Tiles for fireplace and stove
How beautiful stoves and fireplaces faced with tiles! But in addition to beauty, tiles significantly increase the efficiency and efficiency of the heater.
Content
- General information about tiles video
- All about the air gap
- Tile making
- Tiles for stoves video
- Environmentally friendly stove heating
- Tiles for a fireplace video
General information about tiles
Tiles, we are amateurs, we perceive as a beautiful finishing material, but having taken up this material closely, it comes to the understanding that this is not just a decoration for a stove or fireplace, with the help of tiles, a unique image is created.
Beautifully lined bake or a fireplace, attracted by its originality, depending on the designer's project, fairy tales, winter or summer landscapes are laid out, and in children's rooms, stoves are lined with tiles that depict the characters of modern cartoons.
In Russia, at the dawn of the 16th century, tiled stoves appeared.
Old Russian masters, trying to please the customer, made colorful paintings, laid all kinds of plots, thus, pictures of extraordinary beauty, real masterpieces arose.
But Russia, from ancient times, is trying to imitate Europe and since the 19th century in the decoration of stoves and fireplaces, Dutch tiles began to take a leading place.
To date, the issue of the construction of stoves and fireplaces has not been removed from the agenda.
Since gas heating continues to be a pipe dream of many Russians, many developers are faced with the question of the possibility of heating suburban buildings.
In such cases, a large effect can be obtained by constructing a traditional Russian stove, or using a fireplace built in accordance with the latest technologies with high heat efficiency in heating.
A highly efficient fireplace is very relevant when installing it in a wooden log house, as a log house perfectly tolerates rapid heating of air, and the tree itself can regulate the humidity of the room.
Such stoves and fireplaces are an alternative to the source of heat in permanent homes.
All about the air gap
Tiles differ from heat-resistant ceramic tiles in their volume.
The reverse side of the tile is a box of a special shape, holes are made in it, the furnace wire is passed through these holes, with the help of which the tiles are fixed to the brickwork and then they are interconnected.
The result of this work is a beautiful decorative cladding, behind this cladding there are air tunnels invisible to the eye, between the brickwork and the tiles.
Such a double bottom significantly increases the accumulation of heat by the furnace, resulting in fuel savings.
Hot air reaches a temperature of 100 degrees, gas fills all air channels and heat is evenly distributed throughout the volume.
A big plus is that the surface of the furnace does not reach particularly high temperatures, the heat is kept for a long time, the room remains warm for a long time, the safety of such heating is increased.
This is especially true for those families where there are small children and elderly sick people.
Tile making
The manufacture of tiles is a very laborious and lengthy task, since almost everything is done manually according to the author's drawings.
The developer invites the artist, he gets acquainted with the future design of the room and focuses on the tastes of the owner, usually chooses a direction in the execution of sketches.
The decorative direction can be both Old Russian, Dutch, and Flemish.
Sometimes, if necessary, oriental motifs, art nouveau motifs or various drawings on children's themes are used.
Next, the area on which the tiles will be applied is measured, and the size and number of tiles are calculated.
Modern companies that are engaged in the installation of heating stoves and fireplaces and subsequently decorate them with tiles, have a large number of cladding samples, catalogs of fireplaces and stoves.
But at the request of the customer, any of his whims can be performed individually.
First, a sketch of the tile is made, then the relief of the front surface is molded.
The gypsum moulder prepares the mold for future tiles, these plaster casts are filled with special high-quality chamotte clay.
Further, at a certain temperature and humidity, the tiles are kept in the drying chamber for 14 days, then they are fired at a temperature of about 1000 degrees.
In order to avoid deformation and damage to the tile, the temperature increases gradually.
When the tile reaches a certain shade, it is taken out of the oven, thus a scrap tile is obtained.
Then, the master - carver processes the relief pattern, then the tile is covered with glaze or special decorative clay, burned a second time, thus obtaining a background color.
Next, the desired pattern is applied to the blank and the tile is fired again.
Tiles for stoves
The Russian stove is a unique invention of mankind.
Such a furnace has a large volume of masonry bricks, thereby possessing a high ability to accumulate heat.
This storage capacity allows, after the wood has burned out, to give off heat for a long time, and since the volume of the stove is large, the room warms up evenly.
Smart people, creating this miracle of heating, took into account the mode of operation in winter and summer.
In the summer, when heating the premises is unnecessary, the oven can only be used for cooking.
Hot gas, in the summer, bypassing long chimneys, is immediately discharged into the pipe.
In winter, hot gas, moving along long chimneys, gives all the heat to the bricks.
The Russian stove is equipped with a stove bench.
Since ancient times, the bed was used for healing, the sick and old people, with the good for health, heated bones on it.
In order for the Russian stove to serve for a long time, they began to clad the stove with tiled cladding.
Tiles for the stove are able to compensate for the internal stress that occurs in masonry when exposed to high temperature.
After the tiles are lined with a stove, a dense, impermeable shell is formed.
Such a shell is able to protect the brick from external moisture and other negatives.
The stove always looks beautiful and elegant, Russian tiles will add a touch of national style.
Environmentally friendly stove heating
Correctly mounted tiled stoves, in addition to efficiency and efficiency, have a high level of environmental friendliness.
Since these heaters work on wood, and this is renewable biofuel.
The smoke that forms during the burning of firewood does not have salts of heavy metals and other mucks.
Before the advent of the alternative in the form of gas and liquid fuel, all earthlings were heated with firewood and the ecology on earth was at the highest level.
Now, judge for yourself what our civilization has led to - we are approaching an environmental disaster.
Tiles for a fireplace
Fireplaces are divided into fireplaces with open and closed firebox.
Fireplaces with an open firebox have a low thermal coefficient, since hot gases directly fly into the chimney, and although such fireplaces are tiled with tiled tiles, the thermal technical capabilities of the tile are not fully used, i.e. tiles perform a decorative role.
Fireplaces with a closed fire chamber consume heat rationally, the efficiency of such fireplaces reaches 85%.
Such fireplaces have a cast-iron or steel chamber with a glazed door.
Cladding of such fireplaces with tiles not only has a decorative meaning, but also saves heat. Tiles for a fireplace can look like a single ornament, with the help of tiles, tiles create various plots.
