My husband and I, having retired, bought a house on the occasion of the village (home improvement makeshift stove)

My husband and I, having retired, bought a house on the occasion of the village. Location chosen good from the point of view of nature. The village is not big, only 25 houses. To the city 50 km. Around the forests, fields, clean air. One kilometer from the village of the river - for the expanse of fishermen. And in the summer you can go for berries, pick mushrooms. Vodicka in the well clean, spring. In short, the beauty, and only. That's just the house we bought without finishing, so the trouble immediately increased.

The first thing began to buy building materials. The house is brick. Decided to upholster it from the inside lining. It took quite a lot. Upholstered lining the walls and ceiling. Then coated linings akvalakom color "pine". It turned out very nicely. Roughing paved floor boards. Then put insulation, OSB, a substrate for linoleum finally put linoleum. Since the house with a loft, bought and installed a beautiful wooden staircase. On the second floor walls between rooms set OSB, plastered them pokleeli vinyl wallpaper. We set up the doors. So we turned to the ground, the same living room of 60 square meters, and the second floor -. Three small bedrooms. The result we are quite satisfied. For summer residence house is well suited and looks very nice. Kitchen gardens, planted all kinds of vegetables: potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, zucchini, pumpkin, beans, different greens. Established for three hotbed where planting tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.

Planted 10 bushes, vines, honeysuckle, strawberries, raspberries, currants. Garden we got a good 8 apples, pears, plums.
Taking the time and on the arrangement of the recreation area. Planted pine, arborvitae, junipers, broken beds. Established a gazebo, benches, swing.

Themselves made decorative pond. We built ten days. Pond has an area of ​​about 6 sq. m and contains up to one ton of water. To start on a pre-dug pit Damage to the contour of the ground. When the pit was ready. Properly compacted bottom of the future reservoir. Then brought river sand. It was filled to the bottom of the pit layer 10 and razravnyali cm. We bought two pieces of polyethylene film 6m * 7m: black and light green. At the bottom of the pond is first laid neatly black film, and then a light green solid. To impose the edge of the pond with stones, it took some time. Stones needed a different shape and size. We collected them throughout the county.

Here and neighbors helped us - offered what was found on their sites. We collected the stones properly washed. And spread out to dry first. When they have dried up, we placed them around the pond, pinning them edges of the film. After that we took a fine chippings. Around the pond we dug along the contour of a hole depth of 20 cm, width 50 cm. Pit filled with sand 10 cm, 10 cm - gravel. All pond is ready! Solemnly poured water placed on the surface of the lotus purchased in advance. Top hill of stones, laid out like steps to create a small waterfall, we strengthened ceramic jug. The pond = put a small pump, connect it to the tube with a pitcher. Around the pond installed decorative lamps. Only a few details: the stork, frog, bee. Spending time at our pond, listening to the murmur of water, very nice, especially in the heat. Soon it appeared in our pond and permanent residents: frogs, dragonflies, water striders.

In general, everything was fine for a summer residence. However, in September, in the house in May, it was cool enough. And then we started thinking about how to add up the stove. In winter, you choose the Internet Swede stove project, read a lot of articles and books on the furnace case. Armed with this knowledge, they have bought in the spring of everything you need for furnace construction: cast iron plate, and flue ash-pit door, gate, etc. In May bought a brick, cement, furnace mixture of basalt cardboard. First, poured a solid foundation. When it dried out, began to row after row spread itself furnace. The process is very time-consuming: the day put all the series. laid furnace firebox of fireclay brick, paving brick red between normal and basalt chamotte cardboard.

When the furnace was ready, we started the installation of the chimney. To connect pipes with a square brick sandwich pipes had to order a special adapter to square a circle. Installed 3.5 m sandwich pipe diameter of 300 mm. Passage of the pipe through the roof made with a flexible "Otter". On top of the sandwich pipe installed deflector for better traction. Fasten the cable pipe on the roof, for stability.

Finally, light the fire! Month we heat their it twice a day in small portions of wood. When the oven dry out, increased amount of wood. The house was very warm and cozy. When the oven is warming up, we open the door to her, which are on both sides. Thus, cold air near the floor part of the furnace and is already hot from the upper doors. So the room gets warm very quickly. Now we had to make our wonderful beautiful stove.

To this end, we covered it betonokontaktom and painted snow-white paint. Around the plate and the furnace door, where the heating furnace, the strongest, we decided to put the granite. It turned out very nicely. Before the stove 8 laid ceramic floor tiles. This is to fire good and convenient - it is possible to decompose the wood, and beautiful.

With the stove in our house it was very comfortable. Not for nothing in the old oven called "hot heart of the home." Now, in our house we live from April to November, and have time to grow a good crop of vegetables, berries, fruits, and relax and enjoy the pond and flowers, to meet in nature with friends barbeque. Of course, a lot of effort has been spent, all done by hand. But it was worth it.

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