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The stoves and fireplaces from cast iron are easy to use and durable. The cast iron is not subject to corrosion and does not roast even with long regular furnaces. Paint on the furnace surface if necessary, by purchasing aerosol paint on a silicone-based basis.

To extend the service life, it is necessary to regularly clean the furnace and chimney from soot, and the camera is from ash. The cleaning is usually performed in the spring, before the start of the summer season. It can be mechanical - ersh, or chemically using special packages that destroy the soot structure when furnaceing the stove.

When using a cooking surface, it should be remembered that the cast iron is a fragile metal, it is afraid of the temperature drops and can crack with sharp cooling. You can not allow the spill of cold water to the surface of the stove!

Glass doors furnaces and fireplaces usually equip the self-cleaning function. If necessary, launder the glass from the soot need to use special soft tools that do not contain abrasive inclusions.

With neat operation, cast-iron fireplaces and stoves can serve dozens of years, heating the country house and giving it the inhabitants warm and comfort of a live flame.

In a small country house, in which they do not live in winter, you need a stove, a quick warm-up house and easy to use (anyone should be melt without any problems). Best of all these requirements correspond to modern cast iron heating devices on firewood. This is due to the characteristics of the cast iron: resistant to very high temperatures, the ability to quickly heat and give heat, long service life.

Advantages and disadvantages of cast iron furnaces

All cast iron heating devices are made by casting, so their walls are thick, weight is large enough. That is why they are serve long- Walls almost can not ruin. In addition, all these aggregates are different:

The disadvantages include:

• the need for a fairly high chimney;
• the instability of the material to the sharp cooling (cast iron can crack, if cold water is swollen on the hot surface).

Features of operation:

• the cast-iron stove can spoil the rust, so the room should be sufficiently dry, and the surface damage must be adjusted in a timely manner;
• the models of foreign manufacturers are mainly designed for peat and pellets, so it is impossible to use too long lamps (approximately 18-20 cm).

Cast iron soups for giving

There are three main types of cast iron heating instruments for giving:

• heating - Design is designed for rapid heating and long-term heat conservation;
• cooking-heating - the upper surface is smooth, with a burner, which allows not to use the electric stub;
• facilities - fireplaces - provide access to open fire.

The selection of the furnace depends on what functions it should perform and in what conditions will be operated. In the cold regions it is better to choose heating or Cooked Heating The stove, especially if the house is small and in winter it is not provided. Similar structures inexpensive and compact. The fireplace is suitable for regions with a warm or temperate climate for houses that are furnished with good furniture and which use in winter.

Cast iron heating stoves

The heating stove is designed exclusively for heating, although it also has enough attractive view. It consists of a firebox with a door, lattice, ash tank and chimney. The form can be any: rectangular, square or round. Heat Pot. This heating device is quite high due to the aircraft with two or more knees. You can choose a deep furnace model, which will allow the use of standard length firewood. All models are easily transferred and transported, some are even equipped with handles.

Especially convenient models with long-term burning, in which not only firewood are burned, but also the main volume of combustion products (pyrolysis gas). One bookmark in such a stove is enough for 3-4 hours. The main condition for obtaining pyrolysis Gaza- Minimum oxygen volume in the furnace. In such conditions, firewood is not lit, and the gas is distinguished, gas, which is burned in another chamber separated from the main grille. The combustion intensity is regulated not only by the schiber, but also the ash bar door located under the main furnace.

Hall-heating ovens

If there is no power supply at the cottage, there are interruptions with it or just want to save, suitable cooker-heating device. On this stove, you can not only cook, but also dry the fruits grown on the plot, or mushrooms, warm the water. Such a furnace usually has one or two burners, and sometimes the oven. There are also cooking devices in the form of fireplaces (with a glass door).

Advantages of the hob and heating stove:

The only drawback is the need for constant control while working.

Furnaces - fireplaces

These models are the most expensive and perform two functions - heating and decoration premises. The market offers two types of similar equipment:

• convection (with a metal casing - in the space between it and the walls of the device circulates air);
• gas-generating - with two fireboxes: Firewood is in the bottom, pyrolysis gas is burning in the upper.

To install the furnace-fireplace, only chimney is needed. Such a heating device is completely autonomous (independent of gas or electricity supply). Cast iron fireplace much more efficiently traditional- He does not cool so quickly and its heat transfer is much higher.

The disadvantages include the need for constant control during operation, regular cleaning the ashtar and chimney.

Cast iron heating devices manufacturers

The Russian market offers heating devices for the cottages of foreign and domestic producers. Most Popular Foreign Manufacturers: Supra, Guca, Jotul, Efel.

Company Supra existed since 1878. This is the first producer of cast-iron stoves, which made a device with a combustion control function. At the moment, the Supra model range consists of 140 models. Classic, Astra, Altima made of cast iron. In all these models, the chimney can be connected from above, and behind.

For the smallest premises (30 m 2) are designed models COLMAR, For the largest (up to 200 m 2) - Gotham and Tomera. Cast iron fireplaces ELOBIK and TRIVIK. Designed with overview of fire from three sides. For those who do not like black color, the ivory color of the Tolos E 03 is suitable. All Supra models on one bookmark burn approximately 10 hours, the door glasses are self-cleaning. In addition to firewood, they can be dried with peat and pellets.

Companies Jotul. There has been 160 years old and all this time produces cast-iron furnaces on firewood. The classic version of Jotul F602 is very similar to the simplest bourgear, but is equipped with a door with a glass and a cooking surface. Models Jotul F100, F3, F8 have a larger door with glass and long burning function, Allowing not to add fuel for 10 hours.

Video clip About the operation of cast-iron furnace Jotul L 18:

Company Guca.- The leader in the production of cast iron in the European Region. Works since 1958. Products with relatively low cost is different high quality. The most popular model Arina. It is performed in several embodiments and is designed for rooms with a volume of up to 240 m 3, equipped with a function of long burning and self-cleaning glass. CPD reaches 85%. The Guca Guliver model is the heating and cooking, except the hob equipped with an oven. Guca Lava is more powerful, so you can attach a heating circuit to it.

From domestic producers for very small houses, cast-iron stoves are produced: Udmurt Balezinsky Foundry and Mechanical Plant and Chelyabinsk Energy-Building Plant. Device of the Udmurt Plant. "Furnace Country PC-2" (For premises with a volume of 100 m 3) Compact, with one cooking hardware and the top connection of the chimney. The Chelyabinsk Plant products are small, have two cooking hobs, as fuel, except for firewood, you can use peat, coke and even garden trash.

Series of cast-iron fireplaces Ardenfire. Releases company G. K. Meta. The devices of this manufacturer are equipped with heat-resistant glass doors and can heat the room with volume up to 200 m 3. Meta in production uses components from France and Japan. It is worth noting the company as well Ecocamine Introducing a whole line of bavaria fireplaces. Meta and ecocamine products are not inferior to foreign analogues.

In the country house is much easier and easier to put the cast iron stove than to build from a brick. If you do not live in the country in winter, such a heating device may turn out the most profitable option.

Many city inhabitants spend on their country areas not only summer, but also most of the spring and autumn, when nights are still cold. In this regard, there is a problem of effective heating of the country house. To many garden partnerships did not contain gas, and heating the structure of electricity - pretty expensive "Pleasure," therefore summer houses often stop their choice on solid fuel stoves.

However, not in every summer house can be built a full-fledged brick stove simply due to the insufficiency of the free area in the premises. An important reason for the reluctance to build brick furnaces is also the troublesomeness of their service, as well as the lack of funds, as it is not so cheap. Therefore, cast-iron is often becoming the best option, especially since today comfortable and compact heating units, which have excellent characteristics and design solution are available.

Important and that despite The relatively small size of cast-iron furnaces, some of them have specifications designed for heating sufficiently large areas. Therefore, the problem of heating can be solved both for small and fairly large country house.

We will optionally compare cast-iron furnaces with steel heating devices and with combined options. All of them are not less demand, and such a mapping will help more correctly decide on the choice of the optimal model.

The advantages and disadvantages of metal wood stoves - in comparison

As you know, you can find not only cast iron, but also steel, as well as combined furnaces, that is, made of steel, but with separate details made from cast iron. Therefore, several words must also be said about steel heating devices to know their advantages and disadvantages, figure out what they differ from each other.

Stainless steel furnaces

The peculiarities of stainless steel furnaces include the following:

• Stainless steel aggregates, unlike cast iron, are heated much faster, which makes it hopes for a shorter period of receiving a comfortable temperature in the rooms at home. However, the heat capacity of such devices is small, they weakly hold warm, and after burning the fuel laying, the heating effect is rapidly lost. Therefore, manufacturers often provide external finishing with ceramic material. In addition, double walls with an air or other thermal insulating layer are used. If it does not have such a finish, then often the owners independently look with bricks.
• Steel ovens of long burning are quite economical, as they consume a small amount of fuel.
• Stainless steel products are more resistant to corrosive processes, since, in contrast to black steel, it does not enter when heated into the reaction with oxygen, which makes its service life longer. However, the welds of such steel furnaces are still susceptible to oxidation, since during welding there is evaporation of alloying additives.
• The disadvantage of aggregates from this material is their unstopiness to very high temperatures. With a strong overheating with open fire, the deformation of the walls of the coil chamber is not excluded. To avoid such a material reaction, the furnace must have a lining, that is, the fifthly is plated by heat-resistant chamotte plates or bricks.

The lining of the furnaces - the key to their increased durability

The most vulnerable area of \u200b\u200bany furnace is a fuel chamber, in which the walls are subject to direct exposure to the open flame and the highest temperatures. To reduce these negative impacts to a minimum and achieve the durability of the operation of the device, it is held, as described in detail a separate publication of our portal.

• Compared to cast iron, steel furnaces have not such a complex design. They are not so massive, which greatly facilitates the processes of transportation and installation of the heating device.
• Steel is easily processed, so many dacms make furnaces on their own. Fortunately, the drawings in their manufacture are quite enough on the Internet.
• The service life of a highly manufactured stainless steel furnace is estimated at about 20 years.

Heat-resistant furnaces

Black heat supply steel is more plastic and durable material than cast iron. However, heating devices from it still possess numerous disadvantages.

The characteristic features of such furnaces from this material include:

• Products made of black steel have a lower heat transfer. They are heated long and poorly hold warm, so they quickly cool. In this regard, heat the furnace to maintain in the room the desired temperature will have more often.
• Specialists talk about the briefness of products from this material, defining their service life of 5 ÷ 7 years. The fact is that in the structure of low carbon steel, when heated is activated, the process of its oxidation is activated, which leads to a fairly rapid roasting surfaces. Extend the service life of the unit can be lining the firebox with chamoten brick or plates.
• This material and volatility of welds are distinguished to high temperatures and corrosion. With frequent high amplitude Thermal exposure (and in the furnace without it - in no way) these processes often lead to cracks or breaks.
• The surfaces of these furnaces require additional processing by the compositions that protect them from overheating.
• The only significant advantage can be called the fact that the price of black steel furnaces is much lower than on stainless steel products or cast iron. In addition, the availability of material and the simplicity of its processing move in most cases of homemade masters to make homemade furnaces precisely from black steel.

Prices for cast iron furnaces

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Cast-iron stove

In connection with The fact that this article is devoted to the cast-iron furnaces, they should be told about more. Cast iron stove models are considered the best choice, so they are especially in demand from consumers. However, this material also has its positive and negative features that should be known in advance.

The advantages of these heating devices should include their following characteristics:

• Cast iron attracts mainly in that it has a pronounced heat capacity. The material, however, is not so quickly heated, but the walls of the furnace remain boosters and actively participate in the process of heating the room much longer.
• If the power of the cast-iron furnace for a specific area of \u200b\u200bthe house is chosen correctly, the heating device is capable of fully and fairly quickly heat the air indoors.
• Cast iron heating device Economist in fuel consumption, as one bookmark is enough to give the furnace to heat 6 ÷ 12 hours. It does not have to wait for firewood to close the chimney to preserve heat, as is usually done in brick furnaces. Long burning units are able to maintain heat in the house, while there is no risk of reverse thrust, that is, smoke rooms.
• The efficiency of such an aggregate is 80 ÷ 82% - it is much greater than that of brick or steel furnaces.
• Products from this material have high resistance to elevated temperatures, as they have a low thermal expansion coefficient. Thanks to this quality, the material is practically not deformed.
• The cast iron is not oxidized from high temperatures, so the walls of the fuel chamber are not roasted.
• Details for cast iron heating devices are made by the method of casting, so do not have welds, which are always vulnerable to any other metal furnaces.
• Cast iron racks to corrosion, therefore especially and does not need special protective coatings. Such products are painted with heat-resistant paint or varnish mainly in order to give them a more aesthetic appearance.
• Modern cast iron furnaces are distinguished by an exquisite design, which allows them to be used in the interiors decorated in various styles. Manufacturers are installed on their products beautiful doors, decorated with curly cast and heat-resistant glass, which allows the unit to use the unit as an original fireplace.
• The life of such furnaces made of gray cast iron and having a thickness of the walls of 10 mm is at least 30 ÷ 35 years, and in practice there is an impressive.
• The relatively compact sizes of cast iron furnaces allow them to install them even in small rooms.

The disadvantages of cast-iron heating devices include the following features:

• The most important disadvantage of any cast iron products is the lack of plasticity and severe fragility, since the material has an increased carbon content. Therefore, the cast iron does not withstand sudden temperature differences. From them, as well as from sharp accented strikes, for example, with negligent transportation of the oven, it can give a crack. And at the same time, it will be impossible to restore the cast iron parts, for example, using welding.
• The cast-iron furnace has a pronounced massiveness. The weight is not even too overall devices can be 180 ÷ 200 kg, which complicates their transportation and installation. By installing such an aggregate, it is very often necessary to equip a reliable durable base, sometimes even resorting to the fill small.
• If the furnace is operated not only in the relatively warm months of the year, but in winter, the chimney pipe will have to be insulated. This must be done so that there are no sudden temperature drops for preheated gases, as a result of which condensate will be formed on the walls of the pipe, which reduces the thrust in the furnace. This can lead to the formation of reverse thrust and smoke.
• It is characterized by a very high price for cast iron heating devices, which does not allow everyone to buy them for installation in a summer house.

All the disadvantages available in these furnaces are compensated for a long service life, high efficiency, high-quality and long heating of premises and fuel savings.

Combined Oblases

As can be seen from the descriptions presented above, each of the options has not only its "pros", but also "minuses". That is why manufacturers have collected positive qualities of different materials in some models.

So, most common "Tandem" is stainless steel and cast iron. The stainless steel is made of the furnace case, and the furnace for it is made of cast iron. If the furnace model includes a cooking stove, then it is also most often iron. Thus, fragile cast iron is obtained by protected steel walls of the housing, and in itself prevents overheating and deformation of steel from the direct impact of the flame.

It should be noted that all the best qualities of two materials are collected in the combined embodiments of the furnaces, as they are in the design in their places where the risk of damage is minimized. In addition, such aggregates have a lower cost, compared with cast-iron furnaces, less weight, but about the same efficiency.

Design of pig-iron furnace

General concepts about metal stoves

In the first part of the article, variants of different furnaces were given - to compare their characteristic features. Next, it will be only about cast iron devices. Modern cast iron furnaces made in factory conditions, most often work on the principle of long burning, since it is the optimal version of efficiency and fuel economy.

Cast iron heating furnaces can be made in the form of a fireplace, and some models are equipped with a water circuit, and are excellent for quite large in the area of \u200b\u200bthe country house. An ordinary stove is suitable for small houses, as for its heating, there will be quite enough direct thermal radiation emanating from its walls, the cooker and the stove if it is provided in the design.

Wood used as fuel must have moisture not exceeding 20%. It is desirable that the lamps have the same length, then their combustion and damage will occur evenly, giving excellent heat transfer. The raw wood will reduce the efficiency of the furnace, and also contributes to an increase in plantal sediments in the chimney pipe.

Prices for firewood

In addition to firewood in the lamps, fuel briquettes, and coal can be used for the firebox of pig-iron furnaces. If you plan to heat the furnace with coal, then it is worth purchasing it brown grade, as it is less energy-intensive and will not be able to cross the walls of the furnace. This is especially important for combination-type furnaces, that is, from a combination of steel and cast iron parts.

What should be considered when choosing and installing a cast iron furnace?

Before proceeding to the consideration of various cast iron stove models, a few words should be said about their installation and preparation for it.

The furnace is installed on the place selected for it - it is completely easy. Only a great weight of the device can be the only difficult point. In addition, before installing the cast-iron unit, it is necessary to prepare the platform equipped according to the fire safety rules. So, the preparation for the purchase and installation of an aggregate consists of the following steps:

• The first step, pushing away from the size of the room, it is necessary to determine which thermal power should have a stove. Usually proceed from common 1 kW standard for 10 m². However, if the country's house will be used in the winter, it is necessary to take into account a number of factors that will affect the choice of the power of the device. These include the quality of the insulation of walls, floors and overlap of the house, the number and material of windows, winter temperatures of the region and other nuances.

Perhaps, with such calculations, many will help the calculator, which is placed below.

Modern cast iron furnaces are direct descendants of those in the very "bourgeokees" that were distributed at the end of the XIX - early XX centuries., Then almost disappeared by giving way to gas and electric boilers. However, only the general principle of operation inherited from their "primabyusheys" - fuel, burning, heats the cast iron, which gives heat into the room. In the rest, they changed to the better - they learned how to consume less than firewood, it became more productive, more functional and much more attractive.

Nowadays, following the constant increase in energy prices and the growth of country villages in distant areas from civilization, renovated "bourgeities" are returned to the house. And, despite the competition in the face of solid brick stoves and practical steel, many homeowners still make a choice in favor of cast iron.

Cast iron stoves have important advantages:

Cast iron furnaces and disadvantages are not deprived. Since the material is heavy, it does not make ovens with a wide firebox, and technology (casting) limits the capabilities of designers. Cast iron ovens are warm up for a long time, so if you select the device for the "giving day", which you need to quickly warm up to a comfortable temperature during rare "raids", it is possible to prefer steel.

In no case can not drop the cast-iron oven / heavy objects on the oven: the material can break. If you need a more roomy / original / shockproof, but at the same time the heat furnace, the combined model can be a compromise option - with a steel housing and cast-iron furnace.

Types of heating cast iron furnaces (by functions):

Heating and cooking furnaces can be used instead of a kitchen stove. In standard models, 1-2 burners are provided on which you can boil the kettle, warm up the food or prepare something simple like boiled potatoes or soup.

Furnaces - fireplaces not only heated, but also decorate the house. They look spectacular in the interior, even if not melted. And literally transform everything around when the flames are beginning to dance for glazed doors, scattering hundreds of fiery bunnies on the floor and walls.

How to choose a cast-iron oven in the catalog oven.ru?

1. Mark the amount of purchase, taking into account the fact that you will need even chimney (you can also ask for accommodation for equipment on the site) and installation services. If the budget is small, it is worth paying attention to wood furnaces, which from the cast iron only the furnace is made.

2. Calculate the volume of the house (area × to height). You can also calculate the approximate power of the cast-iron furnace at the rate of 1 kW of the power of the device for 20-25 m3 of the room. If in the house there are several floors / many rooms, and you want to warm them all, then you will need a stove with a water circuit (you can put a tick in the appropriate graph) to organize a water heating system.

3. Decide the view and design of the furnace. Ask yourself questions: Do you need more functions except heating? Where do you put the oven? If additional functions are not needed, and the furnace itself will not stand in sight, it makes no sense to pay extra per glass in the door and art casting. If you are going to cook on the furnace, filter out the models with a cooking surface, in the furnace - with a brass cabinet. If you have an overview for fire for you, choose a stove with a glazed door.

The functions of different types can be combined in one furnace.

You will save time in search of an ideal heating furnace if you refer to the consultant oven.ru on the phone or through an online form. The specialist will task clarifying questions (the scheme is about the same as described above), will offer several models to choose from, tells about the pros and cons of each of them.

Pig-iron furnace installation services

The service includes:
Measures of premises;
Choosing the location of the furnace, taking into account the direction of air traffic flows;
choosing a method for the output of chimney;
assistance in the selection of a heating furnace and auxiliary equipment;
Purchase and delivery of building materials;
preparation of the heat-resistant base;
wall decoration by non-combustible materials (if necessary);
Laying channels to fence air from the street (optional);
assembly, installation and thermal insulation of the chimney;
assembly and installation of the furnace;
Connection and test risi equipment;
Cleaning, garbage collection.

Installation warranty - up to 2 years. Trusting us with the installation of a cast-iron furnace, you can be confident in fire safety and correct operation of heating equipment.