Камины и отопление №41 6 № (41)’2009 Contents 1 Fire en vogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Living fire. Classical stoned mantelpiece. Bronze candlesticks. Cosiness. These are the associations you usually have talking about a fireplace. But today there are a lot of fireplaces changing our traditional knowledge about it – high tech styled ones. Home hearth luxury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Rustic styled wooden houses are considered to have fireplaces. Other kinds of heating look like aliens here. However, love to home hearth practically destroys stereotypic ideas about fireplace’s role and place in the house. An open fireplace with a high chimney or an open terrace fireplace looks perfect not only in apartment houses, but also in public buildings. Innovation dynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The MCZ company was founded in 1975 in Vigonovo di Fontanafredda (Italy). Since then the company has intensively and dynamically developed and has turned from a craft manufacture into an industrial enterprise, creating projects and realizing innovative solutions for house heating. Faces of creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Man`s history is inseparably linked to a history of fireplaces, gradually transformed from an open-air fire into complex technological devices. Fire, warmth and romance – a combination of these three things creates the eternal attracting magic of fireplaces. Warmth of an ancient hearth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 The so-called manor house, owned by an ancient noble family, is considered to be a local sightseeing attraction in the settlement of Svente, Latvia. A special pride of the manor house is the unique collection of fireplaces and tiled stoves. Fireplace to keep the heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Unit-construction fireplaces is a perfect variant for the household works admirers. Teamwork with stove-making professionals allows to create the real masterpieces. Unique techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 This building’s architecture is inspired by traditional German tiled fireplaces. Designing it, the «AI» workshop craftsmen had to keep that architectural direction, but they should have added some Russian features into the design. Fire safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Unfortunately fires became habitual daily reality in our country. This situation is not new for us; since the ancient times Russia has had a huge number of fires. By the way, the decent share of this statistics is given by various defects in stoves’ and fireplaces’ constructions. How dangerous are those «peaceful» heat sources? Is it possible to reduce a number of fires caused by stoves and fireplaces sphere? Heart of your home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Heating and water supply engineering equipment is constantly developed, more and more perfect devices and systems are upgraded, new technologies and materials appear at the market. Country house or city apartment owners not always can choose the equipment which perfectly meets their needs and requirements. The «Fireplaces and Heating» magazine editors asked the leading companies’ experts for advices and assistance. Home heat factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 When a cottage community has a central heating system or a boiler-house for group of houses, there’s no any problem with cottages’ heating supply. Otherwise the house is heated by its own boiler-house. In order to provide the trouble-free continuous cottage heat supply, the boiler-house should satisfy some certain requirements. Invisible heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Since the ancient times one of the main medical precepts has been to keep man’s feet warm. Therefore the most healthy and rational variant of heat distribution in a house is to place a heating device at a floor level. This is the way the modern living spaces’ heating systems are designed. A so-called «heat-insulated» floor can be both supporting and the main heat source in the house. Natural heat usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 If traditional fuel heaters are used, lots of money is annually spent for water heating in a private pool. Meanwhile in Europe heating systems utilising a so-called «latent» heat are widely spread today. In other words, that is the heat, splayed in environment. 114 132 12 50 92 32 139
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