The criteria for a good bathhouse stove

What should be a good bath furnace? FORUMHOUSE experts help define the criteria for a good stove that can meet the needs of professional and bathers, and fans lie on the shelf.

Svetlana Revin (Marketing Company "PLANT DOBROSTAL"):

Ideally, modern furnace for the bath must be simple to operate and thus provide a bath Ferry in the right quantity and in the best quality, be compact, but at the same time, powerful and economical. And most importantly, modern bath furnace should be universal and output bathing condition in a wide range.

Sometimes even members of the same family different preferences for temperature and humidity in the steam room: one must be a "warm", another likes steam at a low temperature and high humidity, as well, vigorous third Bring pairs. So, if the oven is able to create all three of these modes, but also their quick change, then it is a good oven.

to the bath furnaces together with requirements change throughout our lives. People are working harder, faster live on the rest have less time. Therefore, says Svetlana Revin, in recent years the leading position began to come out of the furnace, which able to heat bath space for 30-40 minutes, rather than two or three hours, as it was a few years ago.

However, people really enthusiastic bath, first of all require the bathhouse furnace of two things: that it is rapidly gaining heat and made "easy" pairs.

Vadim Kornev (master):

The first quality of bath furnace: so that it is rapidly gaining heat and to, if possible, keep it as long as possible. The most important thing that a person came to the country, to heat the bath for an hour and a half or two and then quietly all evening soared. Yet what is important? The steam was soft, did not burn, so as not to muzzle anything anywhere... And every point by itself selects.

The advantage of good furnace is that they give the maximum return with a minimum of time and energy. Minimum wood, minimum effort - and an hour and a half a person begins to steam.

By type of heating furnace is divided into electric and fuel, most of all - wood. There are interesting solutions as pellet burners for sauna stoves. There stoves which heated gas (but in individual gas heating baths are used infrequently). Other fuels for baths in our latitudes, is rarely used.

Yuri Kozak (Head of OOO "SHIDEL"):

In electric furnaces have the advantage: a chimney is not required, there is no direct combustion processes; On the other hand, it believed that electricity to heat the bath - energozatranoe decision. Create the correct temperature in the electric furnace stones not sauna mode, and the bath is possible, but is difficult in a domestic environment.

What else is good electric oven: You can put the automation, which is the right time to launch it from a smartphone, and the arrival of the owners of the city, it is heated to the desired temperature.

Yuri Kozak:

But when you need the complete process - there are such cases, I heard about them from the bath attendants - in the steam room put two ovens. Electrical pre-launch smartphone, and then, when they come, it is already heat their wood burning stove.

Says Yuri, this is not a mass solution, but from the point of view of the construction of a bath - additional investment: it is necessary to install two stoves, respectively, increase the amount of steam. Therefore, this story is for suburban baths interesting, but not very common.

Wood stoves - most popular in our baths. They may be brick, metal, the furnace is entirely made of natural stone and is combined: a metal insert with an outer cladding of brick or, either of stone. Metal furnace - is now the most common variant. Apart in this series are cast iron stove.

Many put the steel furnace - valued for rapid heating furnaces themselves, rapid transfer of heat throughout the room, such a furnace warms up quickly trim, shelves... But these same qualities are related and steel furnaces disadvantages - infrared heat is perceived extreme and is not for everyone. Some simply can not tolerate such a bath.

Sometimes such "unbearable" affect baths complex reasons. In addition to the hard heat, there is a problem with the air exchange in the bath. It is believed that steel stove burn certain amount of oxygen and produce a more intensive circulation and therefore, for the time being in her people it is especially important not to forget to properly sum up the air breathing. Ventilation is necessary in baths with any furnace, not only metal, but if you have such questions arrangement of ventilation are discussed in a special section in cabins with FORUMHOUSE metal stoves

The main advantage of metal furnaces - rapid heating. Strictly speaking, it is because of that, people began to abandon the brick kilns in favor of metal. The longest fully warmed brick furnace, in which fuel chamber and is made entirely of fireproof bricks. Such a furnace stoked the whole day - here it would be appropriate to recall the story of the hero Shukshin "Alyosha Beskonvoynyh "which on Saturday he refused to work on the farm, because he stoked all day bath.

On the other hand, the heat transfer from the heated well brick furnace body occurs softer and more uniform mode. Brick oven cool down for a long time, do not require permanent podtopok not detract from the bath procedures - steam in such a bath is really very comfortable.

But if your whole family is in total will be sweating for two hours, it is necessary to consider whether or not to make sense to spend the whole day on protopku a bath?

Vadim Kornev:

Why did made brick oven - because the other was not, just - there was.

Between the metal stoves with fast nataplivaemostyu, but infrared heating, and brick stoves with long heating and slow cooling there are intermediate solutions. They allow you to use those and other effects, and choose the best process. For example, you can use the internal metal stove which is lined heat capacity of the material.

This interim version is now probably the most popular.

Vadim Kornev:

My experience as a master of masonry stoves years now, probably, 25, and prior to that I have helped as a worker. And my recommendation is this: buy good in all respects, a cast-iron stove cast (the thicker the wall, the better), and overlaid it with the gap in polkirpichika. Make such falshstenki, with a door, the top can be closed, can - open, zatopchik must be from the waiting room, the stove itself - in the steam room. The side pipe is required to make in order not to demolish it after some time during the wear of the furnace. All stoves are worn, only one furnace are 2-3 years, while others - 10-20 years.

Why is this done? Pairs, according to Vadim, becomes softer.

Vadim Kornev:

The combination of iron and bricks and gives soft steam, and rapid heating furnace - and a half hours can be steam room good-sized heated to the desired temperature: someone loves 80 degrees, one hundred, one steamed and 120. A brick oven to heat up such that it is supported by 120, you have 5-6 hours, not everyone has the time.

For the metal furnace lining brick is used either to calcination or natural stone. In contrast to the brick, at a smaller scale, they can quickly accumulate heat and the longer his to give. By selecting this option, consider the quality of the metal furnace.

Vadim Kornev:

Miser pays twice, gifted - three times. Therefore, to save on something I would not recommend here. It is better to buy a normal good stove made of thick cast iron, and then long to enjoy and smile.

Our customers, we are building a bath, be sure that everyone knows, do not listen to advice, buy a cheap oven it is lined with bricks, invest, and they have this stove burns in three years, it is necessary to disassemble and assemble All over again.

Therefore it is better to overpay once 10-15 thousand rubles, and buy a good, smart oven. Svetlana Revina

Stove for baths should be reliable, that is, to serve as much as will be room.

Historically bath sunk in black, now it's a big exotic, which occurs unless somewhere on tourist campsites. During protaplivaniya warmed the whole room, and that the smoke did not go into the pipe, and went through all the room, there was a certain sense: at the same time kills all unwanted microorganisms.

Yuri Kozak:

Steam bath in such an interesting and even comfortable, but you have to be a big fan of baths, to organize such for themselves. I did not even hear about such people. Instead of smoke sauna is currently preserved "intermediate" solution in a closed brick ovens with direct heating of the stones where the flue gases pass through the stones. These furnaces are beginning to use already after the fire burns. Closed stones allow calcined stones stronger, especially with direct heating. For home use indirect heating with closed stones are considered safe. My opinion: to the furnace in the smoke (not even in the classic version) need a professional attendant.

Svetlana Revin:

The undoubted advantage for the bathhouse furnace is the presence of a large stove, and even better when one oven there are opening and closing of the heater to be able to heat the stones for different couple.

If we talk about placing stones on the sauna stoves, it has recently become increasingly popular so-called furnace-grid: the grid is established over the entire contour of the furnace and laid stones. This alternative brick or stone wall: a rigid heat from the metal does not produce direct infrared heating.

Unclosed lining and kiln-infrared heating grid is removed, and the closed furnace linings are further and already can achieve the effect of "light steam", typical for traditional Russian bath.

The Russian bath is different from the others? The sauna - low humidity and high, 90 degrees temperature. The Turkish baths - on the contrary: in the room hang clubs low-temperature steam. For Russian bath superheated characteristic "light" pairs and to its formation it is necessary that water falling on the surface with a temperature of about 300 degrees. This steam in the steam does not hang like a mist, it is almost not visible, it is well perceived during breathing. And many people who have always said that can not tolerate the bath, experienced the effects of light steam, became enthusiastic bathers.

With open stones achieve this effect "Russian bath" is difficult, but with closed stoves it is achieved with a smaller amount of stones and less prolonged protopke.

In furnaces of this design all the stones are located above the combustion chamber, in the box or of brick, stone or the finished lining. From above they have a cast-iron door, which is filled with water.

Yuri Kozak:

Still trying to stack the stones in a special way, making a watering can - "steam gun" to pour water directly into these stones.

By the way, the stones choice of bath furnace is also a very serious thing. Not every stone is suitable for steam, such as the presence of sulfur can lead to poisoning. It is better not to collect the stones themselves, but buying a watch presence of hygiene certificates, but also super-expensive stones to buy is not always justified. It is important to understand the "not all minerals are created equal."

Vadim Kornev:

 The main thing that the stones are not showered, does not burst, and the time they should be changed every three years.

Good oven - it's half the battle. Second half - insulation and construction of steam. If done correctly, it steams, and the floor is not blowing, and incorporates drain that left the water, that splash onto the stove, properly chosen for the finishing of wood steam, then steam will nicely.

And with modern materials to equip the steam room is not as it should - just a sin.

Vadim Kornev:

In the 90 th year, except for rusty nails and some boards, there was nothing. People made of scrap materials, and they do a decent bath. Now people can just go and buy what he needs. Therefore we must immediately do everything well.

Vadim said that the only way to save money in the construction of a bath - to search for information on the Internet manufacturers and representatives of trading companies, find where the same is slightly cheaper, discounts some ask... Again, to work on the installation or laying of bath furnace Vadim recommends hiring only well known artists or companies. Someone who will feel responsible for their work - so you do not alter, and not to pay for the same work twice.

Moderator FORUMHOUSE NickBHe believes that a really good bath furnace must satisfy all four requirements - Join the discussion on our portal. We also offer you an article about the materials for interior decoration baths and Video on what should be a real Russian steam bath.

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