Heating and cooking ovens for home

The main function of the furnaces in the house is heating,but if you add a hob to such stoves, the result is a heating and cooking oven. If a fireproof glass is installed in the furnace door, then it will be a heating and cooking furnace with a fireplace. Such designs have a number of advantages: environmental friendliness, autonomy, compactness, affordable price. Due to their small size, heating and cooking ovens are placed in small rooms, which they are able to heat. In holiday homes, combined stoves are the main source of heat, while in residential areas they are often in reserve and used mostly as a fireplace. Observation of the game of fire helps to remove the accumulated fatigue.

Heating and cooking ovens can be equipped with additional devices: an oven or a sunbed - a heated resting place.

According to the main material, furnaces are distinguished: brick, cast iron, concrete, ceramic.

As fuel, wood, peat, coal, fuel briquettes are used. The most popular are wood-burning stoves, as this is the most inexpensive type of fuel.

Heating-cooking furnaces have the following elements:

• firebox - part of the furnace, designed to burn fuel;
• Chimneys - channels for the removal of gases formed during combustion;
• chimney for the emission of smoke into the atmosphere.

If the oven is installed in a single-story house and weighs more than 1000 kg, then under it a foundation is necessarily arranged.

You can build a heating and cooking ovenhands. To do this, you need the following materials and elements: red brick used in the construction of furnaces, refractory brick, doors, cast iron grates, hob, cast iron latches and views, sand and clay. To make the furnace itself, you need to have the necessary knowledge and skills in the field of construction. Most often, brick furnaces are laid out on their own, but it is also possible to create metal structures. For the latter you will need a welding machine and electrodes.

The main requirements that must be met by heating and cooking ovens:

• have sufficient life - up to 30 years;
• meet the requirements of fire safety;
• have small dimensions and attractive appearance;
• The furnace surface should not be heated above 90 ° C⁰;
• maintain the constant temperature of the heated room.

By placing the stove in the house, it is necessary to observe a number ofrequirements: to withstand a sufficient distance between the wooden parts of the building and the stove; in order to avoid the ignition of the floor in front of the furnace, cover the latter with a piece of sheet iron; in the places of passage of chimneys through the floors of the building, close contact of pipes and ceilings should be avoided or insulation with refractory brick, asbestos, clay, metal should be applied; scoop out the remains of combustion - ash - with frequency once a week.

Despite some inconvenience in use,such as the need to monitor burning fuel and throw it, timely open and close flaps and pits, scoop out ash and soot, the choice of such a stove in the house is a choice in favor of comfort, comfort and economy.