Furnace-fireplace for summer residence

Furnace-fireplace for dachas is one of the original solutions for a country house or villa. If you choose a fireplace, you need to understand that the heat transfer from it will not suit you, you will need additional heating appliances. The oven is designed to hold heat for a long time. But you can not bring it into the finished house, but its construction is quite expensive. Therefore, an alternative solution are stove-fireplaces.

Heating stoves-fireplaces can be gas, wood, peat and charcoal. They warm well and are mounted quite simply. Modifications of the device quite a lot - it's a heating stove-fireplace, or a stove-fireplace with a stove.

For example, the unit with a water circuit not only heats the room, but also has other useful properties. It quickly warms the room, and water can be used to wash floors and utensils. Keep the temperature of such furnaces can be up to ten hours.

How does the fireplace work?

This structure, which absorbed most of the functions of the stove and fireplace: long keeps the heat, has an open firebox, which quickly warms up the room. And if we take into account the stove during the construction of the stove, we can also prepare food.

A feature of the fireplace oven is that it has two fireboxes and two more chimneys. Accordingly, you can heat the fireplace separately, a separate oven. This is the case when you have a large fireplace in the house made of bricks.

But you can also install a cast-iron stove-fireplace, designed specifically for the dacha. It is lighter in weight and is installed almost anywhere in the house. The prototype of such a device is the so-called "burzhuyka." In the twenties of the last century, such furnaces were installed in urban apartments. Well, today they are perfectly settled in our country houses.

When installing a metal furnace, you need to pay great attention to the chimney. It must comply with security measures, but installs inside or outside the premises.

A separate type of stove-fireplace - angular

This type of stove-fireplace can be called a very convenient solution to the problem of heating a country house. The corner oven-fireplace for the dacha will perfectly fit into the small space of the room. More often such furnaces are installed in living rooms or dining rooms. This preserves the area and creates a cozy atmosphere. Sometimes this kind of fireplace can be used to prepare meals for the family or even guests.

In addition, corner stoves-fireplaces are also convenient because, due to their location, additional foundation is not required.

Aesthetics of the stove-fireplace

The stove-fireplace pleases the owner with live fire and beauty. To decorate such furnaces, tiles, majolica, natural stone and ceramic tiles are used. The style can be very diverse: high-tech and classic, country and provence - whatever you want.

It can be noted that the old cast-iron "burzhujki" found a new life, look stylish, original. Often used in the base and sides are black matte steel. And for the upper area - stainless steel and cast iron.

Forms also differ in variety. Furnaces-fireplaces can be rounded forms, cylindrical, streamlined. There are strict lines, rectangular.

Other styles involve facing in the form of natural stone, shell rock, limestone, and even refractory bricks. Original chunk blocks will look original. The French like to arrange a revetment of pink marble, which is often stylized as a brick.

As a finish, massive beams are involved, which are located above the furnace. They serve as an excellent table top for the installation on it of various figures and other decorative features. And if you are more bold, then you can use mosaic to finish the fireplace.