A house is then fully a house when it is warm and cozy. When there are yellow sun spots on the floor and the warm sides of the stove, the smell of birch wood and the quiet crackle in the firebox - this is true bliss.
Such a necessary oven
Currently, there is a lot of information on how to make a house and a stove in it. Finding the information you need is easy. But, as usual, a person often does not understand what he actually needs: a
Russian stove or boiler, stove heating with a water circuit or a stove bench. Maybe there will be enough fireplace? Or is there a need to combine wood heating with electric? In a word, before looking for projects of houses with stove heating, it would be nice to decide on the desired, necessary and sufficient.
Weigh the pros and cons
We talked a bit about the pros. In addition to the emotional and sensory component described above, the advantages that stove heating of a private house undoubtedly have include the independence of communal services with their seasonal distribution of heat to the needy and all kinds of possible accidents of heating networks that could deprive your home of comfort for long days or even weeks . An undoubted plus of the village stove is also to create a healthy microclimate at home: the villagers do not know what dry skin and brittle hair are in the autumn-winter-spring period, because good stove heating does not dry the air of the house.
Some cons
The furnace involves some great cares and labor. To melt it and maintain fire in it is not only pleasure, but also labor. And by the way, your time, too. In addition, maintaining it in order and in working condition will also require effort, time, and money. First of all, it is regular cleaning of the chimney, which is recognized in some European countries as such an important event that its regularity and mandatoryity are enshrined in law, and careless and unlawful owners are subject to administrative and even criminal liability.
With a stove it will not work to maintain a stable thermal regime in the house. As a rule, in the evening the house will always be warmer than in the morning. Or vice versa, depending on what time you will heat it. In addition, the mandatory component that characterizes stove heating in a wooden house is a cold floor. Of course, with a competent approach, all these shortcomings are removable.
There is obviously more cleaning in a house with stove heating than in a building with centralized heat supply.
The furnace is flammable. However, electric heaters are not less flammable. It all depends on the so-called human factor.
Do not forget that the stove is a rather bulky structure, "eating up" a decent part of the useful area of your house. And if you are not ready to give extra meters, then you should once again think about whether you need stove heating.
It’s time to determine the type of furnace
Depending on what you think your stove should be able to, choose from the oven variety currently existing. And it is like this:
- The stove is a "potbelly stove". No matter how funny it sounds, this is a very common option for a country house. Especially if the latter is not intended for year-round use. A potbelly stove is quite capable of warming a small residential or utility room, heating water and cooking simple food. And she is ready to do it without any special financial and labor costs on your part. In addition, furnace heating by means of a stove-potbelly stove does not require a long preliminary design.
- The Dutch oven. The most common type of heating furnace in our country. The design feature of the "Dutch" is that with a relatively small size, it has a relatively large heating area. And therefore it is able to heat up to sixty squares of the room. At the same time, the same design features allow the Dutchwoman to heat up quite quickly and cool for a long time. Well, and the pluses of this furnace include its excellent appearance. With the appropriate design, the Dutch oven can become an adornment of your home.
- Kitchen stove. Her appointment is obviously different from the functions of the above "relative".If you live in a decent house in all respects, a solid fuel stove is indispensable for you. She can cook food, and feed cattle, and mushrooms, berries, dry, and just warm the water and keep it warm until morning wash, too. There are three types of rustic stoves: a) simple, that is, without an oven and a hot box; b) stoves with ovens; c) complex stoves with oven and hot box.
- Russian stove. The most famous type in fairy tales. And the most versatile: heats, boils, soars, bakes bread, a stove bench for a comfortable and healing sleep heats. If you want, you can even take a steam bath in it, they say. And all this is so in Russian, that is, without much trouble and all at once, at the same time.
It's time to start the project itself
When designing a furnace, it should be borne in mind that all the details recommended in this case have long been explained in SNiP 2.04.05-91. Therefore, if there is a desire to delve thoroughly into the recommendations and manuals, start dancing from the stove, that is, it makes sense to deal with this particular document.
So, for example, the above sanitary norms and rules recommend installing stove heating in a wooden house only if the building is not higher than two floors in height, not including the basement. Fire safety, according to these recommendations, is achieved by a number of measures, in particular, for example, the surface of the furnace should not be heated above one hundred twenty degrees.
It is important to accurately calculate the dimensions of the future furnace
A small stove will be useless in terms of heating, and a large one will require appropriate fuel consumption. It is necessary to take into account and carefully calculate the possible heat loss of your home associated with its design features, as well as the layout and functionality of the rooms. All this taken together is the scheme of stove heating.
Strictly speaking, the designs of stoves begin in the same place as the designs of houses with stove heating, for the first is an integral part of the second. Based on this, the size, quantity and purpose of the heating circuits on each floor of your house is calculated. Before deciding what size your stove will be, it is necessary to calculate the various energy-saving measures that you can carry out: insulation of windows and doors, ceilings, roof space, etc.
An important stage in the design of the furnace is the choice of its location
It should be borne in mind that any stove can heat no more than four adjacent rooms. Of course, you need to strive to ensure that the bedrooms and the living room are heated, and the furnace part faces the corridor or hallway. If your stove includes a stove, then the latter should go into the kitchen. Based on the above, it becomes clear that the best location of the furnace is in the center of the house. This conclusion is confirmed by the practice of building such structures in Russia. This arrangement, by the way, allows you to avoid fires.
A little bit about fire safety
In addition to the fact that the furnace must be properly designed, it is necessary to carefully monitor the quality of its masonry. If you do not equip your own stove heating, check each layer of brickwork for cracks, through which sparks or even flame can then be knocked out. The second thing that needs to be traced is the presence of the so-called retreat - the air space between the stove and the wooden walls of the house. In addition, all measures should be taken to insulate the walls, floor and ceiling of the house from the heated surfaces of the furnace. Believe me, your safety in this case is completely in your hands!