When the cold days are approaching, many citizens are wondering how to install a stove in the garage with their own hands. The main disadvantage of many such designs are their rather large sizes. However, you can find something compact, but at the same time quite powerful. This is especially important in this case, as the gates in the garage open frequently.
Electric or gas appliances will not work because they consume a lot of fuel. They are not effective and economical. An ideal option would be a design that runs on solid or liquid fuels.
There are several main parameters that you should pay attention to when choosing a solid fuel furnace for a garage.
- Firstly, it should not occupy a large area. In addition, if the stove in the garage was not installed permanently, then in the warmer months it can be removed from the heated room.
- Secondly, high level fire safety, so as not to watch the stove for hours.
- It should also have a good power reserve, since depending on the situation, the heating level should be different.
- Fuel for the stove can even serve as ordinary garbage, which constantly accumulates in the garage, saving you this from rubble.
There are several options for such devices.
"Potbelly stove"
Classic stove in a metal garage. She works from firewood. This is a metal welded container in which there is a door to load fuel, and an exhaust pipe.
Its advantage is its simple design, and it has many disadvantages:
- Short life due to burnout of the metal.
- Difficultly regulated combustion process: either everything burns out quickly, or does not burn, because there is no draft and poor quality fuel.
- Low efficiency, because of which a lot of heat flies through the pipe.
Nevertheless, it is very popular due to its low price and simplicity of self-production.
Buleryan furnace
For it, everything solid that can burn (both firewood and peat) is used as fuel. This oven is becoming more popular. After all, with one tab of fuel, it will heat the room for 10 hours. Its efficiency is approximately 80% due to two combustion chambers. This is an important property of this design. In this oven, combustion is controlled by a damper, and the room warms up quite quickly.
Features of using buleryan:
- It is desirable to make a chimney from a sandwich pipe, which will save the channel from condensate and soot.
- Its height from the floor should be at least 20 cm, and it should have a base made of heat-resistant material.
- It is better to burn this stove in the garage with paper. Then solid fuel is added.
The furnace is at workout
It looks like a potbelly stove, but used oil is used as fuel. Its device is simple, but reliable. How is this stove installed in the garage with your own hands? Everything is pretty simple.
We need two containers connected by a pipe in which there are many small holes. The lower part is both the fuel tank and the boiler. In this tank, when heated, fuel is produced. The top element - this is a pipe with a tank - is a firebox and a heating element. These furnaces can be heated up to 700-900 degrees. Its lower volume is 8-15 liters, which is enough for 10-20 hours of work. A hole-cap is made in this vessel, which draws in air and serves as a filler neck, and also regulates the burning power. For the manufacture of this furnace only dense metal is used. The exhaust pipe also needs to be strengthened, since its temperature sometimes reaches 250 degrees. All parts should be made removable due to soot in the channels, which must be removed at least once a week. It is ignited quite simply. To do this, pour 1 liter of fuel into the lower tank. Then insert the newspaper into the filler hole and set it on fire. After 5-10 minutes, the tank warms up, and the combustion is transferred to the pipes.
After all that has been said, it should be noted that homemade stoves for the garage in the manufacture require special knowledge and skills, and if they are not properly built, they can be dangerous, that is, in this case it is better to contact specialists.