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Video: How warm floors were made in the old days
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Lately I hear them more and more often. And I understand that it is these people who can change a lot, a lot in the village. Often later, they will have to face the fact that the villagers do not understand them, do not hear them, and are not ready for changes.
from the blog of Gleb Tyurin
The legacy of the grandfathers: resource-saving technologies
Our family inherited a grandmother's house in the Voronezh region. 10 years ago, at a family council, it was decided not to leave the house, and to put it in order as much as possible.
At the house - an allotment of land, 50 acres of Voronezh chernozem, a vegetable garden, a garden, a mowing.
The house has never regretted the decision and the garden never ceases to delight and amaze us and our friends who come from Moscow “just to sleep off and catch their breath, remember the taste of“potatoes and apples”.
Thanks to deep pruning in 2008, the garden survived the drought of 2009, 2010, 2011 and last summer even old apple trees, trunks with a diameter of 50 cm, all in hollows that were “silent” for 10 years, gave an excellent harvest. Jam from Antonovka, cooked in cast iron on pear coals, has no equal!
And our house allows us to make a lot of discoveries.
The house of grandmother and grandfather is built of oak logs, the walls on the outside and inside are smeared with clay and straw, on the outside they are sheathed with iron (they brought galvanized troughs from the Urals, dismantled and covered the walls and roofs - believe me, this “siding” stood for 60 years!
The house is an environmentally friendly thermos that keeps warm in winter and wonderful coolness on hot days.
The wattle fence is an example of great old technology.
In August, the floors in the house were repaired, and a sample of energy-saving technologies of the early 19th century was revealed to us - at a distance of 1 meter from the dam along the perimeter of the entire room, a fence 50-60 cm high was laid out, smeared with clay from the outside, with an open corner facing the Russian stove - to us told that such "reflectors" were done to "drive" heat from the stove under the floor and keep it there - is it not a kind of floor heating? Without a single nail, only natural materials - clay, sand, straw, vine - and hands!
The Russian stove stands in the corner farthest from the windows, on an adobe foundation. The perimeter of the wattle fence opens about 1.5 meters near the furnace, just at the level of the foundation. With constant use of the stove, the foundation gradually warmed up and gave off heat. Under the floor between the wall and the fence, everything is really covered with earth, and an air cushion is left inside the fence - an empty space between the floorboards and the ground, where warm air "flowed" from the foundation. We learned this from the stories of the old-timers. We are restoring the Russian stove, the floor has already been moved, we will be happy to inform you how the technology will be tested.
We need to re-learn how to live with respect for nature, then it will not remain in debt either …
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