It’s minus fifty outside the window - but it’s warm in the log hut, the owners wear shirts. Let's figure out why the old northern huts, without any insulation, double-glazed windows or radiators, kept the heat inside, separated from the severe cold by just one wall of logs. A Russian battery stove, moss in the grooves, a basement, a pile and a cunning “black-style” firebox - the centuries-old engineering of our ancestors in one video.
It’s minus fifty outside the window - but it’s warm in the log hut, the owners wear shirts. Let's figure out why the old northern huts, without any insulation, double-glazed windows or radiators, kept the heat inside, separated from the severe cold by just one wall of logs. A Russian battery stove, moss in the grooves, a basement, a pile and a cunning “black-style” firebox - the centuries-old engineering of our ancestors in one video.