How to turn an old stove in a work of art

A very common story, experienced by many users FORUMHOUSE: Oven in the acquired country house all good - well fired, does not smoke, it is convenient to prepare and dry things, that's just appearance - alas, leaves much to be better. Plastered clay sloppy, kind of shabby, whitewashed soot, crack went, stains, rust... And so you want to pechkaradovala eyes - was fair, clean, with flowers... you to help - experience FORUMHOUSE participants. As it turned out, turn your oven toiler in the work of art is not difficult.

On art, of course, not all brandishing someone enough to the stove took the original appearance, was clean and neat. How to achieve this, advises setter Alex Telegin

Alexey Telegin (User FORUMHOUSE):

- clears old plaster, wettable surface, put the reinforcing mesh or burlap, pre-moistened clay, plasterers and clay-sand mortar, correcting irregularities.

When dry, blanch solution quicklime.

When Marina1983S became a happy owner of the furnace, also asks questions of its refining.

Marina1983S (User FORUMHOUSE):

-I would like to bring the furnace in order and give it a nice modern look. There is an idea to remove the whitewash and redecorated oven. Oven into two rooms: one - the furnace and on the other - a wall of the room. How does the stove without whitewash, do not know yet, it's frightening to shoot her. I would like to make it nice and budget, under the decorative stone. There is another problem: where the fireplace, cast iron stove top with two circles, which can be removed. So - where it is connected with the furnace, the pieces fall off either of the clay, or cement, and the slit is formed into which a fire in the furnace can be seen. How it repaired, I'll never know.

1. How to decorate the stove? I've realized that you need to remove whitewash, something to put some mesh and on top of this already laying decorative stone.

2. How to rectify the situation at the edges of the hob?

The most budget option - to cover with clay, whitewash, and the top draw anything - can happen very stylish, says Beatrice.

Vladi Mir also believes whitewash good option isovetuet not be afraid of the emergence of new cracks:

- Not so sad with whitewash. The main cause of cracks in that:

1. They had never removed, as it should. Not scratched plaster to brick. Not cleaned from the joints of bricks remains of clay. He scored to close the new solution. Probably limited every time the surface putty.

2. Plaster made without reinforcement (mesh, burlap or gauze), destined to crack with sprawling by heating or cooling the brickwork. In 90% of cases of this trouble is removable. Suffice plastered oven for reinforcing coating.

Thus, if you obobete old plaster and put it through the same armirovochny layer, the problem with cracks should leave. Beli over and paint.

Other budget options I know. Any finish - that stone, tile or that something else - and labor intensive, and expensive on materials. There are some special heat-resistant puttyalready considerable cost money. Save on them - all cracked and pootvalivaetsya.

In Vladi World were found and minor repair tips in the joints of oven with cast iron stove:

- According Chugunin. Shoot. Stripping from the clay surface residues, which lays down plate.

Take mineral wool (required on the basis of basalt, from any manufacturer). Cut into strips with a knife. Obkladyvayut their seat iron plate. Directly to plate then lay down on the wool (if stout wool, it is possible to stratify the desired thickness without problems). Soaked or impregnated with the put cotton wool with liquid sand and clay mortar. And after all this mess put back Chugunin, carefully align the edges of sand and clay mixture and clipped, compressed or pushed deep into the mineral wool in those places where it sticks and prevents.

Validating believes it is better to use kaolin wool: it is, at least greener. But rockwool has almost any store building materials and kaolin "need to know where to get."

The doors of the stove, which became of the black dirty shed, painted with heat-resistant paints. Only it is important only to look to the heat resistance was not less than 600 degrees.

mamaMatroskina repairing the old brick oven and stove-fitter's curse, which it did: the seams are huge and different in width from 0.5 to 3 centimeters, respectively crooked bricks are:

-Clean everything to the ground - bare brick, sometimes through the seams. Very deep hole Terminated Plitonitom superkamin Ogneupor too wide and deep - with driving them bricks or pieces of the same rope that sealed door.

Now it is necessary to plaster.

For this mamaMatroskina bought a fiberglass mesh and corners for the plaster to level the furnace corners. First reinforced corners for them to play the role of lighthouses in the first layer of plaster, plastered, pasted grid, then again walked plaster on the grid.

For these works, you can use the classic glinopeschanuyu plaster. Otherwise, to avoid cracks in the places where the joints between the bricks "breathe", need plastic heat-resistant formulations. Here is a recipe offers

Alexey Telegin:

- clay-sand mortar prepared from a previously prepared, cleaned of impurities and clay soaked with the addition thereto of sand (preferably fine mountain). The desired consistency is checked by tests:

1. Rolling ball approximately 50 mm in diameter and release it from the height of about one meter to the ground. Now you study his remains. If the ball has numerous cracks and delamination - a mix of poor, need to add clay. If spreads in the cake - the fat, add the sand.

2. The same ball put to dry in the shade and periodically slightly moisten its surface until dry (about two days). Now check it for strength, and dropping from 1 meter... If it crumbled into a fine crumb - a lot of sand, even if cracked during drying - clay.

Before finishing the stove mameMatroskina well advised to heat it a couple of times. We heated the oven all the cracks maximally dilated. In this state, they are easier to close up, and it gets better. If the patch in the cold, then the furnace seams, as usual, will expand and will be all the same gaping fissures, from which you have been dreaming to get rid of.

Many forum users pointed out as a good option, without whitewashing finish - so that every brick in sight.

Locos(User FORUMHOUSE):

- Long thought than to elevate the oven: terracotta tiles like to decorate, then import dorogushchuju found and almost decided to take. But when the furnace cleaned from the old whitewash, because I liked the look of the old brick! In general, the embedded glass door perezater masonry joints mixture cleared all superfluous metal brush, primed, seams plated heat-resistant enamel red-brown -Black door, and the entire brick thermally stable lacquer into two layers. The tests were successful-not smoke, does not crack anything. Then see how behave. Live I really like the look of.

Igor-11 assures that you can decorate even more interesting and more reliable:

- Checked in practice. The furnace is made of stone and is heated very much. Obtyanuli mesh plastered composition with the addition of salt. Put glue on decorative stone for fireplaces and stoves. Oven stood one year. After a dozen stone fireplaces flew. I had to beat all. Self adhesive left on the stove. We came up with a simple and cheaper option. Sketched coat approximately 1-1.5 cm from the solution and the adhesive for furnaces, approximately 50x50. Adv by stone and painted the usual water-based paints. It turned out beautifully and reliably.

In this branch Forum you can find more tips and examples of how to make your furnace safe and beautiful. And here here - a description of proven construction technology a real Russian oven in just a few days a week. About the successful experience of repairing furnace Swede told in this video.

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