Stove fireplace potbelly stove for a summer residence. Stoves made of cast iron for heating country houses

A country house, as a rule, is built in a small size, and when the question arises about heating it in the off-season, wood-burning potbelly stoves are the first to come to mind.

For a dacha, such heaters are indeed a good solution - they are inexpensive, do not take up much space, and are unpretentious to fuel. However, the device also has its drawbacks. Let's look at all the characteristics, selection and installation rules.

A potbelly stove is a simple design that has a compartment for firewood, an ash pit and a chimney.

To make the case, one of two metals is used:

  1. Cast iron.
  2. Steel.

Wood-burning cast iron stoves for a summer residence will have an impressive mass. Its heating takes a little longer than steel.

But inertia pays off when the fade occurs. The steel walls are hot while the combustion process is going on, and then they cool down just as quickly. Cast iron retains heat for some time after extinguishing.

In addition, cast iron has a longer service life; such a stove will not burn out for a long time. But at the same time, it can be damaged, for example, by dropping it or hitting it with a heavy object - there is a possibility of cracks appearing and the device will become unusable.

Other differences in models. Potbelly stoves can be:

  1. With legs.
  2. Without legs, on a flat base.

The former look more elegant and are safer to use.

  • rectangular;
  • barrel-shaped.

Barrel-shaped potbelly stove

The latter are most often made with your own hands, for example, from a piece of pipe.

As for convenience, user reviews show that a rectangular shape is more suitable for firewood - it is much easier to place fuel in it.

Functional parameters of the potbelly stove

Potbelly stoves heat the room, but they can also be used to heat food. The flat top allows you to place pots and heat kettles; and a number of models are equipped with a “circle” burner.

Some stoves have decorative value. They are decorated with artistic casting and can have a glass door.

After loading fuel and igniting the fire, the intensity of combustion is regulated by opening and closing the ash drawer or the ash door.

If the horizontal section of a metal pipe (passing through a living space) is 3 meters, then its efficiency is 80% or more. This is a good indicator for such a simple design.

Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of a potbelly stove, for which summer residents love it:

  1. Compactness - the stove will not take up much space, both when installed in the house and if it is moved for storage.
  2. Quick heating of the room, which is very important, because the dacha is sometimes visited for raids during cool times.
  3. Potbelly stoves can be heated with firewood, branches, and wooden construction waste.
  4. Able to tolerate periods of downtime.
  5. Easy to install and DIY.
  6. Affordable price.

Rectangular potbelly stove with legs

Disadvantages of a potbelly stove that you need to know about before purchasing:

  • Low efficiency. Among furnaces and boilers, this furnace does not hold any records of efficiency.
  • Constant supervision is required. The oven cannot be “fired and forgotten.” You will need to throw firewood, work with a poker, and monitor safety.
  • Firewood size. The smaller the furnace firebox, the more intensively the owner will have to chop and break down wood fuel. Some models will need poles 20–35 cm long.
  • Adjustment of combustion intensity. Roughly speaking, it is not provided, except in a very small range. They adapt to move the ash pan box, and a view that completely blocks the pipe is not needed, since the walls of the furnace have time to cool down before the fuel burns out enough so that the damper can be closed.

The problem of low inertia of potbelly stoves is sometimes solved by erecting a brick “casing” around it. The array protects people from burns, warms up well and retains heat longer.

Stove installation

The installation rules are based on protecting surrounding objects and walls from the hot walls of the potbelly stove:

  • Base. It must be non-flammable. Of course, a concrete slab is ideal, but few people can afford such a high-quality foundation at their dacha. A section of ceramic tiles and a brick base are suitable. Models with legs are not so demanding on the base, since the legs, although they heat up, are to a lesser extent. Here you can use a sheet of tin.
  • Distance to walls. If the walls are wooden or lined with flammable materials, the distance to them should be at least 70 cm, if plastic, even more. The same principle applies to furniture.
  • Chimney. Pipe diameter from 85 to 150 mm. If possible, you should avoid joining pipes, especially in a residential area, but if you have to join, the joint must be completely airtight. The joints should not coincide with the place where the pipe passes through the floors and roof. In these areas, a fireproof barrier is made of brick, ceramics or concrete, which will protect the floor materials from fire. Often the stove pipe is placed out the window, and the stove itself is placed in the middle of the room. In this case, the section of pipe extending from the furnace (horizontal or inclined) will act as an afterburning chamber and transfer heat to the room.
  • Ventilation. The potbelly stove burns with an open principle. This means that it will take the necessary oxygen from the room in which it is located. Therefore, according to the standards, it needs to provide a sufficient amount of fresh air: per 1 kW - 10 m 3 per hour. Few country houses can boast of good supply and exhaust ventilation, so the problem is usually solved by ventilation. Otherwise, people will experience unpleasant symptoms of oxygen starvation.

Stove after installation

To make the potbelly stove mobile, that is, to be able to move it from place to place, part of the chimney can be made from fireproof corrugation. You just have to pay more attention to cleaning, because the corrugated area will become a place where soot accumulates.

Very often it is not practical to organize a heating system in a country house, but if heating is still necessary, they will help out. We will consider the types of stoves and the features of choice in the article.

Instructions for building a brick barbecue with your own hands are presented.

An inexpensive and effective way to heat a country house is heating with wood. In this topic we will look at cast iron wood stoves, their types and cost.

  • The ash drawer can only be cleaned when the stove has completely cooled down. Simply remove it and throw away the contents (remember that the ash can remain hot for several hours).
  • It is better to use dry wood for ignition. The volume of the filling is no more than ¼ of the volume of the entire firebox.
  • Do not store flammable liquids, objects, or rags near the stove body.
  • Hot walls can cause burns - handle the stove carefully and do not leave it unattended for a long time, especially if children are nearby!
  • It is better to store fuel away from the stove, and not under it (the temptation is great if the model has legs). This will protect the firewood from sparks hitting them and, as a result, fire.
  • The firebox door must not be opened during combustion (except for short moments when you need to work with a poker and immediately close the door).
  • By the way, in factory models of potbelly stoves it is taken into account that the door must close very tightly. Most models are equipped with a sealing cord and a high-quality lock.

Price

Affordable price is one of the most attractive aspects of potbelly stoves. For example, a small 5 kW Hephaestus cast iron stove will cost about 3.5 thousand rubles.

Similar stoves with higher power, with a deck, burner and other additions can cost 5 - 8 thousand rubles.

A separate row of stoves, which are not so much a heating device as a highlight of the interior.

Their walls and doors are decorated with solid patterns and monograms. The cost of such works varies greatly, but on average it is 10 – 14 thousand rubles.

Let's summarize. The potbelly stove does not shine in many respects. But if you need to heat a small house, spending a minimum of money, then the optimal solution would be to install a potbelly stove with the construction of a brick casing.

The disadvantage of potbelly stoves is that they have a short burning time, so they are most preferable, especially for those who like to turn on the device and forget about it.

Read about the advantages of solid fuel boilers with a water circuit.

Video on the topic

Avid summer residents who spend not only the summer on their property, but also part of the spring, as well as deep autumn, need to take care of heating their country house. As a rule, holiday villages are not connected to a gas supply; at the same time, building a brick stove or fireplace is quite difficult and expensive. Therefore, the best option is solid fuel stoves, which are the subject of this article.

General information

When you hear the word potbelly stove, many people imagine crudely welded, unattractive steel structures in the form of a metal box on legs, with a door and a chimney. Until recently, these ovens were just that. They had low efficiency, so it was quite difficult to heat large rooms with their help.

This heating option also has a right to exist. However, recently modern potbelly stoves, which look quite nice and can be an addition to a country house interior, have become increasingly popular.

Their main advantage is higher operating efficiency, although the price of these products is also much higher. Next, we will take a closer look at the features of such furnaces.

Features of modern potbelly stoves

Design Features

Modern potbelly stoves are an improved design of a metal stove. They are capable of heating a room with a volume of up to 100 cubic meters and retaining heat for a long time.

Among the features of their design, the following points can be highlighted:

Sealed doors Glass doors framed by a metal frame fit tightly, which prevents smoke from entering the room.
The presence of valves on the doors and air intakes of the ash pit Valves allow you to regulate the air supply, which determines the intensity of combustion.
Heat-resistant lining of internal walls Allows you to protect the metal from overheating and retain heat for a long time.
Availability of re-burning Afterburning ensures complete combustion of residual flue gases and thereby increases the efficiency of the furnace.
Dividing the chimney into exhaust and heat exchange This design allows you to retain heat longer. The heat exchanger is a “smoke bag” that is located inside the structure. The metal pipe that goes outside has valves that also help retain heat.

Advantages

Modern potbelly stoves, thanks to improved design, can be used as the main or additional source of heat in a country house.

They have a number of advantages over traditional brick kilns, among which the following points can be highlighted:

  • A potbelly stove for a dacha with a hob, which many modern models have, makes it possible to cook food.
  • Does not require complex maintenance, unlike brick structures.
  • Installing a potbelly stove in a country house with your own hands does not cause any problems even in a built house, since it does not require the construction of a foundation. This is due to the low weight of the structure. (See also article.)
  • Low cost compared to brick structures.
  • Possibility to fire with several types of fuel– peat, firewood and wood briquettes.
  • These designs are fireproof. The only thing is that when using them you must follow basic safety rules.
  • If necessary, the oven can be moved to another room, in which it is possible to bring the chimney to the street.

Advice!
In order for heating to be more efficient, it is necessary to take care of the thermal insulation of the house and eliminate all cracks in doors and windows.

In the photo - a version of a modern potbelly stove

Election Features

To ensure that the purchase is not in vain and works as efficiently as possible, when choosing a product you need to pay attention to the following points:

  • The dimensions and volume of the stove depend on the size of the room that is planned to be heated. You can find out what heating area the product is designed for from the instructions that come with it.
  • If the house is built from a “cold” material, such as concrete, then the power of the product should be greater than for buildings made of wood or, for example, aerated concrete.
  • The choice of model largely depends on the fuel with which you plan to heat the stove.
  • It is advisable to give preference to models with a hob. This will allow you to cook food in the event of a power outage.
  • One of the most important parameters of the product is safety. Therefore, it is better to purchase a potbelly stove in stores rather than from individuals.
  • Modern designs can have a wide variety of designs. Therefore, when choosing a product, you should pay attention to its appearance so that it fits into the interior design of the room.

Note!
Cast iron can withstand higher temperatures than steel, and this material is more durable.

If you take all these points into account when choosing, your purchase will be able to heat your country house for many years.

Installation of a potbelly stove

As mentioned above, every summer resident can install such a stove with his own hands.

A small country house, garage or workshop can be heated using a small compact metal stove called a potbelly stove. It can be made either from an old steel pipe, a gas cylinder, a barrel, or even an old flask, or welded from sheets of metal. The most important thing is that the metal used to make such a furnace is not too thin.



Potbelly stove made from a gas cylinder, an old flask, a barrel and a stove running on waste fuel

Materials and tools

To create a potbelly stove you will need:
metal with a thickness of 3±0.5 mm: thinner sheets will quickly burn out, in addition, under the influence of high temperature they can lead, and the oven will become shapeless; thick-walled metal will take a very long time to warm up;
chimney pipe;
rods 16 mm;
a sheet of metal with a thickness of 0.3 mm for constructing a box for collecting ash;
tape measure, ruler, chalk;
welding machine 140-200A;
grinder for cutting metal; to make round holes it is more convenient to use a gas cutter;
metal brush for cleaning welding areas;
emery wheel for adjusting doors;
drill and drill bits.

Schemes of potbelly stoves

The main advantage of a rectangular stove, unlike oval products made from pipes or gas cylinders, lies in a larger heated surface area, so its efficiency will be much greater. The optimal size for a potbelly stove is 800x450x450 mm. A stove of this size will not take up much space and will easily fit even in a small room.


The simplest design is the “Gnome” stove, which consists of a box with a pipe welded to it

An important difference Loginov ovens is the presence of two plates ( reflectors) in the upper part of the combustion chamber. Because gas path at the same time, the heat transfer of such a potbelly stove increases significantly higher than that of a conventional metal stove.

Advice. If you need to reduce the size of the Loginov oven, then it is advisable to change only its width. If the length and height of the structure changes, its efficiency may decrease significantly.


Detailed diagram of Loginov's potbelly stove

The main stages of making a potbelly stove

1. All the details are marked on a sheet of metal: 6 steel rectangles for the walls of the oven, 1 rectangle for creating a smoke reflector, plates for the grate and latch for the door.
2. Cut sheet metal can be found at any metal depot. The guillotine, unlike the grinder, allows you to cut (chop) it more accurately. In this case, there is no need to straighten (align the sheets).
3. The furnace body is made in the form of a rectangle. Their sides are joined together at an angle of 90° and welded together.


Welding the box

4. To avoid mistakes, the furnace box is first only tacked by welding in several places, and only then, after checking its horizontal and vertical positions, its seams are welded.

Important! All connections in the body are thoroughly welded; for checking seams To ensure tightness, you can coat the joints with chalk or kerosene.

5. Welding seams are cleaned with a wire brush.
6. The internal space of the potbelly stove is divided into three parts: the firebox, the smoke circulation chamber and the ash pan. To separate the firebox from the ash pan, a grate is laid between them, on which the fuel will be placed. To do this, at a height of 10-15 cm from the bottom of the stove, welded on the sides and on the back of the box corners 5x5 cm, on which the grille will be located.

Advice. It is better to make the grate from 2-3 detachable parts. Otherwise, when replacing a burnt grate, it will be difficult to remove it from the firebox.

7. The grating is welded from thick steel rods or strips 30 mm wide. They are attached to 2 stiffeners - rods with a diameter of 20 mm. Since the grates burn out over time, it is better to make such a grate removable.


Manufacturing of grate

8. At a distance of 15 cm from the top of the box, two strong rods are welded on which to place one or two removable reflectors– thick-walled sheets of metal that will delay the flow of hot gases and send them for afterburning. However, they should not completely block the oven. To allow hot smoke to enter the chimney, an indent of about 8 cm is made from the front (for the first sheet) and back of the stove.


Diagram of the passage of gases in a simple potbelly stove and stove with an installed reflector


Pipe hole

10. The front part of the stove with holes cut in it for the firebox doors and ash pan is welded last.
11. The size of the firebox door must be sufficient to allow fuel to be added and grates to be changed without effort. The hole for the ash pan is made a little smaller.
12. The hinges are welded first to the door, and then to the body of the potbelly stove. They can be bought ready-made or welded from two tubes of different diameters. Door handles can be made from a strip of metal or rod.


Welding the door

Important! When attaching the doors, you should fit them to the body as tight as possible; To do this, they are straightened (leveled) and cleaned with an emery wheel. The wedge latches that close the doors are fitted to the body as tightly as possible.

13. You can cook food or heat water on such a stove. To do this, a hole of the required diameter is cut in the upper part of the box. Stove burner, which will be inserted into this hole, can be purchased at any hardware store.
14. Design for ease of use installed on legs or a welded pipe stand.
15. The chimney pipe is connected to the stove using a sleeve.
16. For inserting a gate valve To regulate the smoke output, two holes are drilled in the pipe. A metal rod is inserted into the holes and bent at 90°. A metal “penny” is attached to it in the center of the pipe - a gate, the diameter of which should be slightly less than the diameter of the pipe itself by 3-4 mm.


Gate valve for adjusting smoke output

Chimney device

To prevent precious heat from escaping through the pipe too quickly, it must have a special design. Such a device has two main parts: vertical height from 1.2 m, installed at an angle of 90° above the stove and an inclined part called hog, 2.5-4.5 m or more long, in which the smoke burns out. It is the hog that provides up to 1/4 of the heat of the entire oven.


Chimney Hogs

A tall person can touch a heated pipe, so the hog must have a protective mesh cover. To avoid burns, the distance from the floor to this pipe should be 2.2 m. The vertical part of the pipe coming from the stove is additionally wrapped with thermal insulation.

Important! The pipe should be located away from plastered walls at a distance of 1.2 m. The distance from wooden structures is 1.5 m.

Advice. Laying pipes through a wooden ceiling and roof is a rather labor-intensive process. It is much easier to bring it out through a hole in the wall or window.


Exhausting smoke through the window

Rules for safe installation of a metal stove

A potbelly stove heats up much hotter than a brick stove, so all flammable objects should be kept at a sufficient distance from the stove. If the floor in the room is wooden, it is installed only on bricks or metal sheets. The metal, in turn, is laid on an asbestos sheet with its removal 35 cm or more from the edges of the stove. In the front part in front of the firebox it should protrude 5.5 cm. Asbestos can be replaced with felt impregnated with clay. You can also install such a screen to reflect heat on concrete.

Important! A working oven requires supervision. You should not leave the room where the potbelly stove is heated for a long time.


Installing a potbelly stove on a brick base

We increase the efficiency of the furnace

A potbelly stove can heat a room in literally a matter of minutes. Moreover, you can throw whatever comes to hand into the firebox: since it does not have an extensive network of chimneys, and the smoke in it comes out “directly,” you don’t have to worry about them getting clogged.

But if a conventional heating stove installed in premises for permanent residence has an extensive network of chimneys that retain heat, in a potbelly stove it goes directly into the pipe, so its efficiency is not very high. That is why it is too “gluttonous” and requires a lot of fuel.

To reduce fuel consumption, you can use the following tips from experienced stove makers:
door to the firebox and vent in such an oven must be as airtight as possible; otherwise, the air supply to the potbelly stove will increase, and the fuel will burn out too quickly;
to regulate the output of warm smoke in the chimney It is advisable to provide a damper;
next to the stove it is possible to provide side metal screens at a distance of 5-6 cm from the stove, in which case it will heat the room not only by radiation of heat, but also by convection (circulation of warm air);
a potbelly stove, “clad” in a metal casing, will help retain heat much longer;


Potbelly stove in casing


Round furnace with afterburner and casing with heat gun

To retain heat in the room, bends should be built up in the pipe; however, soot will be retained in them, so it is advisable to create a collapsible structure;
the pipe can also be given a stepped shape: arrange the elbows in stages, making a 30° turn with each step; in this case, each of the elbows must be securely attached to the wall with rods;


Stove with chimney elbows

chimney capacity should be less than the productivity of the furnace itself, in which case hot gases will not go into the pipe immediately; its diameter should be only 2.7 times larger than the volume of the firebox, for example, with a firebox volume of 40 l, the diameter should be 110 mm;
you can increase the efficiency of the furnace using blowing the chimney with a fan– this will turn the stove into a kind of smoke cannon;
to reduce air circulation firewood in the stove should fit as tightly as possible; if it is heated with coal, the resulting ash should be stirred up as little as possible;
to regulate the air flow, the door to the ash pit can be made adjustable by equipping it with vertically located slots and valve, which will cover these gaps;
to increase the heating area, it can be finned, that is, welded to its body perpendicular to the stove metal strips;
if you put steam on the stove buckets or metal box with sand, then they will accumulate heat and store it even after the stove goes out; sand backfill or heat accumulator made of stones can also be sewn inside the metal body of the stove;


Scheme of a potbelly stove with sand backfill, the stove is made of a pipe with a diameter of 500 mm, its length is 650 mm

Bake, lined with 1-2 layers of brick, will retain heat much longer;


Brick screen

The volume of the oven also matters: the larger area of ​​its walls, the more heat they will release into the room;
bricks or metal sheet, on which the stove is installed will help not only protect the room from fire, but also retain heat.

Until recently, a metal stove-stove was characterized by low efficiency and huge fuel consumption. A complete change in its design was required to make it a highly efficient heating device. What is the modern design of a potbelly stove?

Historically, the design of a potbelly stove is based on two basic elements: the firebox (combustion chamber) and the chimney. And the shortcomings of the model were largely a consequence of its primitive design. A potbelly stove was a metal box or cylinder with legs, a door and a chimney pipe (also made of metal). The modern model is a full-fledged oven with all the necessary structural elements.

Firebox


The upper part of the firebox (vault) of modern potbelly stoves is made high enough, which makes it possible to install in it a system for re-burning flue gases, which increases efficiency and reduces the temperature of the smoke entering the chimney.


The cast iron door can cover not the window of the furnace combustion chamber, but, for example, its lower part - the ash pan

Ash pan and grate


A grate is installed at the base of the potbelly stove (fuel is placed on it). An ash pit (a box for ash spilling through the grate) is located under the grate. The firebox and ash pan are equipped with doors. The door of the firebox is often not made entirely of metal, but is equipped with heat-resistant glass. Thus, the potbelly stove turns into something like a fireplace. The doors are closed hermetically with a special lock - this avoids smoke in the premises. Air intake openings equipped with valves are made on the doors of the firebox and ash pan. By adjusting them, you can control the intensity of air intake, and therefore combustion. Thanks to valves, most modern potbelly stoves can operate in slow burning mode (one load of firewood is enough for 6-8 hours).


Ash pan of a potbelly stove. The design of the ash pan - a box for collecting ash resulting from burning of fuel - is almost the same for a stove and a fireplace. This is the same metal box with a door: through it the firebox is cleaned of ash.

Chimney of a potbelly stove


Has undergone the greatest changes. Previously, it was a regular metal pipe connected directly to the firebox. As a result, when the stove was heated, the draft increased, and the flue gases, escaping from the wide firebox into the narrowing opening of the chimney, received significant acceleration, which led to large heat losses and rapid wear of the chimney. Its burnout was the most common cause of fires. This property has even been called the “potbelly stove effect.”


Knee chimney The heat exchange part of the chimney is hidden inside the housing. Its structure depends on the shape of the potbelly stove. In horizontally elongated furnaces, a so-called “smoke bag” is usually installed, also known as a “hood” or “smoke chamber”. Through the hole in the side wall of the firebox, the smoke does not pass directly into the chimney, but into the chamber and from there into the chimney. Once in such a “hood”, flue gases significantly slow down their movement, due to which the amount of heat they transfer to the walls of the furnace increases.

In potbelly stoves that have a vertically elongated shape, to achieve this effect, flue gases are driven through a system of curved channels - knee or spiral. Thus, the heat transfer of the furnace significantly increases, the speed of movement and temperature of the gases decreases, and the service life of the chimneys increases.


Now the chimney has two parts: heat exchange and exhaust. The latter, as before, is a metal pipe that can be taken outside or connected to an existing smoke duct. At the very beginning of the pipe, a damper is installed that closes the chimney after combustion ends. The heat exchange part is hidden inside the housing. Its design depends on the shape of the potbelly stove: it can be a “smoke bag” or a knee chimney.

Specific examples of metal slow burning stoves

Bullerian



The Bullerian furnace was created by energy engineers in Canada.

Unlike other heaters, which release heat only from the outer surface, the Bullerian is designed from the very beginning as a true air heater.


Peculiarities:
- Powerful air heater for quick heating of any room
- Does not depend on electricity, oil and gas
- Heats the entire room evenly
- Works on all types of solid fuels, cardboard products and their waste
- Economical, easy to maintain
- Controlled combustion, high efficiency
- 7 modifications for rooms from 100 to 1000 cubic meters
- Used in country houses, residential buildings, workshops, garages, greenhouses
- Operating time on one tab - up to 12 hours
- Patented, certified. Quality guaranteed

The all-metal structure with numerous pipes welded into it ensures forced convection, due to which the air quickly heats up and is smoothly distributed throughout the entire volume of the room. A simple physical principle works: warm air rises to the top, and colder air is constantly sucked in from the floor. Each of the pipes, completely touching the firebox, manages to heat the air flow passing through it to 60°-150°C. The smallest Bulerian (Bulerian) passes through itself 4.5 cubic meters of air per minute. At the same time, the temperature of the stove itself remains quite low, it does not heat up like a “potbelly stove” and does not “burn out” oxygen.

The Bullerian furnace operates on the principle of a gas generator: gases released during the combustion of solid fuel in the lower chamber enter ejectors for complete gas combustion, where they are completely burned. Thanks to this, a very high efficiency is achieved - up to 80%. The temperature of the exhaust air is regulated by a power regulator located on the oven door and a gasifier regulator located on the smoke pipe. The Bullerian stove operates in two modes - “fast heating” and “gasification” - sequentially solving two problems: quickly heating a cold room and maintaining a comfortable temperature for a long time. Arriving at a cold house and lighting the Bullerian stove, you will get the required temperature in 20-25 minutes. Then you fill the stove full with unchopped wood and use the dampers to switch it to gasification mode. The temperature of the outlet air decreases to 50"-60"C, and a full load will last for 12 hours, and the fuel burns to almost zero. The fuel for the Bullerian stove is firewood, peat briquettes, waste from the woodworking and paper industries. The use of coking coal is not recommended because may lead to premature failure of the stove.

If all installation and operation rules are followed, the warranty period for the Buleryan stove is 2 years, however, practice shows that the service life of the Bullerian is NOT LIMITED.


To solve the problem of heating several isolated rooms, flexible metal hoses are used, placed on the warm ends of the pipes and routed to the required rooms.


The Bulerian stove is used:

For halls and halls, because one single stove heats a room up to 1000 cubic meters (350 sq.m)

For dachas, houses and cottages, because it does not take up much space, quickly warms up the room and requires virtually no maintenance

In workshops, hangars and enterprises, in grain and wood dryers, because using wood waste to produce heat cheaply and in sufficient quantities

In greenhouses, because it provides quick and cheap heat in a short time when cold weather sets in

INSTALLATION
It is recommended to install an autonomous cottage heating system no closer than 1 meter from walls and combustible surfaces (wood, wallpaper, etc.), at a minimum distance from the existing chimney (if any), and the free distance in front of the firebox should be at least 1 ,25 m. The distance to combustible surfaces can be reduced to 200 mm if combustible materials are covered with 25 mm thick plaster or metal sheet on top of a layer of heat-insulating material. In case of installation of an autonomous heating system of the "Bulerian" cottage (Bullerian, Bulerian) on the premises of an organization or legal entity, the installation must be handed over to a representative of the fire department according to an act.

FOUNDATION for Autonomous Heating System of a cottage (Bullerian, Bulerian).
For better air circulation through the Bullerian heating pipe system, raise the stove at least 200 mm from the floor level and install it on a base made of brick, slabs, stone or other non-combustible material. For ease of maintenance, it is possible to install the system at a height of 300-600 mm on metal structures. To ensure fire safety, there must be a metal sheet measuring 500x700 mm in front of the firebox, with the wide side facing the stove.

DEVICE Autonomous cottage heating system (Bullerian, Bulerian).
The Bullerian stove is an all-welded steel structure coated with heat-resistant paint (during the first fire, it completely polymerizes, which is accompanied by a characteristic odor). The miracle stove "Bullerian" consists of two combustion chambers: a lower chamber - a gasification chamber and an upper chamber - a gas afterburning chamber. The front pipes have afterburner injectors. IF YOU EXPERIENCE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THESE PIPES, YOUR CHIMNEY IS EITHER NOT THE HEIGHT OR IS CLOGGED. The miracle stove is equipped with two regulators: on the door (power regulator) and on the chimney pipe at the back of the stove (gasifier regulator).

Furnaces Professor Butakov



Furnaces Professor Butakov - a line of solid fuel air-heating boilers for long burning. This project is named after the famous Russian heating engineer, Professor Sergei Efimovich Butakov (1905-1968), who taught at the Ural Polytechnic Institute for a long time. The scientist's monographs became reference books for professionals in the field of heat and gas supply and ventilation, and many scientific developments were introduced at enterprises of the Soviet Union.

All models of Professor Butakov stoves are produced in five serial modifications for heating rooms with an area of ​​150 to 1200 square meters and a nominal power of 9 to 55 kilowatts, respectively. The models are united by their general purpose, operating principle, layout and fuel used. They differ in overall dimensions, weight, volume of the combustion chamber, maximum volume of loaded fuel, size of the combustion door, diameter and number of convective pipes, flow area of ​​convective pipes, area of ​​heating surfaces, diameter and height of the chimney. The smallest stove is Professor Butakov “Student”. Next in order of increasing power comes the “Engineer” model, then “Associate Professor”, “Professor” and finally “Academician”, the heating area of ​​which is 1200 m2.

Distinctive features and advantages of Butakov:

  • The area of ​​heating surfaces, one side in contact with the flame and the other with the air of the heated room, has been developed at a record level.
  • A large sealed firebox and a secondary combustion system allow the stove to be used effectively in long-term burning mode.
  • Convective heat exchange tubes over their entire cross-section and along their entire length, from start to finish, are located directly in the flame.
  • The firebox is relatively long, high, not wide and truncated at the top. This form most fully corresponds to the shape of the thermal diagram of freely burned solid fuel.
  • The front and rear surfaces on which the convective pipes are located fully participate in convective heat exchange.
  • The flow of flame and hot flue gases is directed along the convective pipes, from their very beginning to their very end.
  • On the upper horizontal surface in contact with the flame, you can heat or even cook food.
  • A large, replaceable grate ensures even combustion. If necessary, it allows you to sharply accelerate combustion to quickly raise the temperature or dry out the raw fuel.
  • A capacious retractable ash drawer allows you to remove ash in one movement without interrupting the combustion.
  • The inlets of convective heat exchange pipes are located at a significant distance from the floor, which is favorable for air circulation. The boiler has a stable base with holes for additional fastening to the floor.


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Electricity generating wood heating and cooking stove
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The Termofor company has put into serial production a new product, the analogues of which have not been seen either in Russia or in the rest of the world.

This is a small solid fuel heating and cooking stove with a built-in electric generator that converts the thermal energy of the fuel burning in the stove into electrical energy.

When the oven is operating for its intended purpose, that is, during heating or cooking, the oven generates a direct current of 12 volts and a power of at least 50 watts.

Is it a lot or a little? For a city dweller satiated with comfort, it’s probably not enough. For a person who, for one reason or another, is completely cut off from the outside world and its benefits - a lot. Often these life-saving 50 watts can be the difference between life and death.

With the current level of development of energy-saving technologies, this power provides the entire set of electrical devices necessary for civilized life.

The project was developed by the Termofor company together with the Kryotherm company from St. Petersburg.

Let us recall that today, out of a world population of 6 billion, more than 1.6 billion people do not have access to stationary sources of electricity.

Of the 21 million dachas in Russia, about 5 million are either not connected to electricity at all or are experiencing serious power outages.

In northern latitudes, generating electricity from furnace heat has a number of distinct advantages compared to generating electricity from windmills, solar panels and diesel generators.


It is easy to imagine real conditions where there is no wind, no sun, and no possibility of delivering diesel fuel.

The current generated by the furnace is enough to connect 2-3 energy-saving light bulbs, charge the batteries of a laptop, mobile or satellite phone, photo or video camera, connect a portable TV, radio, DVD player and other portable energy-saving devices.

According to the results of laboratory and field tests, the electric generator of the furnace reaches a stable mode 6-8 minutes after igniting the fuel in the furnace.

The reliability of electric generators is beyond doubt, since Kryotherm electric generators have been supplied to hundreds of consumer companies in 17 countries around the world for many years.

Similar electric generators produced by our partner are used in the defense industry of many countries, space, and high-tech industries.

The potbelly stove is very popular for heating small spaces. It is an excellent option for a summer residence, and is very economical and easy to use. The appearance of this stove is a small rectangular box on four legs; it has a door and a compartment for storing fuel, as well as an ash box, which must be cleaned regularly. Each stove has a pipe onto which an exhaust pipe is installed; its length must be at least 5 meters. The longer the pipe, the better the traction and, accordingly, the power of the stove. This type of heating device can be made of cast iron or steel.

Potbelly stoves were very popular in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries; they appeared in Russia. At that time, this device was considered an excellent solution for heating small houses and even city apartments. The stove consumes wood as fuel, but produces enough heat to heat a room of up to 60-70 square meters. Now such stoves are used for secondary heating, for example, in a country house. In such a room there is no need to create a heating system with an expensive boiler, which is why people actively use potbelly stove. It allows you to warm the room at the right time, and does not require any financial costs. To operate such a stove, you only need firewood, a chimney and good ventilation in the room.

Functional parameters of the potbelly stove

Nowadays, these stoves are created in various styles, so they can not only heat the room, but also decorate it. The potbelly stove can operate on wood, no more than 25 cm long, and other solid fuels, its main functions:

  • Heating of the room;
  • Possibility of cooking;
  • Interior element, decoration.

A potbelly stove heating stove competes with fireplaces or brick stoves, but it has an advantage over them - very small dimensions. The potbelly stove is easy to connect, assemble and move to another place, take it outside for cooking in the fresh air, and so on.

If there is a need to constantly transport the stove, then an excellent solution would be collapsible potbelly stove. It provides for the removal of the top cover, which can be a hob, collapsible legs and a chimney; it can also be divided into several sections. Thus, the potbelly stove does not take up much space, is a very mobile stove and is easy to transport. The use of this heating device eliminates the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, since it all comes out through the chimney. The main thing is to implement correct installation, this will allow the stove to operate at full capacity, which directly depends on the draft.

For such ovens it is recommended to use dry firewood and logs. To light a potbelly stove, you need to open the firebox door, load in the required amount of fuel and set it on fire. After the fuel has ignited, its power can be adjusted by opening the ash drawer. The unit can be cleaned of ash only in a cold state; the ash drawer is removed and all its contents are poured into the trash. When the stove is lit for the first time, there may be a smell of burning paint, but this will not happen again with subsequent uses.

What must be observed for safe operation potbelly stoves:

  • The stove must be installed on non-combustible base;
  • All objects and flammable surfaces must be no closer than 70−80 cm from the stove;
  • You shouldn’t put it in the potbelly stove at once more than three kilograms of fuel;
  • The firebox door should always be closed, except when loading firewood;
  • It is prohibited to operate the oven when problems with the exhaust pipe;
  • Do not leave the oven running unattended for a long time or in the presence of small children;
  • It is forbidden to touch the stove body while it is running or immediately after the flame in it has gone out, the entire surface heats up to a very high temperature;
  • Do not leave or keep flammable objects or materials near a working stove.

If all the rules are followed, the potbelly stove will heat the room for a long time.

Advantages and disadvantages of a potbelly stove

A potbelly stove has a lot of advantages, the most important of which is efficiency, no need for fuel costs. The stove works great with any wood, sawdust, or wood chips, as long as they are dry enough to ignite. This unit can be easily transported and food can be cooked on it without any problems if the potbelly stove model includes a hob on the top surface. This a great option for a summer residence, which does not need to be heated every day, this unit can also be found at construction sites, garages and other small spaces.

If you choose a stove in any style, it will also become a wonderful decoration and interior detail. A potbelly stove made of stainless steel quickly heats up and cools down after use, this allows clear it of ash as soon as possible after extinguishing the fire. This stove is durable and reliable; the materials from which it is made can easily withstand high temperatures and are not subject to destruction.

The disadvantages of this stove include the fact that it can provide a favorable environment only in a small room. Using it in a cottage or large building will not bring good results. A cast iron unit tends to cool down for a long time after operation. During operation of the stove, the room remains natural smell of burning wood. It is necessary to constantly monitor the operation of the stove and after it, until the potbelly stove has completely cooled down.

Installing a stove in a country house

Before starting installation, you need to choose a suitable location for the stove. It must be remembered that it must be kept away from all foreign surfaces and objects. At the same time, her work must always be monitored, which means she must be in sight.

The legs of the potbelly stove are also made of metal and, accordingly, heat up to a high temperature. The oven needs to be installed non-flammable base, such as: concrete, ceramic tiles, brickwork, tin covering. You cannot place a potbelly stove on linoleum, laminate, soft coverings, plank floors, parquet, or plastic.

Chimney pipes must be installed without connections within the same room. If such work cannot be carried out, then the connection should be as tight as possible, the lower part of the pipe should “fit” into the upper. If pipes require passage through walls, then it is necessary to equip ceramic or brick thermal barrier. The fuel storage location should be at a safe distance from the stove.

Combined potbelly stoves

People often use such stoves not only for heating their homes; a potbelly stove with a cast-iron stove can also be used for cooking. Stoves with a water tank, which in appearance resemble a samovar, are very popular. Cast iron potbelly stove with one burner can great replacement for gas stove, if it is used by one or two people. Ovens with a continuous cooking surface or several burners are also provided; there can be no more than four of them.

The potbelly stove has a low price, and no costs are required during operation, therefore it is the cheapest option heating a country house or other small premises.

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