Some tips on fireplaces (Part 1)
IMPORTANT
We have talked a lot about the role of fireplaces in the house interior, but there some details, which should always considered at fireplaces arrangement. These details seem not so much important, but you can????????t do without them.
It is not recommended to arrange fireplace on the way of possible drafts. But at the same time access of oxygen is necessary for maintenance of burning. Therefore it is better, if the room c a fireplace will be not less than 20 meters.
The wall, at which the fireplace is established, should be made of fireproof materials, and it should have any kind of communications (like telephone). If the wall is external, than it should be heat insulated with the help of basalt cotton wool, covered by a foil.
The weight of a fireplace in gathering can be very great; therefore the floor under it should have sufficient durability with an obligatory concrete coupler. If you put a fireplace in the wooden panel board house (where floors are also made of wood) and it adjoins to a wall, than it is impossible to do the separate base as at the isolated movements of the bases of a fireplace and the house displacement of a wall can cause destruction of the fireplace. In this case wooden floor should be strengthened with the help of iron structure.
THE FURNACE
If other heating at your house is not supposed, than it is a high time to think about it. Its basic difference from a fireplace relies in long kindling and long-last warming up of the room.
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