How to choose a furnace for the Russian bath? The first part of the great leadership

Today, our material is designed to help you in this difficult task! I'll start with a few small, but important rules, without which it is impossible to imagine a Russian bath. And not necessarily how you want to get such a stove: Choose from the range available to you in any store or engage in self-production.

This will help you 7 simple rules, knowing that you definitely can not go wrong! All of them will be presented in two parts of my larger leadership.
In the first part I will touch such an important aspect as the heater in the bath furnace - the main source of heat and qualitative "light vapor."

1. Kamenka furnace must be closed. Kamenka furnace Russian baths have to stay closed, so as not to give up its heat in the steam. If the stove oven is open, the stones will simply not be heated to the desired temperature, and the steam in turn overheats, filled with the warmth of the stones. In such circumstances, we do not get a good quality and fine (easy) steam, which is extremely important for the Russian baths, as opposed to the intense heat in the steam room.

However, it should be noted that the open stove will be good for the sauna mode, where the quality and quantity of steam are not important, important only high temperature in the steam room.

2. oven stove for Russian bath should be large volume. In order to receive a large number of high-quality steam, we need a lot of stones. Here you can navigate to a minimum of 60 kg of stones, which is valid only for small pair. And the greater the amount of steam and the human desire to warm up in it, the more stones you need in a furnace. "Gold Standard" for such conditions - 100 kg of stones.

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