The stove in the bathhouse is the main object. It depends on her how quickly it will warm up and cool down the room. If someone decides to build a sauna stove with his own hands, then he must know what is taken for a very responsible and laborious work. There are various options for baths: Turkish, Finnish, Japanese. But a person from central Russia is always sweeter than his own, Russian. Each visit to the bath is a celebration of body and soul. A man, having bathed in it with a birch broom, feels not only clean, he breathes easily, and his soul is in a blissful languor, even all the worries go somewhere, as if he were born again.
The stoves for the Russian bath were always laid brick. They heat up slowly, but also give off heat evenly, the steam from them is dry. However, making a brick oven for a bath with your own hands is a rather laborious process. Professional stove makers lay them out of a special brick. It needs a solid foundation, which is carried out before the erection of the walls. The foundation must be well waterproofed. They do this with the help of roofing material, which covers the last row of the foundation, then laying a series of bricks, another layer of roofing material on them, then proceed to laying. Further, it’s nice to find a brick laying scheme on the Internet and do the work in stages according to this scheme.
A metal stove for a Russian bath is unsuitable. It instantly warms up and quickly heats the room. Usually they are surrounded by stones. But the stones heat up slowly, because of this the steam turns moist. It’s hard to breathe from such a pair. You can overlay a metal stove with brickwork. You can lay out the bricks yourself, leaving a gap between the metal surfaces and the masonry of ten to fifteen centimeters. The thickness of such a lining should not exceed half the thickness of the brick.
Also used as a wood and gas stove for a bath. However, there are many possibilities that make it possible to make a metal furnace for a bath with your own hands. There is a home-made construction made from a large metal pipe.
A piece of pipe is cut into two parts. From one part, the actual stove with a blower, a
grate, a firebox with a door is made. A grate is installed above the firebox, on which stones will subsequently be laid. The second part of the pipe is used to create a water tank. A
chimney is welded to the tank bottom
, which is pre-inserted into the corresponding holes in the tank bottom and lid, which are also made of sheet metal. The pipe is welded to the bottom so that water does not flow out of the tank. A tap is welded to the tank. The tank is mounted on the first part of the pipe using a special tire. It is also bricked and installed on a foundation, which is a masonry in two rows of refractory bricks. It is better to cover the wall that is next to it with a layer of foil as a heat reflector for fire protection purposes. Such a stove for a bath with your own hands can not be used for residential premises.