As in the old days they made a warm floor.

"I have heard more than once about noble estates and stables, where they made underfloor heating and walls. Channels were passed from the furnaces, where the warm air passed. But this is the first time I see such an option.

I found this technology on Gleb Tyurin's blog, the author is the owner of the house Elena Bukovskaya."

Our family inherited a grandmother's house in the Voronezh region. 10 years ago, the family council decided not to abandon the house, to put it in order as much as possible.
At the house – allotment of land, 50 acres of Voronezh chernozem, vegetable garden, garden, mowing.
The decision has never been regretted, the house and garden never ceases to delight and surprise us and our friends who come from Moscow "just to sleep off and catch their breath, remember the taste of "potatoes and apples". The garden, thanks to deep pruning in 2008, 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. The 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 grandparents' house is made of oak logs, the walls on the outside and inside are smeared with clay and straw, on the outside they are sheathed with iron (galvanized troughs were brought from the Urals, the walls and roofs were dismantled and covered – believe me, such a "siding" stood for 60 years!

The house is an environmentally friendly thermos, keeps warm in winter and wonderfully cool on hot days.

An example of a wonderful old technology can be a fence.

In August, the floors were repainted in the house, and we discovered a sample of energy—saving technologies of the early 19th century — at a distance of 1 meter from the rubble, a 50-60 cm high wattle was laid out along the perimeter of the entire room, smeared with clay from the outside, with an open angle facing the Russian stove - we were told that such "reflectors" were made to "drive" the heat from the oven under the floor and keep it there — what is not a kind of underfloor heating? Without a single nail, only natural materials – clay, sand, straw, vine – and hands!

The Russian stove stands in the corner, far from the windows, on a mud-brick foundation. The perimeter of the fence opens near the furnace by about 1.5 meters, just at the foundation level. With constant use of the furnace, 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 floor boards and the ground, where the warm air from the foundation "flowed".

We learned this from the stories of old-timers. We are restoring the Russian oven, the floor has already been shifted, we will be happy to inform you how the technology will be tested.

We need to re-learn how to live in respect for nature, then she will not remain in debt…