est and in our own region, since they have been enlarged; so here we are in the Territoire de Belfort…
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Not a single right angle: a heater and its bench modelled as one
A domed heater core, a bench that undulates to the wall, niches hollowed into the mass: a heater modelled from end to end, with no visible edge or joint.
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Bench of black glazed bricks, facing the valley
An ivory-rendered mass, extended by a long heated bench tiled with black glazed bricks, and a vertical niche cut into the body of the heater.
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Pale mass and bench, in a timber house in Gigny
Under an exposed roof structure, a stepped white rendered heater, with a heated bench topped by a separate slab and a log store built in under the seat.
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Building a heat-storage heater, slab by slab
Site view: the storage mass built in bonded refractory slabs, firebox in place and bench begun, before any cladding.
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Bagnolet: the heater before render, built in firebricks
A rare site view: the rounded firebrick mass, with its bench and firebox in place, before the finishing render is applied.
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First steps: a heater in small bricks that passes through two rooms
A masonry heater built in small firebricks, with a flue path that passes through two rooms, and a heated bench — built with the customer.
