Want to come and relax for the New Year holidays? How to heat a summer house in winter without gas or electricity

Summer residents relax on their plots not only in summer, but also in winter. The rest will be comfortable, if you take care of heating in advance. Country houses are heated by a variety of devices.

The choice of equipment depends on the size and condition cottages, weather conditions, availability of firewood, household gas, electricity.

Heating a summer house without electricity and gas

In the absence of electricity and gas, the country house will be heated by a system powered by solar collector. You can make a simple collector yourself, but it hardly heats house, if the temperature drops below zero. That is why brick ovens are most often built for economical heating.

Stove heating

Owners of summer cottages build fireplaces, brick stoves, buy potbelly stoves. Stores offer owners of private houses dozens of types of cast iron and steel stoves.

Stoves and fireplaces made of brick They are heated with wood and coal. burn any organic fuel.

• Brick ovens are installed not only in the middle of the room, they are built in in the piers for heating several rooms.
• After the fuel has burned out, the valve is closed. and the warmth does not leave the house.

The bricks are heated slowly and evenly by the fire and retain heat for a long time. The stove remains warm even after a day.

Fireplaces

Fireplaces good for one room, but are not suitable for heating several adjacent rooms. They burn a lot of fuel compared to conventional brick stoves.

The flame emanates direct thermal radiation, heating the space in front of the firebox. This creates convection thermal flow, going up from the fireplace.

Potbelly stove

When burning solid fuel, the stove heats up quickly. For heating the house one bookmark is enough firewood.

Photo 1. Metal stove installed in the house. According to fire safety regulations, the floor and walls around it are covered with non-combustible materials.

This oven does not take up much space, but it cannot be built into openings. It is necessary to comply with fire safety regulations and distance the structure from the walls.

When the fuel burns, the furnace body heats up and the air temperature nearby increases.

How to heat a summer house in winter when there is a shortage of firewood

In the absence of electricity and a shortage of firewood, cottages are heated using gas. Gas supply is carried out from main networks and cylinders.

They are used for heating gas appliances without fanThese are convectors, thermal and infrared catalytic heaters, mini-ovens.

The principle of heating with gas appliances that operate without electricity is in the supply of coolant to the burners by gravityThe air is heated by natural circulation.

The special features of heating with such devices include: increased requirements for air circulation. The room should be ventilated with a window. Gas heaters allow you to raise the temperature in the house within half an hour.

Gas guns

The gas heat gun (heater) is designed for quick heating of summer cottages and permanent residences, as well as for tents.

After opening the valve, gas flows to the burners. The piezoelectric device creates a spark, which ignites the fuel. The flame heats the air, which is blown into the room by a fan.

The peculiarity of gas heat guns is that these devices are not completely autonomousThey have a fan in their body that runs on electric current.

How to quickly heat a room if there is electricity

In many summer cottage villages there is electricity all year round. To quickly heat a house, electric heaters, infrared heaters are used, and a “Warm floor” system is installed.

Electric heaters

There are several types household electric heaters: electric fireplaces, fan heaters, convectors, oil radiators. Such devices quickly heat the room in winter.

Electric the current, passing through working elements with high resistance, heats themAs a result of heat exchange with the air, the house is heated.

Heating Features are related to their designThe heating speed depends on this.

• IN electric fireplaces a heating coil or heating element is built in. The heated heater transfers heat to the surrounding air.
• Fan heater equipped with a built-in fan that draws air into the device. After heating from the coil (heating element), the air is blown back into the room.
• Convectors have a vertical casing. Air enters the lower slits of the housing, heats up and exits through the upper slits.
• Oil heaters filled with special oil, inside the device there are heating elements. Heating occurs when heat is released from the hot body of the device.

Infrared heating

Infrared heating is created by devices that operate from gas, electricity, diesel fuelThis group includes portable and stationary IR devices and film.

• Infrared heaters they can be floor-mounted or wall-mounted and ceiling. They are also made in the form of pictures. These devices have different designs and sizes.
• IR film consists of heating elements (tires), carbon film or foil and plastic coating. IR films are used to cover flat and curved surfaces.

Working elements of devices create infrared radiation, which is good heats solid objects, but it heats the air gap weakly. The walls give off heat to the air that circulates inside the room.

Peculiarities IR heating related to the design devices. In electrical devices, the heating elements are heating elements. In gas IR devices, the gas enters metal grids, ceramic plates with a platinum coating, on which the combustion products decompose.

Warm floor

The "Warm Floor" system creates heating lower part of the roomHeating pipes are installed under the floor of the dacha, and electrical cables, IR film, and amorphous metal tape are laid.

The heat emitted by the heating elements of the system, warms the floor and the air layer above it.

The air rises and heats the entire room.

Peculiarities:

• Stationary "Warm floor" systems are installed on a cement-sand cushion under tiles, laminate, ceramic tiles, linoleum.
• Mobile "Warm floor" devices are laid on top of flooring, under carpetsThey are made in the form of mats.

Heating a two-story cottage in winter

Good heating of a two-story building is only possible using water heating. To heat water in the heating system, the following are used types of boilers:

• solid fuel;
• electrical;
• gas;
• on liquid fuel.

Burning solid fuel (wood, coal), electric heating elements, gas increase the temperature of the coolant (water). Water in a natural flow (or using a pump) moves along a closed circuit of heating pipes and gives off heat.

Features of heating a two-story cottage:

• If the summer residents do not live in the house permanently, the water in the heating system add antifreeze, or use special liquids.
• Water in the system do not overheat, since steam bubbles lead to depressurization of the system.
• Gas boilers are placed in a separate room with good ventilation.

How to heat a veranda?

Summer residents use it to heat their verandas small potbelly stoves, but they quickly heat the air and fan heaters and electric fireplaces. Portable ones are turned on on the veranda infrared heaters, gas mini-ovens. The fastest possible heating creates heat gun.

Useful video

Watch the video, which shows a heating system for a summer house using a solid fuel boiler.

Ways to keep your country house warm

Basic insulation of the cottage will help to retain heat. Work on insulation of the building includes sealing cracks, installing winter frames, covering the entrance door with heat-insulating material, insulating the ceiling. Heat is better retained in a building with plastered wallsWhen using stoves, you should take care of the damper, which will also help to retain heat for a long time.