Visiting a dacha in cold weather requires heating the room and choosing a view heating system or heating devices. It is worth thinking about how to heat a dacha in winter economically at the time of designing a dacha or at the time of its purchase, overhaul. It will depend on the type of heating temperature regime, frequency of visits, comfortable conditions.

The types of heating systems may depend on the available energy resource, design features, climatic conditions, and the budget of the dacha owner.

The main types of space heating are:

• gas heaters;
• electric heaters;
• furnace equipment;
• equipment operating on liquid fuel resources;
• equipment operating on solid fuel resources;
• universal heating systems.

Choosing each type of heating requires drawing up a cost budget, taking into account the area of ​​the building that needs heating. The choice of heat supply method will determine how to maintain a positive temperature when you are away from your summer cottage.

Note!

In winter, the entire house may not need a heating system. Without heating, you can leave the attic, veranda, dressing room or other rooms that are rarely visited during the cold season.

Heating a country house with electricity

Heating country house In winter, electricity is considered one of the most economical types heating Electric heaters require less installation time than furnace equipment. And the constant increase in electricity tariffs provokes the development of cheaper types of heating that save electricity.

To heat the house use:

• oil heaters;
• fan heaters;
• electric convectors;
• infrared heaters;
• infrared panels;
• heat guns;
• warm baseboards;
• electric mattresses.

All listed species easy to use, easy to install. The disadvantage is the significant energy consumption.

If you heat your house with electricity, the wiring in the house must withstand high loads

Oil heaters

Oil heaters have been widely used for the last twenty years. However, they are not as efficient in their work as innovative models, capable of quickly heating a room. The oil system heats the room as a whole for quite a long time. The air can only heat up near you, although there is slight convection upward and to the sides. The oil structure can be floor- or wall-mounted if there are small children in the house.

Oil systems are low cost. The latest models are equipped with air humidifiers, which will prevent you from spending additional money. The element works without interruption for several days and does not make noise, which is convenient for use in an office or bedroom. You cannot get burned by the oil, since all the parts are hidden inside the device.

Fan heaters

The cottage can be heated using a fan heater. In terms of heating speed, fan heaters take first place. In a short period of time, with the fan on, the room warms up to 21 degrees. It is impossible to heat economically with such a fan. His energy consumption is high. During operation, the device must be supervised, since the fire safety class does not allow it to work unattended.

The cost of the product depends on the power of the fan and ranges from 600 to 8000 rubles.

UFO

UFO is considered a unique device that first heats people and objects, and then the objects give off their heat to people. UFO can heat even on outdoors, in windy weather, therefore suitable for areas with poor thermal insulation, terraces, balconies. UFO is suitable if there is no autonomous heating or there is a need to take it outside. The device starts heating 30 seconds after switching on. Some devices can be turned on in the rain because they have a waterproof layer.

Electric convectors

Convectors are widely used for summer cottages and other types of premises. The model can be wall-mounted or on wheels. Mobile models are convenient to use to heat several rooms. The cost of a convector ranges from 3,000 to 6,000 thousand rubles. If you heat the room with convectors, it is better to choose models that are equipped with a thermoregulation unit. Convectors are expensive, but work economically.

It is prohibited to use electric convectors in the bathroom, as drops of water may enter the equipment, which can lead to a short circuit.

Infrared panels

IR panels with infrared sensor are an ideal heating device for winter weather. The panels are not mobile, so they are mounted on walls and ceilings. The panels must be controlled using a temperature sensor. In a country house, the panels heat rooms economically, but infrared rays have a bad effect on people and dry out the air greatly. Installation of one panel will cost approximately 4,000 rubles. For wall and ceiling mounting Certain types of fasteners are adapted.

Infrared heaters

Infrared heaters primarily heat objects, walls, and floors. Infrared waves are perceived by the skin like sun rays. The room heats up locally in those places where the waves hit. The waves propagate thanks to a reflector made of aluminum. Each device is equipped with a thermostat and a tilt sensor. The most convenient type are ceiling fixtures. The best models Infrared devices with carbon and tubular elements are considered. A device with a ceramic element has a short service life.

Heat guns

The selection of a heat gun is made based on power, voltage, operating time, and noise level. The dacha gun must be equipped with an exhaust gas removal system. If there is no gas, you can heat the house with a portable or stationary gun. It is better to choose a device with thermoregulation, an overheating sensor, and in a metal case. For your home or dacha, it is best to choose a rectangular gun with a mesh heating element, which does not dry out the air.

Warm baseboard

Cold enters the house through walls and cracks. It is really better to heat the dacha throughout the entire area of ​​the house. A good idea is to install a warm baseboard. The system has a high heating rate, dries the walls, and creates a heat shield. The baseboard uses water-based, eclectic heating. Electricity savings compared to other eclectic types are up to 30%. Skirting boards are cheap, easy to install, and come in a variety of colors. The baseboard first heats the objects and then the air, which is important when choosing a heating system.

Electric mattress

The electric mattress is laid under the bed linen and plugged into an outlet. This mattress is one big heating pad. The mattress warms the entire bed, which is better than an electric blanket. In order for an electric mattress to serve for a long time, you need to choose synthetic material. The mattress should also have a temperature regulator. For initial heating, it is better to choose the maximum. For comfortable sleep, the temperature will need to be lowered.

The auto shut-off function creates additional safety during sleep, as well as when a person leaves home. Thermal zone adjustment feature helps you set comfortable temperature for each spouse or to warm a specific part of the body.

Good to know!

The electric mattress does not take up much space, so it is easy to transport.

Stove heating

Heating the cottage in winter is possible. Stove heating is durable, quickly warms up the house and maintains the thermal temperature for a long time. This type of heating is suitable if the dacha is rarely visited. can be combined with a fireplace. The disadvantage of stove heating is the continuous provision of fuel resources and chimney cleaning. Stove heating can be of several types, for example, stoves can be brick, metal, or burning solid fuel. Before constructing the furnace, a project is developed containing drawings and diagrams.

Features of brick kilns

When creating a stove heating system, the first step is to determine the location brick oven. must be placed near load-bearing wall in the center of the house for maximum thermal efficiency. If the weight of the furnace structure exceeds 650 kg, then it is necessary to check the foundation for strength and make sure that it goes deeper into the ground by more than 1 meter.

Heating using a stove operates on a variety of fuels:

• tree;
• coal;
• bush peat;
• anthracite.

Types of fuel are classified according to heat transfer and ability to store heat. Some are used to heat up a cooled oven, others to maintain heat for a long period of time.

Heating own home the stove is quite competitive even against the background gas heating.

The advantages include:

• easily accessible and fairly inexpensive fuel;
• Possibility of installation in any place that is difficult to access for communications;
• is an environmentally friendly system for both humans and nature;
• construction does not require large amounts of money;
• no need to prepare the oven before use.

A brick heating system does not pose any difficulties, and a small stove can keep 30 meters of space warm.

Like any heating device, the stove has its drawbacks.

To store firewood and coal, you will have to build a place where dampness and open fire will not fall. And in cold weather, you need to purchase fuel in advance, which will entail an increase in storage space.

Another disadvantage is that the oven takes up part of the free space in the house, and warming up and maintaining a comfortable temperature takes some time.

The quality of the red brick is tested when it is dropped. The brick should break into pieces, not crumble.

Long burning stove

They are made from cast iron or steel, which retains heat in the room, especially at night, when it is not possible to add firewood, as in a conventional stove. The firebox in this type of furnace is divided into two parts. It is more spacious, and some models have an air convection system or a water heat exchanger. Bake long burning has the ability to work in two modes. Fuel consumption is insignificant. Firewood burns very slowly, which makes it possible to active mode operation in smoldering mode by adjusting the incoming air. toss flammable material no earlier than 5 hours later.

The disadvantages are:

• complex tincture;
• increased requirements for the chimney;
• inability to use liquid fuel;
• gas entering the chimney at a low temperature, which promotes the formation of condensation.

Heating using metal stoves

Metal furnaces belong to the permanent category. Unlike brick and cast iron stoves, metal is lightweight and takes up little space. An excellent example A metal stove is a “potbelly stove”, which you can make with your own hands. The heating rate of a metal stove is high, but the stove cools down just as quickly as it heats up.

It's important to know that metal stoves have a low fire safety class, so their walls are reinforced with special layers of fire resistant materials. The price of a metal stove is much cheaper than that of a stove brickwork. Modern heat-resistant materials guarantee a stove service life of more than 10 years.

Liquid fuel stoves

The most popular ovens on liquid fuel work on diesel fuel. A heating stove with a power of 2.5 kW consumes 200 g of diesel fuel per hour. The weight of the stove is up to 10 kg. When using such stoves, it is important to know the operating features:

• the stove is ignited in the open air;
• due to the pungent odor, it is not recommended to regularly use the device for heating a living space;
• during regular use you need to clean the burner and change the filter.

It is better to use liquid fuel stoves for non-residential premises dachas It is best to heat the garage and utility rooms.

On a note!

A Russian stove can heat large area than a fireplace, without wasting fuel material.

Solid fuel heating devices

A solid fuel heating device can serve as both a primary and an additional means of heating. Distinctive feature Such boilers are smoldering wood. An air solid fuel boiler is better than a liquid fuel boiler for country house. Air system works on the principle of a fireplace and quickly fills the house with warmth. This boiler is not afraid of frost. Solid fuel boilers can be equipped hob. You can use coal and firewood for this type of boiler.

Universal heating boilers

These types of boilers are devices for which they are suitable various types fuel, which guarantees the operation of the boiler in the event of a shortage of the main type of fuel. The device allows you to choose the best fuel price and save money.

The main types of heating installations include:

• gas and diesel fuel. The combination differs in fuel price. The advantage is that the differences are only in the type of burner. Switching can be done in the shortest possible time;
• gas, diesel, solid fuel. The device is a leader in reliability among its competitors. The boiler is easy to assemble and has a minimum of parts that can break. The advantages include wide list fuel resources. The main fuels are wood and coal. Gas and diesel fuel are auxiliary materials;
• gas, diesel fuel, electricity. The electricity is intended more to support the boiler system than to heat the building. It is possible to operate the burner with a boiler, which will reduce gas costs.

Positive points:

• constant heat even if there is a shortage of one type of fuel;
• choosing the type of fuel based on its cost and financial capabilities.

Negative points:

• the price of the device will be significantly higher than the cost of a conventional boiler,
• there is only one main type of fuel, and the auxiliary ones will not work as efficiently, which must be taken into account when choosing.

Gas heating of a summer house is complex engineering system. Before installing expensive equipment, you need to ensure good thermal insulation. An ideal system should operate silently, economically, warmly, and unnoticeably. Gas equipment requires constant maintenance and preparation for the winter season. Maintenance must be carried out by certified specialists.

Best suited for gas heating water system. If the system will not be filled in winter, the pipes must be filled with antifreeze. This nuance will protect the system from defrosting. Installation of gas equipment includes the installation of radiators that will give off their heat to the room. Installation of a heating system has its own characteristics, which a specialist must warn about.

Finally

The choice of heating system depends on financial opportunities, regularity of residence at the dacha, room design. If in winter time live in the country, then you should think about gas, electric or stove heating. If the house design and communications allow, then you can use warm baseboards and heated floors. During short-term stays in winter, you can use electric and oil heaters, convectors, and heat guns. The main condition for the operation of any heating device– safe use, comfort, ease of operation.

Holidays in the countryside are a key aspect for many of us. summer period. However, today a dacha is no longer just a place for seasonal recreation, but in most cases, a thorough permanent structure, capable of accepting residents at any time of the year. Even at the design stage of a country house, many of the owners of suburban areas try to provide possible options organizing heating of residential buildings. In a dacha cooperative, which is usually located within reach of the city's transport infrastructure, most summer residents try to find an acceptable way to provide heating for their dacha.

Today, the problem of heating a country house remains relevant, so it’s time to consider options for organizing the system at the country house on your own.

Selecting a heating system. What should you focus on?

The heating season is an important component of city life. It’s another matter when we try to spend more time in the countryside, despite the changing seasons. Making heating for a country house means turning own dacha into cozy housing, designed for year-round living and frequent visits. The complexity of the issue lies elsewhere. Which heating system to choose? How realistic will it be to organize heating for a dacha with your own hands?

The first step on which your choice depends, assessment technical condition country house. Here it is important to take into account every detail, without losing sight of the smallest details and nuances, namely:

• which one is used construction material for building a summer house;
• assessment of the distance of a country house from the nearest engineering and technical communications;
• Availability of available energy resources.

The factors listed above will allow you to do right choice, which autonomous heating system to choose.

The choice of heating option is largely influenced by the size of the dacha. The larger your home, the more energy resources you need to fully heat the interior spaces and, accordingly, the more significant your heating costs look.

Efficient heating of a dacha with your own hands minimum costs can be done if the house is small and your visits summer cottage mainly occur in spring, summer and autumn. The best option in this situation would be. Rare inclusions and small internal volumes will allow you to effectively use electricity for heating. The costs in this case will be negligible.

For a country house, convectors and fan heaters are usually used. Many summer cottage dwellers actively use oil radiators during the cold season. All of the listed devices are local heat sources and can be easily transferred from one room to another. The best option with electricity is infrared heaters. With a minimum of energy consumption, a high thermal effect is achieved.

As an alternative to electricity, convection ovens are perfect for a small country house. Such heating units efficient and economical. One load of solid fuel can be enough for the entire period of your stay in the house, especially since such heating is absolutely independent of the energy supply.

Important! If you want to equip your dacha with electric heating devices, you must take into account the power of the electrical wiring in the house. It is advisable to have switchboard and a power cable rated for 380V. Convection ovens require a specially equipped place, equidistant from the walls and with non-flammable linings underneath.

Trying to maintain the aesthetics of the interior, many of us prefer fireplaces and stoves. These heating options are suitable for short-term heating small house. From a purely aesthetic point of view, briquettes are convenient, but this heating option is short-term and solves a local problem. It is necessary to constantly add fuel to maintain a comfortable temperature. In addition, the quality of heating may be affected by the insufficient thermal efficiency of the building itself.

An option with a fireplace or stove can be considered if there are no power lines nearby, firewood or other solid fuel there is no problem.

Worth paying attention! If your main fuel for a fireplace or stove is wood or coal, there is a high probability of entering interior spaces in a large amount of combustion products, soot, soot and CO 2, which can affect the level of comfort. Can solve the problem the right equipment hoods and chimneys.

For example, here are the two most common types of fireplace stoves:

• a fireplace whose pipe has a cross-section of 100x125 mm;
• fireplace with a rectangular chimney, dimensions 150x50 mm.

To achieve the desired effect while operating the fireplace with closed camera combustion, you will need to burn 1 kg of wood 8 cubic meters. meters of air. The combustion process and the quality of heating in this case directly depends on the condition of the air duct.

To the owners of large country houses, which are designed for a large number of inhabitants and can be suitable with the appropriate equipment for year-round living, making heating in a dacha with your own hands will be much more difficult. Here you have to think about other options for heating a country house.

If the dacha is large, what solutions to the problem exist?

Your dacha is a second home for you, you spend a lot of time in it, the level of domestic comfort requires constant maintenance of an acceptable temperature, hot water supply and permanent job household appliances.

In this situation, it is the best option, especially if the gas main runs close to your site. If there is no gas, you can limit yourself autonomous heating using solid fuel and electric boilers. Today, there are boiler models that are effective when working in such conditions and provide warmth and comfort to fairly large suburban residential buildings.

Installation of a summer cottage heating system begins with the development of a project. In each individual case, it is necessary to calculate the most acceptable power of the heating unit that can cope with the assigned tasks. By submitting an application to the gas industry, you will receive the necessary specifications, which are already the basis for developing a project and drawing up estimate documentation.

The first priority is to establish a source of energy supply. It’s up to you to decide for yourself how to heat your home, use either electricity or give preference to gas. You can stop at solid fuel boilers. The main task is to do as much as possible with your own hands autonomous system heating, independent of external factors.

On a note: liquid fuel boilers for heating private residential buildings are ineffective due to excessive household pollution of the surrounding space.

Installation gas boiler, installation of heating for your dacha, including laying the pipeline and connecting heating radiators, you will have to solve these issues yourself. The gas pipe connection to the boundaries of your site is carried out at the expense of the energy company. In accordance with the new rules and procedures for connecting gas to private households, the connection procedure itself has been significantly simplified. No more than 3 months must pass from the date of submission of the application for connection.

The new procedure applies to the category of summer residents who spend no more than 5 m 3 of gas per day on heating and household needs. According to preliminary calculations, this volume is quite enough to heat a house with an area of ​​200 m2, including hot water supply and the use of a household gas stove.

Do-it-yourself heating of a country house using gas from a central gas pipeline is a convenient, practical and economically sound solution. As win-win option you should opt for an open-type heating system. For a small country house, even a two-story one, this option is very convenient, since the coolant circulates naturally. You can lay the pipes yourself at a slope, and the difference of two floors will ensure the normal functionality of the heating system. The diagram allows you to roughly imagine what the heating system in your dacha will look like.

Forced circulation is more practical, however, in this situation, electricity is required to operate the pump. In winter, especially in bad weather outside the city, power outages are common. Carrying out independent connection system, you must strictly adhere to the instructions and design, otherwise the heating may be ineffective and excessive fuel consumption will increase significantly. The best option, invite gas industry specialists to install heating equipment at the dacha.

The power of the heating boiler is determined approximately at the rate of 1 kW of heat per 10 m 2 of area of ​​a residential building. The resulting number is multiplied by a coefficient that is approved for each region of our country. So for the southern districts the coefficient ranges from 0.7 to 1.0, for the districts Central Russia the coefficient is 1.5. For northern regions from 1.5 units to 2.

An alternative source of centralized gas supply, when your dacha is located far from infrastructure, is a gas cylinder installation.

How to make heating in a dacha if you have the means and the technical capabilities of the dacha are satisfactory technical specifications heating systems, the answer is simple and clear. You can always find best option, if you approach the solution of the task competently and economically. Electricity, wood or coal, gas, in any case you get a source of heat for your dacha. Another question is how well the chosen option will satisfy your needs and whether an economic effect will be achieved.

To get a more complete picture, you should familiarize yourself with the economic parameters of use for heating various types fuel. The data is shown in the table below:

With the onset of the winter months, coolant consumption increases sharply. The lower the temperature outside, the more difficult it is to heat the room. But in last years prices for basic coolants began to rise. And the forecast for the future is disappointing. Winters will not become shorter, gas will not become cheaper. After the long winter of this year, many had to think about how to heat a private house so that the family budget does not suffer.

In the past, everyone tried to connect the house to gas and use it for heating. This possibility does not always exist. Some home owners have calculated that it is now more profitable to change the heating system. There are other ways to reduce heating costs. Let's talk about everything in order.

Insulate the walls of the building

Before discussing options for heating a private building, it should be noted that a lot of heat is wasted. You burn gas, consume electricity, heat water. And the heat escapes through the walls and roof. Don't believe me? Take a walk along a private street in winter. Has the snow melted on the roofs of many houses? Why?

Heated air becomes lighter and tends upward. If the ceiling and roof are not insulated, heat penetrates outside, melts the snow on the roof, and heats the air around the building. The heat in the house does not stay in and you have to constantly turn it on gas burner. And the foundation walls conduct cold and moisture. The room is constantly damp and cold.

Scientists have calculated that half of the home’s heat goes outside through the building’s structure. It will not be possible to insulate a building 100 percent. After all, the house must breathe. However, insulation work may well reduce heat loss by half.

There are many insulation options. For example, you can pump in liquid penoizol by drilling holes between the rows of brickwork. You can insulate external walls with foam plastic or mineral wool. On ceiling You can add a layer of expanded clay.

The choice of materials for insulation is also constantly increasing. Foam and mineral wool they are cheap. But you can use other materials, for example, glass wool or polyurethane foam. In some cases, straw, hay, and sawdust are used as insulation.

If the house has heating batteries, cover the walls behind the radiator with reflective foil. The heat will not warm the wall, but will be reflected from the foil and will heat the room.

If you use gas for heating, be sure to install gas meter. You will be able to control gas consumption.

We heat the house with wood

Many are looking for an alternative to gas heating. But is it possible to heat with wood? modern house. We are, of course, not talking about the traditional Russian stove on which our grandmothers cooked. Now there are cast iron and steel furnaces, which can be heated with coal or wood. Outwardly, they resemble the well-known potbelly stove, but have a number of advantages. Let us immediately note that the cast iron construction is more reliable.

Sellers of wood stoves claim that they can heat the entire house and that such heating will be cheaper than gas heating. Can you believe this? In order for such a stove to operate at full capacity, special wood is needed. You will need perfectly dry logs. It is also better to purchase only hard wood. Pine or maple logs will not work. You will have to buy oak or beech wood. Other wood will also burn in this stove, but the heat from their combustion will be much less.

Minuses

Now let's analyze the disadvantages of such heating. The stove will have to be installed in one room, which will heat up as much as possible. Less heat will flow into other rooms. When heating with gas, you distribute the body evenly in all rooms.

By turning on a double-circuit electric boiler, you can not only warm up the house. You will have hot water in the bathroom and kitchen. A wood heating You can't connect it to the shower stall.

Firewood will have to be stocked and stored in a separate room. To maintain a pleasant temperature in the house, you will have to add firewood several times a day. The ash also needs to be raked out and taken outside.

Now about smoke and combustion products. Ventilation must be provided for them. Otherwise, there will be a threat to health or even life. The stove cannot be left unattended, otherwise a fire may occur if a spark falls on the floor or clothing catches fire from the hot surface.

You can purchase a boiler that runs on compressed sawdust. This stove is expensive, but has several advantages:

• fuel can be added once every 3 days;
• little ash is generated, it can be removed after a week or two;
• the heat transfer of this design is at the level of a wood stove;
• Sawdust cylinders are very light and take up little space.

Candle based heater

Sometimes there is a need to heat only one room or workplace. We can recommend purchasing a Doyle Doss thermal device. The American called his invention “Heat Trap”. The heat source is a burning candle. It turns out that when a candle burns, a lot of heat is generated, but it dissipates.

The heating device allows you to capture heated air. A special ceramic cap is located above the flame. Its task is to collect and accumulate warm air. The heat warms the ceramic cap, which warms the room.

This is what a Dosa heater looks like.

You certainly shouldn’t expect that such a heater will solve the heating problem. Experience has shown that a ceramic radiator can warm up small room no earlier than 10 o'clock. If the house is connected to electricity, it is better to use an oil radiator.

If you need to heat a separate room or small area rooms, it is better to buy infrared heater. It starts working immediately and does not consume much electricity.

Previously, many were afraid that this type of radiation could have a bad effect on health. It turned out that infrared rays even have a healing effect. This type of radiation is used to prevent colds.

Experience of European countries

If you have not yet decided how best to heat a private house, ask how this problem is approached in European countries. In many of these countries, prices for coolants are very high. Therefore, they have long been looking for methods to reduce the consumption of gas and electricity when heating rooms.

In Finland they began to build “passive” houses. This type of building allows you to consume a minimum amount of energy from external sources. A little later, such buildings began to appear in Germany. Energy-independent buildings can reduce heating costs.

An example of a European energy-independent house.

If the building is located in the south, where there are many sunny days, electricity is obtained thanks to solar panels. In northern countries the sun cannot provide sufficient quantity energy. Wind turbines are being built. The heat of the earth is also often used. After all, at a certain depth, even in the winter months there is a lot of heat.

A system of heat exchangers is installed in the ground. Ground air and heat pumps. During the winter months, the water is heated by the heat of the earth. It must be said that such a system requires large installation costs and pays off after several decades. If you decide to carry out such an experiment, then you should definitely insulate all the structures of the house, starting from the foundation walls and ending with the ceiling and roof of the building.

It doesn’t matter how to heat a house in cold weather - it is important to cover its heat loss.

So, the weather is cold outside and the temperature in the house begins to drop. To ensure that the temperature in the house is comfortable in cold weather, every home must have a heat generator. What acts as a heat generator - a boiler, furnace or heat pump - is not so important. It is important that its power is enough to cover the heat loss of the house in winter.

Well, when the “overboard” temperature drops to -30C and -40C, it’s time to “turn up the pot” to the fullest. How to heat a house in cold weather is a question that every owner of a private home asks himself. We will look at it from a practical point of view.

What is the best way to heat a house in terms of convenience?

What is the best way to heat a house? It doesn’t matter what, as long as this fuel is available to you and within your means. What is the point of giving advice or gas to those people for whom neither one nor the other resource is available.

Of course, it is better to heat the house with natural gas (main gas), which enters your house through a pipe. This is the most convenient and most cheap look fuel for this moment. And even after the government introduces social norms on gas, this type of fuel will still remain the most affordable for people.

Of course, the most convenient type of fuel is natural gas.

How to heat a house in winter if there is no gas near your site or the cost of connecting to gas pipe goes beyond 1,000,000 rubles? The next most convenient, but not cheapest, option is electricity. The most hassle-free energy carrier, you don’t need a lot of money to install equipment. But a lot of money will be required to pay your electricity sellers - the energy company in your area.

What is the best way to heat a house if there is no gas and the allocated electricity for your household does not exceed 5 kilowatts? Next option from a convenience point of view, this is . Before the start of the season, they bring you a tank of diesel fuel and pour 3-5-10 tons into your container diesel fuel depending on the power of your boiler and the heated area.

If this is not the case and you go to the gas station yourself with cans, then this option can be compared to heating with waste oil. The same process for assembling shareware fuel. Only the exhaust burner costs a little more than the diesel fuel burner. Price diesel burner– 15-25 thousand rubles, the cost of a burner for waste oil is from 60 thousand rubles. But fuel costs you almost nothing.

Next in terms of ease of use are pellets. A pellet boiler will require a one-time loading of fuel before the season if you have a large pellet bunker with a volume of 10-20 cubic meters with pneumatic supply.
If this is not the case, then you will have to regularly load pellets into the hopper. It’s good if you have an extended pellet bunker for 600-800 kilograms. If the standard one is 200 kilograms (usually they are installed on the basic configurations of pellet boilers), then you will have to approach the boiler with bags of pellets every day). And believe the practice, loading pellets every day to a level above your head and pouring pellets into the bunker is not an activity for weaklings.

Next in terms of ease of use are firewood and coal. Do you want to be a fireman or stoker in own home? Then this option is for you.
There are, of course, coal-fired boilers such as Carborobot and wood-burning convection boilers, which allow you to approach boilers and stoves less often.
However, calibrated washed coal for Carborobot must not only be specially prepared, but also be obtained somewhere in your area.
But pyrolysis ovens are not as good as oven sellers say in advertising brochures.

Why didn’t I mention gas tanks and other conditionally autonomous sources of gas heating? Because for the cost of installing the equipment, it is easier to pay the entrance fee to connect to the main gas and generally forget about the problems of refilling the gas container.

The cheaper way to heat a house in winter

We looked at the best way to heat a house in terms of convenience. Now let's see how cheaper it is to heat a house in winter, starting from small subzero temperatures and ending with real frosts.

The cheapest type of fuel is free fuel. Of course, there is no such thing as completely free fuel. You spend money and your personal time on fuel delivery. However, if we ignore the cost of delivery, we can call it.

Sawdust, lumber trimmings, used packaging cardboard, paper and pulp production waste, straw, cake, waste oil - all this fuel costs nothing. You just need to find its sources and arrange delivery. If you succeed, you can heat your house in winter for free (conditionally, of course).

If your stove allows you to burn anything in it, then your option is free fuel.

How to heat a house without gas

How to heat a house in winter if the “pipe with blue fuel” does not fit your site and is unlikely to do so in the near future? You won’t have to hang your head and decide how to heat your house without gas in the winter.

Let's go in order (according to the degree of price increase):

• firewood/coal,
• used oil,
• pellets,
• ground heat (heat pump),
• diesel fuel,
• electricity.

Here’s a “gentleman’s set” in case Gazprom has forgotten about you and doesn’t want to remember.

Heated area of ​​the house during the cold period

There is one option that will reduce your home heating costs. The effective heated area of ​​the house is the area of ​​those rooms in which you will maintain a comfortable temperature from +18C to +22C.
An effective heated area of ​​the house can include bedrooms, a bathroom, and a living room. In other parts of the house - pantries, boiler rooms - you can keep the temperature at a level from +8C to +12C. In the vestibules and fuel storage, the temperature can be kept from +5C to +8C.

Thus, you can greatly reduce the cost of heating your home as a whole by simply lowering the constant temperature in those rooms where you are not constantly present.

Close some of the rooms in your home for the winter and your home heating costs will decrease.

Many people owning country houses or just dachas, the question is seriously tormented by the question - what will happen to the house, its decoration, as well as all the installed furniture, if the house is not heated throughout the cold season? This raises another question - what is better for the house: to leave it unheated for the whole winter or to come there from time to time and heat the living quarters? This issue needs to be addressed. So, what will happen to your dacha if you leave the house without heating in winter.

Different parts of the house and furniture may react very differently to such a test. First of all, because various materials, used in finishing, repair, and furniture manufacturing, react differently to such tests.

Autumn passes, in our country most often accompanied by heavy rains. And finally, winter comes. The air temperature outside and in an unheated house drops sharply. As a result, its humidity also decreases sharply. But moisture does not leave the air without a trace - it is deposited on any surface - walls, furniture, floors, ceilings. If it gets cold quickly enough, the moisture turns into frost and remains in the room until the first thaw in spring. This means that objects remain wet for a fairly short period of time.

What happens if you decide to return to yours and heat it several times during the winter? The frost melts quickly. The air in the room heats up, but the walls and all the furniture still remain cold. It takes at least a few hours for them to heat up. Therefore, upon contact warm air(with high moisture content) with cold objects, drops of moisture will appear on the objects - condensation. Finally, things and the walls of the building will dry only after their temperature becomes equal to the air temperature in the room. As mentioned above, this will happen in a few hours.

In such conditions different materials behave differently. Glass, plastic, varnished or painted wood will easily withstand such a test - they do not absorb moisture at all. Therefore, drops of condensate will evaporate without a trace after a few hours. But ordinary wood, cushioned furniture, drywall and other breathable materials will quickly absorb moisture. As a result, furniture upholstery may begin to rot and drywall may swell.