Burzhujki: unexpected returning

The fireplace in a country house always was considered as master's pride, therefore traditionally it construct bulky and monolithic. Here only it is ideal to be entered in an interior the chimney furnace it is capable only in exclusively big sizes. That you will not tell about furnaces-burzhujkah.

For the compact sizes and their modern design already had time to christen «metal careerists» – after all today demand on burzhujki at owners of cottages and summer residences promptly increases.

Rebirth burzhuek

The centre in the house – always was and remains attribute of a family cosiness and comfort, and also possibility for the owner to show the prosperity and sense of style.

Here only the image of this "centre" is capable will change, walking in step with new technologies and fashionable trends. After all traditionally the fireplace can be constructed from a brick, the big sizes, as a rule, in classical English style: expensively, laconically and with taste.

That though somehow to reduce the price of home cost, falsh-fireplaces which simulate fire by means of electric screens back have entered into mass use couple of years. But metal furnaces, in the people named "burzhujkami" became last novelty in country houses. They have appeared the present find, combining in itself all the best from fireplaces classical and electric: the small sizes and live fire. Whether but so burzhujki are new, how seem? After all the true says that all new is well forgotten old.

Actually burzhujki have been invented one hundred years ago. And if today they differ beautiful design and excellent technical characteristics earlier the best associations have been connected with metal furnaces not. To tell precisely, where exactly there were first-ever metal furnaces, it is difficult enough – after all them traditionally use in a life of many countries of Europe.

Finns, for example, heat saunas exclusively by means of metal furnaces, and here Germans have managed on these tiny furnaces-fireplaces even to cook food. But precisely known another: and the notorious name, and a national recognition burzhujki have received in Russia, namely – in Petersburg.

In the beginning of the last century Petersburg, however, as well as other Russian cities, endured ruin, war and revolutions. The habitual life has been destroyed, and poverty and difficult living conditions forced to search for new ways to hold heat in huge Petersburg apartments and manors. Here then usual fireplaces on which kindling too much wood and coal was required, have appeared unprofitable – so for the first time in use there were metal furnaces which rescued a bourgeois society from a severe Russian frost. And the name has been given furnaces the corresponding.

After many years practical European designers have remembered about there is no time popular burzhujkah and have made everything that the main symbol of a difficult epoch became fine property of the present.

Practically the second decade successively in a number of the countries of Europe burzhujki are considered as a craze, a product modern, stylish and functional. Metal furnaces have literally captivated the European cottages, summer residences and hunting lodges.

Also that is interesting: presence burzhujki in an interior is considered as a certain symbol of a Bohemianism, beautiful and respectable life. It is more than that, metal furnaces at all have not forced out classical fireplaces. At one country house can be present and a fireplace, and burzhujka – all depends on style of a room and a design idea. So, Europeans usually organise the central chimney room, and burzhujkam find a place in house offices, libraries, bedrooms and saunas.

Features of metal furnaces

Besides the compact sizes which we already mentioned, at burzhuek there is a set of other advantages. Well, for example, metal furnaces are easily established – and as are easily dismantled. They easily can be transported from one house in another, from one room in another.

Unlike classical fireplaces which can be built in strictly designated place and adhering to the certain sizes, burzhujki can vary in parametres, style, functional mission – all depends on your personal wishes.

Installation of metal furnaces is in many respects simplified also thanking their small weight: 150 kg (weight of an oven about 80-90 kg, and also pipes – 60 kg) on the average there are more. It allows to do without a bookmark of the additional base without what any building of a classical fireplace is impossible. From the same reason burzhujku it is possible to place on any floor of a country house – whereas the weight of chimney furnaces is capable to sustain only zero level, that is the ground floor.

Manufacturers modern burzhuek warrant for safety of metal furnaces, asserting that they can be established even on a timber floor. Though to the future owners burzhuek all the same it is recommended to make secure, having built for an oven something like a podium or vystelit in a zone of its action a tile, a stone, metal sheet. First, such reception looks, secondly, at casual handling of an oven on a floor the piece of coal can decoratively get, having left on wood visible defect.

burzhuek it is considered one of the main advantages their ability very quickly to warm up a premise though thus fire wood it is used in four-five times less, rather than at a kindling of a brick fireplace.

It is more than that, modern furnaces-burzhujki are the difficult and multipurpose harmonious mechanism thanks to what the standard model can warm a room with the area of 60-80 square metres. And if to choose burzhujku bolshej capacities this indicator will increase to 120-150 square metres.

Besides, the majority burzhuek, made in Europe, are equipped by cleaning filters with which help metal furnaces throw out in air on 90 % of harmful substances less, than traditional fireplaces. Thus, burzhujki support in the house a healthy microclimate, preserving its inhabitants against fatal action of carbonic oxide and other products of combustion. And here usual fireplaces function for the account of an open flame, not absolutely positively influencing atmosphere in the house. Besides air saturation by harmful substances, they do it also dry. But operation of metal furnaces is possible only at the closed door, hence, tenants of a cottage to breathe air which all indicators are optimum. Here therefore burzhujki establish even in game rooms for children, zones of rest of older persons.

Classification burzhuek

Burzhujki from the national manufacturer – the big rarity. On technical parametres and the external data, alas, they not far have left from the hysterical predecessors. There are such copies cheaply, look modestly and a little on what suit, therefore, at the best, can find application on a summer residence or a summer kitchen.

Accordingly, no classification and accurate typology burzhuek at us exists. To be guided at purchase of the metal furnace to the Russian buyer it is necessary only on the European standards. And it is not surprising – after all as practice shows, only burzhujka from the European manufacturer is capable to become a refined ornament of an interior of a country house. Therefore as import metal furnaces – an example of quality, beauty and durability.

At a choice burzhujki it is necessary to be guided by following characteristics: design, durability, durability, the manufacturer, capacity, level teplootdachi, multifunctionality. Kasaemo the last, it is important to notice that premise heating – only main function of metal furnaces. Besides the direct mission, burzhujki can have and other (additional) functions. And cooking possibility – one of them.

Burzhujka can be supplied and a cooking plate. At what the design of modern metal furnaces is thought over to trifles: rings can be hidden the special decorative panel. So anybody also will not guess that you burzhujka is a high-grade oven-fireplace.

The western companies develop models which in addition to the cooking panel have also a high-grade oven. So the small metal oven will allow to heat the house, to cook food, to bake sweets, moreover and to be thus the most interesting element of an interior.

Classify burzhujki and by the form the fuel used for a fire chamber. So, metal furnaces can work on wood, peat, gas, coal. Coal basically approaches only brown – as stone to the majority of modern models is dangerous: its high level teplootdachi is capable to destroy an internal design of the furnace. Therefore burzhujki which are initially developed for coal use, are rough enough and primitive in the decorative execution and a country house interior do not suit.

Kasaemo wood it can be used in various kinds, for example, logs, wood briquettes, chips. The tree is applied to a kindling burzhuek therefore as is the most ecological kind of fuel more often.

In Europe all existing furnaces and fireplaces, including burzhujki, it is accepted to divide into three kinds. It is important for knowing, being defined with purchase of this or that model of the metal furnace. If in the documentation accompanying it the category "And" is underlined – means burzhujka has exclusively decorative mission: the main value consists in its design as, without having sufficient capacity, with premise heating given to bake consults badly. To a category "In" carry burzhujki which after one fire chamber are capable to keep heat of less than 10 hours. Hence, such models suit small premises with good hermetic sealing of windows and doors. And, at last, a category "With": the furnaces supporting heat in a room longer of 10 hours.

To define, burzhujka what category to you is better approaches, you should depending on frequency of operation of the furnace, and also the sizes of a heated premise. For example, for country houses furnaces of marks "With" as cottage rooms considerable, and are lived by you in the house all year long will be ideal.

And here for a country, hunting or guest small house where premises get warm seasonally or from time to time, is better to select burzhujku categories "In". But if the metal furnace to you was necessary to create on purpose only special surroundings, and the room is warmed in the traditional ways (a radiator, system "heat-insulated floor", a heater, the conditioner) it is quite possible to manage and burzhujkoj with strongly pronounced decorative characteristics – that is a class "And".

Beauty on-burzhujski

From the moment of occurrence of the first burzhuek their external shape has strongly changed. Though it would seem, this all the same metal ovens, as well as hundred years ago: compact and easy, on four legs or without them. But evolution of an oven decor on the person – modern burzhujki simply amaze with the stylistic variety and the refined aesthetics.

Without exaggeration it is possible to tell that burzhujki are capable to be entered in any interior of a country house. Practically each style existing for today has found the continuation in dressing of modern metal furnaces. Thus, pertinently to speak about burzhujkah in style hi-tech, minimalism, the country, a gothic style and other. Besides, and design ideas so it is a lot of artistic touches that ordinary pig-iron or steel case burzhujki there is today can look really neordinarno.

The most simple and cheap way of furnish of the metal furnace is painting of its surface by a heat resisting paint. More often the case cover with a black paint then all elements of art moulding allocate with bronze or silvery colour. The such retrooven approaching for a country house in the spirit of the country, eclecticism, to an ethnic interior with accent on rukotvornost subjects.

So-called "ceramic" burzhujki can brag of the case completely made of ceramics. The ceramic casing can be any colour, stampings and the invoice. We will tell, the covering of colour a metallic successfully will approach for fans of hi-tech. In a case when ceramic drawing simulates difficult chimney tiles burzhujka already resembles the present fireplace in classical style. And here the monochrome ceramics or a majolica are characteristic to metal furnaces in style minimalism. Their laconic forms, the accurate lines, the muffled colour scale appear in the houses which owners love quiet measured life more often and adore east philosophy.

In an original way Englishmen have approached to application burzhuek. Being inveterate conservatives, they reluctantly refuse the traditions which have settled in a life. Therefore and metal furnaces make the special. The matter is that burzhujki they place in a niche intended for a fireplace. The design of an oven looks very in an original way, and the niche is made out in such a manner that have published burzhujka and really reminds the present fireplace. Therefore metal furnaces in English style have classical outlines and the main accent is made on the face-to-face party, and here lateral and back walls are frequently issued is rather ordinary.

In general, paraphrasing known saying, we will try to assure you that how many styles – are so much and burzhuek. Choose on taste and colour.

Also remember that from the moment of acquisition of the metal furnace in your house will appear not only a beautiful and characteristic subject of an interior, but also and special, cosy, atmosphere.