Overview of the electrocamine market for urban apartment: types of devices, mounting methods, equipment, high-tech models, manufacturers, prices.
Photo by D. Hrsikova
Brass basket Stamford (Burley)
(Bemodern)
Photo V.Nepledov
Wide electrocamine-insert is mounted in the portal of an unusual shape, separated by plates from polished and polished porcelain stoneware. Entering watches shine, emanating from this hearth, creates an unique atmosphere indoors
In the marble-based M-shaped portal built a wide electrocamine-insertion
In the manufacture of portals for traditional and electric fireplaces, valuable wood species are used, cast iron elements made by artistic casting method, decorative ceramics IT.P.
In a wide portal, one of the niches is intended for electrocamine, the other is for the TV
In the portal "Greece" organically fits wide magazines Limoges and Cambrige (Dimplex)
Electrocamine-insert in the corner portal
Fireplace watches, candlesticks and souvenirs will decorate the portal of any fireplace
Silver wall electrocamine (SP4) (Dimplex)
Electrocamine-insert Langton extremely naturally recreates the picture of burning firewood
Externally, the electrocamine-imitation of wood or coal focal is different from solid fuel models. But compared to them, buying, installing and exploiting electric handsome in the apartment is associated with much less costs and troubles.
The main purpose of electrocamine is to decorate the home, please the owners and guests with a skillful imitation of the flame in the furnace, as well as to act as a nightlight, a witness of romantic dates ... If the heating system does not cope with its duties, the device is able to heat the room to 20 during a short time. -25m2 (for this a small fan heater with a spiral heater is embedded in it).
Heat and beautiful
Using the keys on the electrocamine control panel, it is easy to select the heating power (usually 1 or 2kW). Some models are equipped with a thermostat, such an electrical appliance can maintain a user-defined temperature in the room. However, in the urban apartment, the heating capabilities of electrocamines often remain unclaimed. Watching the work of the focus is pleasant and when the heater is turned off - summer, in the hot July night, and in winter, when the heating works in the apartment.
Modern electrocheamines imitate the combustion of different types of fuel, wood, and even gas. The flames covered by the flame in the firebox are not other than the stamped plastic plate, tinted and painted under fuel at a particular stage of exercise (from a slightly charred chocks to the sliced slices). Equally recreation of coal, and in some models, even a real sorted anthracite can be detected. The fire is highlighted from the inside with a flickering red or orange light, the brightness of which can be adjusted thanks to the control panel on the instrument housing. Flame languages in the depths of the firebox look quite naturally. It can not even believe that all this beauty is generated by unpaid internal parts of the electro-theater "Theater of Shadows" - foil petals, light bulbs, mirrors, red light filters IT.P.
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Electrocamine Accessories: Watrovnik (a), basket with coal (b), beehi (B). |
Electricity or hearth?
Despite the similarity with the fireplace, the electric remains only its likeness. Vtopka of this device can not be thrown by the Fleen to see how the flame languages devour the tree and it turns into ashes ... When the device is usually not heard the cod of coals, the resin smell does not feel. Therefore, true connoisseurs of traditional fireplaces will not exchange a real focus on Boutaphor. WHATS Many inhabitants of urban apartments are morally ready to take electrocamine as equipment that corresponds to the spirit of time and the latest requirements for comfortable stay. It has a number of indisputable advantages compared to fireplaces on solid fuel.So, there is an electric fireplace at least 5-10 times cheaper than traditional on firewood or coal. The simplest unit will cost quite inexpensively - from 2.5 thousand rubles. Well, for 20-25 thousand rubles. You can already find a magnificent exhibit for interiors performed in the spirit of the medieval castle, rural huts, or in the modern style of high-tech.
It is not necessary to obtain permission to install the electrocamine. Installation It is pretty simple. The main thing is to have a grounded socket nearby, to which the fireplace is connected (and if necessary, quickly de-energize). Install the same solid fuel in the urban apartment is usually unreal. If there are no chimneys from apartments in the design of the house, this redevelopment manages only occasionally when the dwelling is on the top floor. At the same time, you need to invite experienced masters, the work of which will cost several dozen or even hundreds of thousand rubles. The mass of the "natural" fireplace often exceeds 1.5t, therefore it may be necessary to strengthen the interhesive overlaps, and in order to ensure sustainable burning in the fireplace of the mechanical ventilation of the fireplace hall. A place for a solid fuel fireplace is chosen taking into account the movement of air masses indoors, the location of the chimney of the IDR.
Operation of electrocamine in the apartment is unreasonable. He does not need regular maintenance, except to replace the light bulb and dust. The ardation solid fuel fireplace must be periodically loaded with fuel (its stock must always keep at home), as well as purify from soot, which is flying around apart. In addition, fire, even if it is concluded in the fireplace furnace, is unsafe. One spark may be enough to start a fire.
Salary for fire-haired vent
The correct selection of the portal allows you to perfectly enter electrocamine into the room, without disturbing the design solution of the apartment. It is posed so that there is free access to the device, and the firebox has been drawn to the room center. Then in front of the electrocameal you can arrange a full-fledged place to rest - put the comfortable chairs, IT.D chairs. The models presented on sale differ significantly in dimensions, and they are decorated in different styles using a wide variety of materials. If the repair is already completed or nearing completion, first buy a portal, and then it is selected for it suitable on the installation dimensions of the furnace - only it is possible to integrate the electrocamine in the interior. When the dwelling from zero is usually primarily acquired by the embedded firebox, then the portal with the corresponding niche and the furniture is selected.
You can order a portal at the manufacturer of the electrocamine-insert. This is an errorless decision, the truth does not guarantee individuality. Standard models are made taking into account the size of the furnaces that will be inserted in them. So, the Barcelona portal (Dimplex) cost is 10 thousand rubles. Made of MDF coated with natural veneer of mahogany and light oak. It is perfectly combined with different models of inserts of the same manufacturer, such as Wynford Chrome. For electric windows inserts, Burley can recommend JR Glenlomond (United Kingdom) portals - Harris models (oak, red tree), Isley (pine) IDR.
It looks implicitly in the apartment of an electric fire built into the portal from a natural marble. For example, HARK will offer you a similar salary for 50-120 thousand rubles. A wide variety of marble portals (about 40 classic models, as well as portals in a modern style) features Arriaga company (Spain).
To each his own
By design, electric fireplaces can be conventionally divided into three types.
1. Electrogram inserts (they are also called embedded electrograms, cassettes IT.D.). The design of the design of the design The similar device is not a complete product: it must be embedded as a picture in the frame, into a special decorative portal (the latter is purchased with a fireplace or separately), mounted on the floor at the wall or in the corner of the room. An electrocamine insertion is possible to the homemade portal of wood or drywall, decorated to taste the designer. The correct selection of portals allows integrating cassettes into interiors, decorated in styles such as classic, country or modern.
2. Wall fireplaces (so-called cabinet fireplaces). They are fixed on the wall or embed it into a wall niche. Suitable for rooms in the style of high-tech.
3. Separate electrocheamines. The books belong primarily electric fireplace furnaces (their prototype cast iron wood stoves with doors and a pipe, which is removed beyond the limits of the room), as well as the fireplace baskets (imitation of wood-metal baskets made of iron strips or rods filled with lamps or smaller coal). The devices can be installed in any convenient location. Separately standing fireplaces look good in the classic atmosphere and in the interiors imitating the rustic life.
Onexomic features of the design, common methods of installation, about the configuration and assortment of these devices presented in our market is worth talking more.
Buy Russian!
Produce portals and in Russia. For quality, they often do not inferior to imported prototypes. The price of domestic models is usually lower: you can purchase a product for 4-6 thousand rubles. However, the exclusive costs much more expensive - there are portals worth more than 30, 60 and even over 100 thousand rubles.
Thus, the "Fiction Furniture Factory #1" produces high-quality portals from MDF, lined with import veneer of valuable wood, and from expensive natural wood. WeASSortires more than 44 models, including impressive "Arbat", "Baroque", "Jotto 1350", "Naples", "Omega", "Foros 900", "Forte", an unusual "Symphony" portal. Portals are decorated with carvings and inlays in traditional manner for furniture. For final processing, a multilayer coating with polyurethane multicomponent varnishes with a thorough manual grinding of each layer are used.
Manufactured Russian companies and models from artificial stone. Pay attention, for example, portals for Kantry, Comphort and Elegance electrocamines (all GALS). When they finish, the manufacturer applies an artificial stone of its own manufacture, fireplace shelves and bases for portals from durable and durable wood (beech, oak, fir). Portals from injection marble of various shades is developing "Novotech". A wide, constantly updated assortment of electrocamine portals offers Glenrich. Most recently, this company introduced a new facing model for Electrocamine "Victoria", the side racks of which are separated by ceramics with the most diverse drawings or cast-iron casting.
If you are afraid to make a mistake, picking up the furnace and portal, it is better to turn to professionals. Many domestic companies engaged in the production of portals ("Union of Masters" IDR.) Are ready to send to you a specialist who will provide qualified assistance. But there is another way of buying a fireplace portal complete with a unique, created precisely for it with an electric park.
Classics of the genre
Electrocamine-inserting standard width recreates the appearance of an open furnace of a classical solid fuel fireplace. Its case is usually made in the form of a rectangular box with a height of 600-700mm, about 450-520mm wide and 110-240mm depth. Forwarding part of the case, a fairly large rectangular flue niche is made, in the depth of which a special screen is installed. On it, when the device is opened, the reflections of light resembling flame languages are visible. At the bottom of the niche, in the grate basket, the fuel uniform is fixed, and under the neutrition for "ash". A visor above the furnace (in traditional solid fuel fireplaces, it does not give the sparks to get into the room) in the electrocheamine does not allow the sunshine to penetrate the glass screen. Under the visor, the control panel and the fan heater are often located (another possible place of dislocation "Warm Wheel Masters" is a box for collecting ash).The inserts imitate the burning of various types of fuel: more often than the coal, firewood, less frequency (the so-called flame effect on white pebbles). Instead of fuel, blue, greenish and transparent glass balls can be covered in the furnace, during operation, such fireboxes emit pearl radiance.
As a rule, standard insert electrochemnels are embedded in the portal installed in the central part of the wall. These instruments are suitable for rooms with an area of 8-10m2. It is impossible to put them, perhaps, only in the bathroom, and that is purely for the considerations of electrical safety. There are several options for finishing the facial surface (black, under the bronze or steel IDR). Makeup devices, especially the front grille of the grate basket, use stylistic techniques of various historical eras.
The most widely represented models are the most widely represented in the furnaces of which the coal burning is mimic. This Aspen, Avola, Chalbury, Chanborn, Cheriton, Horton, Portland, Somerley, Whitsbury, Wynford (Dimplex- Canada, United Kingdom, China) at a price of 9.8-18 thousand rubles; Ashwell, Barnsdale, Empingham (Burley, United Kingdom) - 20-25 thousand., And also Camberley, Contessa, Corvette, Lexus, Mayfair, Savannah (Bemodern, United Kingdom) - from 22 thousand rubles. And Luisa (Euroflame, China) - 7 thousand rubles. Among the "wood" foci can be mentioned Avola Black, Copenhagen, Inver, Shaftesbury (Dimplex) for 7.4-15 thousand rubles. Finally, a very beautiful model of Michigan (Dimplex) worth 16.7 thousand rubles. Restarts the effect of a flame on pebbles. Externally, widely impressive electrocameal-inserts - electrical analogue of closed wood fireplaces, in which the furnace is equipped with a thermal-resistant glass door. The case of these devices resembles a TV with a screen diagonal of 30-42 inches, the facade is protected by glass. With a height of 600-900mm, such foci can be width up to 1200 mm, and their depth usually does not exceed 205-420mm. Machine niche for such models is sometimes painted for refractory brick. On the facade from above and below, there are convection grilles, which are hidden fan heater and electrocameal control nodes (power selection keys, Idr brightness regulator). These devices "reproduce" only burning firewoods, which are usually composed of a slide in the center of the hearth or scattered throughout the couphes (the fact that it is imitation, sometimes it is difficult to establish even upon closer).
Closed electric parks are mounted into wall niches or portals (especially impressively they look in massive angular "frames"), in framing from plasterboard, decorated with marble, ceramic granite IT.P. They are placed in large rooms, such as living rooms, bedrooms. Include or for a fee, manufacturers offer useful additional accessories (the frame that is attached around the hearth - it masks the gap between it and the wall; the tinted glass door for the firebox IDR.).
From the electrocamines of this type in our market there are models of Cambrige, Optiflame, Symphony, Limoges (Dimplex) worth 18-35 thousand rubles. Burley offers a wide fireton 211 (29 thousand rubles.). DBL 2000 BB (Hark, Germany) with decorative brass edging (about 35 thousand rubles) looks great. Auto-black Model Detroit (34 thousand rubles) occupies a special place.
Milestones of history
When and where the first electrocamine was manufactured, unfortunately, is unknown. Only the fact of mass sales of these devices in the UK in the middle of the twentieth century is documented. Throughout its history, London and other major cities of the United Kingdom have repeatedly suffered from a poisonous fog-smog. This phenomenon arose due to the strongest pollution of the atmosphere of coal combustion products (they were treated dwellings, used for melting Metals IT.P.). I4 December 1952 A sad record of London was delivered to 12 thousand. lives.
After these events, the British government had to take serious measures to reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Accuras, fireplaces in residential buildings were banned from drowning coal. It was then that, instead of coal foci, the British began to apply Butafors electric.
The propagation of electrocamines in the UK, and then in other European countries, where solid fuel foci has been used for heating, other factors, such as weariness of chimneys, have been promoted. The cost of their repair, which was not affordable by many, significantly exceeded the cost of purchasing an electric park that does not need to be maintained and capable of it (when steam heating is disconnected) heating the room. B80-KGG. Xxv. Electrograms have already been produced in different countries of the world.
Product of high technology
Wall electrocheamines most often resemble paintings with a height of 400-750 and 600-1200mm width. Thanks to a small depth (usually 60-180mm), they occupy a little space. But among them there are devices of unusual forms and outlines, as if conveyed from the conveyor of a military plant serving the needs of the space industry. The furnace of wall electrocamines is usually closed with flat or curved glass; In some models, such as SP5 (Dimplex), a glass emitting heat waves is used. The fan heater is usually hidden in the fireplace housing, but sometimes there is no one at all. To manage devices, the remote control is often provided.
Vtopka, everything is as usual: the screen in the depth, a small supply of fuel and white pebbles covered by flames. The form of fire is combined with silver or black color of the fireplace itself, giving him solidity and self-sufficiency.
The most common way to install such electrocamine-fastening to a flat wall without any framents (most often is done in Russia). However, in Europe (in particular, in the UK) recently, the "paintings" electrocamines are placed in a wide wall-mounted frame with elegant decorative trim. This allows you to visually disconnect the electrocamine and the LCD panel placed above it, thanks to which the original tandem balanced by tandem appears in the apartment. Such a reception is good for large rooms, such as living rooms. Wall fireplaces are also in the kitchen, and even in the hallway. The most organically, they fit into the interiors, which are decorated in the style of high-tech, using non-natural materials and colors, and created during technical progress (industrial fittings, metal parts IT.P.), - in this case, standard and wide electrocheamines Inserts in classic portals look like an anachronism.
EUROFLAME has a curious selection of wall mounted fireplaces. Especially the original is worth noting Boston, Kristy Log and Visio worth 9.5; 11 and 11.6 thousand rubles. Pleasant impression produce almost all BEMODERN wall instruments. The fireplaces series SP (dimplex) includes Cristal, Magic, Plasma, Prestige, Silver, Spectra Nova, Style, Valencia at a price of 20.7-42 thousand rubles.
A conceptually interesting model, which is worth talking separately, - Fireplace 4SEASONS (Dimplex). In essence, this is a liquid crystal TV, on the screen of which the video of the burning fire is translated, and the cracks are heard from the speakers. Fire video along with other types of rolling images (for example, a stream, snow-covered Mountains Idr.) Stored in the electronic device of the device. You can control the film-TV from the remote control. Thanks to a small depth (only 60mm) and the small weight of such a device, with its installation, almost no problems occur. True, the cost of high-tech 4SEASONs is extended to be extended about 100 thousand rubles.
Electric fireplace furnaces are ideal for installation in small rooms:
A- Baltimore (EWT); B- Milano (Dimplex); V- Stapleford (Burley).
Cubicles, baskets, firewood ...
Along with electrocameal-inserts and models in the style of High-tech there are their nearest relatives - electric fireplace furnaces. The rectangular body of these devices (dimensions - 550550 300mm) is either made by artistic casting, or welded from sheet steel. Through the glazed door of the hosts admire the flames of flame in the furnace and skillfully performed woodwaste, illuminated from the inside. Cocking the stove can also be nervous. Fan heater is usually located in the box for "ash". The part of the case, as a rule, is a power control unit, a brightness of a flame of an IT.P. The "advanced" models of its functions are partially duplicated on the console.
Electric fireplace furnaces do not need a framing nor niche, they put them anywhere in the wall. If desired, the instruments can be transferred from place to place or transport from the cottage to the city apartment and back. They look spectacularly in small kitchens, where to install the electrocamine-insert can not, in the living rooms, and even in the bedrooms.
Among the electric fireplaces in retro style, we note Weston 124 (Burley) with imitation of burning firewood (the price is 17.5 thousand rubles). Dimplex offers BRAYFORD models worth 6,1 thousand rubles. and Club for 6,85 rubles. Avot ELBA (6,1 thousand rubles.) The same design of the design closer to High-flow: this is a high silver furnace with rounded corners and a large flue opening, covered with heat-resistant glass. Euroflame represents NATA products (5.3 thousand rubles) and Nadin (9.9 thousand rubles).
Fireplace baskets with "flaming coal" or "firewood" are used as inserts into the fireplace furnace or as a separate focus. In addition, there are plastic or ceramic woodlifts on sale, externally similar to a stack of extinguishing birch or fir-firing. They are used only as an insertion into the non-working fireplace and oven. If there is a real fireplace in the house, but it is defective or I do not want to light fire every day, baskets and electrodes can be as impossible by the way. It is only necessary that the chimney is closed, otherwise all heat generated by a fan heater installed under the fireplace basket will go into the smoke pipe. With "firewood" easier, they do not warm at all.
Baskets are in the range of many manufacturers of electrocamines. Very naturally look, for example, coal stamford (about 26 thousand rubles) or the Exton wood-based model (Burley). Electrodes differ mainly in size and cost approximately 2.9-6 thousand rubles.
Flame therapy
Stylish accessories
Do you want your electrocamine to make a stunning effect on guests? Then do not forget to purchase accessories that your focus will decorate and give the interior completion. Put the decorative screen before the furnace, there are models with different design and design designed for fireplaces of any size. Graceful low sets of fireplace tools (tongs for fuel, a kocherg, scoop and aubriferous) are made of black or non-ferrous metal or combinations thereof, with handles and supports made in different styles. Hang on the wall next to the fireplace of the bellow to inflate the fire. Kelectrocamine that imitating burning of firewood can be moved to woodcut, and to the coal-special bucket for coal.
The editors thanks the company "White Guard", "Art-Tone Fireplaces", "Euro-Fireplace", "TVS-Stroy" for the provided photographic materials.