Construction of bathhouses in the country

There is no pleasure rather than relax in the bath in the country: the smell of wood, hot steam, crawl after a gang of ice water: However, if you incorrectly built bath, pleasure can be thoroughly spoiled. To learn how to avoid mistakes during the construction of baths and saunas, we will tell. Let's start with the traditional Russian steam bath, exterior walls are usually erected from roundwood. Recommended for these purposes conifers - spruce, pine, and knows it all. However, not everyone knows that not every pine tree is suitable for the construction of baths, that is, not every tree will do so as long lasting. Bathhouse, which are constructed in the Leningrad region, experienced experts recommend choosing pine and spruce from the northern region, for example, from Karelia. These are trees growing in similar climates, but more slowly than ours, because their wood is more dense. Hence, low levels of moisture content of wood, and besides gaining moisture is also a log to a lesser extent. Of course, you can order and southern pine - a more porous, but then do not be surprised if a year or two lower crown of your bath will start to rot. Optimal diameter logs for the bath 20-25 cm: the finer fraught with heat loss, fat - are cumbersome and inconvenient to install. It is desirable that the logs harvested in winter, when the barrel of a minimum of moisture. All logs for the building is dried and very wet trunks are well dried hard. In addition, we must ensure that the tree was not a lot, which you need to take logs from the middle of the tree trunk: the butt and tip for the construction of baths are not suitable. If all these conditions are met, the wall will pass less heat, which is very important for a bath, and building itself will serve as a long time, not podgnivaya bottom and pererashivayas. The reason for bias can be the foundation. Depending on the nature of the soil it is columnar, composed from several concrete or reinforced concrete piles, installed below the depth of freezing (average is 1.2 meters, so the foundation is usually made at a depth of 1.5 meters). In this case, the bottom is necessary to make the anchor pad. If necessary, you can set the strip foundation, which runs along the perimeter of the building. Reliable and properly installed base - a guarantee that your bath will stand for a long time, without requiring adjustment. However, do not log a single bath is alive, it is possible to do it, for example, from a bar. Cost is not expensive, since the processing of logs with their subsequent adjustment - it time-consuming, and hence a cost. At shield bath exterior walls are built of sandwich panels to frame basis. The space between the two DSP or DSP is filled with synthetic mineral wool, which makes it very well to keep warm. Exterior and interior are made at the discretion of the owner. While this option is not the most popular bath, because unusual, but - the cheapest. In addition, in this case, you save more, and on the foundation: in the walls since the lungs, it will be enough to establish for them a cheap pier foundation. Interior finish bath, too, has its own specifics. As a rule, for wall cladding is used within the aspen, at least - alder and poplar. To finish saunas use the same breed, and more - lime and cedar. The wood of these trees - water-resistant, little affected by the splitting and splitting, and also has low heat capacity, that is not heated at high temperatures. In addition, these rocks are almost gummy. Although many of them smell like him, when heated to high temperatures resinous species produce aromatic pinene, which in high concentrations leads to toxic poisoning and, therefore, could negate all the health benefits saunas. For the manufacture of shelves, backs and guards sometimes use exotic African tree Abasha, where the sauna you can sit or lie down, even at very high temperatures. But the tree is quite expensive. Essential part of sauna is the stove, which ultimately determines whether there will be those "creepy" or you can simply bask in the bath after a walk in the frosty air. Now on the market offered many types of equipment for a bath, so it makes no sense to manufacture the stove yourself or order it. Depending on the amount of steam you can pick up the stove, for example, made in Finland: it is reliable and easy to use equipment that allows you to create different climatic regimes. If your oven is electric, then the sauna a small size (volume doubles to 10 cubic meters) to calculate the capacity of the furnace is easy: 1 cubic meter volume - 1 kilowatt of power. Furnace-stove can run on natural gas, and in contrast to the electrical installation, it is more economical (since the gas - the cheapest fuel). And in comparison with wood-burning stove, you can reduce the time protaplivaniya because the heat of combustion of natural gas is higher than wood. Filling the stove produce different materials, sometimes those that lie directly beneath their feet. Popular diabase, which pick out from the bridge to repair the old tramways as it holds heat well. However, after repeated heating-cooling, it cracks and therefore requires frequent replacement. The optimum filler, as acknowledged and specialists, and customers is talkohlorid, who also holds heat very well, but it is resistant to temperature changes and does not crack. As a rule, ordinary Russian sauna does not need extra ventilation - just one small through-hole near the ceiling, so that moisture can evaporate quickly, and the room is completely dried. If the walls are made of wood, the sauna, "breathing" in itself, it is not as tight for than, say, a sauna, installed inside a large house, and does not require mechanical ventilation. If the same guy running for more than two hours, it must be equipped with ventilation air with a turnover of 10-20 cubic meters per person per hour. Lighting in the steam room should not be very bright: just 25 watts, and the lamps should have a special class of protection for wet rooms. Natural light is always better artificial, and it's great when you can make a window. But you should not swing one's arms to prevent heat loss: usually a window in the bath have a size of approximately 60 by 70 inches. The floors in the bath can do what you want. But it should be noted that the floor tile in the steam room will be very hot and you can not walk on it barefoot. But for pomyvochnoy tile fits: first, there are lower temperatures, and secondly, the wooden floor from the abundance of water may begin to rot. Ceilings in the bath do: to finish lining them with aluminum foil lining to reduce heat loss (walls is recommended to close the foil halfway). By building a sauna on a suburban site should not be approached lightly. It is advisable not to engage in independent action, and to entrust the construction professionals, in an extreme case - needed to get them the most detailed advice. A job should begin with a detailed project. Construction of foundation, supply and drying of wood, construction itself - all these steps should be linked to each other to optimize the process and eventually get soundly bath so that the "goose bumps" on the skin.