A sauna is a Finnish bath, which, in fact, is very similar to a Russian one, and a wood-burning stove is also installed in it.
Wood burning stove for a large sauna
Having achieved a good heat in the firebox and a solid incandescence of the stones, they splash cold water on them and get dry steam, which gives a pleasant aroma to the steam room. Sometimes decoctions of fragrant herbs or essential oils are used to form steam, in which case the bath is filled with healing air and helps to cope with many diseases.
How they are arranged and how they are installed is a must-know to ensure their safe and uncomplicated operation.
Counts, what Russian and Finnish baths contribute to relaxation and raising vitality, healing spiritual wounds, and are also a place where you can hide from that, what spoils the mood. But deciding to visit the sauna for the first time, not bad would get a doctor's advice so that the bath brings only benefits, and does not harm health. The heat coming from the heater, which maintains the temperature in the room at 75—120 degrees can negatively affect the condition of hypertensive patients and people with heart disease.
Traditional Finnish saunas include six rooms: a waiting room, a dressing room, a shower room, a steam room, a swimming pool and a relaxation room, where you must be present green tea.
Today they usually get by with two, last resort, three rooms — this is a locker room, it is also a furnace, a steam room and a shower room.The sauna stove is usually installed in the wall between the dressing room and the steam room so that it is possible to lay firewood from another room, it is very convenient and functional, we advise you to do just that!
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Benefits of wood burning sauna stoves
Wood-burning sauna stoves have a number of undeniable advantages, you will understand more than once that you have made the right choice, because:
- A sauna with such a heater can be built in any place and heated at any time, as it works autonomously and does not depend on the power supply. Do not be afraid of possible supply interruptions electricity - heater not on wood will let you down under no circumstances. This is especially true for summer cottages, where fuel can be found in any copse.
- Fuel for a wood-burning stove is not in short supply and has a very affordable price, even if you decide to purchase high-quality firewood specially designed for a bath. Firewood for the sauna must be well dried, only then you can get the desired effect of creating a healthy sauna microclimate.
- A wood-fired stove warms up stones faster than an electric one.
- Firewood when used in bath are safe and environmentally friendly fuel.
- Burnt and smoldering firewood retains heat in the oven for a long time, and means and heat in the room, while the electric oven cools down much faster, almost immediately after a power outage. A stove heated with wood remains warm up to 12—14 hours, especially if it is made of the right brick, which also cools slowly and contributes to the internal preservation of heat.
Which stove is better to install in the sauna?
The owner of a sauna under construction always faces a problem when choosing a stove between:
- steel;
- cast iron;
- brick version.
Since each of them has its pros and cons. More one problem for many will be fuel storage, which should be stocked up.
It is worth considering each option separately to determine all their pros and cons.
steel oven
A furnace made of steel sheet has an affordable cost, and this can be attributed to a positive her side, but that she fast heats up, but fast cools down — this is her big minus. Such an oven will have to keep the sauna burning for the entire period of use, and this will significantly increase fuel consumption. Saving on her acquisition, have to it’s good to spend money on firewood, so in the end the savings will not work.
cast iron stove
A stove made of this material is not recommended for installation in a sauna, as cast iron — it is a fragile material that is afraid of sudden changes in temperature. For example, if on red-hot cold water enters the cast iron, cracks may appear in its walls, and the furnace will become unsuitable for further operation.This factor is attributed to the main disadvantages of cast iron stoves and they are rarely installed in saunas, although cast iron heats up quickly and keeps heat for a long time.
brick oven
It will take more time and fuel to heat a brick oven. Compared to a metal structure, this structure cools down for a long time, from ten to twelve hours. That's why a well-heated brick oven will give off heat to the steam room for a long time, and you don’t have to worry that have to often toss firewood into the firebox.
But the construction of a brick oven is worth not cheap, and in the absence of experience in this work have to invite an experienced stove-maker.
The sauna stove has a special design, which is carried out according to certain scheme and for her masonry, it is necessary to choose the right heat-resistant mortar, adhere to the rules that are defined for the thickness and processing of joints between bricks.
Design features that you must observe when building a sauna stove
As mentioned above, furnaces can be metal and brick and their designs differ from each other. To understand which one will be more convenient for installation in a particular room, you need to consider both so that you yourself draw the right conclusion for yourself!
metal oven
Metal Sauna Stove with Water Tank
Cast iron and steel options for wood-burning stoves for a bath have the same device, and their installation can be done in two ways, depending on their design:
- the firebox is located in the dressing room, and the heater is in the steam room;
- firebox and heater are located in bannom room.
First variant prmore preferable, since in the steam room you can accidentally burn yourself on the firebox door.Together with the heater in the steam room, there is also a water tank.
This diagram shows the design of a sauna stove model, in which the firebox goes into the dressing room.
The design of a wood-burning metal sauna stove
- This oven has a water dispenser. It is convenient in that you do not need to constantly add liquid to the heater - water or decoction, it will gradually flow in a given amount. It is shown in the diagram at number one.
- At number two on the diagram, there is a heater closed by a water dispenser, which, when heated, will give a gift for a long time. Due to the fact that the metal stove cools down quickly, a closed heater will be a good help to keep warm.
- A chimney pipe runs through the stove from the furnace. Its location also contributes to the retention of heat near the stones.
- On the other side of the pipe is the second part of the heater - already open. Water from the dispenser, passing through the closed chamber of the first heater and under the pipe, exits through the open heater in the form of dry steam.
- A deep and voluminous firebox made of heat-resistant steel has a chrome-plated finish.
- A grate made of cast iron is laid in the firebox, which cools down for a long time, which means it also retains heat from the fuel.
- Under the firebox there is an ash chamber with a drawer. Waste from burning wood is collected there, and it must be cleaned after each heating of the stove.
- An external channel comes out of the furnace, having a certain length, calculated on the thickness of the wall through which it will pass. This model is designed to be installed in such a way that the firebox door is in the adjacent room.
- A self-cooling door is installed on the combustion channel.It cools quickly due to the fact that it is located far enough from the combustion chamber.
- From the back of the firebox, which leads to the steam room, there is a secondary air supply channel.
- From the front of the housing, from the side that will be near the wall from the side of the steam room, a convector casing is installed, which contributes to the exit of warm air upwards, and not into the wall.
- A chimney is put on the pipe that passes through the heater.
- A water tank is installed on the chimney, working on the principle of a samovar. The heated pipe inside it will serve as a good heat exchanger. The tank can be filled with water manually, or it can be connected to a tap water supply.
Convenient hot water tank
- Next, a chimney pipe riser is put on the tank pipe, which is carried through the ceiling and roof. When passing through combustible floor materials, the chimney must be insulated with non-combustible materials. The thickness of the insulator should be more than the thickness of the ceiling by 7-10 centimeters and go towards the attic. Between the ceiling and the pipe, the distance should be 10-15 centimeters, filled with non-combustible insulator. Sometimes a box is arranged for laying or backfilling the insulator.
- Waterproofing is necessarily arranged around the head of the pipe on the roof so that moisture cannot penetrate into the attic and does not damage the wooden elements of its structure.
To install a metal furnace, you need to properly prepare the place — it should be a non-combustible site made of brick, concrete or ceramic tiles and a brick wall through which the combustion channel will pass.
Approximate scheme for installing a metal stove in a sauna
The installation diagram of the furnace looks something like the one shown in the figure.Minor adjustments are possible, for example, if bake installed on a brick or concrete podium.
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Brick sauna stove
A brick oven can be massive, a maybe - neat and compact, it all depends on the area of \u200b\u200bthe bath room. Her can also be installed in two ways — firebox in the dressing room or in the steam room.
Sauna with a brick oven with a firebox in the dressing room
Herself bake can become part of the wall between two rooms. Looking at the diagrams of different designs of furnaces and laying stones, you can choose the size and shape of the option that fit to certain sauna room.
Possible design options
In addition to these models, there are ovens with built-in water capacity, which is established during the construction of the building. Her the back wall adjoins the side wall of the furnace, and between them they lay piece of asbestos material keep the metal from burning.
Another mounting option tank may be its installation on top of the combustion chamber, but in this case, its bottom must be protected from burning through with one layer of brick or cast-iron panel.
- To install a brick oven, a foundation is required, and it begins with it. her building. The foundation is laid in a pit, buried into the ground at 40—60 centimeters. It must be reinforced with reinforcement. In size, it should be 10 more than the base of the furnace.—15 centimeters.
- Next, if bake does not act as a wall, then a wall built of wood must be insulated with a sheet of asbestos or heat-resistant drywall.
An approximate diagram of the location of the furnace in the sauna
- A roofing felt waterproofing sheet cut to size is laid on the finished foundation.
- On top of the waterproofing, the laying of the furnace begins. It is produced on onPrivate scheme that will match the selected model.
- When laying out the walls of the stove, the evenness of the rows is controlled by using level, and verticality by using plumb. It is very important to follow the exact scheme of each series and install additional elements (doors, grate, etc.) precisely on those ranks and in the places indicated in the order.
- Doors, when installed, are fixed with steel wire, and sometimes temporarily supported by bricks, which are removed only after the door is well fixed with masonry. Strips of asbestos are laid between the masonry and the walls of the door, or it is wrapped with asbestos rope.
- grate lattice they are also placed on strips of asbestos, it is no longer fixed by anything. It is quite heavy and will be in a recess above the ash pan, so it will not move anywhere.
- The heater is brought into the steam room, it heats up from furnaces, which is adjacent to the rear wall. Through her a chimney can be laid, which is then connected to a direct chimney.
- The passage of the pipe through the floors is organized in the same way as when installing a metal furnace.
Finally I would like to say that the laying of a brick oven should be done only from high-quality material and with a properly selected heat-resistant mortar.
A small video lecture with tips on choosing a sauna stove
For fire safety purposes, you must strictly follow everyone the rules for laying and installing various elements, as well as pay special attention to the construction of a chimney.It should be noted that each step must be verified and thought out — this applies to the installation of any of the models of furnaces, since the safety of life of all family members depends on accuracy.
