A private house is the creation of its owner. It has a special character, and there are no two identical households. When the issue of heating a country house is decided, the option of installing a stove is sometimes chosen. This may be due to several reasons:
- Expensive main gas supply.
- A rare visit to the house in the winter.
- Efficiency of the contents of the furnace compared to a gas boiler.
How to choose a stove for a country house so that it has high characteristics and fits into a modern interior? Now they produce many designs of metal and cast iron. But someone likes a traditional brick stove. Let's consider in more detail all options.
Modern metal stove
When you need to quickly install a stove and quickly heat a room, the construction of a stove is indispensable. This is a small furnace, which has a direct exit of gases generated during combustion into the chimney. Now it is no longer pot-bellied black stoves welded from an iron barrel. Many have tiled surfaces, the color of which can be chosen to your taste.
Often, such stoves are equipped with a heat exchanger, which is installed at the outlet of the furnace. It creates a large surface for heat transfer, and the power of the structure is used more rationally. Such heating devices are produced by European countries and are in great demand.
The thickness of the metal is sufficient for the stove to serve for a country house without burning for several years. The firebox and grate are made of cast iron and fireclay bricks. The fuel used is wood or coal.
The installation of the furnace will not be a problem: for its weight it is not necessary to create a special foundation, just put the steel sheet on the insulating material directly on the floor - and you can install the furnace.
Modern cast iron stove
A cast iron potbelly stove will last a very long time. It is not subject to burning over time, like a metal furnace. Keeps warm longer, it is more convenient to cook food on it. These designs are also popular in Europe. The design of such stoves is diverse: from straight lines in the style of minimalism to lace lace plates, which in themselves are a design adornment.
A cast-iron stove for a country house is heavier than a metal one. Many manufacturers, for this reason, reduce its size in order to avoid additional costs for the construction of the foundation when buying it. This reduces the thermal characteristics, but for a small room they are quite enough.
A heat exchanger can also be connected to the cast iron stove. This is especially true if the stove is installed on the first floor of a two-story house. In this case, one heat exchanger is installed at the outlet of the furnace, the second and third are mounted on the second floor along the chimney. The system is supplemented with plugs, which allows you to save heat after heating.
Variable air pellet stove
For heating using stoves, an important condition for maintaining a comfortable microclimate in the house is the regularity of fueling. With the advent of pellets, this is gradually becoming a thing of the past. If earlier a person was forced to heat a furnace twice a day, now there is an opportunity to do it less often - once every two to three days. There are even furnace designs for laying pellets for a week, but they look unaesthetically because of the large tank.
Pellets are compressed sawdust having high efficiency during combustion. The ability of sawdust to quickly produce heat has been known for a long time. But it was previously inconvenient to use them for the furnace: instantly burning, they left too much ash. Untimely removal of it from the furnace led to the attenuation of the flame.
The pellet stove for a country house has an adjustable blower flap, which provides low traction. Under such conditions, fuel combustion is maintained in smoldering mode, which prevents the furnace from cooling down. This is used in boilers with a water circuit. Both cast iron and metal stoves can have fireboxes adapted for pellets. They are reinforced with refractory material.
Brick and stone stoves
The skill of a skilled stove-maker was always highly regarded. In St. Petersburg, there are stoves that are more than a hundred years old, and they function perfectly. In Europe, preserved ancient stove-fireplaces for cooking and space heating, made of stone. These are reliable designs that will not require repair after construction.
In addition to high reliability, such furnaces carry a certain flavor, create a special cosiness. And for fans to bask on the stove can not do without a stove bench. Only brick ovens for a country house have it.
For this design, it is necessary to arrange a separate foundation: pour a sand cushion, make a screed and lay a stone or brick foundation in size slightly exceeding the contours of the future furnace. This operation is very difficult to perform in a house already built, so even at the design stage it is worth considering the possibility of installing a fundamental stove.
The pipe for this design can also be made of brick, have a revision burs and a heat exchanger on the roof. The weight of this design is very large. Caring for a brick kiln boils down to cleaning the channels, filling up the cracks that form during the furnace, and cleaning the pipe. Not everyone can properly contain such an oven, so the choice of a metal stove is understandable.
Combined Oven
For permanent residence, it is important not only to heat the quadrature of the room, but also to cook food, and bring heat to remote corners of the house that do not have a smoke channel in the wall. A good stove for a country house is one that has a hob and a water circuit. Install this design in the center of the house, arranging partitions for dividing into rooms. In this case, a brick wall with a stove channel will go into each room. A skilled craftsman can build a boiler for water heating in it. A variant of one of the models with a water circuit is presented in the video.
Beautiful stoves
The aesthetics of the heating device is an important factor. If the oven is bulky and ugly, it will require the creation of a boiler room. It can no longer be installed in the center of the house, and this will lead to a decrease in efficiency. You will need pipes, convectors and a built-in boiler for water heating. This will entail additional costs for the installation and maintenance of the boiler room.
Furnaces for country houses, a photo of one of the options of which are shown below, are beautiful and functional. Their external characteristics are very similar: paneling, small size, glass in the furnace door. The financial component in this case has a large fork. The price of the product depends on the wall thickness, the degree of fire resistance of the furnace, the presence of a water circuit and many other nuances.
Modern economy-class metal furnaces are produced, which are no worse in operation than expensive cast-iron stoves. Everyone can make their choice, and the cost will not affect the beauty and effectiveness.
Rocket furnace
When it comes to the stove in the interior of a country house, one cannot help but recall the horizontal heating system that is used in rocket-type stoves. The firebox is usually arranged, focusing on the size of the fuel. A pipe comes out of it, which goes into a nearby mounted casing, and has a bend in order to bring the hot gas from the combustion to its upper third. Coming out of this pipe, the gas cools, in contact with the walls of the casing. Going down, he goes along a horizontal chimney, which is arranged under a stove bench. Having overcome one more knee, warm air leaves in a chimney.
This design has become popular in America. It is inexpensive to mount from improvised materials. Its principle of operation resembles ondol, the Korean stove. A plus of a rocket stove compared to an ondol - its firebox is located indoors, and a horizontal chimney is arranged not on the floor, but under a stove bench. This is more in line with the western way of life.
Kitchen stoves
In the absence of main gas, the option of a heating and cooking stove becomes relevant, in which one side would go into the kitchen and have a hob and oven, and the other three would be built into other rooms for heating.
There are many schemes for laying brick kilns of this type. The complexity of the choice lies in the fact that they all have a furnace door and an ash pan from the side of the kitchen. This limits the working area of an already small room. The need to remove ash and equip a place for firewood completely reduces the useful area of the kitchen.
What stove to choose for a country house so that you can cook food on it and it would not take up much space? There are inexpensive metal stoves with a hob and a chimney outlet at the bottom or side of the furnace. In this place they put an adapter and plant warm air in all rooms. The ease of installation and the beautiful design of modern chimneys allow you to fit such a stove into the kitchen space without compromising convenience.
Two ovens
In Russian villages there are houses with two stoves. This is due to the fact that a five-wall hut cannot always be heated sufficiently well by a single furnace. Usually, a Russian stove with underfloor and a stove bench is installed in a log house with a kitchen. The second log house is divided into two bedrooms and a Dutch or a baby stove is installed between them, sewing it with tin sheets.
When evening comes, the owners heat the Dutch, and for two hours in the bedrooms the air heats up to a comfortable temperature. The heat gradually disappears in the morning, then the owners heat a large stove. It keeps warm from all day and leaves already at night. If you do not need to cook food, such a furnace mode allows you to keep the house warm. If necessary, cook a large stove twice a day.
Modern stoves for heating a country house can also use this principle. In this case, one stove will be installed in the kitchen, the second - between the bedrooms. For the kitchen, it is better to choose the option with an oven, and for bedrooms - a cast iron stove with heat exchangers.
Finnish heating system
In Finland, the climate is very similar to the Russian. Stoves there are also held in high esteem. A common option for heating a private house is to combine the installation of a solid brick stove and electric convectors under each window. In order for warm air to freely penetrate into all corners of the house, a house is made without ceilings. All rooms are covered by a gable or tented roof. The warmest air gathers under its dome.
There is a ceiling above the bathroom and toilet, which are located on the ground floor. It is the floor for the bedroom. A small staircase leads upstairs. Combining heating with a wood-burning stove and electric appliances reduces the concern for timely fueling. Convectors are equipped with heat sensors and automatically turn on when the air temperature drops to the set point.
Conclusion
Everyone chooses stoves for heating a country house, based on their own preferences, financial capabilities and aesthetic requirements. There are a lot of options, but it is important to remember that everyone will require some care. After weighing everything, some refuse stove heating in favor of electric.