DIY winter greenhouse

DIY winter greenhouse with heating equipment

How is a winter greenhouse with heating arranged? We have revealed this topic more than once, talked about the device of an all-season vegetarian with a hybrid system, about heating an industrial and backyard greenhouse with pellets. Now we will talk specifically about the equipment on how a winter greenhouse with heating with your own hands can be implemented.

Since seasonal heating of a home greenhouse requires a maximum of 6 kW, and all-season heating - 11 kW, while the equipment is expensive, it is better to purchase a boiler room that will serve the entire household farm. Minimum power pellet equipment FOCUS is 17 kW. Thus, such equipment can heat a house of 100 sq. m and a greenhouse. And to do this at a cost 2 times lower than the cost of heating with gas. Experts recommend the same burner as a stand-alone equipment with a boiler for servicing a larger boiler room.

We are talking about a winter greenhouse measuring 4 * 12 m. This is a professional farm greenhouse with an all-season operation.

Coating

We have already covered this issue several times, that a 16-mm cellular polycarbonate coating is much more profitable than a single-chamber double-glazed unit. If you want to make a more expensive version, use a double glazing unit for glazing.

Do-it-yourself winter greenhouse with heating: laying heating circuits

For all-season work, heating of air and soil will be required. It is advisable to arrange a heat accumulator from a rock that accumulates heat. The backfill is also carried out by experienced craftsmen from broken red brick. In it, pipes for heating with a large diameter are laid according to the principle vegetarian.

The alternative remains a water-heated floor from a thin pipe, which is connected to the heating system.

It is better to heat the air using fan heater with water circuit... We also gave the cost price in one of our publications.

In fact, we are talking about water heating, so you can purchase a conventional solid fuel boiler with an efficient heat exchanger and a FOCUS pellet boiler for these purposes.

 Pellet boiler room FOCUS

Under the FOCUS brand, equipment is produced mainly of industrial grade, but younger models will be able to help equip a pellet boiler room for a small winter greenhouse. The advantage of buying pellet equipment is that you can get a kilowatt of heat 2 times cheaper than gas. The purchase of a FOCUS boiler house will cost less than the purchase of an imported pellet boiler.

• pellet burners FOCUS 17 kW with its own solid fuel boiler;
• pellet storage bins.

"Smart" winter greenhouse from the FOCUS brand

A feature of FOCUS heating equipment is the ability to organize smart heating control when receiving data from sensors and thermostats. Pellet burners are equipped with microcontroller PLUM... It provides, among other things, remote access. So a do-it-yourself winter greenhouse can also be smart. It is very important to reduce the time of its maintenance.

To create a smart greenhouse with your own hands, you need a little. In addition to the warm structure and heating equipment, sensors can be installed. With their help, the heating will be controlled. By the same principle, you can make automatic watering and lighting, if necessary. So it is quite possible to make a Dutch greenhouse with heating equipment with your own hands.