I want to make a sauna in the apartment with my own hands, how to do, how to equip and coordinate
Sauna, being a powerful immunomodulator, is an excellent tool to increase the body's natural resistance, reduce weight and remove toxic substances. The benefits brought by the sauna can hardly be overestimated, but, despite this, the sauna in the apartment of an average Russian citizen is, to put it mildly, infrequent, in contrast to Finland and Canada, where nobody can be surprised. Apparently, the reason for this lies in the fact that the idea of \u200b\u200bequipping a sauna in an apartment until recently was one of the fantastic and unrealizable ideas. A few years ago, the prospect of building a steam room in an apartment environment was considered impossible and was not considered as an feasible project.
Content
- A sauna in the apartment is a workable project. Basic documents video
- Reconciliation is a mandatory stage of construction
- Basic steps for creating a sauna
- Choosing a furnace as the main source of heat
- A variety of options for saunas. Finnish sauna and mini sauna video video
A sauna in the apartment is a workable project. Basic documents
Today, in order to be able to steam in your own bath or sauna, it is not necessary to buy a land plot outside the city for its arrangement. The age of innovative technologies has allowed us to install a sauna directly in the apartment with minimal financial and physical costs.
First you need to familiarize yourself with the basic documents that regulate the design rules of saunas in apartment buildings. Such documents are Architectural and planning decisions of multi-apartment residential buildings (SP 31 107 2004) and Multi-apartment residential buildings (SNiP 31 01 2003). These documents establish a number of requirements that must be observed when designing saunas in apartment buildings. The basic requirements are as follows: firstly, heating is carried out only by means of a factory furnace, which has the ability to automatically turn off after reaching 130 degrees, and secondly, the area of \u200b\u200bthe steam room should vary from 8 to 25 square meters. meters, thirdly, the material for the manufacture of the sauna can only be wood treated with a special impregnating agent, in order to avoid rotting and fire.
Reconciliation is a mandatory stage of construction
The design development of a sauna in an apartment requires mandatory coordination with state and municipal services. Depending on the region of residence, these are the State Fire Service, the Office of Rospotrebnadzor, the housing inspectorate and the HOA.
If the described prospects do not scare you, and the living space allows you to equip a sauna in the apartment, then feel free to get to work. By the way, about the living space. In order to build a sauna in the apartment, a large number of square meters is not required, since most often, when talking about creating a sauna at home, we mean a mini sauna in the apartment, which is a booth measuring 0.8 by 1 m.
But if you decide not to confine yourself to a mini sauna, and are firmly convinced that you can make a sauna in your apartment with your own hands, then this article will serve as a step-by-step guide for you according to which you can equip a sauna that will meet all the prescribed standards.
Basic steps for creating a sauna
The basic steps in creating a sauna are as follows: firstly, you need to decide on the room. It must meet all the requirements for arranging a sauna, namely it must have good hydro and thermal insulation and be convenient from the point of view of connecting to basic communications (water supply, sewage, electricity), and since most often the bathroom becomes a room that meets all the above requirements, we can assume that this stage has already been completed.
If you are willing to allocate 3-4 square meters. meters under the steam room, which fully corresponds to the typical size of the sauna in the apartment, then you can go to the next stage, which consists in the choice of materials. To create a frame system for the cab, the best material would be timber bars with a section of 60x60 mm.
The racks of the frame in most cases are attached to the floor and ceiling, and therefore the installation height may not exceed 2.2 m.
At the stage of external cladding, a lining made from coniferous woods is suitable. It will fulfill the role of a high-quality sealant, closing the multi-layer structure of the walls of the sauna, consisting of several layers of insulation, foil and polyethylene. For cladding the inner side of the frame, a lining is also suitable, which is attached to the crate, in order to create a heat-insulating cake.
This is achieved by filling the empty areas of the crate with a thermally insulating substance. The correct execution of the decoration of the bath involves leaving free space up to 30 cm at the bottom of the walls. These sections are made of ceramic tiles, which helps to improve ventilation and helps to protect the skin from excessive moisture. It is also preferable to lay the floor cladding with ceramic tiles, and put wooden grilles on top.
Choosing a furnace as the main source of heat
It should be noted that when creating a sauna in the apartment with your own hands, you must remember that the main point of your work is the choice of a stove. This is due to the immediate importance of the furnace as the main heat source of the sauna. Let us clarify that in an apartment, the optimal heating device will be an electric stove-heater with a capacity of at least 3-4 kW.
The furnace of the indicated power will warm the sauna to 100 degrees for an hour, which is the optimal heating time. Moreover, the electric power of 3-4 kW is the limit for apartments in which gas stoves are installed. If electric stoves are installed in your high-rise building, then such a power of the heater will not create difficulties with the power supply, provided that peak loads on the power supply by simultaneously turning on the electric stove and heater are not created.
A well-made ventilation system is also an integral part of the sauna construction project. Even the lowest humidity level in the sauna will contribute to the formation of moisture, which will gradually penetrate the apartment with the subsequent formation of condensate. This makes it necessary to keep the ventilation system under strict control.
A variety of options for saunas. Finnish sauna and mini sauna.
Many options for arranging saunas are not limited to creating projects of classic saunas.
An alternative to a traditional sauna can be Finnish saunas, equipped in the apartment. Their distinctive features are a wide range of temperature conditions, the maximum permissible at the same time more than 140 degrees, and low humidity, the level of which reaches 15%. Thus, the Finnish sauna is characterized by a hot and dry climate. The choice of finishing material is fundamental to the arrangement of the Finnish sauna. A healing bouquet of aromas that will appeal to the most demanding bathhouse gourmet can be created using log cabins made from pine, spruce and cedar.
If your living space does not allow you to enjoy the self-cleaning of the body in a traditional sauna, then it is quite possible to replace it with an electric mini sauna, equipped in the apartment. A common design option for such a sauna is a cabin, lined with wood, with a steam generator. The power consumption of this device is within 2 kW, which allows it to be installed even in houses equipped with gas stoves.
