Designing baths

When designing baths primarily calculated area of ??the house and individual rooms. To determine the total size is sufficient to know the minimal acceptable standards. Thus, each person should have not less than 1 m2 sauna and changing room 1,3-1,5 m2. If the bath is not combined with other structures, its area must be at least 1 0 m 2, and the ratio of steam rooms, washing and rest rooms - be 1:1,5:2. During the construction of baths for 3-4 people optimal plan dimensions are 3x5 or 3 x 6 m. This is due to the possibility of creating a comfortable space planning. As for the height of ceilings, it is calculated as follows: above the upper-level stone-oven stoves have the upper shelves. Who sits on it the person needs to ensure ease of use a broom, and this should be left up to the ceiling space of not less than 1,1 m. Most often the stones in the furnace are at a level of 1 m, because the most common ceiling height in the steam room is 2,1 m. This value is observed in almost all Finnish sauna, in addition, many experts recommend to stick with it and the construction of Russian baths. The reason is that a decrease in height may be problems with ventilation, while increasing - there are difficulties with heating facilities. There are also certain requirements and to the size of regiments. Optimal width for them is 70 cm (in this case fit on a shelf adult male). The upper bench, as a rule, do already - 40 - 50 cm Recommended height of the top shelf - 105 - 115, see also the size of pay great attention to the regiment. It is important that the steam from the furnace is not burned people at the sauna. Therefore, when designing the latter is desirable to provide a small niche for the stove or oven will do our best to spread and shelves. Shelves and benches in the sauna should be strong, not loose and does not creak. For proper ventilation to make the open bottom. Flooring stores should not be a solid, carefully polished strips have a 10 - 15 mm apart. Preferable to use thin strips (dries faster), but in this case, a step the pillars of the stalls should be reduced (up to 400-500 mm). In addition, the width of the slats should not exceed a thickness of more than 4 times, otherwise they can warp from moisture. The bench is better to attach only to the walls, then the floor in the steam room is free and easy to clean. Between the wall and the bench should leave a gap width of 1 cm, which will allow moisture to drain freely through the wall. Materials for construction and finishing baths tree for the construction of baths can be very different, the most common today conifers - spruce, pine, larch and fir. On the quality of wood in the first place you can put larch. It does not rot and turn blue, less prone to destruction by fungi and insects, but because of the peculiarities of the resin - impregnable for bugs-Dry wood borers. Coniferous material should be well dried, since the bath from the raw wood first 2-3 years of "baking": heated tar out of resin capsules and can cause burns. To eliminate those pesky phenomenon, chopped Softwood bath inside sheathe dried clapboard. In the villages of the middle band chose to hack bath of aspen. For a long time does not decay, and the construction of her serve for decades. Today, however, commercial harvesting of aspen to produce timber is virtually impossible, since the places where the tree grows the desired condition, there is not much. Therefore, almost all of the aspen, as well as lime, is used for making linings and trims for the regiments. That lining of larch species and recommends to sheathe the room baths. In contrast, conifer, it is less susceptible to cracking and warping.