INTRODUCTION
Information en français
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Pyromasse
4057, Avenue de l'Esplanade
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H2W 1S9
Tel.: (514) 844 - 9824
Fax: (514) 982 - 9565
Member of the Masonry Heater Asociation of North
America.
The Pyromasse website offers information concerning the
historical and technical development of the masonry heater and an
overview of Pyromasse and its current activities within the
Province of Quebec.
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Operations: Construction of contraflow
masonry heaters, European-style masonry bake ovens and
cookstoves.
Field of Operations: Throughout the Province
of Quebec
| Qualifications |
: Marcus Flynn |
: R.B.Q. Licence # 8335-8119-53 |
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Holder of Quebec Mason card # 104-326-066 |
Experience: Construction of over 100 masonry
heaters, ovens and cookstoves in the Province of Quebec. Though
primarily self-taught, Marcus Flynn has, and continues to be,
inspired, encouraged, and assisted by the masters of the North
American field: Albert Barden, Norbert Senf, and Eric Nilsen.
Workshops:
- Field trip: Anjou and Provence. France 2002.
Object: Inspection of the Fayol and Munoz oven factories, and
local bakeries.
- Field trip: Tain L'Hermitage, Drone France. 2001.
Object: Instruction in the assenbly of Panyol ovens.
Investigation of traditional community ovens in Drone and
Ardesh.
- Field trip: Helsinki, Finnland. 2001.
Object: Contact with local heater masons. Inspection of the Upo
factorie in Lappi.
- Workshop: Truckee, California USA. 2000.
Object: Working with soapstone as a facing material. Instructor:
Eric Nilson.
- Field trip Minsk, Belarus
Republic, 1995
Object: Contact with local heater masons, acquisition of
literature and plans
- Field trip: Slusk and Bolshiusliva, Belarus Republic, 1994
Object: Research pertaining to traditional Russian Pitch-ka and
Groop-ka
- Workshop: Port Colburn, Ontario, Canada, Tempcast Enviroheat
manufacturing plant, 1994
Object: Construction of Tempcast 2000 Prefabricated core kit
- Workshop/field trip, Emmaboda Smalland, Sweden, 1992
Object: Traditional stove tiling techniques, construction of
antique Kakelung, and Crownspisen's modern prefabricated
Kakelung
- Workshop: Maine, USA, 1992
Instructor: Albert Barden Object: Construction of Finnish-style
cook stove
Specialties: Aesthetic brickwork: particular
interest in the early Art Deco design period of the 1920s.
Pyromasse associates with the anarco-communist principals of
social revolution.