Heating a country house: do it yourself
Heating a country house with your own hands is not so easy to do if you have not experienced this before. However, having studied the diagrams and drawings, you may well be able to perform it under the guidance of specialists. Not everyone lives in the country all year round, so water heating is not suitable for everyone.
In general, you will have to choose the heating of the country house with your own hands from the following positions:
- Make stove heating: install heat storage or convection ovens;
- Heating by a fireplace;
- Water heating;
- Heating with electricity.
How to make profitable heating
If you install stoves, then the house heats up slowly, but heating is enough for 6-12 hours. True, if you do not heat the stove, it will cool down. Convection ovens heat up a home quickly, but also depend on a constant supply of fuel material.
The most convenient is the fireplace, which quickly heats the room to the desired temperature, giving off heat like a fire. However, you will have to constantly monitor so that an open fire does not damage your property. The fireplace is good for short-term visits, since it is difficult for them to warm up the whole house. One of the most profitable ways to make heating in the country is heat guns, fan heaters, they quickly heat the air in the right place.
Also recently, infrared heaters have begun to be used, which heat objects, not air. By installing them in the places necessary for heating, you can easily perform heating for the summer cottage with your own hands.
Water heating for summer cottages
If you live in a country house all year round, you can install boilers and full water heating. It is more economical than electric, but you cannot defrost such a system. Such a heating boiler can run on natural gas or liquid fuel if there is no gas pipeline nearby. But you will have to carry out heating for the summer residence with your own hands, that is, install radiators, pipes, that is, a heat distribution system must be thought out.
Choose what seems optimal to you, but do not forget that stove heating will require the creation of chimneys, and if they are not designed in advance, then the work will be very difficult. The easiest way to plan the heating of your home before you start living there is that extra space is needed for boilers and chimneys for stoves and fireplaces. Consider at once all the pros and cons that you need to heat your house. Also, in the event of a power outage, remember to have an alternative heat source to keep from freezing in winter.
