In the old days, going to the bathhouse was just a forced hygienic procedure. Today, everything has changed radically, and a visit to the bathhouse has become a full-fledged ritual for body and soul.
Baths and saunas are very popular among modern people. Therefore, if possible, many build steam rooms right in the courtyard of their own dacha or country house. Of course, the heart of any sauna establishment is the oven. It is she who works to ensure that people get real pleasure from the steam room.
Features and Benefits
Recently, the fireplace-stove has been in special demand among lovers of steam. Such ovens are good because you can sit near them after the main procedure.
The fireplace door is usually made of glass ceramics. It turns an ordinary heating unit into a fireplace stove. Thanks to this design, you can safely contemplate the burning flame in the fireplace without fear of getting burned.
The fireplace stove is a successful combination of functionality, practicality and economy. It provides the necessary temperature in the steam room and gives a lot of warming steam that envelops the body like a blanket. In the resting room, it serves as a fireplace. Therefore, after basic procedures, you can enjoy your rest, admiring the live fire in the fireplace stove.
Varieties
The heater is the most important device that should be in the steam room. Without it, a bathhouse, a sauna, will become an ordinary room that will not bring any benefit. Without such a unit, it will not be possible to take a steam bath and even more so to relax. Today, different manufacturers offer a huge assortment of fireplace stoves, so it can sometimes be quite difficult to decide on a suitable device.
Depending on the material of manufacture, fireplace stoves are divided into brick and metal stoves.
The classification is called:
- Stove with open or closed fireplace.
- Hot and cold.
- Long burning or direct heating ovens.
There are two-in-one options when the oven turns into a barbecue. Such a combined unit is especially good for lovers of steam and tasty food.
If there is no way to spend time with a real fireplace stove, you can buy an electric infrared fireplace. Its plus is that the transfer of a large flow of heat occurs in a relatively short period of time.
Design or how to arrange
The question of how to arrange a fireplace stove in the dressing room or decorate the heating equipment for the rest room worries many self-taught craftsmen who decided to make the laying of the fireplace stove on their own. This point is also relevant for homeowners who use stove heating. Decorating the hearth with ordinary plaster does not carry any aesthetic value, and after a short period of operation it simply requires updating.
There are the following types of finishes:
- Peasant (clay, lime and whitewash are used). Long ago, stoves were coated with a similar mixture, and then whitewashed. The dried-up walls were decorated with various designs, mostly flowers. Nowadays, this method is practically not used anywhere.
- Decorative bricks. Heat-resistant material retains heat for a long time.
- Heat-resistant ceramics (terracotta, majolica, clinker, porcelain stoneware).
- Tiles. The most common way of facing heating elements. It differs from ordinary tiles in a box-shaped structure, which serves as an attachment of the tile to the surface.
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How to build with your own hands
There are many interesting author's developments in the field of constructing fireplace stoves, which can be used by everyone. But the most famous are the sauna stoves designed by Kuznetsov. In the stoves of a Russian craftsman, the flow of gases occurs naturally, and not due to the draft through the chimney.
The advantages of Kuznetsov furnaces include:
- Gradual heating of the kiln from the bottom row of bricks to the topmost one.
- Low probability of cracks and other defects.
- The ability to use heating equipment as a stove and a fireplace at the same time.
- Additional heating of the walls of the fireplace stove with gases coming out of the firebox.
- Minimal soot formation, so you can forget about cleaning the chimney for a long time.
The stove is a key attribute of any type of bath - Turkish, Russian, Finnish, etc. Without it, it is difficult to imagine the amazing atmosphere that prevails in the steam room. A self-made fireplace stove is a unique structure, which has no analogues, and this is why it is valued most of all.
Of course, nowadays many saunas have electric stoves, but they cannot surpass real stoves.
To make a fireplace stove, the owner of the household will have to learn basic construction skills, master the skill of working with basic tools: a float, a rule, a trowel. It is especially worthwhile to approach the issue of constructing a heating device especially seriously if it will be on the second floor.
At the first stage, you need to choose a place for the heating equipment (layout), take all possible measurements, and then make a drawing and a project based on the requirements of the place.
After the paperwork, you can start building the foundation. The heating system weighs at least 500 kg, this must be taken into account when pouring the base under the stove. The foundation pit must be dug at least 0.5 meters deep. Its bottom can be laid out with construction waste and filled with cement mortar to the floor mark without interruptions so that the foundation is solid.
After pouring the foundation, you need to pause for a period of one week so that the foundation is completely dry. This time can be spent on purchasing building materials and making a chimney hole.
On the dried surface, it is necessary to lay two layers of roofing material, which is subsequently pressed with cement mortar. Tiles are also placed on it (only if a branded fireplace stove is used). When creating a brick object on the waterproofing layer, the order of the first row of bricks is immediately done.
Professionals advise using fire-resistant bricks to create a fireplace stove, the usual one for laying the lower rows is not suitable. The optimum thickness of the layer connecting the building material is 3 mm.
All stages of the construction process must be controlled by level and plumb lines.
Thus, you can build a fireplace stove as soon as possible.
Review of the best models
Many would like to have their own bathhouse, personal sauna, regardless of wealth and belonging to a particular social group. Now the steam room process is not only a luxury, but a great way to improve health. Pure steam, life-giving water, the use of medicinal herbs, birch, oak and all kinds of exotic brooms heals both body and soul, strengthens morale. And to make it comfortable to steam, many manufacturers offer their heating devices for baths and saunas.
The most famous and demanded furnaces are Feringer, Harvia, Siesta, Termofor, Vesuvius - these units are designed specifically for those who want to get high-quality and reliable equipment at an affordable price.
Interesting interior solutions
Sauna stoves are modern equipment for heating small areas. This heating method allows you to get absolute autonomy from hot water supply.In addition, fireplace stoves are a great opportunity to feel away from the hassle and various troubles.
There are a lot of ideas for the design of a bathhouse, and each is good in its own way, especially if you need to think over the interior of a suburban complex with a fireplace and a bathhouse.
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