The fireplace gives to premises special identity and cosiness. The winter evening spent at the center can become the real family holiday. If you have decided to equip the house with fireplace, try to lay out it independently. The fireplace made by own efforts will be reminder that in the house there is Jack of all trades.
It is required to you
- - scheme of laying of fireplace;
- - refractory brick;
- - cement slurry;
- - filling brick;
- - roofing material;
- - polyethylene film;
- - capacity for solution;
- - capacity for water;
- - water;
- - facing material;
- - set of tools;
- - working clothes;
- - protective gloves.
Instruction
1. Make necessary calculations. The fireplace has to correspond by the sizes to room size to keep harmony of interior. Height of the portal of construction, that is fire chamber opening size, has to belong to depth of toplivnik as 3:2. It will give to fireplace the best proportions.
2. Choose the place where the fireplace will be located. The construction at internal wall of the room or in its angular part will be best of all to look. That the fireplace warmed up rooms with maximum efficiency, it is desirable to choose end wall for its placement. Remember that if the center will be opposite to window, in the house drafts are possible.
3. Pick up the scheme of bricklaying. It can be found in the magazines devoted to construction of country houses or to download on the specialized Internet portals where merits and demerits of designs of furnaces and fireplaces are discussed. Consult to the professional stove-setter. The expert will help to make the scheme of laying of fireplace for your house and will give advice on work technique.
4. Lay the foundation for fireplace. For this purpose it is required to dig the hole which is a little exceeding the sizes of future construction. Depth of dredging is about half a meter. Lay out bottom of hole filling brick, stamp and properly level.
5. Make timbering in the form of box without bottom, on several centimeters towering over floor height in the house. Fill in cement slurry in timbering, having parted it to density of sour cream. Close the flooded base polyethylene film and leave for 6-8 days.
6. Start the calculation of fireplace. Use only refractory red brick of the best grades for laying. Lay two layers of roofing material on the base. Over it lay out socle number of brick, putting elements on edge. From the following row begin to stack brick flatwise. Make bottom of fire chamber at the level of the third row of bricks. When laying you watch that the arrangement of bricks corresponded to the scheme chosen by you.
7. Consistently lay out toplivnik, smoke chamber and pipe. That material contacted to clay and sand solution better, it is recommended to soak couple of minutes brick in bucket with cold water. In process of vykladyvaniye of layers of brick check plumb quality of vertical surfaces and clearness of lines.
8. Revet ready fireplace with suitable material. It can be, for example, the ceramic tile having fire-resistant properties or artificial stone. Now, when your fireplace is ready, you can heat it and enjoy rest after works.