Heating technical premises often becomes a real problem. Electricity is expensive, resulting in high heating costs. The best way out is to use alternative energy sources. This can be firewood, coal, anthracite and much more.
Furnaces of various formats are used to burn solid fuels. One of them is a potbelly stove, characterized by extreme simplicity and low cost.
In this review we will talk:
Upgrading the potbelly stove will also be considered, which will help increase its efficiency. The article will be interesting - read and get acquainted.
Potbelly stoves have been known among our compatriots for a very long time. They gained their popularity due to their extreme simplicity. A simple metal box with a door and a blower - and the simplest version of the stove is already ready. Considering the ingenuity of our people, this world has seen many different bourgeois women, delighting their owners with the coveted warmth. Let's see what you can assemble such a stove from:
You can make a potbelly stove not only from a used safe or a well-worn gas cylinder, but also by simply welding several sheets of durable metal together.
Homemade potbelly stoves can also be made from sheet metal - for this you need to arm yourself with suitable tools.
The construction of a potbelly stove is extremely simple. Its basis is a certain capacious container, which plays the role of a combustion chamber. A pipe emerges from its upper or rear part, to which the chimney is attached. In the front part there are two doors (less often one) - fuel is loaded through the large one, and ash is removed through the small one. The internal space is divided by a metal grate through which air is supplied - through which the ash formed during the combustion of wood is removed.
The lower door simultaneously acts as a blower - by adjusting the degree of its opening, you regulate the intensity of the flame and the temperature in the room.
The dimensions of the potbelly stove can be very different, for example, 250x450x450 mm (WxDxH). A gas cylinder will make a larger and more efficient stove. Most big size the stove will be made from a barrel - after all, the internal volume of 150-200 liters accommodates a huge amount of firewood. You can make a unit of almost any size - you don’t even have to worry too much about strictly observing the dimensions indicated in the drawings.
These simple stoves are in great demand. For their work they use firewood, coal, coke, wood waste and many other types of fuel, pleasing with its unpretentiousness and stable operation. Such a stove can be placed in the garage - it will take up minimal space, but will provide the room with pleasant warmth. If you have a large supply of firewood or access to a cheap source of solid fuel, feel free to build a long-burning potbelly stove.
Wood is the simplest, cheapest and most widely available type of fuel for stoves. However, its consumption leaves much to be desired.
A mini potbelly stove can be used to heat a barn or home utility room that does not have heating. Agree, doing something here in winter is not so comfortable - your teeth chatter and your muscles cramp. And with the stove, things immediately go smoothly - just have time to add firewood so as not to freeze.
Long-burning potbelly stoves are useful not only for the garage, but also for any other premises, including residential ones - these can be temporary buildings, cottages, poultry houses, premises for keeping livestock and much more. In general, the scope of their application is huge. They are most in demand in towns and villages where there is no gas, but residential and non-residential buildings need to be heated somehow.
Let's see what's good about homemade potbelly stoves made by folk craftsmen:
Unfortunately, heating with a potbelly stove also has its disadvantages:
Despite some shortcomings, simple potbelly stoves wood burning stoves are still in demand among those who need heat in the absence of a gas main.
You can make a potbelly stove with your own hands surprisingly quickly. First you need to decide what material it will be made of. Prepare the following tools:
A home-made potbelly stove can have the most intricate and elaborate appearance. Show your imagination and you can get a unique thing, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
Let's see how to cook a potbelly stove with good heat transfer for a summer house or garage from an iron barrel.
The simplest option is a potbelly stove made from a large-volume barrel (150-200 liters). It needs to be supplemented with grates, doors and a chimney. We begin the manufacture of the stove by constructing a reliable non-combustible base. The best option– lay out a small brickwork on which the barrel itself will stand. It will take several days to make it. After this, we proceed to further work.
In the front wall of our potbelly stove, you should cut a rectangular hole for the loading door - use a metal jigsaw for this. The resulting piece of metal will act as our door - we attach a rotating lock, handle and hinges to it. After this, we weld the second part of the loops to the barrel. We weld on the opposite side metal loop, into which the constipation will fit.
At the bottom you need to make an ash pan with another door. We allocate 10-15% of the total volume for it. We make the door using the method described above, but it should be narrower - the ash is raked out through it, and it also serves as an ash pit. Optimal height– 40-50 mm. Next, we proceed to the manufacture of grates:
An old can or flask is also a great option. Using it, you free yourself from the need to weld the loading door.
We make a hole in the lid with a diameter of 100 mm, weld a small piece of pipe of the same diameter here - this will be the chimney hole. Next, weld the lid in place. Our potbelly stove is ready, all that remains is to attach a chimney to it and we can start testing - load the wood and try to light the flame.
We have made a long-burning potbelly stove with our own hands - it has an extremely large combustion chamber. Please note that you can make a cooking hole in the top lid - its diameter is 100-150 mm. Instead of a barrel, you can easily use a gas cylinder or a piece of pipe suitable diameter. Remember that a potbelly stove made from a pipe and a cylinder must have a sufficiently large diameter (at least 350-400 mm).
If necessary, you can make a similar potbelly stove in a horizontal design - you just need to slightly change its design. Otherwise, the assembly principle does not change.
The most efficient stove is a pyrolysis stove, which burns the remaining flammable gases and releases a large amount of heat compared to other stoves. There is no need to think that this will be a complex unit. Making a potbelly stove of this type will take you about 20 minutes longer than a conventional unit without pyrolysis. Let's see how it is produced.
A unit welded from sheet metal with a thickness of 3 to 5 mm. Using thin iron does not make much sense - the stove will be too thin, the heat will bend it, and in the end it will be destroyed by corrosion. So find steel thick enough so that you don't have to make a new furnace every heating season.
We need to cut out seven pieces of metal (our iron thickness is 3 mm):
The main advantage of using sheet metal is that you can make a potbelly stove of any size and volume.
Thus, we will get a Loginov furnace, which has two internal partitions to increase efficiency. These same partitions will be responsible for pyrolysis.
We make two doors in the front wall - in accordance with the instructions described above. Next, we weld all the pieces into a metal box without a top lid. The next stage is making the grate. To do this, we take a metal sheet and make many holes in it with a diameter of 10-15 mm. We fix the grate at a height of 80 mm from the bottom of the stove. Next, we weld the partitions, placing them at a height of 60 and 120 mm from the top cover.
We make a couple of small holes on the back surface and weld thin metal tubes (10-15 mm in diameter) into them. They should be located above the lower partition, extending to the front wall. Their length is about 150 mm - secondary air will be sucked through them. The tubes are welded before securing the second partition.
We prepare the top cover - we cut a hole in it with a diameter of 100 mm for the chimney. If necessary, we supplement the wood-burning stove cooking hole. We weld the lid to our stove - everything is ready! Now we install the stove on staff position and let's start testing. And yes, don’t forget to attach legs to it or install it on a non-combustible base (for example, made of brick).
The height of the chimney for potbelly stoves is at least one meter. Optimal indicator– 1.5-2 meters from the horizontal outlet or top cover.
Now you know how to properly make a potbelly stove so that it can be used for heating country house, garage or utility room. But we need the furnace to be efficient - to provide maximum energy while burning a minimum of fuel. You will be surprised, but one possible variant We have already considered modernization - the pyrolysis unit presented above is an improved version. Take out the partitions from there, and you will get the most banal stove-stove.
The choice of chimney pipes should be approached with special attention- pipes that are too thin or poorly welded will quickly burn out, which will lead to smoke in the room.
Not only pyrolysis will help increase the efficiency of the stove. If you look at the drawing of the potbelly stove given above (made of sheet metal), you will notice that the unit is covered on three sides with metal sheets. They are spaced 50 mm from the body and play a protective role. But that's not all - in internal space draft is formed, the process of convection occurs. Thanks to this, the efficiency of the potbelly stove increases.
The next stage of modernization is the creation of a chimney bend. The thing is that a gigantic amount of heat escapes through it into the atmosphere. By increasing the length of the chimney using a horizontal section, we can use it to heat the room.
The disadvantage of this approach is the deposition of soot on a horizontal area. Often homeowners prefer to assemble simple and useful homemade products
from scrap and unnecessary materials, instead of buying ready-made ones. And a potbelly stove is one of these useful devices.
The main feature of a potbelly stove is that it heats up as quickly as it cools down. Therefore, the scope of its use is narrowed mainly to those rooms where it is necessary to provide rapid heating, while the appearance of the device is often completely unimportant for the user.
You can make a potbelly stove with your own hands, and, if desired, modernize it to achieve more efficient heat transfer. Are you also thinking about assembling such a homemade product and don’t know where to start? We will help you complete the task - the article discusses the assembly procedure various options
homemade stoves, drawings and diagrams are provided.
Also discussed in detail are ways to improve a homemade potbelly stove, as a result of which the efficiency of the stove will become noticeably higher.
The choice of furnace design depends on what material is used as fuel. Each user himself determines the degree of its availability and economic feasibility.
It is the combustible material, which has different temperatures and combustion patterns, that dictates the principles for creating different modifications of the device. The shape of the potbelly stove can be different, often it depends on the availability. This could be an old can, a gas cylinder, a metal container - whatever is at hand. The main thing when choosing it is the thickness of the metal and the shape, which requires a minimum of alterations.
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A grate made of grate (it can be welded from reinforcement) is placed at the bottom of the chamber, under which ash will accumulate. You can also arrange hob. It is easier to do this on a horizontally located cylinder by welding corners on it on both sides.
It’s good if the barrel initially has legs. If not, you need to weld them or install the stove on bricks.
A potbelly stove made from a gas cylinder can also be used as a basis for the further construction of a hot water column, as it is also called “Titan”. To do this, a stainless container is installed on top of the stove, through which the chimney pipe passes.
The water in a wood boiler heats up quickly, and little firewood is used - in summer time One bookmark in a small firebox is enough.
A metal container with walls at least 3 mm thick is also suitable for a potbelly stove. The open top of the container is closed with a circle of metal sheet and brewed.
A hole is cut out in the lid or wall for the chimney. Its diameter should be at least 100-150 mm. The top of such a potbelly stove will heat up so much that you can cook food and heat water on it.
We also have more on our website detailed instructions with diagrams and drawings for manufacturing.
If there is no shortage of sawdust on the farm, then this type of fuel will fully justify its use. Such a potbelly stove does not require frequent loading - the compacted sawdust inside does not burn, it smolders slowly, releasing thermal energy gradually and providing heat for a long time.
A self-made sawdust stove operates on the principle of long-term combustion. The slow combustion process saves resources - heat does not immediately fly out into the chimney, heating the atmosphere
The basis of the furnace can be a metal barrel with an open top (if the container is sealed, the top is cut off) or a pipe with a diameter of 300 to 600 mm.
Then a metal circle is cut out of a sheet three or more millimeters thick, which should be smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel. In its middle, a hole with a diameter of 100 mm is cut under a cone for compacting sawdust.
The workpiece is welded to the walls of the barrel. Using this circle, the ash pit is fenced off - in it, with the help of shavings or wood chips, ignition will be carried out. The height of the ash pan should be 100-200 mm.
Below the welded circle, a window is cut out, which will serve as a blower. Curtains are welded to the cut piece of metal, making a door for the same hole.
An exit to the chimney is made in the lid of the container. The lid must fit tightly onto the potbelly stove and be made of a fairly thick sheet, otherwise it will quickly burn out.
In order for sawdust to burn gradually, it is necessary to ensure a limited supply of oxygen to the fuel compartment. To do this, a cone-shaped core is inserted inside the firebox, sawdust is poured around it and compacted. The cone is carefully removed, turning, and the lid is put on the barrel.
The same model can be improved by adding an additional cylinder. In this option, the sawdust will be in the inner chamber, and the space between the two compartments will serve to burn gases and increase the heating area. In this option, the outlet of smoky gases is arranged in the lower part of the stove.
An ordinary potbelly stove has a lot of positive qualities, but also has many significant disadvantages. It is unable to accumulate heat and heats the room while the fire is burning. Requires continuous fuel supply, on average every 30-40 minutes.
In addition, a large amount of heat escapes through the chimney into the atmosphere, bringing no benefit. That is why work on improving the potbelly stove is ongoing.
The standard design of a potbelly stove has many modernized designs that allow:
The most common methods for increasing the efficiency of a potbelly stove are creating a slow burning mode, a gas afterburning system, and installing heat-resistant lining of the internal walls.
You can also improve the quality performance of the stove by increasing the heat transfer area using welded pipes and an installed fan that will drive air flows through them.
The industrial model of such a potbelly stove is called “Buleryan”, but besides it, there are many more various designs made in a handicraft way. We recommend watching detailed master class By homemade production.
You can increase the heat transfer time if you line the stove with brickwork. Such a potbelly stove will heat up more slowly, but will also give off heat longer, maintaining the temperature in the room for some time after the fire has died down.
Are you interested in brickwork? We have it on our website detailed guide do it yourself with diagrams and drawings.
This model is designed to increase efficiency and continuous burning time. The basis is taken as a horizontal rectangular potbelly stove on massive, stable legs and complemented with a cassette made of a blind sealed cylinder. Such design additions significantly increase its efficiency.
A flange is welded to a cassette cylinder about 400 mm high. After installing the cylinder into the burner hole, its edge should fall 5-10 mm below the stove plate. To make it easy to install and remove the cylinder, handles are welded to its body.
The cylinder is filled with firewood in such a way that there is some space between them and when installing it on the stove, they can immediately fall onto the burning coals
How does a potbelly stove work:
As a result of this modernization, the time interval between laying firewood increases and the efficiency of using the stove increases.
The low efficiency of a conventional potbelly stove is a fact that has long been known and verified by many users.
One of the methods to increase it is to slow down the combustion process by limiting the flow of air into the combustion chamber. This improvement can be found in such stoves as “Bubafonya” and “Filipina”.
This stove model is used in non-residential premises- workshops, greenhouses, and other outbuildings. To work for 9-12 hours, one stack of small firewood, chips, and sawdust is enough. Coarsely chopped and damp firewood cannot be used in this heating device model.
A potbelly stove can be created from any metal tank. Most often they use a barrel of fuel and lubricants or an old cylinder.
Manufacturing is carried out in the following sequence:
You can further increase the efficiency of this model by organizing the supply of air from the street into the firebox. Thus, heated air from the room will not fly out into the chimney.
The furnace uses two methods to increase its efficiency, based on the principles of long-term combustion and pyrolysis. To make it, you will need two gas cylinders, which will serve as chambers for primary and secondary combustion.
The sequence of actions for making a potbelly stove is as follows:
To obtain a stable structure, reliable legs are welded to the lower chamber. Install the door on the awnings. It can be further improved by adding the ability to regulate the air entering the firebox.
A potbelly stove is a compact iron stove with a chimney at the top. It consists of a chamber into which solid fuel is poured, a grate in the form of a metal grate, a pipe - a chimney and an ash pan for collecting ash.
If you know how to handle a welding machine, the device is easy to make, and at the same time, it will serve faithfully in unheated room, in field conditions, in the absence of centralized heating, for decades.
Manufacturing options:
It is a metal box; you can independently weld the structure from steel sheets. For a rectangular potbelly stove, an old car tank or box will do just fine.
Typically, this form is chosen when it is necessary to cook food on the stove.
On the spacious platform you can place 2 large pans or containers for heating water at once.
The manufacturing principle is simple: doors are built to cover the ashpit and combustion chamber, a hole is made for the chimney, combustion products must leave the room in a timely manner, otherwise you can inhale carbon monoxide.
The most common type of potbelly stove. The cylinders have thick walls, making the stove durable, mobile, and fireproof.
First, a drawing is drawn and markings are made. The combustion chamber door will be located in the center of the cylinder. The blower is in the same plane, only 10–12 cm lower.
Instructions:
For cooking on the top of the stove, the design is slightly different:
When making a stove from a pipe, weld the bottom, as well as the part on top:
The option is distinguished by a specific odor that oil waste will emit during fuel combustion, even in the presence of an exhaust hood.
Instructions:
Before starting work, prepare the tools:
For the body you will need a pipe 30 cm in diameter, at least 5 mm thick. Can be used instead of a pipe sheet metal the same thickness.
For the chimney, you should select a pipe 12 cm in diameter, with a thickness of at least 3 - 4 mm. To prevent burnout, a metal box is suitable for the ash pan, so you need to choose durable sheet metal.
First you need to cut the metal, taking into account the thickness and length of the required blanks.
Remove the chamfers from the parts, touching the stove will be safer, and the welding seams will be stronger:
The structure is installed in the following sequence:
After all welding work, check the quality of the seams and tap them. If there are defects, correct them immediately. At the end of the work, weld top part devices.
To ensure that the potbelly stove radiates heat for as long as possible without adding another portion of firewood, and does not burn out quickly, it is possible that the fuel will not burn, but smolder, the heating process without adding firewood can be extended for several hours.
Making a stove for long burning is somewhat different from the usual design.
The best cylinder for the stove is:
Like any other heating device, the stove has both pros and cons.
The undoubted advantages of a homemade stove are:
The disadvantages of the stove include:
Stoves were popular in the first half of the last century. They warmed the soldiers' dugouts, dugouts, and heated carriages.
Today the stoves are still heated garden houses, garages, warehouses, greenhouses, that is, where there is no gas pipeline, and electrical devices They are ineffective and burn a lot of electricity.
The material for the construction is cast iron or stainless steel. The stove consists of a container, an ash pan, a pipe, a chimney, and a combustion door.
They are distinguished by type:
Any homemade heating device is designed to heat the room, making it more comfortable, but at the same time, such devices are far from safe and are fraught with ignition and fire.
When installing the structure, it is very important to follow safety rules:
Most of us have probably heard about such a stove as a potbelly stove. In terms of its design, it is a metal structure equipped with a chimney. Such stoves were very popular in the first half of the 20th century. But after some time, when gas stoves began to be installed in houses and central system heating, they began to be forgotten.
Subsequently, they were remembered during the Second World War: during these years, when there was no central heating, potbelly stoves helped keep the rooms warm. These homemade stoves are often used to heat dugouts, dugouts and heated cars. In the 50s of the 20th century, owners of summer cottages remembered these stoves and installed them in their garden houses. These days they are still popular primarily as a means of heating. utility rooms area 10-15 sq. m. They do an excellent job when used in garages, small country houses, greenhouses, etc.
High popularity of potbelly stoves ensured their dignity, which they have in sufficient quantities:
However, potbelly stoves cannot be considered an ideal heating device. Therefore, while getting acquainted with their advantages, it is also necessary to pay attention to the disadvantages. Although heating such a furnace takes a minimum of time, the achieved They don't hold the temperature for long. For this reason, you have to regularly add fuel to them. In this regard, they are noticeably inferior to long-burning stoves, which do not need to be given attention throughout the day. The amount of thermal energy generated by a potbelly stove is not enough to provide comfortable temperature in a large room. It has a rather low efficiency of 5-10%. According to this indicator, it is inferior to most modern heating installations.
This problem is relevant for many industrial production masters and ordinary craftsmen. To get an idea of this process, you should first find out how a potbelly stove works and become familiar with some important points.
Chimney diameter
When using potbelly stoves, the main thing is to ensure that a smaller amount of flue gas comes out through this chimney compared to the volume produced by the firebox. If this problem is successfully solved, the gases will remain in the pipe and move around the furnace space a certain number of times. This will cause air circulation, which is prerequisite, ensuring fuel combustion. As a result, when leaving through the chimney pipe, these gases will already have a lower temperature.
This problem can be solved by determining the optimal chimney diameter. This can be considered a size that three times the volume of the firebox oven in cubic meters. However, if gas circulates in a metal box, it will quickly lose its temperature.
To avoid rapid cooling of gases and to ensure their complete combustion, it is necessary to change the fuel combustion process so that it takes place in the pyrolysis mode. You can create it using high temperature. Moreover, even if you try to use dry furniture as fuel, you will not be able to achieve the desired effect.
You can try adding coal regularly, but using such raw materials cannot create optimal conditions for the pyrolysis process. This is only possible if the oven operates in smoldering mode and naturally switch from one operating mode to another. Now we come to the next important point.
Steel three-sided protective screen
It should be placed in such a place that it is removed from the body of the stove at a distance of 50-60 mm. Thanks to it, more than half will be reflected towards the furnace infrared radiation, which will ensure the temperature the firebox needs. It is very important to choose the correct distance between the furnace and the shielding element, since this can significantly affect the economic component of the design. The use of wood and coal at the very beginning of the combustion process ensures thermal energy production a lot.
Bearing in mind that the supply of firewood and coal is constantly in short supply, it is important to ensure that the very first portions of heat end up in the room and do not go down the chimney.
Among the currently known methods of heat transfer, convection has no equal in terms of efficiency. In practice, it is implemented by heating the air near the stove so that it spreads throughout the entire room. This problem can be solved using the screen.
Although the heating temperature of the lower layer of the potbelly stove is not so high, heat still radiates downwards from it. This creates a risk of fire in the room. For this reason, as a base on which the potbelly stove will be placed, it is necessary to use a metal sheet that provides removal 30-40 cm from the stove. Moreover, under it it is necessary to place an additional sheet, which can be made of asbestos or basalt.
It is worth noting that a potbelly stove is not able to 100% maintain the pyrolysis mode. This is due to the fact that after entering the chimney pipe, the gases leave it without having time to give up their heat. This can be achieved if you correctly approach the installation of the chimney pipe, choosing the most optimal design for it.
This problem is solved as follows: the chimney design must have a vertical part reaching a height of at least 1 meter. It should also provide a layer of thermal insulation, which can be used as basalt wool.
A pipe should come from it, located at a slight angle and having a similar diameter. She has special name - hog. With its help, conditions will be created under which it is possible to ensure the combustion of gases, as a result of which the heat supplied to the room due to them will increase by 30%. The length of such bars can reach 2.5-4.5 meters. It should be placed no closer than 1 meter from the walls and ceiling. There should be a space of 2 meters wide between the bottom of the stove and the hog. It would be useful to provide protection for it based on a metal mesh.
Ever since its appearance and popularization, the potbelly stove changes were made to their design. As a result, today they are ovens long burning, characterized by ease of operation and high level efficiency. Modern version These furnaces no longer have grates, and an air choke has appeared at the ash-burner, the main purpose of which is to regulate the thermal power and combustion mode. To ensure long combustion, air enters the fuel from above.
Among the various options for potbelly stoves, cast iron stoves demonstrate the highest energy intensity. Such devices could even work without a screen. It was this feature that was taken into account when it was decided to use them for heating army barracks. In our country, they have been manufacturing army potbelly stoves for a long time, and there are no complaints about the quality of their work. These installations differ in many respects, including dimensions.
In terms of design, such a stove includes a firebox with a grate, a blower ash collector and a chimney. Any building is suitable as a place to install a potbelly stove. The main thing is that there is a possibility for the chimney to be brought outside. If you have an empty gas cylinder lying around, you shouldn’t get rid of it. You can find a use for it if you make a potbelly stove body out of it.
To make a potbelly stove with your own hands, you will need the following materials:
Necessary take a gas cylinder and mark the place at the top where the iron rim with the tap is located. It needs to be removed, for which you can use a hammer.
Then you need to cut a hole for the door, calculating its dimensions in advance.
The corners will be used for a frame for the door, for the manufacture of which you will need welding.
After the frame is welded to the cylinder, you need to install the door on the bolts, for which you will first have to make the necessary holes for them.
In a place corresponding to the bottom of the oven, you should cut holes for the grille, after which it must be welded. On the other three sides it is necessary to install steel sheets using welding. They will serve as walls for the future furnace. The result should be a box with a door that does not have a top part. The box must be welded to the bottom, and this must be done so that the open side is adjacent to the door. Next, you need to install a damper, with which you can change the mode of air supply to the furnace firebox.
To make the stove-stove stable, it is necessary to weld the legs to the gas cylinder. A hole is made on the back side through which gas will escape from the chimney. After this, they begin to assemble the chimney, providing it with a turn that will allow the heat to leave the room with a slight delay.
The above diagram is applicable for making a potbelly stove with your own hands based on a 40 liter milk can.
The design of the firebox of such a stove should include partitions that will save you from the need to spend a large amount of fuel to maintain the operation of the stove.
To make a similar version of a potbelly stove, you The following materials will be required:
The first thing you need to do to build a potbelly stove with your own hands is a drawing that will simplify the task of making it for you. Next, you need to take the sheets and cut out elements for the stove body and two partitions from them. The latter must be installed in the upper part of the firebox, in the future they will provide a complex, winding path for flue gases, which will provide more high efficiency generation of thermal energy by the furnace.
At the top you need to do chimney hole with diameter 110 mm. You also need to place a hole under hob, the diameter of which should be 150 mm.
Next, we take the sidewalls and attach them by welding to the bottom of the body. It is necessary to weld steel strips 30 mm thick to the walls. They will serve as the basis for the lattice. It can also be created from a steel sheet, in which you first need to make a hole with a diameter of 20 mm. To create a grate, you can use reinforcing bars or purchase finished goods in the shop.
Although the potbelly stove seems to be a rather outdated version of the heating device, it is still remains in demand. In stores you can find many options for modern stoves, but it will be better if you make a drawing for it yourself. This will allow you to create with your own hands a stove that will completely suit you in all respects. In addition, there will be no problems with this, given that such a stove has a simple design, and its manufacture requires available materials, which can be found in almost every household.
The potbelly stove always came to the rescue in emergency situations and was a reliable assistant for summer residents, motorists with a garage, as well as owners of small private houses.
Today she often acquires new look, developed by interior designers, therefore fits well into the halls of elite mansions. Is it possible to make this useful, and sometimes simply necessary heating device do it yourself if you don’t have enough experience in welding and cutting metal?
Of course, yes, and yes again, in order to cook a potbelly stove you only need to understand general principles welding metals, even if you end up with a crooked seam, you can always clean it up with a grinder; look at the photo below to see what kind of stove was welded by a beginner who had only used a welding machine twice in his life:
For the manufacture of any metal structures you need a certain set of tools, which include:
For different rooms you can choose your own type of potbelly stove that best suits your needs technical specifications and in appearance. They are made from metal tanks, medium-diameter pipes, barrels, gas cylinders and sheets with a thickness of at least 3-5 mm.
For heating in a garage, any of the potbelly stove options is suitable, but for use in a residential area, it is better to avoid some models.
Therefore, you need to consider the most popular options for potbelly stoves in order to find out which one to choose and make yourself.
This is exactly the option that is not suitable for use in premises where people live. The explanation is simple: when burning, waste oil emits a specific smell, even if there is a good exhaust system.
For manufacturing you will need sheet metal thickness 4-5 mm, from which everything will be cut necessary details. A pipe is also needed for the manufacture of some elements of the potbelly stove and chimney.
In the diagram presented, everything is clearly visible dimensions of parts that needs to be prepared.
Such a furnace works as follows: waste is poured into the lower tank, then using a splinter or rolled paper, it is ignited through the hole. The sliding cover on the hole is closed after the waste inside the tank ignites. Oxygen entering through the holes in the pipe that connects the two tanks promotes intense combustion. Hot air passing through the top of the stove heats it to a high temperature, so you can easily heat a kettle on its surface. Since there is always spent fuel in the garage, there will never be any problems refueling the potbelly stove.
This stove can be made from an ordinary metal barrel or pipe of a certain diameter. It is quite suitable for installation in a residential area of a summer house, and if it is beautifully and neatly designed, it can also be suitable for a residential building.
Generally , good option potbelly stove, if there is enough space for it in the room, since this model will take up enough large area. It should be noted that the top panel of the potbelly stove is large enough, and you can easily install a kettle or, for example, a frying pan on it.
The gas cylinder has an almost ready-made shape for a good potbelly stove.
A potbelly stove made from a gas cylinder is perfect for both garage space, and for a room in a country house.
One of the home craftsmen shares his experience on how to make a potbelly stove with your own hands from a cylinder with a vertical arrangement:
This is probably the most optimal, an aesthetic, compact option from all the potbelly stoves proposed above. It is best suited for heating residential premises. The design of this stove is clearly visible in the two diagrams presented.
Compact, easy-to-use “Gnome”
The first of them shows the “Gnome” stove. It has a simple structure: two chambers - a firebox and an ash pan, a chimney pipe and legs.
The second diagram shows a more complex internal design of the potbelly stove, which will help it retain heat for a longer period. This potbelly stove is worth considering.
In order for a homemade one to bring only comfort and warmth to the house, and not create problems, it is necessary to follow safety rules.
The potbelly stove will serve effectively and for a long time, it will a good helper in household chores and will warm you up on winter evenings. The main thing is to think through the model well, make it carefully, and comply with all the requirements for safe handling during operation.
