How to prevent the cracking furnace

The owners of villas and private houses sooner or later face the problem of cracking of masonry stoves and what and how to cover up the cracks in the furnace.

The furnace usually folded from a refractory brick, fireclay placed on the solution, which is also a refractory. Thus, a clutch that is easy to tolerate extreme temperatures. However, after some time, not only the brick, but the solution can crack that would jeopardize the livelihoods of people using this stove. Therefore Teschin still have to resolve.

For this purpose, various solutions are used. The most common embodiment of such a solution, in which the composition has a clay and sand, taken in equal amounts. It is important that there were no lumps. The resulting mixture is tested for strength, casting a solution of a lump on the floor. If cake crack cut up, the clay is added to the solution. Before obmazyvaniem stove, her wet gauze wrap, and allow to dry only then plastered.

Often in such solutions present additional components, such as chopped straw. Prepared mixture always leave the night and in the morning go to work. First clutch is moistened with water and then applied in two coats solution. Drying oven for two weeks.