Doors for fireplaces, their design features and not only
. As you would like to have a wide choice, it will be limited to only two options: blind and transparent trellised doors( both can be single- or double-leafed).If we consider them without separating the structural characteristics from the material, it becomes obvious that the blind doors, paradoxically as it may sound, can also be transparent when made of glass. In other cases, transparent means various kinds of decorative gratings, but we will return to them later, but in the meantime, we will become more familiar with the deaf leaves. The first thing they guarantee is the absolute isolation of the fire from the room. Well, a secondary factor( but no less important) is the accumulation of heat and its return through specially supplied air ducts, if the fireplace is used as a heating system.
Materials, due to exceptionally high temperatures in the furnace( over 800 degrees), only refractory and refractory can be used, namely: steel, cast iron and a special kind of glass.
No bronze, copper, and even more so alabaster( from a gunch) lattice, will not withstand the effects of a hot flame. Steel doors - this is the ideal option, though, the least loved by the proponents of the aesthetic component of the fireplace is an open portal( well, people like to admire fire, and here the ugly, blind metal door is before your eyes).Although it is possible to make real masterpieces from steel, with ornaments and inserts of heat-resistant glass( here you also have aesthetic safety). Cast iron well withstands high temperatures , but less durable than steel, and certainly not so beautiful. As for the glass, the conversation is special, since its strength in some cases leaves much to be desired.
Doors for fireplaces or time bombs?
A fun dancing flame behind a dull but transparent door - it seems to be beautiful and safe, but when it comes to glass, you can not completely believe in its invincibility. Glass doors for fireplaces are local and imported, and the latter are sold only as an integral part of a special fireplace insert, which means that it may seem inconvenient for self-clutching the portal( types of fireplaces are very diverse).However, it is the foreign glass doors that will become a reliable barrier for you and your family against the fire element. At the same time they serve almost forever, do not warp, do not get stuck, always close the furnace opening tightly. One of them is a drawback: if you want to replace the damaged door due to a strong mechanical impact, you will have to buy a new inset, individually, the imported glass doors are not sold.
Whether it's the domestic doors made of glass. Our manufacturers provide you with an unlimited choice of a wide variety of sizes, with no inserts, just a frame for the door. Of course, both durability and reliability are guaranteed, even curvature is offered for your special order. One drawback with the domestic glass doors is that they seem to be fireproof, they burst and explode. In other words, showing patriotism when buying a fireplace door, you run the risk of getting a slow-motion mine into the house, because the explosion of the fireplace shutter is equivalent to ripping the grenade, the fragments scatter several meters around. Together with them, coals can also scatter, which will cause a fire, even if the walls in the room are covered with heat-resistant refractory plaster. As you can see, safe aesthetics are a rarity.
A door for a fireplace in the form of a lattice, how to hide a fire for it?
Actually, deaf fireplaces we have already considered what are open? Remember the classic western and saloon in a small town in the very Wild West. Two doors, hiding the person behind them like an ancient Greek shield, from knee to chest, played a purely nominal role, not saving either the wind or the shots. Among many others, there is a suggestion that such doors were made for horses, so that it would be easier for them to enter and take away the drunken owners. But this is not important, the essence of the design itself, since it is just such and such are the flaps of the fireplaces, moreover, while representing the usual grating. Logically, there is no protection for such a door for the fireplace does not provide, just a beautiful decor and nothing more.
By the way, even blind doors can be dangerous because of slow, but true heating from the inside. Imagine what will happen if you accidentally touch a hot steel or glass fireplace door. If the cast-iron thick doors heat up rather slowly, then the glass reaches almost the same temperature as in the furnace, in the shortest possible time. Usually, to avoid burns, special keys or lever mechanisms are used, but there is a way to prevent heating of the leaf. To do this, above it is a special slot, through which cool air enters from the room, thus creating an air curtain from the inside of the door. Soot from the glass sash is now eliminated in a rather original way: by oxidizing soot on it, which then simply burns( pyrolysis method).
As you can see, the choice of materials and structures of the fireplace flaps is small. However, in terms of design assortment when buying you will still be offered very extensive, so there is no reason to disappoint, you can choose an exclusive door.
