Without boiler and boiler
Is a furnace always necessary in a private house? The modest size of the household or a large family often does not allow a separate room for the boiler room. Let's consider options for how you can do without allocating a separate room for the installation of a heating unit, without losing the comfort of living.
Getting rid of "your family from the unproductive waste of the useful area of the house, you can begin at the stage of designing a house, as well as choosing and purchasing a heating boiler.
If there is no boiler, then you can walk for heating - conversion km to steps.
The industry produces many models of heating units that are mounted on the walls of the house and are compact. They can be hung on the wall in the kitchen, hallway, bathroom and other rooms. Manufacturers originally designed such units for small private houses.
By purchasing a wall-mounted heating unit, the family relieves itself of the need to equip a capital chimney, since the harmful substances formed during combustion are removed through a pipe led out through the wall. However, to reduce the risk of poisoning, the homeowner will have to take care of providing good ventilation in the room where the machine will be installed.
It is also necessary to make a heat engineering calculation, which allows both to choose a suitable model of a heating boiler and to save money on purchasing a more expensive unit with excess capacity. Practice shows that houses with an area not exceeding 200 sq. m., a wall-mounted gas boiler is enough to maintain a comfortable temperature.
The next condition, the fulfillment of which will save space, is the absence of a boiler or its small volume.
It is possible to provide heating of the water required for household needs by installing a flow-through water heater or a double-circuit gas boiler.
In a small house or for a small family, the heating of water used for household needs can be "transferred" to a flowing gas water heater. Its technical characteristics are quite sufficient both for heating water for washing dishes or floors, and for taking a bath.
However, despite all the efforts of the manufacturers, the flowing gas water heater poses a potential danger to residents and guests staying in the house. It is better to pay attention to the double-circuit gas boiler.
The presence of a second boiler in a wall-mounted double-circuit heating boiler allows you to do without arranging a separate room and be able to both heat water for household needs and perform hygienic procedures.
If the house has three or more bathrooms, then one cannot do without arranging a separate room for installing a large floor-standing boiler.
The water treatment system, which includes filtration and water purification systems in an autonomous water supply, is a prerequisite for ensuring the safety of living. On average, such units occupy an area of 1 to 2 square meters. m.
You can save the usable area of the house by placing the water treatment system in the furnace-boiler room or by reducing its volume by installing more advanced equipment. The choice of the best way to solve the problem of saving space depends on the previously installed system of preparation and the quality of water supplied from a well or a well drilled on the land.
The above recommendations will allow you to save floor space and "increase" the number of rooms. But they are far from always applicable and a person cannot do without allocating a hotel room for installing a heating device and / or a boiler. These situations include:
1 A significant area of the heated building. If the area of a suburban home ownership exceeds 200 sq. m., then for year-round living and maintaining a comfortable temperature in the rooms, one cannot do without installing a floor-standing heating unit. Such devices require the installation of additional equipment necessary to automate their work and ensure safe living in the house.
2 The need to provide water heating in several (more than 3) bathrooms and household appliances that use hot water. In this case, you will have to mount a boiler with a large tank volume, which will need to "allocate" a separate room.
3 Availability in the house of supply ventilation systems with heating of the air taken from the street. Equipment that heats the incoming air can also be installed in a boiler room or boiler room.
It is necessary to decide whether a separate room for a boiler and / or boiler room is needed in the house at the design stage individually, depending on the needs of a particular family.