How to make a fireplace

In the view of most fireplace – it is clear sun: warms and pleases the master in the crude and worthless weather. The heat of burning wood, the smell of fire heated wood associated with comfort. The fashion for fireplaces not pass in a hundred years. House or apartment with him is worth more, even if manufactured fireplace with his hands.

The device of the fireplace, at first glance, it is easy and to do it yourself, you do not need special equipment. This is true, but only if you scrupulously stick technology and step-by-step Assembly instructions the fireplace with his hands in the photo and description. It first.

Need for which decide to build with their own hands fireplace in the living room with an open fire burning:

• The fireplace in the country, harvested their own hands, can solve the problem of heating the house, it won’t run off with rogues, it is easy and reliable;
• You like the fireplace as an interior element, it is necessary to create a psychological feeling of comfort and coziness;
• The stove, made with his own hands the house will make less cost of heating homes and even to abandon the construction of water heating and boiler installation.

Second, if the purpose is serious and the decision on the construction of the fireplace with his own hands made, is to make cost estimates for its construction maximum. To make savings on small things will definitely backfire in the future. Fireplace you build for yourself, with your own hands, so now set the teeth, buy an expensive, the proven quality of the material. If you believe in yourself and know how to act, step-by-step instructions on how to make fire with your hands, allocate maximum budget for the purchase of quality materials. In the opposite case, you can own hands to level the quality of the work.

Choose to lay everything on the shelves ^ the

The most popular schemes to do with their hands, are wall fireplace, stove or fireplace – grill. All three options the fireplace can be done by hand in the country. Before you begin the responsible masonry fireplace, you should get practice in making their hands one of the options of outdoor fireplaces or stoves grills as pictured. But in any sustainable approach is needed skill in a simple laying brick with a bunch of angles and proper alignment of the ranks. If you have such problems is not difficult, before work will do a small training.

Tie the project to the place ↑

You can simply find the appropriate schematic drawing with the lining and dimensional chains, even step by step instructions with video on the masonry of the fireplace with his hands. Harder to do the binding with his hands of the finished project with adjusted size in place of masonry.

Of the many different options choose the one that is closest to the planned option and easiest to do:

• At the heated area and size of the combustion chamber;
• The size of the chimney and form ventilation;
• The location of the room or house.

The Internet can make an order for the finished project, it is possible to understand the methods of calculation and ways of laying decorative items with their hands. It takes effort, time and skill calculation, if available – you will save a lot of money, but get the chance of a do-it-yourselfer mistake in planning.

The best choice will be to order the detailed design of the fireplace to the size of the heated space and the installation, while most of the work on manufacturing and installation of the fireplace can be done by hand. The wizard estimated that is called – «very expensive» – from 30 thousand to do less are the hacks. Well in the time to take a break Yes review online video on how to make fire with his hands.

Options fireplaces for the manufacture of their own hands ^ the

If the fireplace needs for purely practical reasons, and have no desire to pay more for originality, and stupidity make the easiest option. Warm it will be no worse cost much cheaper, and the simple design will allow without any problems to make him clutch his hands. A project of this fireplace is easy to find online or to purchase for mere pennies.

The advantages of the project the fireplace include:

• thermal excellence, minimal bulk and the lack of contact with the inner wall provides good heat removal from the heating surface, allowing you to quickly heat the room.
• Straight chimney gives excellent traction for burning wet firewood and briquettes;
• Simple and reliable design will not allow do-it-yourselfer fundamental errors, it will work even if there is no experience of masonry;
• The quantity of materials and the cost is much below the projects «middling».

If you search for a fireplace project is to do with their hands in the country, the best option is not to find.

Understand how to make a simple fireplace with his own hands, and familiarized with the basic principles of the execution of the works, you can try your hand at a similar design English fireplace in the stem size is 3 by 5 bricks. There is already a special scaffolding of the laid edge of the brick providing fire protection.

We expect the number and select material ↑

For the successful construction of the fireplace, even the simplest, in addition to the exact calculation of the placement and quality of the brick row, you need to make your own hands a few preliminary tests to check the quality of bricks and the binder solution. The main problem of the masonry for the fireplace, grill or conventional oven will always be the strength of the binding seam.

Pick up the brick and clay ↑

For forming the main frame of the fireplace use:

1. three hundred of ceramic bricks of M 175-200;
2. one hundred and fifty refractory fireclay SHB No. 8;
3. the binder solution of clay and of sand, 100 litres;
4. solution based on chamotte – 40-50 litres.

The main requirement for the brick has always been its geometrical shape accuracy and strength. For display buy flat fireplace brick beautiful red hue, and do not use light or dark with a divorce options. The material should not have cracks or deviations in size. Collect your hands as smooth and smooth brick. In some cases, the master is advised for simple fireplaces to make the clutch without the refractory inserts for the combustion chamber, arguing that the peasant furnace stood for decades without any of the refractory. Without chamotte oven warms up much faster, but the risk of cracking also increases. Therefore, the use of refractory material for the combustion chamber will make the fireplace are reliable.

Prepare a binder solution ↑

To make the hands of the binder solution of the desired quality is the most difficult task. Prepared binders weight 1 measures of sand and 2 measures of the crushed clay. A single precise recipes, there is not quite coherent advice.

In theory to prepare a binder you can use any clean sand and clay. Sand carefully washed from impurities. Clay shinkirou, the water is drained. On top of the settled clay layer, make a layer of dried sand. Chopping motions down, obliquely, at a slight angle stirred to obtain a homogeneous mass.

Check the quality of the solution will do with their hands. Mash with the fingers of the mixture and form a wet cake, which preslaven on a clean surface of the steel sheet. Dried at a temperature of 50-60^onWith to dry and evaluate the strength of the layer:

1. If cracks – you need to add sand;
2. No cracks, but the structure crumbles to make the correction in the clay;
3. It turned out durable and hard trailers for metal «cookie monster» – the proportions matched exactly.

For the bonding of the refractory to the solution was added finely ground fireclay.

Build the fireplace wall ↑

Before you start laying bricks it is necessary to make waterproofing. On top of it gain a rubble Foundation or install a concrete slab, carefully checking its position and orientation is horizontal using a level.

The first row of bricks spread dry, without mortar, carefully driven position of the bricks, given the thickness of expected gaps in the solution. After that, the vertical plumb, posted on the center of the chimney-like and mark the bricks in the second round.

Before laying a bunch of bricks on a 20-30min immersed in water, the thickness of the weld can withstand up to 8mm for refractory masonry – 5mm. If necessary, the size of the brick can be done with pinholes or cutting «grinder».

On the third or fourth round mounted cast iron fire grate. The place of installation of a valve on the chimney and the door on the ash niche perform with the seam sealing asbestos cord, or in the refractory bundle add asbestos fibers.

The transition of the chimney pipe to the chimney can be performed with the help of special details – the view, in any case, at the exit through the roof of the roof using an additional non-flammable insulator.

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