Relaxing heat, wood aromas, burning strokes with a birch broom … And then plunge into ice water and you were just just born!
Russian bath! In the bosom of nature – this is the best that people invented over the millennia of civilization.
It’s a pity, in urban conditions, you can’t put a bathhouse. The only way out is to convert the bathroom to the sauna. Or go to a public bath on weekends.
A small room, sheathed with lining, is easily warmed up by saving electricity or gas, which is heated. The tree retains heat and the desired humidity for a long time, which is incomparably with tiles and mosaic tiles, which is usually finished by city bathrooms.
Buy boards, bars with lining for the sauna can be without much difficulty. You don’t even have to go anywhere. Everything is done via the Internet. And bring right to place.
However, how to sheathe a sauna with a lining, many lovers of the steam room will ask. It’s not so difficult.
First you need to decide on which walls the sauna will adjoin. If one of the walls is street, then it is better to leave a ventilated gap, since otherwise condensate will form in winter and the tree will rot. To do this, take bars of 50*50 mm and bend at a distance of 50-70 cm from each other. On top of them – a crate. And already on the crate is attached to the frame of the sauna.
We roll over the wall and fix the rolons of Pergamine, overlapping each other 10 cm. To fix Pergamine, you need to drill through it a hole in the wall and insert wooden plugs or plastic dowels, depending on the material of the walls.
We fasten the elements of the strapping to the walls. One block at the top 10-20 cm from the ceiling and the lower bar at an altitude meter from the floor. It should be wider, fasten it more reliably, since shops will be attached to it. The rest are in any order. The surfaces of all bars of the strapping should be in the same plane (check the level). If the wall is uneven, then the thickness of the bars needs to be adjusted.
If the sauna is not built on the entire area of the room, then where there are no walls, we put a couple of racks from a board of 100-120 cm wide at the corners of the wall under construction. The boards should be higher than the upper beam of the strapping by 5 cm. We fasten the floor as follows. In the floor, drill two holes, insert dowels. We drive 2 nails (120 cm) into the board on a width equal to the width of the holes in the field. Then we fix the board, inserting the nails into the holes.
Check the verticality of the racks, after which we fix them with the board – put them on top of the flat. This will be the first element of the ceiling.
The ceiling frame is best made from wide boards, not bars. Net them at a distance of 50-70 cm from each other.
In the frame, set the door racks and a horizontal jumper. Must be adjusted under the door box, then remove the box.
We make frames for the heater and 2 frames for ventilation.
Now it’s time to think about lighting – we lay the wiring to the places of future lamps and heater. In a small sauna, there will be enough two lamps of 40 watts in the corners above the upper bench.
The wires are drawn in Metalorukava, attached to the frame so as not to damage the sleeve.
Satisfy the sauna with a lining from the ceiling.
If the ceiling of the sauna is attached directly to the ceiling of the bathtub, then before the crate, it had to be covered with pergamin. Pull the foil over the crate (fasten the buttons). Sew with boards. Between the foil and the ceiling of the bath, it is necessary to place a heater (mineral wool). This is done as follows – fix one width of the foil with boards, between it and the ceiling, place the insulation. Then again one width of the foil (overlap 10 cm), boards, insulation, etc. D.
If the crate is not attached to the ceiling, then the crate is attached to the foil (perpendicular to the crate), then sheathed with lining, nailing it with hidden cloves under 45 degrees to the vertical. A heater is laid out on top of the foil, then permamine and sheathed with a lining or board.
The walls are lined in the same way. Then the shops are attached. The door is installed. And electrical equipment.
I hope that the article was useful. Tell us in the comments about your experience.