Potbelly stove and other metal stoves

Stove greenhouse heating is necessary to heat small and medium-sized polycarbonate greenhouses. Potbelly stoves and other metal stoves (factory and homemade) are suitable for this purpose. The heat emanating from the iron body during the combustion of wood and other solid fuel produces heating. Suitable for heating small and medium-sized greenhouses: conventional stoves; stoves with a long-term fuel combustion system. You must constantly monitor the availability of fuel.

Features of stove greenhouse heating

Long burning ovens have nozzles. Air passes through them to the middle and top of the case. Due to this, the combustible material smolders slowly. A potbelly stove with a simple firebox quickly heats up the greenhouse; a long-burning stove generates less heat and gives it away for a long time.

The advantages of using stoves are the ease of maintenance of these devices and the cheapness of fuel. The metal stove is easy to dismantle and take out of the greenhouse in the summer. Potbelly stove and similar devices can be made by yourself. Any solid fuel burns in metal heaters. Long-burning furnaces burn fuel for 5-8 hours.

The disadvantages of heating with iron stoves lie in the peculiarities of the operation of these devices. The fuel in an ordinary potbelly stove burns out quickly, and the greenhouse cools down after a couple of hours. The soil temperature with such heating remains low. The greenhouse structure warms up unevenly, especially in severe cold weather. Heat is concentrated mainly under the ceiling and in the middle air layer. An iron stove reuires a large greenhouse area.

The chimney must be cleaned 2-3 times during the winter; the ash pan is cleaned daily.