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Own spacious house with a garden and vegetable garden - dream of many Russians, yutyaschihsya cramped and stuffy city apartments. But when overcome all obstacles to the desired housing in the open air, the house was bought or built their own hands, it turns out that the content of its leaves for a pretty penny. And one of the most expensive items of expenditure (well who would have thought!) - It's heating. What kind of sums we are talking about? Consider, for example, the average individual house is 150 square meters. m, located in central Russia. The heating season in this climate zone lasts up to 7 months. During this time, the cost of heating with wood, LPG, diesel fuel or electricity will be from 40 to 75 thousand rubles! However, if carried to the house gas line, pay for a "warm winter" will have much less - not more than 7-10 thousand rubles. But the gas network is not everywhere, and non-recurring expenses for the gasification of the house may reach hundreds or two thousand. Thus, much of the family budget that could be usefully spent annually flies "in the pipe." To deal with such waste can and should be! This is now the subject of many publications, which are advised to conduct a deep modernization of the heat at home, warm fronts and roofs, etc. Alas, this is certainly useful work rather expensive. We also consider the measures with relatively small investments FINANCING can significantly reduce the heating costs of a private house. Automation on all sides to get started is to raise such a way of reducing heating costs, as the optimization of systems of autonomous heating homes. Often the cost increases only because the heat is consumed and distributed around the house too inefficient. For example, the frequently observed such a pattern: a powerful boiler heats the utmost, regardless of the temperature inside the house and the street, and residents regulate the microclimate of rooms, opening and closing windows. Therefore, one of the first energy-saving measures - setting the thermostatic radiator valves (thermostats) on all radiators. According to Michael Shapiro, Director General, "Danfoss" in Russia, a modern thermal automation makes it possible to install and maintain any temperature from 6 to 26oS with an accuracy of one degree. Occupants may be in each room to determine the most comfortable or the relevant indicator - for example, to raise up to +23-25 ​​° C in the bedroom, or reduced to +14-16 ° C, if one of the rooms is temporarily vacant. The logical result of the flexible regulation of temperature in the rooms is the reduction of heat consumption by 20%. As the price of thermal valve is very low (only 300-500 rubles apiece), they are already paying off for several weeks, the heating season. According to specialists of the Moscow company "Akvapoint" engaged in the development and installation of engineering systems of buildings and private homes, an important and cost-effective measure for the optimization of the heating system is also installing balancing valves. If an individual's house two or three floors, the complex layout of the heating system with radiators of different forms of "warm floors", etc., in different parts of the circulation of the coolant occurs at different rates. As a result of the house receives an excessive amount of heat, and some rooms can get a "congestion zone" where it does not reach. With the help of balancing valves can be adjusted costs so that all radiators receive the necessary amount of hot water. Then all the rooms will be warm, and with minimal energy consumption. For precise balancing use a special device that measures the speed of the coolant at key points in the circuit. Energy saving as a result of this measure may reach 30-40%. In this one-time expenses (cost of balancing valves and setting procedure) are usually not more than 1% of the entire heating system, so that the costs of paying off a few weeks. To reduce heating costs are also very useful "intelligent" features that have appeared in current models of boilers. "Clever" boiler there is no need to heat all the time in full force and effect. Focusing on the testimony of sensors installed in the street and in the rooms, he controls the power and the amount of heat produced depending on the needs at home. This results in considerable energy savings. Generally, the use of e-governance in modern boilers offers great opportunities to reduce heating costs. And let the replacement of old boiler with a new "intelligent" functions be costly, but the occupants immediately feel the benefits of this acquisition. Do not miss the heat on the thermal images of the majority of private homes and cottages are the brightest areas of the window. This means that through them is the most significant heat leakage. According to experts, in an average home is on the windows account for up to 70% of heat loss. Why is this? First of all, because many private traders still use wood windows with single glazing. They eventually crack and become deformed, and through the cracks begin to blow drafts so dear to us warm. Olga Aristov, director of Samara "This is such a window," notes that wood windows with single panes are almost never correspond to official regulations on thermal resistance. The minimum values ​​of this parameter for different climatic conditions specified in the general federal building codes SNiP 23-02-2003 "Construction Firing." For example, the coefficient of thermal resistance of windows to the Moscow region must be at least 0.54 m 2 º C / W, and for Krasnoyarsk - not less than 0.63 m 2 º C / watt. So what do you do? The solution here may be one - the replacement of all windows in the house to modern energy-efficient. Thanks to the tight glazed consisting of two or three glasses, they will protect the house from heat and drafts. "Modern PVC windows usually have three to five chambers in the profile. These cavities can avoid the "cold bridges" (points of high heat), so that a profile retains heat well, - said Rafiq Alekperov, head of customer service PROPLEKS TD (the sole supplier of the Russian PVC window profile is produced by the Austrian Technology) . - For the climatic conditions in Moscow and the more northern regions best suited window systems with section width of at least 70 mm. And for the very thick walls can be used even wider frame - 127 mm. It allows you to avoid freezing the window at his junction with the walls, that is the most vulnerable places. " Do not forget about the heat-capacities of roof windows, embedded directly into the roof slope. These windows can easily turn into a cozy loft uninhabited attic, but the heat loss through them can be quite substantial. "We recommend a specific model with improved windows on teplosberezheniya, - says Sergey Sharetsky, a leading service engineer at VELUX, the world leader in roof windows. - For example, the model is GGL with double glazed windows 3065 not less than 40% of the 'warmer' ordinary glass windows with a single chamber. Keep warm and will help not only windows, but also accessories. For example, obscures or pleated blind VELUX saves 20% more heat and reduce heat roller shutter another 15%. " Thus, the heat and money from the family budget should not be wasted for nothing! Once by using modern technologies in order to reduce heat loss, can significantly reduce the cost of heating your home and each heating season to save tens of thousands of rubles.