One in a Million: Choosing the Perfect Wood or Gas Stove for Your Summer Cottage
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If the dacha was planned not only as a garden shed for storing buckets and shovels, but also as a house in which to live, you cannot do without a stove.
The most budget option — potbelly stove, are also used fireplaces, corner, gas, brick stoves. However, price is far from the main criterion that should be relied upon when choosing a device.
What should a country stove be like?
To answer this question, remember why a heating unit is needed at a dacha. Its purpose is to heat the room so that it is comfortable to rest and sleep, you can warm up near it. Accordingly, when choosing the type of furnace, proceed from the following considerations:
- The best option for a country house is a fireplaceIf you still want a stove, then a stove and a fireplace.
- Time for melting — the shorter, the better.
- Portability (the heat of the house is not needed in the summer, so the unit can be moved to the yard for barbecue).
- Presence of a hob.
- Heat retention time without flooding it should be as long as possible.
- Presence of connector for DHW heat exchange register (hot water supply).
- Economy — the less wood the device eats, the better.
- The simpler the design, the more unpretentious the unit and the more you will have to spend less on work stove master. This is especially expensive in winter.
Taking into account all these criteria, you can already think about how the unit will fit in in the design of a country house.
How to choose the material of the product
The material from which the device is made also plays a fundamentally important role.
Metal
The best option for a summer residence is welded metal furnaceIt is very easy to use, you can install it yourself, it keeps heat for a long time and heats up quickly.
Can be installed if desired oven, hob, hot water supply or air convector.
A regularly heated stove will last a maximum of eight years (for those who live in the country permanently), irregularly - fifteen, sometimes even twenty years. It is easy to move from the house to the yard, you can not be afraid of carbon monoxide poisoning. The only disadvantage of such a stove is its rough, unaesthetic appearance, which may not fit into the exquisite design of a country mansion.
Attention! Stoves of this type are absolutely not suitable for a summer house. bubafonya. They take up a lot of space, are fire hazardous, and the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning is very high.
Moreover, it is not possible to attach a frying panel to them, accordingly, there will be no benefit from such a device. It won't heat the cottage or make a barbecue. The unit takes a long time to heat up and retains heat worse.
Brick
Ideal for cottages and large country houses. You can sleep, without fear of carbon monoxide leakage and not worrying about adding more firewood. But the unit requires a lot of money - both for heating and for the services of a stove-maker. Not suitable for garden sheds, it is best to install a fireplace in at least a one and a half story house, and better yet, a two-story house.
Cast iron
A cast iron stove is good for almost everything: it can withstand a long time without heating, it is easy to use. At the same time, it cannot be taken out of the house into the yard, it is very difficult to install a water heater, and sometimes it is impossible.
It would be better for a person without special qualifications not to even take on this. It is imperative to call a specialist.
In addition, cast iron is much heavier than the material of a welded furnace, and is also brittle. It costs several times more than the welded metal version.
When using a cast iron unit the risk of poisoning by combustion products increases, therefore, it is absolutely impossible to live for a long time in a room heated with a cast iron version.
A cast iron unit is best suited for large sheds or garages.
Placement of the stove in the house
When deciding where to place your stove, keep in mind that it should take up less usable square footage while still radiating heat to as many rooms as possible.
Most often the unit is installed:
- near the wall;
- in a partition separating two rooms;
- in the corner.
Important! The sides of the stove should not be allowed to come into close contact with the walls, as the latter will “eat up” a significant portion of the heat emitted. The length of the distance between the side of the unit and the wall is not less than 0.15 m, maximum - 2to ensure air circulation.
It is also very convenient to place a heating device on the border of two adjacent rooms because it is easy to install a chimney. The latter can rest on the internal partition. Bulkhead should not be thinner than 25 cm.
Often the heating stove and fireplace are installed together. This option is acceptable, but then it is necessary to ensure the removal of combustion products and the heating unit and the fireplace into one common chimney. The chimney is strictly straight, without any smoke separation capabilities.
Fuel
Happens natural and artificial originAs a rule, solid options are used for a country house: slate, anthracite, hard and brown coal, peat, briquettes, coal coke, for smaller devices, wood chips and paper are used.
Carefully! When choosing a stove, you also need to focus on amount of sulfur compounds released, such as sulfur dioxide, sulfur dioxide. They are highly toxic and dangerous even in small quantities. The least amount of them is released during the combustion of peat.
Additional functions
As already mentioned, the stove can not only be a source of heat in the building, but also perform functions of the cooking device, for example, barbecue or shashlik. In this case, a hob is installed on it. In addition, with its help you can even solve the issue Hot water supply at the dacha, if you connect a water heating element to it.
Photo 1. Brick oven for a summer house. Additionally equipped with a fireplace and a stove for cooking.
There is an opinion that in terms of cooking, warmth and comfort, it is best suited Russian stove. It is not so. Firstly, it is very will hit your wallet hard — the installation alone will cost a lot, and there is also maintenance, which is also expensive. Secondly, it will require keep adding wood — their stove does not save. In addition, it takes a long time to heat up and is only good for one room. The inhabitants of other rooms may not even suspect that a Russian stove is burning in their home.
Photos of finished devices
Photo 2. Metal stove with decorative design. The firebox is made of thermal glass, which allows you to enjoy the flame.
Photo 3. A stove for a summer house, made of brick. Additionally, it has a hob, allowing you to cook food.
Photo 4. Metal stove with decorative ceramic tile inserts. The device has a hob.
Useful video
Watch an interesting video that shows the process of designing a brick oven with a hob for a summer house.
The best stove for heating a summer house: gas or wood
Metal stoves are best suited for country houses. "Professor Butakov", "Sinel", "Buleryan", "Breneran"They do not require long warm-up, and switch to a long-burning mode, providing long-term heat without overheating.
For fans of gas generator stoves, the best option is "Feringer Lada". It has a convenient hob, the unit is very easy to use and does not require much effort in maintenance. Wood-burning stoves are ideal for houses without centralized gas supply. One of the safest and most popular options is a stove "Ermak" And "Buleryan". The latter is distinguished by its high Efficiency (85%), is very economical and can be used to cook and reheat food.
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