Wooden baths

The most comfortable bathhouse consisting of three departments is. A spacious light dressing room is heated by a fireplace, and a place to relax and a locker room are well placed here. In a steam room, separated from the washing, you can make dry heat like a sauna. The washing is equipped with tanks for cold and hot water and shower tray. With a slight remake in such a bath, you can integrate the water system of the shower described in the previous section. And finally, some tips for the construction of a bathhouse. A place for her is chosen in the economic area of ​​the site, preferably on a certain elevation. At the same time, we must remember the observance of fire and sanitary tears between the bathhouse and the buildings of both their own and neighboring sections. The bath can be built from brick, natural stone or small blocks, however, the best material for walls and other structures of the bath is generally considered coniferous wood. Stone walls require a lot of time to warm up and cry with increased humidity – they are covered with drops of scoundns of moisture. Wooden walls quickly warm up and absorb steam well. At elevated temperatures from coniferous wood, aromatic substances are released, which also have bactericidal properties. The walls are folded in a log house of dry pine or spruce logs with a diameter of 15-25 cm or bars with a thickness of 15-20 cm. In order to hold heat, the doors and windows are made in small. For the door, 65×170 cm is enough, for the window – 40×50 cm. When installing doors, a threshold is left 20-25 cm high, which prevents cold air. The floors in the dressing rooms (rest rooms) are made warm, two -layer. In the washing and steam room, the wooden floors are single -layer floors, on the lags laid on the supported pillars. With the flooring of the floor, the gaps are left between the boards for free drain in the drain tray. Both with a gable attic and with a gentle single -sloping roof, the attic ceiling is made insulated: slag, expanded clay, in extreme cases, sand with a thickness of 15-20 cm along a wooden roll. It is very important that all wooden structures are pro -antsept from rot, fungus, Zhukovdrevochnogos.