Russian bath, microclimate and ventilation
Coming out of the bath welcome: With a light steam !. What needs to be done to make the steam easy?
Content
- Ventilation in a Russian bath video
- Ventilation of a freestanding Russian bath from a log or timber
- Ventilation in a frame bath, a brick and concrete bath video
- Steam room heating methods
- How does steam form? video
- Aromatherapy
Ventilation in a Russian bath
Ventilation in a Russian bath is, first of all, necessary for the prevention of wood damage.
With the help of ventilation, there is rapid air exchange and air circulation.
And in order for bath procedures to be healthy, the air must be clean, fresh and fragrant.
All this is ensured by ventilation, especially since the steam room of the Russian bath is not large in size.
And each person, for free breathing, needs his own portion of oxygen.
Air exchange, if properly organized, is able to maintain the desired temperature and humidity during bath procedures.
After the bathing procedures are over, you need to quickly dry the steam room and washing, and only good ventilation can do this qualitatively.
With well-established ventilation, your Russian bath will last quite a long time and will not be affected by fungi and mold.
Proper ventilation of the Russian bath is one in which the air is updated three times in one hour. Depending on the type of construction of the Russian bath, the ventilation scheme and equipment are also selected.
Ventilation of a freestanding Russian bath from a log or timber
The healthy microclimate of the steam room directly affects our well-being and mood.
The best option for a Russian bath is a free-standing bath made of logs or timber.
In such a bath, natural air circulation is perfectly organized, since the wood is able to breathe, it passes air and water vapor well.
Naturally, wood should not be treated with paint or varnish, etc. - for a bath, this is nonsense, since the breath of a tree should provide the main air exchange in the steam room.
Additional air comes in through the ajar door, the steam cleaner adjusts it for himself, the flow of additional air, since the additional air inlets in the log bath do not.
The air ventilation in the steam room, in the Russian bath, is affected by the operation of the stove-heater.
Water is periodically poured onto hot stones, thus steam is formed, it rises together with hot air, cooling down, steam goes down and pushes the exhaust air out of the steam room.
Thus, fresh air constantly enters the steam room, the desired temperature and humidity are created.
If the stove is located correctly - it works like a hood.
When laying the foundation of a Russian bath, two vents must be left, and they must be located opposite each other. In this way, through ventilation and drying of the sex lags is created.
When installing the finishing floor in the steam room, small slots of 5-10 mm are left. This also contributes to a good drying of the steam room, sometimes ventilation holes are made in the floor, they are covered with grilles and this is also part of the steam room ventilation.
Ventilation in a frame bath, a brick and concrete bath
In a completely different way, ventilation is mounted in a bathhouse with a frame wall structure, in a brick and concrete bathhouse.
Paired such baths are equipped with forced-air exhaust vents.
Very often, the inlet is made below, next to the stove with a stove. Cold air is heated by a working stove and already warm enters the room.
On the wall opposite to the stove, exhaust openings are made.
Exhaust openings can be one or two.
Usually, an exhaust hole is made under the ceiling, and the second can be done at a height of one meter from the floor.
Both of these outlet openings are connected by an exhaust duct.
If the bathhouse is built into the house, the exhaust air enters the main ventilation of the house, and if the bathhouse is built separately, the exhaust air goes just outside.
Valves or valves are installed on the inlet openings, with their help they regulate air exchange.
There is another scheme, here fresh air enters through an opening made just above the heater stove, and exhaust air exits through an opening on the opposite wall, with the opening located below the inlet.
In this case, the air heats up quickly, passing over hot stones, quickly rises. The steam room heats up quickly and evenly, but such a scheme works successfully if a fan is installed in the outlet, thus creating a forced air circulation.
It should be noted that there are different ventilation systems and they must be selected at the design stage.
The ventilation system in the steam room located in a residential building is especially relevant. Remember, your and your home’s security depend on it.
Steam room heating methods
A Russian bath is good because it has a fairly moderate temperature (60 * -70 * C).
Kamenka furnaces are able to make a certain temperature regime in the steam room, create a warm-up of the room, retain heat, with their help it is possible to regulate the heating.
But if the steam room needs to be warmed up quickly, in about 30 minutes, continuous heaters are needed here, since only with their help a quick movement of warm air is possible.
Such furnaces have a small wall thickness and require constant fuel.
And storage furnaces have thicker walls, during fuel combustion, they accumulate heat and then, for a rather long time, give it away. Storage furnaces are mounted of brick, ceramic tiles, such stoves, combined with a large number of stones, create the best steam, but these stoves are quite large.
Modern manufacturers produce hybrid-type heaters, they can be both convection and storage furnaces at the same time.
How does steam form?
The steam in the bath is different. Light vapor, highly dispersed, it consists of very small particles of water.
This steam is obtained with strong heating of the stones, up to 400 * C and with the interaction of water with these stones.
This temperature of stones can only be obtained in a furnace with a closed stone container and only during watering, this container opens and this is a feature of the Russian bath and the lightest steam happens in the baths where the furnace is installed, in which the stone container does not open at all .
1. fuel tank 2. tank with a lid 3. steam door 4. stove 5. ash pan
In such furnaces there is a special hole through which stones are poured and steam escapes.
In this case, as if an explosion occurs, the water instantly breaks into tiny particles.
Manufacturers are constantly working to improve furnaces, produce steam generators to create light steam.
But, it should be noted that coarse dispersed steam has its advantages: tones and moisturizes the skin, cleanses of toxins, smoothes wrinkles.
In general, a bath without steam is a hot desert!
Aromatherapy
The bathhouse is a place for enjoying healing aromas. Here, breathing and blood circulation and the use of various plants improve, and enhances the healing effect.
In the bath, both the most famous plants, such as mint, mustard, wormwood, sage, etc., and exotic plants are used.
But we must remember that essential oils, their overabundance, can harm health.
Modern models of steam generators are equipped with dosing systems.
But to ensure steam saturation with aromas, you can put fresh or dry healing herbs on the stones or on the shelves.
Currently, aromatherapy is very popular.
