Overview of stoves for country houses
Every second dacha owner worries about its safety in the autumn-winter period, because if the room is not heated, then the moisture and cold do their job, bringing mold, dampness and other unpleasant moments to the dacha building. I especially want to keep the dacha in order if a fresh cosmetic repair has been made in it.
It is precisely before major and cosmetic repairs that you need to think about heating a country house, prematurely discussing the question of what kind of stove to install and what raw materials to heat it with.
The sheer variety of modern oven modifications can be confusing for the buyer. What kind of heating stove for giving give your preference? Let's figure it out!
Types of stoves for heating country houses
The modern range of stoves for summer cottages boils down to the following modifications:
- long-burning wood-burning heating stoves - heating devices of an elegant compact design with a hob, designed for wood raw materials, structures are painfully safe, comfortable to maintain, characterized by high heat transfer, ideal for summer cottages; among the heating devices and equipment offered on the market, wood-burning stoves are widely popular due to their high savings and heat performance; this type of stove can be purchased in a modern heating equipment store in completely different modifications, it can be a rectangular version,
and also in the form of a battery,
cylindrical compact;
long-burning ovens are able to both heat the dacha and allow you to cook or warm up food;
- brick ovens for firewood are an old, but most effective way to warm up a room; brick ovens for summer cottages can be laid out by yourself or you can use the services of professional stove-designers; the stove can be installed in any convenient corner of one of the country rooms
either in its central part;
brick ovens are able to keep heat for a long time after the raw material burns out.
- potbelly stoves are too ancient, but, nevertheless, a reliable option to warm the room and cook food in the countryside; potbelly stoves are also intended for burning wood raw materials;
- fireplace stoves - this type of stove perfectly replaces the fireplace, is very compact and is characterized by a high rate of heat transfer; efficiency fireplace stoves are felt only when wood is burning;
- stoves for summer cottages with circulation of water, from which you can do the distribution of central heating in all rooms of the cottage; the so-called Breneran stoves run on any solid fuel - wood, coal, peat, sawdust, wood shavings
The most important aspects when choosing a stove for a summer residence
A huge range of technological furnace developments make it possible to translate any ideas into reality within the dacha.
Before immediately buying this or that stove for a summer residence, it is worth thinking about several of the most important questions:
- what the stove will be intended for - cooking food, heating and aesthetic design of the interior space of the country rooms;
- what level of heat transfer indicator can heat the area of the existing summer cottage or house;
- how important is the savings on the procurement of raw materials that will heat the summer cottage;
- the overall dimensions of the furnace itself, because the dacha is not always spacious enough;
- how often the premises need to be heated and how much time the owner spends at the dacha during the cold season.
The options for stoves for summer cottages listed above are the most acceptable for suburban residential buildings. If electricity and gas are constantly becoming more expensive, then wood-burning and long-burning stoves are a real boon in terms of economy, because there are never any problems with the procurement of firewood outside urban megalopolises.
Of course, if most of the time the owners of the cottage spend within its walls, then you can just think about steam centralized heating, which runs either on gas or, consuming electricity, the wiring of which begins with a heated boiler.
For many owners of suburban real estate, the dacha is a kind of gratifying corner, which at every step brings warmth and great mood, so you always want to equip it as comfortable and cozy as possible.
Whatever modified version modern engineers offer, but the most effective in heating a country house is still a brick wood stove. Thanks to correctly folded smoke outlets in the wall cavities, the walls of the rooms warm up perfectly and keep the heat for a very long time, which cannot be compared with fireplace radiators and potbelly stoves.
A brick stove is an excellent option for decorating the interior of a summer cottage, because you can lay out the stove from colorful refractory bricks, supplementing it with an oven, a cooking zone and, of course, a stove bench, on which it is pleasant to warm up in frosty winter weather.
It is also possible that each owner always relies on his financial savings, which are often the most important criterion for choosing one or another option. Of the above-mentioned stoves for summer cottages, the most acceptable in value terms are potbelly stoves and brick stoves, laid out with their own hands.
But the rest of the modified furnaces are the result of modern achievements and require considerable financial costs for their purchase.
After all, a dacha is bought by different owners due to various vital needs, some prefer a quiet and cozy country vacation during weekends or vacations, others maintain a dacha to replenish their winter food supplies, and still others for the purpose of growing beautiful flowers and shrubs, as well as a garden. And the frequency of attendance of the dacha property directly depends on this, especially in the autumn-winter weather season.
If you already have an unsightly house outside the city, then you can still get by with a stove, if the dacha is a manor house with a beautiful house, then you should still pay more attention to heating, focusing on more worthy aesthetic options for stoves for summer cottages.
The warmth and comfort in any country house depends only on the owners themselves, therefore, when choosing a stove for a summer residence, try to perfectly weigh all your pros and cons regarding this or that variant of stoves, in order to subsequently enjoy the warmth and magical comfort, country romance with the smell of firewood and the kind of fire in the fireplace or stove.
In order for the purchased stove to serve for a sufficiently long period of time, it is always necessary to invite a specialist to install it, if the situation requires it. For fire safety purposes, all rules for using the unit in everyday life should be taken into account. Do not neglect the rules of correct operation, this will extend the service life for a long time.
When choosing a furnace, you should not pay attention to the manufacturer, today the market is filled with quality variations of both domestic and foreign production, similar in cost prices, the most important thing is to take into account the inherent characteristics of the furnace, the percentage of its efficiency and overall dimensions, as well as the material from which it is made ...The strongest foundations are cast iron, the most unreliable are steel.