How to build a fireplace

Few things can compare in beauty and attractive force with the living flame of fire, when it crackles with logs in the open firebox, radiating soft enveloping heat. A fireplace in your own house or in the country, even if it can not serve as the main heating device due to low heat transfer and inefficiency, is an essential attribute of comfort and coziness. A powerful decorative element, the fireplace sometimes closes on itself all the construction of the interior space, being the center of the style composition. How to build a fireplace, and whether it is possible to cope with this independently, without the involvement of specialists? The question is rather complicated. In principle, the process of building a fireplace is not very difficult, but here it is important to make accurate calculations of the depth, width of the fireplace niche, firebox, chimney, etc., and also to choose the right fire-resistant materials so that the fireplace warms well, does not smoke and has served for many years.

How to build a fireplace with your own hands? Before work, you should draw a drawing of the whole structure in a section, where you can specify all the necessary dimensions and parameters. The size of the fireplace depends on the area of the room, if it is less than 70 square meters, then the size of the fireplace - from 2 to 4 square meters. It is also important to correctly determine the depth of the furnace. If the area of the fireplace is 2 square meters, then the depth of the furnace should be about 20 cm plus / minus 2 cm, and if the area is 4 meters, then, respectively, 30-35 cm. Accurately calculate the width and length of the smoke hole and pipe. A very important component of the structure is the foundation, which it is desirable to design during the construction phase of the house. The foundation must be strong and withstand at least 100 kg of load, because the brick fireplace - the construction is very heavy.

The easiest way is to lay out the fireplace out of refractory bricks, which must be dry and sonorous, without external flaws, dense even structure and bright orange color. As a refractory mortar a mixture of cement, clay and sand is also of high quality with refractory properties.

When answering the question of how to build a fireplace in the house or at the dacha on our own, we would nevertheless advise to facilitate this process and buy a ready cast-iron fireplace for the fireplace. They are sold in construction stores and have a variety of design and configuration. A ready-made firebox is easily built into a brick box constructed according to its dimensions. Such stove-fireplaces make it much easier than making a fireplace from and to.

In urban apartments make a real fireplace with a chimney and a "living" fire is very problematic. Here, the artist-designers offer other solutions. There can be several. First, in the real portal of marble or brick, an electric fireplace is built in, which in our time is done very skillfully, so that a complete illusion of a real flame and a light haze flowing over it is created. The electric fireplace has many advantages: it is fireproof, easy to manage, it can work for heating the room or simply perform aesthetic functions. In addition, the electric fireplace screen can be easily integrated into any space, whether it is an easy interior partition, a heavy carved portal of natural stone or even a bookshelf.

The second method of equipping a fireplace in a city apartment is a modern bio-fireplace, in the work of which a special "biofire" is used, burning without the emission of carbon monoxide, smoke and other very unpleasant and harmful products. On sale there are already ready biofireplaces or furnaces working on biofuel, which are built in prepared niches.

The third method - the simplest one - is the construction of a false fireplace. This is not so much a focus, as the designation of it, an easy hint, an imitation, but it has a powerful decorative meaning. Make a fake fireplace with your own hands simply. It is built, as a rule, from plasterboard, accurately simulating the size and appearance of the present fireplace. The finishing of this structure should also not yield to the real "fire-keeper" in beauty and significance. First make a framework of profiles, consisting of a foundation, a protruding portal and an open furnace. Then the frame on all sides is covered with sheets of plasterboard, shpaklyuetsya and trimmed with tiles, marble, mosaic, natural stone, etc. The side and back walls of the furnace are pasted with mirrors, doubling, enlarging the space. In the fireplace of the falsh-fireplace put a few long-burning thick candles, a plate with a special burning gel or just a basket with a bouquet of bright red "fiery" colors.

How to build a fireplace, everyone decides in their own way. Someone builds a real hearth of brick or stone, someone uses an electric fireplace or a false fireplace, but in any case, this building is designed to create a unique atmosphere of warmth and comfort, and only fire, enclosed in marble or a furnace stone, is inherent in the full Least.