We determine the optimum size for steam baths

If you look back at the history of the Russian bath, it turned out that in the old days (and still in some places in the villages), the steam room is not a kind of separate small building element.Country Russian bathhouse usually consisted only of two rooms - the actual bath (you can call it a steam room) and a waiting room.

Moreover, the fact that we are often called steam room - combines many functions.Yes, it could succumb to a couple and go back fragrant birch twigs, but also in the room and just wash, moreover it is used as a laundry room.And bathed in village baths often the whole family at the same time, a simple peasant would not allow undue waste of fuel.Based on these reasons in their ordinary village bath steam room (which is also washing and laundry) sometimes reached respectable size.

Now baths do not wash clothes, even in the most dense villages and in towns, large and small bath has evolved from a purely utilitarian space into a kind of club, which has grown to several rooms.Required attribute of modern urban (or villa) baths are not only a steam room, and washroom facilities and a relaxation room.As a result, no longer necessary to make the steam room in the large bath.This room will now act as a single narrow function - "subjects pairs" and rarely in a private home or villa bath her go more than two or three people.However, the size of bath steam are determined not only the optimum number of its visitors, but also a variety of safety standards on all of them and we'll tell you.

Heart baths

However, the optimum size of each bath its owner chooses, as the saying goes: "to your taste and color."Someone liking huge palaces, which can be a place not only the bath, but also other fun, from the fireplace room and ending with a huge billiards.Someone on the contrary, uses the bath room clean in narrow utilitarian and recreational purposes is not seeking gigantism.But in any case the whole room, no matter what it was not: a huge palace or a small house is built around a single room - the steam room, which is its heart.

To determine the optimal size of the steam bath you first need to decide what the maximum number of people you plan to place it at the same time.

options steam room for one / two people

What we want out of steam?That's right - "light steam".If in the Finnish version of baths - the sauna temperature in the steam room can be up to hundreds of degrees Celsius, the classic Russian bathhouse such heat is not required.There is enough heat to 50 degrees.However, lovers of pleasures bath still in the design steam baths so that it was equally comfortable and "Finnish" temperature version and with "Russian" method.

It should be noted that a well-designed steam bath for bath transfers heat to the human body not only directly on the stove-heater, but also from all the surrounding space.To do this, use the steam room wall material retains heat well, but in any case do not reflect radiant energy.The presence of any metal parts in the steam room, whether the door or design elements can cause burns and injury.Iron, freestanding stoves is allowed to place only in large steam rooms, reliably separating them from the solid barrier steam habitable zone.

On the other hand - an electric heater is unlikely to provide enough high-quality heating a large steam room, so these stoves are best used in small spaces.In addition, the use of an electric furnace in a steam bathhouse is fraught with high financial costs to pay electricity bills.

In order to understand what should be the size of the pair for a particular type of heater-stove need to use a special formula.It should know that the intensity of the heat radiation from the heat source is weakened in inverse proportion to the distance from the heat source.This heat decreases with increasing distance is not linear, and squared distance.In practice, this means the fact that your guests, which will be located in three meters from the stove-heater get heat four times smaller than the rest, who are from the source of heat and a half meters.

As a result, large steam room sizes cause significant problems with its heating uniformity, because in order to radiant energy reached each room you will have to significantly increase the stove heating temperature, which is unlikely to be comfortable for those people who are in close proximityto the heat source.On the other hand, too much heat is not recommended for debilitated people rest and children.Many representatives of the fair sex do not like too hot steam.So if you do not plan to purely "men's club" and the restaurant for a nice family vacation, you can increase the size of the sauna, getting it as a cooking area, where guests from the heart to warm up, and relatively cool areas wherewill feel comfortable, and women and children.

optimum height of the sauna

optimum height of the sauna, in the opinion of the absolute majority of fans of Russian baths should not exceed 2.4 meters.On the one hand - high ceilings in the sauna allow you to build seats and shelves at several levels, providing travelers a choice for their recreation areas, the most appropriate for their comfort.But on the other hand - high ceilings significantly increases the internal volume of the room, causing a significant increase in the time required for its warm-up.Thus, raising the ceiling height of only 0.1 meters to increase the internal volume of the average guy on the polkubometra.But excessive steam is also not necessary to reduce the height of the ceilings - because it will be uncomfortable to feel people are taller than average.

In order to effectively and optimally use the entire interior of your steam room, experts recommend to reduce floor space and increase the space occupied by shelves and lounges.The most optimal solution would be next to each other three successively higher lounges, each of which is spaced from the other at a height of 35 centimeters.Shelf width, you can choose according to your taste and consistent in the internal dimensions of the steam room, but do not forget that the top shelf should be the most extensive, as it happens, and it is usually all the magic of Russian bath.

Thus, the size of the sauna bath, you can choose on the basis of the planned number of visitors, their sex and age composition, size and efficiency of the stove-heater, your personal preferences and wishes of your cronies.Approximate sample sizes of various steam rooms options are shown in the figures to the article, so you can always choose a basic version in taste and in the future to adjust it according to their individual preferences.

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