Large-sized equipment breaks down sooner or later, and in order not to dispose of a refrigerator, for example, which has become almost a family member over many years of service, you can use it for business. As it turned out, it is easy to turn it into a miracle oven, which will faithfully serve in the country, helping to create culinary masterpieces. And how to do it - further in the material.
If the household has an old non-working refrigerator that you don’t want to send to the scrap, then you can get confused and turn it into a multifunctional outdoor oven. It certainly will not be superfluous if there is a house in the village or a summer cottage. In order for the family to enjoy tasty and healthy food in the fresh air, you will have to make every effort and spend a little on the missing materials. But to have the qualifications of a master stove-setter is not required at all, even an amateur can cope with such a transformation - the main thing is to have a desire and a minimum of skills in working with tools.
To convert you will need:
♦ refrigerator;
♦ fireclay bricks;
♦ metal corner (to strengthen the structure and create a frame, if you decide to make the oven mobile);
♦ strong wheels (for a mobile oven);
♦ hob/porcelain tile;
♦ cement and sand (you can use a dry mix for tubing stoves);
♦ iron grates or thick rods;
♦ furnace oven (if the dimensions of the refrigerator allow);
♦ iron oven doors;
♦ tool.
First you need to decide which model of the multifunctional stove you want to have in the country, and then recover for building materials, metal corners and cast iron parts. When choosing a brick, the authors of Novate.ru strongly recommend consulting with experts or knowledgeable craftsmen, the service life of the furnace directly depends on which brand to choose, because not all bricks have the same physical properties. In the case of a stove, preference is given to fireclay bricks or any other that is particularly resistant to high temperatures and open flame, have high mechanical strength and are resistant to sharp fluctuations temperatures.
When all the necessary materials and tools are at hand, you can proceed to release refrigerator from plastic entrails, insulation materials, electrical wiring, refrigeration elements, etc. After these manipulations, an empty frame should remain, which is best reinforced with corners to create a rigid frame. In the event that it had a metal freezer, it can be left and used as a woodcutter or storage of kitchen utensils / products. The only thing is that the oven will have to be equipped inside the refrigerator, which is in a horizontal position. If it is very small, then it is installed in the usual (vertical) position, in which case the oven will turn out to be narrow and high.
After the case is cleaned and fixed, you can replace the back panel, sand the damage and paint the damaged surfaces (if desired).
Since a mobile oven installation is more acceptable and practical, you can work on creating a reinforced frame that will become the basis of the platform. The platform is needed for a large refrigerator lying on its side, if it is in a vertical position, then the wheels can be attached directly to the bottom. The frame with jumpers is made from corners that can be fixed with bolts or welding (more securely). The wheels are fixed with nuts on welded threaded bolts.
While the refrigerator is not yet filled with bricks, it is easy to place it on the prepared platform and you can start cutting holes for the firebox, blower, oven and chimney. In the case when the refrigerator is in an upright position, only a hole for the chimney is needed, so you can immediately start laying bricks and creating the inner shell of the furnace.
In both cases, the laying starts from the bottom. A reinforcing mesh is laid on a thick layer of freshly prepared mortar, which is covered with a layer of binder material, only after that bricks can be laid.
The inner part is formed according to the cut holes. To separate the firebox from the blower, you need to install and fix the grate or thick metal / cast iron rods. At the same time, a brick frame is formed, where oven doors will be installed for both the fire chamber and the blower, as well as the chimney pipe. By the same principle, the inside of the refrigerator, designed to install the oven, is lined.
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Important! The upper part of the oven is covered with a cast-iron hob or a porcelain stoneware slab. If in the first case the cast-iron part can be made removable in order to use the stove as a barbecue, then such liberties will not work with porcelain stoneware. It is installed permanently and can be used as a work surface.
The last step is to install the doors and chimney. After the working mixture / cement-sand mortar has completely hardened, you can cook various goodies in the fresh air, enjoying both healthy food and the work done.
It is easy to turn an old refrigerator into a necessary and useful thing, especially in a summer cottage. The enterprising people came up with a lot of practical and interesting transformations that are easy for each of us to implement.
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Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/280222/62274/