Dacha is the dream of many of our compatriots. They dream of such a country house in which they could comfortably relax, forgetting about the hardships of work. As a rule, a country house is intended to be visited only during the warm season, but there are some exceptions.
How to refuse a trip to nature on a fine autumn day? And what to do when at night the temperature drops below the climatic norm, and it gets cold at home? In fact, do not go home at night because of this!
Exit - potbelly stove to give. Despite some obsolescence of this heating "device", it has prospects to this day. Especially considering the fact that these stoves have changed a lot and bear little resemblance to their prototypes, which we remember from films about the war.
Benefits
Do you think bourgeois women have no advantages? Then you are very wrong! To begin with, such a furnace does not take up much space, you do not need to pour a monolithic foundation under it, spending a lot of money on it. Manymodern models have a convenient cast-iron burner on which you can cook or heat food. In a word, this solution is optimal for giving!
Steel or cast iron?
If you need a potbelly stove for giving, then you should know about the materials from which they are made today. Of course, most manufacturers use ordinary steel. It is cheap and relatively light.
Unfortunately, it also has its drawbacks. It burns pretty quickly and does not hold heat at all. Such a stove constantly needs fuel, otherwise you will feel cold within a couple of hours after the last log has burned through.
On the contrary, cast iron is heavy, and its cost is much higher. But the fuel in it burns out longer, and you should not forget about heat accumulation. Unfortunately, a medium-sized potbelly stove made of cast iron weighs a lot, so you shouldn’t even try to pull it into the attic of a flimsy country house.
But if you intend to use the stove at least a little often, it is better to choose cast iron. In addition, such a heater can even use coal as fuel.
What else?
Oddly enough, but our consumers generally have very strange ideas about this kind of ovens. For example, they cannot even imagine that a modern potbelly stove for a summer residence may well be associated with a water heating circuit. So, if you wish, you can not only heat the room, but also organize full-fledged heating of a rather large country house.
Aesthetic side of things
In general, returning to the beginning of our story, I would like to note once again that modern cast-iron potbelly stoves for summer cottages can look like real works of art.
Openwork molding, beautiful stained-glass windows on the refractory glass of the door, as well as the general impression of a live fire buzzing behind it, create a unique comfort and charm. Agree that with banal steam heating you definitely won’t achieve this.
Before installing a potbelly stove in the country, make sure there is a normal chimney. The fact is that due to its small length and proximity to the firebox, it heats up very much. Accordingly, it must be properly insulated for fire protection purposes.
