If there is no gas in the house, then heating can be built on solid fuel or electricity, or rather a combination of both. The more diverse the heating sources, the less likely it is that the system will fail.
For example, the installation of a solid fuel boiler can be supplemented electric convector for every room. You can combine the Russian stove on the ground floor of the house, and infrared heaters On the second floor. However, electric and solid fuel energy sources are not the whole list. So let's start in order...
To heat a house without gas and electricity, you should think about combustion energy solid fuel:
There are also fireplaces, but it is difficult to classify them as a home heating system, since they can only heat one room with their help.
The main models of solid fuel boilers are designed so that the air flow that provides combustion is directed by a mechanical thermostat with a chain drive. In this case, the natural draft of the chimney must be ensured. However, for the normal operation of the boiler, a number of conditions must be observed:
The cost of solid fuel boilers varies in a very wide range - from 20 to 300-400 thousand rubles. It all depends on the design and capacity.
However, despite the price, solid fuel boilers are leaders in sales among home heating equipment without gas and electricity.
The difference between a liquid fuel boiler and a solid fuel boiler is insignificant. To obtain thermal energy, liquid fuel is poured into a liquid fuel boiler instead of coal:
The last two are given only as an illustration of the possibilities. The use of oil and alcohol is from the section of unaffordable luxury. And the point is not even that alcohol, for example, is very expensive, but that this fuel is obtained from vegetable raw materials that could be used for food production.
A distinctive feature of liquid fuel boilers is high efficiency - up to 92%. In addition, for installation and operation, permission from special services is not required, unlike, for example, gas boilers.
The price range for such boilers ranges from 25,000 to 180,000 rubles and depends on the manufacturer and the volume of the combustion chamber. The average annual cost of heating a private house is 150 sq.m. without gas and electricity on diesel fuel about 150,000 rubles.
Which is higher than the cost of solid fuel and even electricity.
You can convert solar energy into thermal energy only if the sun shines often and for a long time over the roof of your house. Unfortunately, 80% of the territories of Russia have nothing to do with this. However, even in warm climates, you cannot rely on solar heating alone, you definitely need backup source.
Light-absorbing batteries are installed in place "under the sun", which convert solar energy immediately into heat, and then transfer it to the coolant. There are two kinds solar collectors— vacuum and flat. Vacuum are considered the most efficient and economical. The use of solar energy is an achievement of science.
The advantage of solar heating is the low price of solar collectors. flat devices can be purchased at prices ranging from 1,500 to 60,000 rubles. Vacuum ones are much more expensive - about 80,000 rubles. However, if you consider that you don’t have to pay for fuel, then the price is quite adequate.
Biofuel is any organic material that can burn. However, these terms have recently come to be understood as the use of gases emitted by decaying organic matter.
For a source of such gas, anything that rots with sufficient intensity is suitable. Usually use manure, food waste, plant mass. All gases formed during the process of decay burn perfectly and replace natural gas.
The biofuel heating plant itself consists of units that collect, purify and feed the emitted gas to the boilers for combustion. And then the principle of operation is the same as that of a natural gas boiler.
A significant disadvantage of this method of heating is the low productivity of decay in natural conditions. In order to accelerate this process, it is necessary to increase the temperature, and this is the cost of energy.
For this reason, use biofuels as the main heating method. big house impossible, but to heat small house or create an auxiliary system is quite possible.
Biofuel heating is widely used by farms in countries such as Greece, Spain, Portugal.
Such heat is extracted from nothing, just from the air. It's an air conditioner in reverse. The pump itself does not produce heat, it only extracts it from the environment and sends it in the right direction.
The principle of operation of the pump is to take heat from the environment in which it is placed. However, the pump needs starting energy. For example, in order to move 10 kW of thermal energy, it needs to consume about 3 kW of electricity.
The difference is impressive! And in the presence of electricity, allows you to make a choice in favor of heat pump for economical heating of a private house without gas.
However, the problem is that in severe frosts such a pump fails. Works well at frosts down to -15, stops working at -30. There is another drawback - with practically free energy, the pump itself is very expensive - from 200,000 to 1,500,000 rubles.
Once they were called potbelly stoves. This name comes from a long time ago. civil war and subsequent devastation, when the simplest joys of life were associated with great wealth.
Much has changed since then, but the iron stove is still called a potbelly stove. Now they look different. Many of them are equipped with fire-resistant glass windows, but their essence has not changed - they heat up quickly and cool down just as quickly.
Maybe that's also why this stove was called a potbelly stove, because to maintain a constantly high temperature, a lot of firewood is required in a bourgeois way.
In the Siberian taiga huts, where it is possible to bring a cast-iron stove, but it is difficult to deliver a brick, a potbelly stove is lined on three sides with large stones run in by a river. It turns out beautifully and functionally - the stones heat up and slowly give off heat to the air.
This technique is quite applicable in the conditions of a country house - when the house is built, and the heating is not yet ready. To some extent, the stones perform fire-fighting functions, absorbing random sparks and excessive heat. Stone structures can serve as a reason for the designer's imagination to fly.
The efficiency of a metal furnace will increase if it is equipped with a coil for heating water and heating batteries are connected to it.
In its classic form, the Russian stove is a miracle of engineering soap with a very efficient system heating. Not only did the stove heat the entire hut, it was also a multifunctional kitchen, a heated bed and even a bathhouse.
Nowadays, a number of functions of the Russian stove are not needed, but as heating in a private house without gas and electricity, it is effective!
Making an ancient Russian stove modern is quite simple:
The Russian stove differs from a simple brick one in size and in the absence of a stove bench. The brick oven has a large inertia - it heats up for a long time, but it also cools down for a long time.
To make the cooling process last longer, there is a damper system that holds hot air. However, it is precisely in this system that the greatest danger of the furnace lies - if the damper is closed ahead of time, then carbon monoxide from the furnace will not go into the pipe, but into the house.
Construction cost brick oven depends on a number of factors: firstly, on the size, secondly, on the selected materials, and thirdly, on the remuneration of the stove-maker. And the work costs the most.
So, if the stove-maker takes moderately, and you are not going to decorate the stove with marble and ceramics, then you can meet 20-60 thousand rubles. Expensive or not - everyone evaluates in their own way. However, one should take into account the fact that the furnace will stand idle for more than a dozen years.
You can heat everything that burns. The classic option is wood and coal. However, the following sources of thermal energy also went into the furnace at all times.
Kizyak is completely dried cow dung. It burns well and leaves almost no ash. Horse manure can be used for the same purpose. By the way, there is no smell from such fuel.
Peat, or rather, peat briquettes. In terms of calorific value, this is something between firewood and coal. Briquettes are burning in an already heated firebox. This means that you first need to melt the oven with wood, and then lay the briquettes.
Advantages - peat is environmentally less toxic than coal.
More precisely, the toxicity of peat smoke can be equated with the toxicity of firewood. Only from peat there is more ash and smoke. You can only talk about the benefits of using peat if you have the opportunity to buy it at a low price. In all other cases, it is better to use firewood and coal.
Firewood burns quickly and is not always hot. To support high temperature in the house you need not just a lot of firewood, they need to be put in the firebox all the time.
It is best to use coke. Coal burns for a long time, and good coked coal is also hot.
If you use black coal with low ash content and high calorific value, then one measure of coal can give as much heat as 3-5 such measures of their firewood will give. The only argument against coal is its high ash content.
Ash from coal is toxic, so there will be a problem of its disposal.
There are other substitutes for firewood. For example, seed husks or corn cobs. Both burn well, but not for long, and without strong heat. However, these types of fuel should not be taken seriously.
Thus, from all types of solid fuels, it is worth choosing firewood and coal. And, in combination. It is good to use firewood for kindling the stove, and coal for a long and slow burning.
For heating a private house without gas and electricity, there are a dozen systems - from a classic stove to solar energy. It is difficult to advise on which of them to stop. However, I can give one universal advice - try to form a multifunctional system with redundant functions and minimizing risk, like on warships.
Homeowners who have several various kinds energy carriers, it is very convenient to choose the right equipment for heating your home. But what about those people who have no choice at all? There is no natural gas nearby, and the electricity limit is so small that it is not possible to use it as an energy carrier for heating a house? In this case, there are several options, which our article is designed to consider. These options are also useful for those homeowners who want to arrange economical heating private house without gas and electricity.
By default, we immediately exclude from the list the two main energy carriers: electricity and natural gas. Then we have at our disposal:
The latter include installations capable of extracting the heat contained in air, earth or water. But the most affordable ways to heat a house without traditional energy resources are still burning biomass to heat water or air. It is more difficult with liquefied gas or diesel fuel, their initial cost is quite high, and together with delivery it will be completely sky-high. Again, for high-quality combustion of diesel fuel, electricity is needed.
Alternative heating for a private house, which has just begun to develop, is still considered very expensive and not available to everyone. But behind him is the future, because in terms of efficiency, such heating has no equal. If you do not take into account various exotic energy sources, then the choice will have to be made from two options:
Diesel fuel and propane should be excluded from the list, these sources are not suitable for anyone. To effectively burn diesel fuel, you need electricity, which means a solar battery. Propane consumption even for small house will be so large that you will quickly get tired of changing and bringing new cylinders. As a result, heating costs will still be unacceptable.
It's no secret that there are a number of devices that allow you to get heat from wood and coal without connecting to the mains. Here they are:
For reference. Fireplaces also successfully burn firewood, but it can only be a stretch to attribute them to home heating means. Rather, these are interior elements that create comfort and coziness, but there is little heat from them, except perhaps in one room.
A well-chosen and well-built brick oven can provide good home heating without gas. By placing it in the center of the building in such a way that at least one wall of the furnace goes into each adjacent room, you can get great source heat without the use of water systems. If the layout of the house does not allow placing a brick stove so well, then a water coil is built into its firebox. He will be able to supply heat to radiators in 2-3 small rooms.
Various metal stoves will also help to heat the house without gas. This option will cost significantly less than the construction of a capital brick structure that requires a foundation. Putting up a modern steel or cast iron potbelly stove is easier, and it looks great, especially with built-in fireproof glass. Some models are equipped with coils for heating water, which are connected to a small heating network.
Optimal heating system a country house without gas and electricity is the installation of a solid fuel boiler. Most simple models units are produced in a non-volatile version, where the combustion air flow is controlled by mechanical thermostat with chain drive. But in this case, you need to follow a number of recommendations:
Important! In gravity networks, the coolant moves slowly, a wood-burning heating unit is more prone to boiling over than in pumping systems. That is why it is so important to withstand all the calculated parameters. It is strongly recommended to use in the circuit a tank - a heat accumulator of sufficient capacity.
Having considered all types of heating using biomass, it can be noted that in terms of efficiency, a solid fuel boiler will confidently take first place, its efficiency reaches 75%, while the best stove will give no more than 60-65%. The option with a boiler and a gravity circuit is applicable even in two-storey houses where heating will work no worse than a full-fledged system. It will only require more of your time and attention.
Before starting to consider alternatives heating a country house without gas, we will make a reservation that, unlike stoves and solid fuel boilers, none of the high-tech installations can work without electricity. As you review, you will understand why. Hence the conclusion: you need to start with the generation of electricity.
There are 2 ways to do this: wind power generators and solar panels. Wind power plant - perfect solution but not cheap. One of the solutions to the problem is to purchase a large windmill together, for several houses at once. More affordable way- buy a solar battery and batteries for the dark time of the day. To collaborate with sources direct current, which are solar generators, there are special circulation pumps. When there is electricity, let's go directly to the devices that can provide heating without gas and electricity:
Without going into structural details, a solar collector is a device consisting of many interconnected tubes through which water flows. Its heating occurs directly from the infrared radiation of the sun, after which the water is used for heating or for the needs of domestic hot water. But in order for the heating system to work without gas, the coolant must be moved through it using a pump, and it needs electricity.
There are only two drawbacks to the device, but both are significant. The collector cannot work at night, and is not able to accumulate much heat. The most powerful models have storage capacity 200-300 liters, which is enough for hot water supply, but not enough for heating. Because of this, you need to install a lot of devices or use this heat source as an auxiliary one, which makes it possible to save energy.
The top of efficiency and environmental friendliness is a heat pump. The principle of its operation is the same as that of an air conditioner. The unit does not produce heat, it extracts it in one place and moves it to another - to your house. Theoretically, any substance whose temperature is above absolute zero has thermal energy. Heat pumps can take it from the air, earth, ground and surface water. To extract and transfer 10 kW of heat to the house, the unit consumes about 3 kW of electricity, traditional sources are very far from such indicators.
At the same time, these 3 kW of electricity need to be taken from somewhere. If solar batteries or a wind power plant are used for this purpose, then the considerable price of generators will be added to the significant cost of the pump. That is, it makes sense to install a heat pump in an electrified house. Now it is clear why these technologies are still inaccessible to a wide range of users.
So, if there is no gas, then you can heat the house with wood or coal. In such a situation, the first place is clearly occupied by a solid fuel boiler, followed by wood stoves. A high-tech heat pump is not in such demand because of its high cost.
Heating a private house outside the city these days can be organized in different ways. In this article, we will consider in sufficient detail ways of heating a home that do not involve the use of electricity, as well as main and liquefied gas.
The most convenient type of fuel is natural gas. With it, you can heat any area of the house, public buildings and even huge production facilities. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of private home owners choose gas as their fuel. And what to do in cases where there is no way to connect it? Freeze in a country house? To use electric heaters, paying huge monthly sums for consumed kilowatts? Of course not! There are many options that make it possible to organize high-quality heating of a private house without the use of gas and electricity.
Heating of a country dwelling can be done by:
The easiest way is to build a classic brick oven in the house and use it for heating. Here it is important to correctly position such a structure in the home. Ideally, it should be in the center of the house so that its walls open into different rooms. You can heat the stove with coal or wood. The first option is more rational. Charcoal burns for a long time and releases a lot of heat. There will be more trouble with firewood. They will have to be harvested on their own or bought in large quantities, as the wood burns out very quickly.
Let us immediately note that a common person he is unlikely to be able to build a brick oven with his own hands. Its installation requires the creation of a foundation - a dirty, lengthy and laborious procedure. Yes, and it will not be easy for a home craftsman to make the correct brickwork. A reasonable alternative to classic heaters are ready-made stoves made of metal.
In specialized stores, a chic assortment of cast-iron and steel potbelly stoves is presented. They are highly efficient and look great. Thanks to this, factory-made metal stoves allow not only to heat the house economically, but also to make the residential interior original. Both an ordinary stove and a ready-made potbelly stove are easy to equip with a coil. It will heat water that can be supplied to radiators installed in different rooms Houses. With this approach, we get economical heating powered by wood or coal.
Fireplaces can also be used to heat homes. But only if the dwelling has a small area. Big house with many rooms and households. The fireplace will not be able to heat the rooms. In most cases, such heating structures play a decorative role.
According to experts, the most reasonable option for heating a country house that is not connected to the gas supply system is to install a solid fuel unit. Moreover, for the dwellings of interest to us, it is recommended to choose simple boilers produced in a fully non-volatile version. In such installations there is a special thermostat (mechanical), equipped with an elementary chain drive. It is this device that controls the air flow that ensures the combustion process of the fuel.
Solid fuel boilers are economical and easy to operate equipment, but potentially unsafe. Therefore, when installing it, the following mandatory requirements must be observed:
In solid fuel units it is allowed to burn coal and firewood, as well as sawdust and other waste from the woodworking industry, special pellets, peat briquettes. The choice of fuel is great. Each owner of a country house has the opportunity to choose the most suitable option for themselves. Note that the efficiency of solid fuel boilers reaches 70–80%. But for conventional furnaces, this value does not exceed 55-65%.
Modern science has invented a completely unique option for heating private dwellings, which does not require burning wood, coal and other fuels. This method involves the use of a heat pump - a truly environmentally friendly, economical and efficient device. The uniqueness of this unit is as follows. He does not produce thermal energy. But it only extracts it from ground and soil waters, soil, air and transfers it to the house.
A heat pump is a design consisting of compressor, throttle and heat exchange compartments, as well as tubes with freon. The unit works like the most ordinary household refrigerator:
After that, the gas is directed to the throttle compartment. In it, the temperature and pressure of freon decrease. It again turns into a liquid, which goes back into the water or earth. The entire cycle is then repeated many times. As a result, we have a constant source of energy directed to heating the house.
Heat pumps are different. They are usually divided into:
A heat pump uses electricity to operate. At the same time, the consumption of the latter for the operation of the installation described by us turns out to be small. In numbers it looks like this. To extract 9–11 kW of electricity from water or soil and transfer it to the heating system, it is necessary to spend about 2.5–3 kW.
These kilowatts will have to be taken from the household power grid or obtained from renewable energy sources. We will talk about them further. But first, we note that heating with a heat pump requires considerable initial financial costs for the purchase of expensive equipment and its installation. For this reason, heating technologies without fuel have not yet received widespread.
For the operation of heat pumps and energy-dependent modern boilers, Electric Energy. Without it, high-tech units will not function. You can get energy yourself, without connecting to a centralized power supply. True, in this case, again, we will have to spend a lot of money on the installation of special equipment - solar panels or windmills. The first allow you to get energy from the sun, the second - from the wind.
Structurally, windmills are simple devices. They consist of a generator, a special wind turbine that captures wind energy, and a battery. But it’s not at all easy to build an efficient windmill that generates enough electricity to heat your home on your own. It would be wiser to purchase a finished design. And exploit it for a long time, beating off the money spent.
A similar situation is observed with solar panels. Homemade installations are not able to generate the amount of energy required to heat the house. And the purchased equipment is not cheap. For this reason, both windmills and solar collectors are most often used as auxiliary sources of "gratuitous" electricity. For full-fledged heating of a country house, their power is not enough. But they allow you to save on energy bills.
Thus, if there is no gas in your suburban home, do not panic. You can heat it up different ways- and classic (potbelly stoves, brick ovens), and using modern technologies. Choose the option that suits you and let your home always be warm and comfortable!
It does not matter how to heat the house in cold weather - it is important to cover its heat loss.
So, cold weather outside the window and the temperature in the house begins to drop. In order for the temperature in the house to be comfortable in cold weather, each dwelling should have a heat generator. What acts as a heat generator - a boiler, a furnace or a heat pump, is not so important. It is important that its capacity is enough to cover the heat loss of the house in winter.
Well, when the "overboard" temperature drops to -30C and -40C, it's time to "wind the pot" to its fullest. How to heat a house in cold weather - this is the question that any owner of a private house sets himself. We will consider it from the point of view of practice.
What is the best way to heat a house? It doesn't matter what, as long as this fuel is available to you and affordable. What is the point of giving advice or gas to those people to whom neither one nor the other resources are available.
Of course, it is better to heat the house with gas - natural (main), which enters your house through a pipe. This is the most convenient and cheapest type of fuel at the moment. And even after the government introduces social norms for gas, this type of fuel will still remain the most affordable for people.
Of course, the most convenient type of fuel is natural gas.
How to heat a house in winter if there is no gas near your site or the cost of connecting to gas pipe goes off scale for 1,000,000 rubles? Next in convenience, but not cheap, is electricity. The most hassle-free energy source, you do not need a lot of money to install equipment. But a lot of money will be needed to pay your electricity sellers - the power company in your area.
What is the best way to heat a house if there is no gas, and the allocated electricity for your household does not exceed 5 kilowatts? The next option in terms of convenience is this. Before the start of the season, a tank with diesel fuel is brought to you and 3-5-10 tons are poured into your tank diesel fuel depending on the power of your boiler and the heated area.
If this is not the case and you yourself go to a gas station with canisters, then this option can be compared with heating with used oil. The same process of assembling shareware fuel. Only a mining burner costs a little more than a diesel burner. Price diesel burner- 15-25 thousand rubles, the cost of a burner for used oil is from 60 thousand rubles. But fuel costs you almost nothing.
Next in terms of ease of use are pellets. A pellet boiler will require a one-time load of fuel before the season if you have a large pellet bin with a volume of 10-20 cubic meters with pneumatic supply.
If this is not the case, then you will have to regularly load the pellets into the bunker. It's good if you have an extended pellet bin for 600-800 kilograms. If the standard is 200 kilograms (they are usually put on the basic configuration of pellet boilers), then you will have to approach the boiler with bags of pellets every day). And believe the practice, loading pellets every day to a level above your head and pouring pellets into the bunker is not an occupation for the weak.
Next in terms of ease of use are firewood and coal. Do you want to be a stoker or stoker in own house? Then this option is for you.
There are, of course, coal-fired boilers such as Carbobot and wood-fired convective and which allow you to approach boilers and stoves less often.
However, calibrated washed coal for Carbobot needs not only to be specially prepared, but also to be obtained from somewhere in your area.
And pyrolysis ovens are not as good as they say in the brochures sellers of ovens.
Why didn't I mention gas holders and other conditionally autonomous sources of gas heating? Because for the cost of installing equipment it is easier to pay an entry fee for connecting to the main gas and generally forget about problems with filling a gas tank.
We examined the better to heat the house in terms of convenience. Now let's see how cheaper it is to heat a house in winter, starting from small sub-zero temperatures and ending with real frosts.
The cheapest type of fuel is free fuel. Of course, absolutely free fuel does not exist. You spend money and your personal time on fuel delivery. However, if we abstract from the cost of delivery, then we can call.
Sawdust, lumber trimmings, used packaging cardboard, paper and pulp production waste, straw, bagasse, waste oil - all this fuel is worth nothing. You just need to find its sources and organize delivery. If you succeed, you can heat your house in winter for free (conditionally of course).
If your stove allows you to burn anything in it, then your option is free fuel.
How to heat a house in winter if the “blue fuel pipe” does not fit your site and is unlikely to fit in the near future? Otsatetsya do not hang up your nose and decide how to heat the house without gas in the winter.
Let's go in order (according to the degree of appreciation):
Here is such a "gentleman's set" in case Gazprom forgot about you and does not want to remember.
There is one option that will reduce the cost of heating your home. The effective heated area of the house is the area of those rooms in which you will maintain a comfortable temperature from +18C to +22C.
The effective heated area of the house may include bedrooms, a bathroom, a living room. In other parts of the house - pantries, boiler rooms - you can keep the temperature at a level of + 8C to + 12C. In vestibules and fuel storage it is possible to keep the temperature from +5C to +8C.
Thus, you can greatly reduce the cost of heating the house as a whole, just by lowering the constant temperature in those rooms where you are not constantly.
Close some of the rooms in the house for the winter - and your heating costs at home will decrease.
Traditionally private house heated by a gas boiler. But what if the site is not connected to the gas main? Or there are interruptions in the gas supply and you want to have insurance for this case? Or you just want to reduce dependence on gas and the state.
In this case, it is necessary to consider the option of alternative heating of the house. And then we will analyze what can be used. What devices will serve as a full replacement gas boiler and provide heating without gas, and which can only be used as a supplement.
Since the house is traditionally heated by a gas boiler, by alternative heating of the house we will mean any heater which does not run on gas.
When it's relevant
Types of alternative energy sources
Conventionally, alternative heat sources are divided into two types:
Consider which devices can be used in each case.
Collectors are ideal for hot water heating in summer, spring and autumn. And in winter they can only be used to support heating.
Such a fireplace is a combination of a traditional fireplace and a solid fuel boiler: it is installed indoors and connected to common system heating. Inside the fireplace there is a container with water, which heats up during the burning of firewood. Due to this, you not only heat the air in the room, but also heat the water in the heating system, which then enters the radiators, floor heating or storage tank.
Theoretically, it could be an alternative gas heating. But since it does not have an automatic fuel supply and new firewood needs to be thrown in every 2-4 hours, you should not count on it much. If firewood is not added in time, the fire will go out and the house will cool down.
Therefore, such a fireplace should be considered as an addition to the main source of heat.
Conventional fireplaces are cheaper and easier to install. For it, it is not necessary to pre-supply a pipe, install a storage tank and provide for thermal protection. It is enough just to allocate a place and build a chimney.
The fireplace only heats the air around it. And to increase its efficiency, you can conduct air channels from the fireplace to each room. Due to this, the fireplace will heat not only the room in which it is installed, but also other rooms where air channels are laid.
The difficulties with an ordinary fireplace are the same: it will not replace a gas boiler, firewood will also have to be regularly thrown up and monitored for combustion. It's a great extra and alternative heat source, but not more.
A pellet fireplace also only heats the air around it. But it has two important advantages:
Of the shortcomings:
Air conditioning - the most affordable and simple alternative home heating source. You can install one powerful on the entire floor or one in each room.
The most optimal option for using the air conditioner is in late spring or early autumn, when it is still not too cold outside and the gas boiler can not be started yet. This will reduce gas consumption at the expense of electricity and not exceed the monthly rate of gas consumption.
Important points:
Hidden heat leaks of a private house
To be less dependent on gas, you need to work on the energy efficiency of the building. Read about possible hidden heat leaks in a private home.
- which you may not be aware of.
- that make your home colder.
I use four heat sources to heat my house: a gas boiler (main), a fireplace with a water circuit, six flat-plate solar collectors and an inverter air conditioner.
Why is it needed
Some statistics
The average gas consumption in January 2016 is 12 cubic meters per day. With a heated area of 200m 2 and an additional basement.
Fluctuations in consumption by day during the month are associated with different outdoor temperature and the presence of the sun: collectors work on sunny days, and gas consumption decreases.
Heating without gas maybe. Some heat sources serve as a full-fledged replacement for a gas boiler, while others can only be used in addition. For convenience, let's combine everything in a table:
There are other alternative ways of heating a building that are not included in the list: stoves, buleryans, electric boilers and other heating devices.
And, of course, it is important to remember that installing other heat sources is not the only way to save gas and reduce dependence on it. It is necessary to work on improving the overall energy efficiency of the building: to identify and eliminate all heat leaks, to use heat more rationally and to minimize heat losses from the building.
Heating without gas: 7 alternative heat sources for a private house
