Choosing a furnace for a bath: wood, electric

Bath - it's great, it's a first-class vacation and one of the best ways to relax. Therefore, people's love of the bath constant. But our demands to bannomu room and bath hardware, of course, vary. We demand now from the bath and convenience, and comfort, and aesthetics. In light of this change and the requirement to the host device in the steam room, to furnace for the bath.

In the old days, to lay down the furnace for a bath was not easy. Nowadays much simplified. Ovens for bathhouse is now produced in special plants. Consumers just have to choose a high-quality heater. Hard, admittedly, the problem. If there is no specialist equipment bath, this problem must be solved independently.

Requirements of bath furnace

This oven, At firstShould quickly heat the room. space heating capacity rate is determined by the furnace for the bath. Power, of course, measured in kilowatts. Of course, the power of the furnace for the bath larger volume should be larger. The consumer can find their way, say, that the bath room with capacity from 8 to 20 cubic meters required furnace capacity of about 20 kW. If the amount of steam from 20 to 35 cubic meters. m, please purchase the furnace capacity of about 30 kW.

Furthermore, it plays a role and the material of construction of the bath. The log bath required power can be calculated by the formula from 1.4 to 1.8 kW per cubic meter of steam. In baths made of concrete panels for heating of one cubic meter of space required between 0.6 and 0.8 kW. It is clear why. The heat capacity of the concrete below, but the insulation is better.

The second requirement to the furnace for a bath - safety. The design must protect the premises from possible fire. Washable same people in the bath must be guaranteed from burns if accidentally touched. If electric furnace for the bath, it is, moreover, must be absolutely safe from an electrical point of view. There are no "short-circuiting"!

The third requirement - the furnace for a bath should be easy to maintain.

Fourth, in order, but not least, the requirement - the furnace for a bath should look beautiful. To some it may seem strange, but beautiful oven and works better.

Finally, it is desirable that the furnace for a bath was compact and would not take up too much space in the sauna room.

Further warming oven space for a bath also used to heat water and produce steam. To this end, it should provide some additional kilowatt of power. These additional kilowatts and the need to ensure that after the use of dry steam.

Not always the furnace for a bath used at full capacity. Therefore, it is desirable that the furnace is provided with a power regulator.

Thus, the requirements are formulated.

Now let's see what the furnace for a bath provides us with industry?

Steam generators

Let's start with the new device. It - steam generator, A device for the production of steam, which is still not quite settled in our market. It can be installed in a Russian steam room where necessary "wet" steam and sauna, where steam is "dry" and even in the shower. Power steam generator, steam concentration and humidity are easily adjusted. Do not make a mistake by saying that the steam generators excellent prospects.

Oven-stove

Yet while the eye and heart of the consumer in our country are much more accustomed to so-called "stove." In such furnaces the heat accumulator are large stones, cobbles, and brickwork. Stones are heated to a temperature of 200-1000 degrees and then slowly give off heat air bath room. Typically a heating stone backfilling weight specialists determine the rate of 30 kg per 1 square stones. meter of steam. Stones accumulate heat and should be selected with knowledge of the matter. They should be rounded, dense and of different sizes.

Stove make both the open and closed backfilling. When outdoor hot stones splash water turns clear and hot steam. However, the furnace for the bath with an open stone backfilling accumulating heat, consume more fuel. If the stones are closed, they are heated to a much higher temperature. Spraying water on the stones backfill closed, steam and dry sharp turns.

Stove, in which the stone backfill closed on the stones can not be accidentally burned. This is their big advantage over stoves with open stone backfill. Furnace for the baths closed stones are used in large-volume bath rooms. Open the furnace-heater is used in small-sized home saunas. They look primitive and so romantic. Power such furnaces smaller. In addition, again, accidentally touched the open hot stones, you can get burned.

Heating stones, stoves or furnaces produced hot gases generated by the combustion of fuel, or by means of electric heaters. stove before met, in which as the fuel oil used. But now they are rejected. The unpleasant smell of kerosene or diesel fuel in spite of all precautions penetrated from the furnace in the bath room. Now gas is used for heating, but still, most likely, a good old wood. Accordingly, stove divided into gas ovens, wood and electric. These ovens are manufactured in specialized factories. Such furnaces are for baths may be of different power and size. They all have a modern design and pleasing to the eye of the consumer.

Wood oven bath

"Great-grandmother" iron wood stoves for baths - the legendary pech- "stove", popular in Russia during the Civil War at the beginning of the last century. The principle of operation is almost the same. Hot gases generated by the combustion of wood, a steel sheet is heated 4-5 millimeters thick, and that transfers heat to the stone or brick wall. Between the heated stones and the outer wall (most often, too, a brick) is a small air gap. With this heater does not overheat, and the outer wall has a low temperature, so that it can not be about getting burned.

Today's stylish wood-burning stoves for baths - sophisticated and modern heaters. They are fast, just half an hour, heated bath room. Iron wood stoves for saunas are completely safe. They can not cause a fire and do not washable people poisoned by carbon monoxide. Moreover, all the metal wood ovens equipped with a thermoregulator. Therefore, they are economical and easy to use. From inside the wood-burning stove for baths lined with refractory brick. This increases the service life of such furnaces.

Wood-fired oven for baths not only heat the air in the sauna room and steam is generated, but the heated water wash. All such furnaces have a built-in hot water tank. Such a tank can be placed on either side of the furnace according to the customer.

Naturally, the wood-burning stove for a bath is supplied with a chimney. Typically, metal chimney made with stylish brick veneer.

electric furnaces

Electric furnaces for baths chimney is not needed. Is that romantic mood the owner decides to provide its decorative pseudo-ovenchimney. But the smoke from the roof still will not. Instead of the furnace, where the wood or burned gas in an electric furnace for the bath are powerful electric heating elements. All other design elements remain unchanged: Coating and stone, and even the inner lining of refractory bricks. After electrically teplonagrevatelnye elements create within the same temperature as the gas, and wood.

Electric furnace for the bath are very economical and convenient to use. Their design is completely safe and do not pose any threat to people in the bath washable. Furthermore, it is provided with thermostats and fuses that will prevent excessive heating. Electric furnace heater is turned off immediately, unlike wood oven, which is not immediately extinguish.

The main problem during the installation of the furnace for a bath with electric heating - to bring her powerful enough electric cable. With this, problems may arise if the electric furnace for the bath is set in a holiday village, which are not brought sufficient power. Also, before you buy a powerful electric furnace-heater with a power of 380 volts, you should check whether there is power available at home or at the cottage.

In appearance electric stove almost indistinguishable from wood-burning stoves. Except that they are more compact, but it's not a disadvantage, but rather, dignity. They produced the most diverse design and look good in the bath or in the sauna. When choosing an electric furnace for the bath should pay attention to the material of construction of the electric furnace lining. stainless steel cladding is more expensive, but it is more durable, and tell the truth, more beautiful. Cheaper sheathing for electrical sauna stoves are made of galvanized steel or of zinc-aluminum alloy. They are lighter but less durable.

When buying heaters, electric ovens foreign manufacturers should pay attention to another feature. The European standard is to use the power sockets and plugs with three wires: the phase, zero and earth. At low power consumption often use the "vanishing". Vanishing when the ground wire is connected to the neutral conductor at the distribution board. If the device consumes substantial power (in the case of an electric furnace for the bath), a solution is unacceptable. The cottages of modern construction is taken into account. Here arrange your own ground loop separated from the neutral wire that goes from the electrical substation. The buildings of the old type of the circuit there. Therefore it is necessary to use vanishing, but additionally need to purchase RCD, ie a residual current device. This device will turn off all the equipment in the event of a short circuit or if it is found the smallest leakage current.

Usually traders selling electric stove for baths, and offer services for their installation. The cost of this service - about ten percent of the radiator. Assembling produce skilled artisans, and we recommend to charge the electric furnace installation for bath art.

Installation of bath furnace

Naturally, the installation of the furnace in the bath (as wood, and electric) requires consultations and resolution of fire inspection. General requirements are fairly simple. The furnace in the bath should be installed away from any kind of wooden walls and readily combustible surfaces. The magnitude of the gap between the furnace and the fuel surface shall be greater than 125 cm. The wall or walls of combustible material to be coated insulated. In contrast flue openings is desirable to install a heat shield. The area of ​​this screen should be two times more than the area of ​​the firebox opening. The oven should be set on the basis of refractory or flammable materials. This can be tiled plates, metal plates on the heat-resistant ground plate of cement or pad, lined with refractory fireclay bricks. The space separating the outer surface of the heater and the wall, should at least exceed 25 cm. If the furnace-heater has a furnace door, the door should be placed under the metal sheet to a heat-insulating lining.

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