A properly selected and installed chimney for a geyser not only ensures its reliable operation, but also does not allow combustion products to get inside the house. Therefore, special attention should be paid to this issue, because cases of burnout from improper operation of instantaneous water heaters are not so uncommon....

When boilers burn various types of fuel, combustion products are heated up to a temperature of 70 ... 400 ° C (sometimes up to 1000 degrees). To exhaust harmful gases to the outside, chimneys of the following materials are used: brick; ceramic; metal; asbestos-cement; combined, for example, brick + stainless steel....

When installing water circuits for underfloor heating, craftsmen usually use 2 types of pipelines - from metal-plastic and cross-linked polyethylene. The reasons for this choice are not clear to all homeowners, since the real range of materials is much wider: polypropylene (PP-R), copper, black steel, corrugated stainless steel....

A double-walled coaxial chimney is used to divert combustion products from gas boilers and columns equipped with a closed combustion chamber. It greatly simplifies the installation of water heaters in terms of smoke removal, you do not have to build a classic pipe from a modular sandwich or ceramic blocks....

Such a simple thing as a cap on the chimney pipe raises many questions: what should it be, how to make a visor with your own hands and in general, whether it is necessary to install it? Discussion and debate on this topic occupy more than one page of a popular forum, but you will not find a definite answer there. Let's try to solve these problems on our own, starting with the need to install a protective cap....

Heating and plumbing made of polypropylene (PP-R) outperforms other plastic systems by an important criterion - the price of materials and components. The second expense item - installation of networks - many homeowners reduce to zero in a simple way - do the work on their own. For welding joints, 2 devices are purchased - a soldering iron for polypropylene pipes with a set of nozzles and special scissors....