Boilers for heating a private house: how to create a

Water heating, according to most experts, is the most efficient and cheapest way to heat your own cottage. However, in order for it to really be such, it is necessary to choose the right heating equipment. On what kind of boilers for heating a country house, and what to look for when buying, read on.

Heater Varieties

When choosing heating boilers for a country house, first of all, you should pay attention to the type of energy carrier it uses.

It is important to consider the following nuances:

1. Availability of the required type of fuel. For example, a gas boiler requires connection to the main gas pipeline section. No matter how low the price of gas is, you will not be able to install such equipment in your home if there is no corresponding pipe.
2. The cost of fuel. For example, electric boilers have excellent efficiency, are silent and have many other advantages. But bills to pay for this type of energy can be so high that you urgently need to look for alternative ways of heating.

To make it easier for you to decide on the acquisition of a particular model, consider in more detail the most common heating boilers for a private house.

Gas

The wide distribution of gas boilers for the equipment of water heating systems is due to the low cost of fuel for them. If you have the opportunity to connect a gas pipeline to the house, you can install the heater without hesitation. You will be pleasantly surprised by the simplicity and cheapness of its use.

Specialized stores that sell climate equipment, are offered to choose from the following models of boilers using gas:

1. Atmospheric and equipped with a turbine. The first type has an open combustion chamber. The lack of such a system is that the boiler burns the air in the room where it is installed, and also requires a vertical chimney, which provides natural draft.

Turbine boilers burn gas in an airtight combustion chamber. For their work, a coaxial two-chamber channel is needed that goes out through the wall to the street. It serves both for removal of products of burning, and for an air intake. Air masses are forced inward with a special fan.

A boiler with a closed combustion chamber is better, but it is more expensive than its atmospheric counterpart.

1. Floor and wall. These models differ only in size and installation method. Naturally, floor heaters have great power, but for their installation most often you need to equip a separate room - a boiler room.

Regardless of the model, all heaters are equipped with additional devices and parts, without which it is impossible to create a climate network: sensors, a pump, and so on.

1. Single and dual circuit. The latter, in addition to heating the coolant entering the heating radiators, heat the hot water that is used for domestic needs.

To be fair, it should be noted that the single-circuit boiler can also be adapted to heat water. But in this case it is necessary to purchase additional equipment: indirect heating boilers, storage tanks, and so on.

1. With steel and cast iron heat exchanger. Here the choice depends entirely on personal preference. Steel is stronger and lighter, but cools faster. Cast iron is fragile, but it has a large inertia and weight.

Steel boilers are most often wall-mounted, and cast-iron ones are produced only in the floor version.

Note! The boiler in question, although running on gas, cannot function without electricity. In order not to be left without heating in the event of a break in the electrical network, which is often the case in rural areas, it is recommended to connect the boiler through a special uninterruptible power supply or buy a diesel generator.

It should be noted another nuance. The gas equipment instruction manual permits the installation of gas boilers only to certified specialists after obtaining the appropriate permit. Therefore, you will not install such equipment on your own.

Electric

Heating boilers for a country house, powered by electricity, are even more efficient and easy to use, but they have two drawbacks that limit their wide distribution:

1. The high cost of electricity. To get the same amount of heat you will spend significantly more money.
2. High power equipment. Not every power line, especially in rural areas, is designed for such a volume of electricity transmission. In some cases, you generally will not be able to use the boiler without connecting the house to a three-phase electrical network.

Otherwise, the advantages of electric heaters are indisputable:

• have a very compact size;
• during operation do not make noise;
• do not require a chimney for removal of combustion products;
• absolutely eco-friendly.

The equipment in question is most often used as a backup or additional circuit. For example, the air is heated to the desired temperature using a solid fuel heater, and then the microclimate in the house is maintained by an electric heating boiler that does not require human intervention during operation.

Solid fuel

These boilers are known to specialists in the design of autonomous climate systems for private homes for many years. Their main advantage is the variety of fuel used and its availability.

To heat the coolant can be used:

• firewood;
• brown coal;
• coke;
• fuel briquettes;
• biofuel granules, etc.

The downside of such a system is also obvious. They can not work for a long time without the intervention of a person who must constantly add fuel to the combustion chamber.

However, a solution has been found to this issue. Pyrolysis boilers are designed and marketed.

They have two combustion chambers:

• in the upper of wood, under the action of temperature and forced air, so-called pyrolysis gas is released, which goes down;
• at the bottom, this gas is burned, releasing additional heat energy.

This equipment, although it is much more expensive, has a very high efficiency and requires bookmarking of fuel once every 8-10 hours.

Note! Some experts can make a solid fuel boiler for heating a private house with their own hands. But such a unit will have a low efficiency, and require frequent loading of fuel. Therefore, the small savings that you achieve can result in significant costs when buying wood or coal.

Fuel oil

These heating boilers burn diesel fuel or used engine oil (depending on the type of burner installed). The cost of such equipment is quite high, as is the price of the energy used, so such systems are not very common.

The problem also lies in the fact that in addition to the heater, you will need to purchase and install a container for storing diesel fuel, where the positive temperature must be observed. Otherwise, diesel fuel in winter will thicken and will disable pumping equipment.

But such a boiler is used. The fact is that the burner of the described heater can be converted to use gas.

Therefore, these devices are mounted in areas where there are interruptions in the gas supply. In this case, you can change the type of fuel and avoid freezing of the coolant in the pipes in case of any accidents.

Conclusion

The choice of heating equipment is huge. In addition to such an important issue as the type of fuel used, it is necessary to correctly calculate the power of the unit, which depends on the area of ​​the house and the volume of heat losses.

You can learn more about this from the video below.