What stones are suitable for oven and sauna: the answer Petrology (spec. on the rocks)
I do not know about you, but I have a Saturday - bath day. Already three years as a started a habit to arrange every Shabbat bathing in the sauna. Gradually delving into "bannuyu" theme, I learned that a great importance for the steam room are stones that are put into the oven.
Stones in the sauna perform two functions:
(1) accumulation and heat loss and 2) Steam generation - the emission of steam, useful for airway.
I've always enjoyed in the steam room are usually large schebonkoy that honestly I collected from the nearest railway. And then I talked to Valery Chernyakhovsky petrology - a specialist in the rocks and that's what he advised me:
That's what I suggested this rare specialist:
- "Best stone that accumulates heat and brighter than the others by steam - jade. It costs about 150-160 rubles per kilogram, produced in Khakassia. jadeite It lasts for 7-8 years of use in the steam room. " looks jade So:
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"The second most popular stone - diabase
. Diabase he produced in the Crimea (it is paved and lined with Red Square Vorontsov Palace). Holds heat less jadeiteBut appreciated for eternity.
Such a stone you buy once and for all life :) "Diabase is as follows:
On the advice of petrology, putting in steam room simple schebonku or granite it is impossible. When heating-cooling, they release harmful dust of crushed stone, and the stone cracked during 3-4 years of active use of the sauna. It is better to stop the choice on the jadeite.