Before you start installing the furnace in the country, you need to consider several issues. Firstly, immediately decide what type of cottage you have: only a summer option or with the likelihood of visiting it in winter. Will the stove be intended only for cooking, or also performs the functions of the heater. Is it worth combining a ready -made stove with a fireplace or not. If a summer -type cottage, then where it is better to build a stove: in the house, in the yard or in the gazebo. And already in this case it will be necessary to determine what type the focus will be – the hob or barbecue.
As you can see, there are a lot of questions. But it is advisable to answer everything – the choice of the amount of building material, and the place of installation of the stove will depend on this.
We will talk about the traditional focus of many modern cottages, when the plate is combined with the fireplace. In this case, the stoves are installed in the center of the building, on the border between the kitchen and the room. At the same time, of course, the hob that appears in the kitchen area, and the fireplace – in the guest. In this case, their chimney can be combined, but each furnace has its own valves.
Do -it -yourself giving stove, as a rule, is laid together with the construction of the house. In this case, it will be much more convenient to make a separate foundation of heat -resistant material (stone or refractory brick) under the hearth). Flexible connections for brickwork will help to make masonry even – this is fiberglass reinforcement, which makes the indentation between bricks the same.
By laying out the fireboxes of the fireplace and hob, you can use different material: for the kitchen stove, a regular ordinary chamotis brick is suitable, but in the laying of the fireplace it is better to apply a more decorative option.
As a binder, clay mixed with sand in certain proportions is used. In the villages, long ago, dry straw was added to the clay during the laying of the stoves. Now this technology is almost not used. But some additives in a clay solution are still added: someone puts table salt, and someone washed powder (each master has his own secrets).
For a novice builder, you can give advice: buy a ready -made chamotum mixture for laying furnaces in the store – all the proportions of sand and clay are already taken into account in it. For fidelity, you can add a little Cerezite adhesive base.