Only very determined people refuse the usual wood-burning stove in a country house. And yet, it is not she who is the main heating unit. A modern comfortable house requires a heating system. It can be gas, air, water. Now you can choose the most appropriate method of heating a cottage, a summer residence, a townhouse under certain conditions.
It is good if the choice of a heating system (for example, water) occurs at the design stage. In Russia, this is the most common way to heat a living space. Already during the construction process, work is being done to facilitate the installation of a water heating system. If a water supply is laid near the construction site, then a connection is made to it, and the problem of water supply and, accordingly, water heating is solved. You can dig a well or punch a well - in this case, these systems become autonomous in the literal sense of the word. A pump connected to these sources is capable of satisfying all the water needs in sufficient quantities.
Often the installation of heating, water supply is carried out in a ready-made, or even an old house. This complicates and increases the cost of work, but the list of necessary equipment is unchanged in any case: boiler, pipes, fittings (supports, fasteners, connecting elements), heating devices (radiators). Sometimes a powerful electric pump and a storage tank for water are required.
Installation of water heating is impossible without a project, it determines the specifics of this object and depends on what type of system is supposed: with natural or forced circulation. And in accordance with it, the necessary and additional equipment is purchased.
If the heating and water supply system is connected to the communal main and provides for the laying of a pipeline on municipal lands, then a project is needed that is agreed with all official interested services. As a rule, such an engineering project of water supply and heating is created by professionals and takes into account all the features of the territory and relief. In the case when the installation of water heating is carried out from its own well or well, such coordination is not necessary.
The laying of pipes in the house depends on the location of the external water supply to the house, the location of the boiler, the location and number of heating units (radiators). All this should be fixed on the work plan.
The optimal pipeline should be straight, but, if possible, without right angles. Joints, bends often cause leaks, so there should be as few as possible. Pipes for outdoor and internal use should be of different diameters.
If the installation of water heating involves radiators, then the pipes should have a diameter of no more than 3/4 inch, for a two-pipe system, 60-100 mm pipes are required. Mild steel pipes are used for the heating system. But they are susceptible to corrosion, so stainless steel pipes are increasingly being used. Galvanized pipes are also used.
The main and main detail of the heating system is the boiler. There are heating boilers of various modifications: solid fuel (coal, firewood, briquettes), gas, liquid fuel (fuel oil, diesel fuel). Increasingly, consumers choose boilers that are heated by electricity. Often, homeowners choose boilers with a combined heating system.
The choice of the type of boiler - the simplest, simplest or with a full range of services, thermostat, automatic switches, even with program control, depends on financial capabilities.
A person with technical knowledge and certain practical skills can do the installation of water heating with his own hands, but it is better to entrust this task to qualified specialists.