What different people do not come up with to organize a bath. Even in large megacities, a person wants to at least briefly immerse himself in healing steam and relax. But much nicer if the steam room is your own. And you can use it at any time convenient for you.
Apparently, therefore, any person who bought a land plot, after building a house, immediately thinks about building a steam room. But what if the plot is small? In this case, you can use such a surprisingly simple, but very useful invention, like a barrel bath, the reviews of the owners of which indicate the convenience, beauty and efficiency of this device.
Description
Recently, in addition to the construction of standard baths, many specialized companies also offer the production of a bath-barrel, which is carried out using cooper technologies. This means that, having all the qualities of a typical, this steam room is built on a very original principle. The entire room of the bathhouse, built like the usual barrel, is designed for bathing procedures, although outwardly it, like the household counterpart, is surrounded by metal hoops. This is done for the strength and reliability of the structure.
The barrel bath, the photo of which clearly demonstrates its similarity to the ancestress, differs from it only in size. It warms up in just twenty or thirty minutes with ordinary firewood or fuel briquettes. Some models work on other types of energy sources. In the floor there are technological ventilated holes designed for draining water.
Varieties
Many peoples have long had analogues of such a device. Most often, a Japanese barrel bath is mentioned in the literature, the reviews of the owners of which are mostly positive. This option is especially suitable for those who prefer a small steam room, as well as a constant presence in the water and the presence of bubbles. However, the
Japanese barrel bath, which many of us saw except in the cinema, is not a good solution for a summer residence: in bad weather it is impossible to use it.
If for our country such a design is considered know-how, then it is completely familiar to Finland and other Scandinavian countries. In fact, this is a small log house of an original form, erected from coniferous species of wood, inside of which there is a stove for a bath. Steam barrel, as a rule, is equipped with a steam generator.
This Finnish design is going to be very simple. For her, neither the foundation nor the long process of erecting walls is needed. In just three hours, you can install the finished barrel on wooden beams, make a drain to it and bring electricity. However, in our country, a slightly different variety of such an original washing has actively taken root.
Russian bath barrels
Oval designs, which we often see in summer cottages, are our domestic version of such an original steam room. They say that Russians like solid buildings. The barrel barrel, which gained popularity in our country and was massive in comparison with the Finnish or Japanese version, was no exception. Drawings of these designs provide all the functionalities that are in a regular steam room: a small dressing room, shower, oven, shelves, doors and windows.
Advantages and disadvantages
The main advantages of kegs are:
- mobility - they can be rolled or transported by car to another place;
- heating rate - 20 minutes on average;
- compactness - often a barrel bath, the drawings of which indicate its small size, occupies no more than 10 square meters of area;
- original design.
True, this miracle of architecture is worth a lot on the construction market: from 200 thousand rubles. That is why many try to build such a steam room as a barrel bath with their own hands. Moreover, it is much easier to build than, for example, a cinder block construction. And even a person who is far from construction will cope with this task.
Erection
The construction of a capital bath is not a cheap pleasure, and in terms of time it is quite long. Do-it-yourself barrel bath is a budget option for a small steam room. This design can be done independently in just a few days. Any need for external decoration disappears if you create such a steam room as a barrel bath. Photos demonstrate that it already initially has an attractive and unusual look. The barrel bath in itself is so unique and stylish that it does not require any decorations or additional decor.
Selection of materials
An important stage in the construction process is the selection of high-quality raw materials. The barrel bath - whether it is made with your own hands or with the help of professional carpenters - is built from well-dried and correctly sawn by woodworking machines special blanks - boards with a thickness of 45 and a width of 90 millimeters. It is necessary that the wood material had spike-groove joints: when a special recess is made on one part - a milled recess in which the ridge left on the next part is closed. It is such a design that allows multiple assembly-disassembly of a barrel pair. In addition, in this way it is possible to obtain maximum stationary strength and reliability in combination with wear resistance and durability.
Another master who undertook to build such a structure as a barrel bath with his own hands would need several steel hoops. The latter will additionally fix the round structure around the perimeter. All these and many other special materials for the bath barrel are offered by manufacturers working in the field of similar goods and services.
Work order
Depending on the height of the structure, shields for future walls are assembled from a timber on a previously prepared flat platform. Wooden material should be adjusted as tightly as possible. Then the resulting shield must be fixed with a screed.
The number of boards, as well as the final weight of the steam room obtained, depends on the volume of the future structure. Usually there are oval or round bath barrels. Their length varies from 2.5 to 5 meters. In addition, they can be supplemented with an extension or a porch, a visor or a terrace and so on.
A barrel steam room is being built as the simplest fundamental construction. Having determined the approximate center on the shield, on its outer surface you need to draw a circle of the required diameter, which will correspond to the height of our round or oval bathhouse. The excess ends of the timber material are cut off with an electric saw. Moreover, chips and irregularities cannot be allowed on the end side of the surface of the obtained disk.
Floor and drainage system
Anyone who was previously interested in the question of how to make a barrel bath, probably knows that it is arranged in a special way. And in particular, this applies to the design of the floor, which should be positioned at an angle so that it is as convenient as possible for natural drainage. At the same time, the bathhouse itself is supplied with special openings in the lower part, through which waste water flows directly into the ground. Of course, if you wish and the availability of opportunities it is quite possible to organize a drain into a centralized or local sewer system of the drain.
In addition, in such a mobile steam room a full washing area should be organized, where you can take a shower, cooling the body after high temperatures created by the stove and steam generator. It also connects to a local or centralized water supply system.
Internal organization
As in any bathhouse, lighting devices must also be installed in the barrel, and if desired, an electric furnace and other equipment and apparatus. Therefore, after completion of the construction, which was carried out independently, it is worth inviting an electrician to install the wiring. For this purpose, in the process of building a bath barrel in its roof and walls, special openings and holes must be left. In addition, following safety precautions, it is necessary to carefully insulate the wires that will be in a humid hot environment.
Inside, as in a stationary bath, to increase comfort, you need to install wooden benches and shelves. They also need to be pre-coated with a harmless antiseptic composition that increases the service life and makes it possible to permanently maintain an attractive appearance. When choosing a wood stove, the owner will need to equip an additional chimney and ventilation holes.
Care
Wooden building material in itself creates optimal conditions inside the steam room, and outside it only needs to be covered with fire-fighting and moisture-repellent compounds. Care for the barrel bath in the summer months consists in high-quality full ventilation of the internal space after each procedure. To do this, open doors with windows wide open for a long time. In the cold season, it is worth taking care of the high-quality and efficient operation of the ventilation system.