Many people dream of their own fireplace , but the high cost of building brigade services impedes the realization of the cherished dream. But if you have enough patience and allocate a few days, the fireplace in the apartment is easy to make by yourself. Before that, you need to draw a drawing and calculate the amount of material. After preliminary preparations it is possible to start work.
The device of the fireplace with their own hands
You can consider the construction of fireplaces with your own hands using the example of a home oven . This unit should heat the house with an area of 60 square meters. meters. The furnace will be equipped with a combustion chamber, which looks like an integrated cassette. The whole construction will be lined with brick, and the lining is made with a finishing bricks in the color of wet sand. Construction takes several steps:
- Foundation pouring. This procedure must be performed before you put the fireplace yourself. The weight of the structure is about 3 tons, and on the foundation of the foundation the dependence of the strength of the furnace. The perimeter of the fireplace is 1x1.5 meters. Pour the foundation with concrete in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 (sand, part of cement and three gravels). Use a masonry net and dig in piles made from an asbestos tube.
- Output to zero. 3 Masonry lines must be done in order to bring out a perfectly flat horizontal surface. From these series depends on whether the foundation of the future fireplace will be even.
- Lay the foundation of the wood and fireplace. Before you start laying, you need to lay an approximate masonry of the stove without a solution, then to navigate in the masonry device. Now you can work with cement mortar. Lay out three rows of the base.
- Installing the cassette for the fireplace. Before inserting a cassette, all should be leveled. The weight of the cassette is 90 kg, so its installation is an extremely important process. After stacking the cassette, adjust its position with the building level.
- Raise the rows until the burner closes. The rows of masonry should be equal to the top edge of the fireplace. The inner wall is removed from the red brick, and the remaining partitions are Belgian.
- Hide the protruding elements of the iron cassette. This can be done with a cutting circle for ceramics. Form them pieces of brick the right size and lay out decorative masonry.
- Arrange the chimney. After the first part of the work on the firing of the stove is over, you can proceed to the formation of baking. Rub a layer of mortar on the entire masonry so that the smoke is sent to the furnace tube.
- Cut the ceiling for the pipe. The size should be at least 80 cm for each cut. Form the chimney.
In front you will have a chamber for a fireplace, and behind for a wood dowel. It is convenient when the heat of the oven dries out logs, before putting them in the furnace.
Near the woodlander there will be a heating stove, folded according to the classical scheme. First, the ash pan was blown out, and then the combustion chamber and the chimney.
Experts warn that one can not cope with this work, so before you make a fireplace yourself, it is desirable to find assistants.
Decorating fireplaces with your own hands
At the end of the fireplace, you can start decorating the fireplace. For this you can use such materials: paint, wood, stucco molding, plaster, plasterboard, stucco molding, tiles, brick, tiles.
The easiest way to finish - painting a brick. The color of the masonry can be made more saturated by emphasizing the seams of cement, or vice versa to give the stone a light tint. Use silicone heat resistant paint. Apply in several layers, waiting for the previous layer to dry.
You can put plaster on the fireplace. There is a great chance to prove yourself. The plaster can be embossed or smooth, with patterns and initials. All depending on the imagination.