Bath barrel with his hands

Construction bath in a small area - troublesome: it is necessary to build the foundation, put a log cabin, to equip the roof.Much easier and more cost-invention of our northern neighbors the Finns - a bath-barrel.Build it can be their own hands, without any extra cost for paying workers.

Benefits-barrel bath:

• not require massive capital foundation for the installation site sufficiently flat paved;
• Thanks to its compact size bath-barrel can be placed in a small area;
• Banja barrel has a collapsible design, so installation and removal and replacement of components can be carried out without the involvement of heavy equipment;
• design mobility and light weight allows transportation bath and set it in places of temporary residence: at the camp, at the summer cottage;
• optimum use of space is achieved through the elimination of the corners of the structure.Warm bath is very fast;
• versatility of design - in the bath-barrel can be installed as a wood-burning stove, and an electric heater to provide wet or dry steam to choose from.
• original design allows the bath to become a decoration of any plot.

have bath-barrels there are drawbacks.Chief among them - the need for insulation design for use in the winter.As a heater used roll materials: they do not rot, have good thermal insulation, but increase the cost price of the bath and increase the complexity of.

design-barrel bath

Banja barrel is a room in the form of a cylinder, laid on its side.The diameter and hence the height of the bath is from 2 to 3 meters, but may be any length, typically from 3 to 6 meters in length at a standard whiteboard.Banja barrel may consist of one or steam rooms include additional pomyvochnaya branch or shower, relaxation room and a veranda.bath design with the only changes due to the number of internal partitions.By pomyvochnaya separation and steam room can bring water and sewer.

Materials and

tool to install the bath-barrels on the site will need:

• profiled decking 45 mm thick and 90 mm wide.The length depends on the size of the bath.Take decking with a larger width is not recommended - it would be difficult to join when laying in a circle;
• Cutting board 50 mm to 200 mm wide;
• metal hoop-tie;
• Door and window frames;
• canopy;
• oven-stove, wood or electric.

lumber manufacturers offer ready-made kits for the construction of a bath-barrels, with different size.ready kit can be purchased to save material, time and energy, and install it yourself.

From wood varieties for bath-barrels are suitable as conifers: spruce, pine, larch and hardwoods.This softwood do a better framework and deciduous varieties used for finishing baths - they are not resin and cause burns.

device foundation or platform under the bath

Foundation for a bath-barrel is not required.It can be installed on any flat ground, excluding the wood contact with the soil.It can be a playground, paved sidewalk tiles, poured concrete or backfilled with gravel.In the absence of such a platform can be made concrete base: to remove a layer of soil to a depth of 15-20 cm, set the formwork, do desyatisantimetrovyh sand pillow, lay rebar and pour concrete.After hardening of concrete, which lasts up to 3 weeks, it is possible to collect the bath.

Assembling bath-barrels

If you purchase ready-made kit, you only need to collect it in accordance with the instructions.Otherwise, you need to pre-treat timber.

1. manufacturing technology necessary to prepare the base of the bath.The board 50x200 mm cut to pieces, equal to the diameter of the bath.Reference boards need to be installed at a distance of no more than 1.5 meters, so their number will depend on the length of the bath.At the top of the boards cut out groove, repeating the shape of the circumference of the bath.The width of the remaining part of the board must be at least 10 cm.
2. end walls and internal partitions are collected from decking, fastened together by transverse bars.The bars should be fastened so that they are not subsequently prevented the installation of door and window openings.At the end of the ready-made kits are supplied glued assembly.
3. Slice the decking along the length of the bath, the edges are polished.Treat the board antiseptic bath.
4. Install the base plate at an equal distance from each other.Spread them on the bottom of the bath-barrels of several boards, linking their way "thorn in the groove".When the board form a circle sector, is sufficient for the installation of the end walls, place them in the appropriate place and continue to be laid around the board, completing the circle.
5. After assembly bath fasten it with metal hoops and install doors and windows.
6. roof bath-barrels can be made as truss system, and cover it with a layer of waterproofing and roofing material soft.For roof system using bar 50 mm, and as a roofing metal roofing can be used, or corrugated board, stowed on the crate from the boards.If
7. sauna-barrel will be used only in the summer, it is not necessary to insulate.The ergonomic design, it is warmed for half an hour and keeps the heat for two to three hours, which is enough to warm up a small company.
8. collected bath with the outside handle ognebiozaschitnym composition, and the inside - natural linseed oil.

Set stove

In the bath-barrel can be set as the sauna heater and conventional metal wood-burning stove.The model should comply with the furnace volume of the sauna.When installing the need to comply with fire prevention measures: isolate the wooden structures of the heating elements by means of special sheets and pipe tunneling perform using basalt insulating mats.

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floors and interior

inner lining baths and floors to perform better from hardwood boards: they are not so much heated and do steam bath in light and air - fragrant.Paul performed with a bias in the direction of water flow, with enough inclination of 1 degree per meter of floor length.To improve the circulation of the floor boards of a lattice placed with gaps between them is not less than 1 cm. This provides floor heating.The canopy and benches set along the walls.Wiring is carried out in the assembly of the bath, with the use of non-combustible cable insulation and lighting hermetically sealed devices.

Banja barrel going for a few days, please you will light steam for years.Care and maintenance of the bath simple - it is necessary to ventilate after use and every one to two years to cover the protective compounds from inside and outside.Of course you will encourage you to read about: bath on wheels with their hands, as well as about the bath from logs with your hands.