A bathhouse is a specially built isolated room in which you can carry out dry and wet bath procedures. The sauna looks like a bathhouse, but most people feel a tangible difference between them, so deciding to build a bathhouse on the site, they build a classic Russian bath, and not a modern analogue of a Russian bath and not a sauna. In the absence of a place in the country, they acquire portable saunas.
Bath oven – the main heat source
All baths and saunas are distinguished by their sources of heat, and not just walls and sizes. Traditional Russian baths need to be built with a stove that is heated on firewood. For a number of reasons, you can make a choice in favor of gas or electric furnaces, but a bathhouse with these stoves will no longer be traditional. Connoisseurs of bath procedures are advised to find a place for a woodcock and equip a bath log house with a wood stove.
Baths that are heaving on wood are usually separate (do not adjoin the house) and equipped with a chimney. Therefore, they are larger and require a larger land plot. Modern baths and saunas, heated by safe electric stoves that do not produce smoke, can be smaller than classic baths. In addition, a sauna with an electric tank is easier to join the house. In such saunas, glass doors are often installed.
Where to buy a good wood stove for a bathhouse?
You can buy a firewood for a Russian bathhouse on the Internet. The classic Russian bath will not be classic without a wood stove, but it is not necessary to buy domestic furnaces. Choose a model of the domestic plant if you wish, but if you are more attracted to German or Finnish brands, then purchase them. Oven – the main element of the bath. Therefore, it is very important that it is reliable, good and completely suits you.
A little about the terms
1. You can build a bathhouse (order a log house from the masters) or buy a finished sauna. And in the first and second cases, the acquisition of a completely finished design with or without a stove may be implied. However, when we say “buy a sauna”, we most often mean a small block (not exceeding the size of the cabinet) with an electric heater inside. Or even a sown booth for installation right in the house (an infrared heater is hidden inside). When we say “buy a bath”, we usually mean the purchase of a small house equipped with a stove (on wood, on gas or on electricity).
2. Bath stoves are made from different material. For frequent bath procedures, it is better to choose an ordinary light metal stove, which quickly heats up and quickly heats the bathhouse. Simple carbon steel is best suited. There is also corrosion -resistant steel and non -weed cast iron. Cast iron stoves weigh a lot, but it is easier to tolerate high temperatures, although their sharp temperatures are “crippled”. Due to the fact that manufacturers of steel furnaces sometimes give them a guarantee similar to a guarantee for cast-iron stoves, the consumer ceased to focus on the estimated service life. Instead, people choose the goods for themselves: those who want to quickly and quickly drown the bathhouse, advise steel; Those who rarely want, but at a big period of time to heat the bathhouse, advise cast iron. Modern furnaces make their combinations of materials, which unites advantages, reducing shortcomings (but at the same time increases the price).
3. Wood stoves are usually called solid fuel furnaces.
