Important safety rules when handling a furnace
A stove is one of the most important attributes of a private house. Our ancestors rightly believed that it was the "heart of the home" and the "provider." Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for large families were cooked on it. Thanks to the stove, people washed, did laundry, and treated illnesses. Famous fairy tales, fables, and poems were composed about it.
Even now, it is impossible to imagine a cozy dacha or a house in a quiet village without it. The hearth attracts not only the whole family but also neighbors who want to spend a comfortable evening together, talking about life. The stove warms not only with its atmosphere, a certain fairy-tale quality, and comfort, but also with the heat from burning wood and smoldering coal. Such "magic" helps to warm up after severe frosts, spend the day at a comfortable temperature, and not freeze at night.
Like all complex and important things, it also needs to be handled correctly. Indifference during the installation and use of a hearth can lead to the most tragic consequences. It must be said that fires due to safety violations are not uncommon. Costly repairs and even loss of a home, burns and injuries, human tragedies often appear in the same paragraph as the warm word "stove" in rescue reports. The following few paragraphs contain only the most basic information for those who value their health and the lives of their loved ones.
How to make friends with a stove
Even if the weather is like the coldest days in Siberia, you need to let the stove rest. It cannot be overheated. And this is only the first step towards a good relationship with the "provider."
Next, it needs to be regularly maintained. Stoves, pipe surfaces, and walls through which smoke channels pass must be in good condition, without through cracks, and to detect cracks in the chimney at an early stage in the attic space, they must be plastered and whitewashed.
It is worth knowing about a necessary "accessory." The floor area made of combustible materials in front of the firebox opening of operating heat-generating appliances (stoves) that run on solid fuel must be protected by non-combustible material at least 0.5 meters wide and at least 0.7 meters long. The placement of combustible substances and materials on it is not allowed.
It is forbidden to burn coal, coke, and gas in stoves not designed for these types of fuel, as well as to place combustible substances and materials on them and in the immediate vicinity of the firebox openings.
A burning stove must not be left unattended.
Ash, coals, and slag removed from heat-generating appliances and stoves must be doused with water until they are completely extinguished.
Take care of your stove, and it will certainly bring warmth, coziness, and invaluable comfortable rest to your home.