Who doesn’t dream of having a good, good-quality bathhouse on their land in which to warm their bones? Of course, the vast majority of the inhabitants of our country. And anyone, even a person who is not very knowledgeable in this matter, is well aware that the steam room is the key link. It is not difficult to build a bathhouse with your own hands, it is much more difficult to do it right.
Do-it-yourself steam bath is built quite simply. To assemble a box is half the battle, it is necessary to correctly divide the
internal space into the appropriate zones and properly equip them. And in this matter, special attention should be paid to the steam room. We’ll talk about this.
Sizing
You should start by determining the dimensions of the room reserved for the functional area. Firstly, the maximum number of people who can simultaneously be in the steam room should be taken into account. Based on such data and your own dimensions, you can easily calculate the required area. Secondly, the steam room, equipped with its own hands, should have a width sufficient for "exercises" with a broom: taking into account the size of the arm with a bath tool, this parameter should be at least 2 meters.
Pair zone arrangement
It is also
known from the school
physics course that warm air rises. This factor must be taken into account when arranging a steam room. Several levels of sitting or lying places should be provided. This approach will allow people with different temperature thresholds to be indoors at the same time.
Heat loss reduction
A steam room, made with your own hands, should ensure continued heat storage. The walls of such rooms should be built of materials with low thermal conductivity, i.e., they must insulate the warmed air and should not heat themselves. The most suitable material is wood. If the bathhouse is built from timber or logs, then additional wall decoration is by and large not required. Things are completely different if construction is made of stone. In this case, you can not do without thermal insulation of the walls. This is easy enough to do. On the walls inside the building, a frame should be fixed, in which it is necessary to lay a rigid insulation. For example, foam. Further, this design should be covered with a heat shield and covered with a lining or wooden lath over the entire surface. Moreover, the sheathing must be done freely in order to leave lumber the opportunity to expand. As a result, a person should contact only with a tree. Floor and ceiling insulation should also be done to reduce heat loss and minimize the possibility of freezing.
Moisture removal
In order for the steam room, created with your own hands, to please for many years, you should take care of good ventilation. Air inlet can be arranged through the door. In this case, not only the steam room, but also the washing one will be dried by the heat reserve.
Summary
These are all the key points that should be known to those who are thinking about how to make a steam room with their own hands correctly. There are, of course, many other nuances, the knowledge of which may be useful in the arrangement of this functional unit of the bath. But they are not as critical as those that were considered in the framework of this article.