I always dreamed of a brick oven, but bought an iron one. Why is this the best option for my home? I explain the nuances.
A large, warm brick oven is like the heart of a home. But sometimes it is possible to put only her "metal brother". Will an iron stove be a full replacement for a brick one? Or is it a weak parody?
Friends, a big hello to everyone. Well, that time has come in my house under construction... Time to do stove heating.
In one of the last articles, I wrote how I came to this decision, go to the channel, read.
It remains to make a choice, which side to take?
Brick or iron: what material will the stove be used to heat my home? And here all fantasies had to be adjusted to reality.
The brick oven was my dream.
The house was still only in the project, but I already knew the approximate dimensions of the stove, and where it would be located.
After all, this option has a lot of advantages.
- Reliability and durability.
- Storage capacity.
- Pleasant warmth (not harsh and not scalding).
- Minimum maintenance.
- Less picky about the quality of fuel (i.e. firewood).
Moreover, as a child, I often spent time with my grandmother, who has a brick oven, with a whole system of chimneys, and from my feelings I know what this is about.
But when it came down to it, the nuances surfaced.
✔ Furnace weight under my house (64 kV + attic) there will be somewhere a ton, one and a half... And of course, for such a colossus, a reinforced, maybe a separate foundation is needed.
And in my case, this is a 100mm slab with 400 x 400mm stiffeners that go under the walls. And even if you pour more concrete 100 mm, which is, I am not sure that it will be reliable.
✔ At the same time, the laying of the stove requires either a specialist or long painstaking work with your own hands (with an unknown result)
✔ There are problems with the chimney too ...
While I was engaged in the installation of the roof and its insulation (with all the wool, films, adhesive tapes, sealants, and other subtleties of the attic), I realized that I did not want to make the passage of the chimney through the roof.
- First, cut through all this, and do it with high quality, so that later it does not flow.
- Secondly, fire safety is also a concern ...
Considering all my requests, there is only one way out ...
An iron stove, and a sandwich chimney, which I purchased.
- Lightweight, mine weighs 60 kg in total.
- You can fit anywhere. I put it against the wall in order to bring the chimney out to the side of the house.
- Instead of the high heat capacity of the brick, a long burning mode comes. In this case, the wood burns very slowly, or rather smolders, and maintains the temperature in the house.
- The ability to repair quickly and with your own hands (there is welding, hands too).
Of course, there are also enough minuses.
✔ The service life is not long, compared to brick, especially if misused.
✔ Service requires special attention. Cleaning the stove and chimney itself from soot will become a frequent ritual.
But still it is an ideal option, to try what life is like with a stove.
It is very important to learn all the little things and feel the nuances on your own experience. And a similar stove allows you to do this without special financial costs, and without grandiose reconstructions.
So the editing is in progress ...
Friends, I am waiting for your opinion and advice in the comments. This is always helpful.
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