As soon as the summer season begins, many urban residents tend to move closer to nature - to the cottage. Silence, fresh air, vegetables grown by your own hands and plucked directly from the garden ... The inevitable payment for all these pleasures is the lack of familiar comfort. If earlier it was believed that hot water supply in the country is an element of luxury, then now you will not surprise anyone. So, how to save yourself from the inconvenience and what are the heaters for water for summer cottages?
The easiest ways to create comfort
The easiest way to organize hot water in the country is to build an outdoor shower. In the middle zone of Russia, about 750-1000 watts of solar energy gets to every 1 m 2 in one hour, and therefore the main task is to use it correctly. It should be noted that the usual staining of the container in black is not effective enough, because after the process of energy absorption, according to the laws of physics, its radiation occurs. Therefore, it is best to place the barrel in a kind of box, and the side facing the sun should be transparent (glass or plastic film). The shadow side must be covered with a heat insulator (foamed polyurethane foam, glass wool, etc.).
The simplest water heaters for summer cottages can be made in the form of a solar collector. To do this, two nozzles are mounted on the tank (one as high as possible, and the other as low as possible). A manifold is connected to the nozzles (the simplest is a black hose twisted into a spiral). Due to natural circulation, heating will occur much faster. Accordingly, the larger the collector size, the greater the heat transfer.
You can also build water heaters for summer cottages, using the energy released by the decomposition of small debris, grass, straw, sawdust, etc. These are the so-called catalytic heaters. In addition, such an aggregate produces the most valuable organic fertilizer - compost.
Another way is a wood-fired heater. It is performed in the form of an ordinary Russian samovar. Literally a couple of logs is enough for his work - and you can take a hot shower or wash the dishes.
Electric water heaters
Of course, the most convenient and cheapest way to get hot water is a geyser. Unfortunately, gas in the country is still a rarity, but electricity has become quite common, and therefore it’s a sin not to use it for their own good.
Electric water heaters for summer cottages are divided into two types - flow and storage. The advantage of instantaneous heaters is their compactness, but high power remains a serious obstacle to their use in summer conditions, since it requires separate wiring and an additional automatic machine on the meter. Accumulative heaters are more acceptable for summer cottages. Relatively small power does not give such a strong load on the electric network, and a tank of 50-100 liters is quite enough to make the stay in the country quite comfortable. The disadvantage of this device is that it needs a constant pressure of water, which is not always the case.
In this case, you can use a bulk water heater - a kind of wash-hand basin from a children's fairy tale about Moidodyr, equipped with a heating element. The presence of a thermostat allows you to maintain a given temperature. The disadvantage of a bulk water heater is the small capacity of the tank. Of course, you won’t be able to take a shower, but please wash or wash the dishes.
In conclusion
When choosing a type of water heater, it is important which energy source will be used and where the water comes from. Heaters, the price of which is within reasonable limits, have long been an indispensable attribute of the modern summer resident, and not an exotic curiosity.