System Benefits
The material from which the house is built does not matter much in this case. The project of a house with stove heating can be organized both in a stone or brick house, and in a wooden one. Stove heating has a number of advantages that are not available in the case of other heating systems. If the house is built from a material such as stone, then stove heating in this case will be more efficient. This is easily explained by the fact that stone is a material that has the ability to collect heat.
Many types of solid fuels are suitable for stove heating. This list includes such types of fuel as: firewood, peat, cardboard, coal, branches and much more. However, do not get carried away and stuff the oven with everything you can.
Another advantage of stove heating is that the stove heating system of a private house does not depend on interruptions associated with the supply of a heat source or emergency situations. Stove heating is popular due to the fact that it works offline. The furnace can be not only the main source of heat, but also an additional one. Even if your house is equipped with a more modern heating system, the stove will never be an extra device in the house. Many people like the ordinary stove because it creates an amazing and cozy atmosphere. Isn't it nice to get together with the whole family on a cold winter evening by the warm hearth? Or create a romantic atmosphere and sit together near a live fire. Wood stoves, although they lose their popularity over time, will be relevant for most owners of private or country houses for many years to come.
The stove serves not only as a source of heat, it is also a wonderful decoration for any home.
How to find the right place for the stove in the house
Many people believe that homemade heating stoves should be somewhere in the corner of the hallway or kitchen wall. Choosing such an arrangement, people want, first of all, to position the stove in such a way that it does not interfere with the passage or is not conspicuous. However, this should not be the main criterion when choosing a place where the oven can be installed.
Options for installing a stove in a country house
The rules for the construction of the furnace says something completely different. The stove is best installed in the central part of the room. Another rule says that the hob and firebox should go out onto the veranda or into the kitchen. The stone part of the stove and its main surface should go into the bedrooms and the hall. According to professional calculations, one stove can heat up to three rooms, if they are located close to each other. If the house has a large area and several floors, then you will need to install several stoves.
Today, many probably know such a thing as a heated circuit. It may have two functions, or it may be more functional.
Depending on the circuit to be heated, professional stove-makers recommend laying stoves with water heating of such heaters as: a simple fireplace, a Russian stove or a combined fireplace and stove system.
If the plan of a house with stove heating is chosen in the right way, then it will be able to heat even a two-story house at any, even the coldest time of the year. It is possible to organize the heating system in such a way that the second floor is intended only for living in warmer periods.
Note that in case of need for repair or any problems, you should contact the specialists. If you need to replace certain items, such as a gas stove burner, be sure to call the professionals.The same applies to the first installation of such elements, for example, as a coil in a heating furnace. Note that this element must be made of sheet steel or metal pipes, thickness - 3-5 mm. The furnace heating coil must provide the maximum temperature of the heat carrier possible under such conditions.
A wood burning stove is a device that needs one of the cheapest types of fuel. Such a heater can be built with your own hands, however, for this you need to read special literature and find projects for wood-burning stoves. In addition to the characteristics regarding its efficiency, the stove is also quite a beautiful element of any interior.
In the following material, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with how, to increase the reliability of automation, a GSM alarm system for heating is used.
Furnace home heating projects and schemes
Heating planning in a private house should begin with a work plan. It includes a heating project for a two-story house, a list of necessary materials and an installation schedule. The most important stage is the choice of the heat supply scheme.
Operational safety is the first thing you need to pay attention to when drawing up a scheme. All projects of houses made of timber with stove heating provide for the use of special non-combustible materials for finishing and providing a place to store fuel
When choosing, you should pay attention to such factors:
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Availability of a water heating network
. To connect to it in the project of a rural house with stove heating, a heat exchanger located in the furnace must be provided; -
Furnace location
. In the absence of water heating, it should be located in the center of the house. To increase heat transfer, the wall adjacent to it consists of a network of chimney channels. Thus, the air heating area increases; - A professional heating project for a two-story house includes even distribution of heat throughout the rooms
. To do this, you can equip a large rough in the wall, or install water heating; -
Chimney Requirements
. It is possible not to make a pipe of a traditional square section, since in such projects of houses with stove heating, the efficiency index decreases due to insufficient traction. The best option is to install a sandwich chimney.
To implement projects of houses with individual heating of a small mercy, you can only install a stove. But at the same time, it is necessary to calculate the heat fluxes in the house.
In this case, it will be problematic to make a high-quality heating project for a two-story house. Therefore, one of the common options is the installation of water or air heating. Additionally, a heat exchanger is installed in the combustion chamber, with the help of which heat from burning wood (coal) is transferred to air in pipelines or water. Thus, not only the thermal distribution in the premises is optimized, but also the efficiency of the system will increase.
Any heating project for a private house with a double-circuit boiler or stove heating must be pre-calculated. The optimal thermal power of the system, the technological parameters of its components are determined. For this, it is best to use special programs.
Some cons
The oven involves some great care and labor. Melting it and keeping it on fire 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, this is regular cleaning of the chimney, in some European countries it is recognized as such an important event that its regularity and obligation are enshrined in law, and negligent and unlawful owners are subject to administrative and even criminal liability.
With a stove, it will not be possible 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, an obligatory component that characterizes stove heating in a wooden house is a cold floor. Of course, with a competent approach, all these shortcomings can be eliminated.
Cleaning in a house with stove heating is obviously more than in a building with centralized heat supply.
The oven is flammable. However, electric heaters are no less fire hazardous. It all depends on the so-called human factor.
Do not forget also that the stove is a rather bulky structure that “eats up” a decent part of the usable area of \u200b\u200byour house. And if you are not ready to give extra meters, then you should think again whether you need stove heating.
It is important to accurately calculate the dimensions of the future furnace
A small stove will be useless in terms of heating, and too large will require corresponding fuel costs. It is necessary to take into account and carefully calculate the possible heat loss of your housing, associated with its design features, as well as the layout and functional purpose of the rooms. All this taken together is the scheme of furnace heating.
Strictly speaking, stove projects begin in the same place as the projects of houses with stove heating, because the first is an integral part of the second. Based on this, the size, number and purpose of heating circuits on each floor of your house is calculated. Before deciding what size your stove will be, it is necessary to calculate all sorts of energy-saving measures that you can carry out: insulation of windows and doors, ceilings, under-roof space, etc.
It's time to decide on the type of furnace
Depending on what you think your stove should be able to do, choose from the variety of stoves that currently exist. And it is like this:
- Furnace - "potbelly stove". As funny as it sounds, this is a very common option for a country house. Especially if the latter is not intended for year-round use. It is quite capable of warming a small residential or utility room, heating water and preparing simple food. Moreover, she is ready to do this without any special financial and labor costs on your part. In addition, stove heating by means of a “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 such 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 “Dutch” to heat up quite quickly and cool down for a long time. Well, another plus of this stove is its beautiful appearance. With the appropriate design, the “Dutch” stove can become a decoration for your home.
- Kitchen stove. Its purpose is obviously different from the functions of the “relative” described above. If you live in a country house that is decent in all respects, you cannot do without a solid fuel stove. She can cook food, and feed livestock, and dry mushrooms, berries, and simply heat the water and keep it warm until morning washing, too. There are three types of rustic stoves: a) simple, that is, without an oven and a water-heating box; b) stoves with ovens; c) complex stoves with an oven and a water box.
- Russian oven. The most famous type in fairy tales. And the most versatile: it heats, cooks, steams, bakes bread, warms a couch for a comfortable and healing sleep. If you wish, you can even take a steam bath in it, they say. And all this is so in Russian, that is, without much hassle and all at once, at the same time.
