Finally your dream came true, and you got a fireplace. However, often, with joy from the acquisition, some puzzles come, and many questions arise. In particular, where and how best to store firewood. Which wood is more convenient? Can I make it with your own hands? And if so, how?
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Camine accessories market review
In addition to the fact that the fireplace and fireplaces are symbols of heat and comfort, they are magnificent interior decor items. The same woodciner, especially with your own hands, will be an excellent decoration of the house. Some lovers of the original design install woodcocks, and sometimes stands with a poker and a scoop, near an electric fireplace, to create a more lively, cozy environment.
The fireplace set, as a rule, includes:
- poker,
- forceps,
- scoop with a brush
- stand.
These are not only beautiful elements of the decor of the fireplace hall, but also practical tools that cannot be dispensed with. After all, having melted the fireplace, you need to turn or move the firewood, make a fallen ash, clean the ash, etc.
Choosing accessories for the fireplace, it pleasantly surprises the variety of forms, materials and design solutions that manufacturers offer. Sets for a fireplace with a firewood are sometimes made as a complete composition along with candlesticks, hours and chairs - in the same style.
Among foreign manufacturers, confidence was won by such brands as:
- Heibi (Germany),
- french Focus and Schutt,
- italian Comex and Ragar,
- a good reputation was earned by the Polish brand Kratki.
The Russian market keeps up with foreign competitors, especially such companies as:
- Dis,
- Kuzna-Danila
- Metaldecorprom.
- Samara forge,
- Thermocraft,
- Tula forging.
The cost starts from 1,000 p. For a simple poker with a scoop on a wall hook and reaches 20,000 p. For a forged set for a fireplace with a firewood. In the products of VIP levels, more expensive technologies and materials are used:
- panache,
- etching,
- engraving,
- gilding.
The list of materials includes:
- nickel,
- brass,
- jasper
- gold.
Types of woodpeckers and materials for their manufacture
To begin with, we will study what types of firewood come from and from what materials they are made. It is important to immediately understand the concepts, since the word “firewood” may mean two objects: a large street wood or small - home. Street is built in the form of canopies of various forms for storing and drying a large supply of firewood. Small portable logs are placed by the fireplace. And this is not only aesthetic, but also practical. They put a small supply of firewood in them so as not to run out into the street every time you need to throw logs into the fireplace. In addition, this avoids regular premises, because firewood scattered on the floor does not add cleanliness to the house.
Homemade woodpeckers are often figurative. They put firewood from the main storage and bring firewood to the house. They are quite light in weight, usually have the shape of a basket. Sometimes they are made large, with two handles, to carry together. These options for wood are convenient in that there is no need to hold firewood in their hands. This will prevent contamination of clothing and the appearance of splinters.
The second version of indoor woodcuts is stationary, non -transmitted. They put firewood brought from the street with their own hands, they serve as a regular stand. For example, forged woods are quite heavy, so they rarely make a pen. The main advantage, unlike mobile woodpeckers, is sustainability. Light portable woodcocks just turn over, unsuccessfully putting on the floor or hook with his foot. Keep in mind that a stationary wood should be placed away from the hearth in order to avoid fire.
Drovs for the fireplace are made of materials such as:
- vine,
- leather,
- tree,
- metal roll, in particular steel,
- forged metal.
To make firewood for a fireplace with your own hands, use other materials, as well as improvised means. As an option, the sidewalls are cut out in an ordinary backpack - and the woodcock is ready. For reliability, instead of a rag handle, a wooden is screwed to the top of the backpack.
Regardless of the material, the forms of wood are very different; For example, the base is made both continuous and lattice or perforated. Indoor logs, as a rule, have an U-shaped or V-shaped stand form. This is not by chance - it is envisaged that logs of different lengths will be laid in it.
How to choose fireplaces for a fireplace
When choosing a fireplace for a fireplace, think about its purpose. Do you need a stationary stable stand for firewood, or do you plan to carry a fireplace with you to the street. In the latter case, you need to give preference to a portable "basket". It is logical that the mobile version of the wood should be made of lightweight material.
In order for the firewood to fit harmoniously into the interior of the house, choose the shape and material that corresponds to the style of the fireplace hall. If the hall is equipped in the modern style, a simple metal woodwood will fit into it well, products with chrome elements, as well as leather made, are also suitable here. If you like classics and aristocratic motifs, forged options with curved legs “under antiques” are preferred. If the house is decorated in the style of country or in the interior of the hall there is a lot of wood, then it is better to choose a wicker or wooden woodwood for the fireplace. Photos of various options for the interior decor of the fireplace halls are presented below.
A fireplace for a fireplace, which is offered by the departments of "garden and garden" and "all for the cottage" of construction hypermarkets, usually has an inflated price. It is more advisable to order fireplaces over the Internet. Prices vary from 400 to 15,000 rubles. As a rule, the most expensive woods are made of forged bronze with curved elements and carved patterns.
Blacksmiths are engaged in the manufacture of forged products on an individual order. And if the imagination painted a forged masterpiece, feel free to shift the picture to paper and go to the nearest forge. In this case, the firewood will be really original.
The sequence of actions in the manufacture of wood wood
A woodc wood is made quite simply. One of the most convenient options is to use a wooden barrel.
The sequence of actions for the manufacture of a barrel of a barrel:
1. To metal hoops with bolts (with a decorative head) we attach each plank.
2. On both sides of the central hoop, we apply the contours for the cut of the sidewalls, so that we have a shallow bottom left, and a pen left in place of the central hoop.
3. Cut along the intended contour of the sidewall.
4. Thoroughly go through the edges.
5. We make a stand for the firewood:
- we cut out two transverse sides from the tree to the size of the barrel, so that the top of each sidewall is rounded under the diameter of the barrel;
- we take two wooden rods and cut them in accordance with the long finished product - they will serve as longitudinal supports for the resulting woodpecker;
- at the edges of the transverse sidewalls, we make two holes corresponding to the diameter of the rods;
- we insert longitudinal rods into the transverse sidewalls.
6. We cover the hoops with paint for metal, and wooden elements are stained.
How to make a metal rolling wood
If there is an experience with a welding machine, a cutting machine and a grinder, then making a wood -roll or metal rod wood will be quite simple with your own hands.
Consider an example of manufacturing a simple structure made of a metal square rod 8 × 8 mm:
- Cut four equal bar 30-40 cm long.
- We weld them so that the square base is obtained.
- We make sidewalls for a firewood. To do this, bend with an arc in the form of the letter U two long rods (160-180 cm). The distance between the legs should be the same in length as the side of the base.
- We weld the prepared sidewalls to the base. The ends of the long rods will serve as the legs of the stands, so they should protrude below the square base by 2-3 cm. The arcs, respectively, will be the upper part of the wood.
- For resistance to the legs, metal plates are welded, and a few more rods are welded to the walls of the woodpecker.
- We paint the resulting design for metal.
DIY wicker wood
If there are skills of weaving products from the vine, you can make a wicker wood -up yourself. For weaving the base, a thick rope is also used.
We give an example of the manufacture of wicker wood. Four wooden rails will be required: two short -width of the base and two long in length; willow rods; Strong copper wire.
- We make a base in the shape of a rectangle from the heels, for this we make them together. On long rails, on the contrary, drill holes with a pitch of 3 cm.
- Insert the copper wire into the central holes. It will serve as the handle of the product, so the length needs to leave the corresponding height of the desired woodpecker. The ends of the copper rods are bent with pliers.
- In the remaining holes we insert willow rods. We bend them at an angle, so that subsequently weave the side walls.
- On the resulting base we begin weaving. Concluding the work, in turn we bent each willow stance, and start it for the previous one. We hide the ends of willow rods in a wicker on the inside of the basket.
- We also wrap the handle of copper wire with rods. It is better to choose the thinnest ones. We hide the ends of the rods in the woven walls of the wood.
Forged firewood for fireplace
This work is really better to entrust professionals. If there is an original idea, then, as proposed earlier, sketch sketches and make an individual order in the forge.
For those who really want to make a forged wood with their own hands, they recommend a combined option. For this:
- We go to where forged elements are sold. For example, this can be the “metal” products department of the construction hypermarket.
- We look at what elements are available and visually imagine which design of the wood will be built by welding various forged elements among themselves.
- Be sure to draw a picture of what you expect to get in the end before buying.
- We select and buy the necessary forged elements for the composition.
- We weld them in accordance with the pre -drawn sketch.
