Heating and cooking ovens for home

The main function of the stoves in the house is heating, but if you add a cooking surface to such stoves, the result will be heating and cooking ovens. 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 furnaces are located 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 are used for the most part 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.

The main material distinguishes the furnace: 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 for fuel combustion;
• 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 heating-cooking stoves with your own hands. For this, the following materials and elements will be needed: red brick used in the construction of furnaces, refractory brick, doors, 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 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 ⁰ ;
• Maintain the constant temperature of the heated room.

By placing the stove in the house, it is necessary to observe a number of requirements: to maintain 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 inconveniences in use, such as the need to monitor burning fuel and throw it, timely open and close flaps and pits, remove ash and soot, the choice of such a stove in the house is a choice in favor of comfort, comfort and economy.