In a private or country house, you can make the simplest heating system with your own hands. It will consist of a simple water heater, which will be built into a Russian stove. He will heat up from open fire while he burns in the furnace. The boiler in the furnace must be connected by pipes with radiators installed in the right places throughout the house. The water that heats up in the boiler will ultimately give steam, which in turn will “go” along all the heating devices of the house and will return along the contour of the cooled into the boiler. You can also make water circulating along this contour and returned back along the same contour to the boiler.
Both options have disadvantages and advantages. So, in particular, the first option allows you to make the location of the pipes as convenient as possible due to the fact that the steam in any case will move to where it is ordered. With the help of shut -off valves, you can also adjust the temperature in the rooms, make parallel inserts of pipes and heating batteries. The only thing to take into account here is the angle of inclination of the pipes. To prevent the system of fueling, it is necessary to achieve a complete absence of places where air can accumulate. In addition, in the boiler it is always necessary to maintain constant pressure, which will protect water from overheating and quick boiling.
It is also very convenient to use the second version of the simplest heating system of a private house. As mentioned above, heated water is used as a coolant in it. The heating system itself does not have heating devices – the air heats up from the pipes themselves, which in this case are placed in a large diameter. The main disadvantage of such a system will be the fact that you will not be able to cut the heating battery into it – or you can, but only according to the supply principle that does not allow the control regulator to supply heat to the premises. In this case, it will be very warm only in those rooms that are in the immediate vicinity of the boiler, when, like long rooms, they practically do not warm up.
Both heating systems of a private house that we listed above always have special expansion tanks, water into which falls in the case of a strong boiling in the boiler. This is necessary due to the fact that water has the ability to expand greatly when heated to a boil temperature. The location of the tanks is strictly regulated. In the first case, the expansion tank is installed under the ceiling, which you must not agree very profitable from an aesthetic point of view. In the second case, it is placed above the ceiling, but it is also inconvenient, since it is not always convenient to climb the attic and pour it back into the system of overflowing water.