How to heat the bath: the choice of fuel, firewood, instructions for trampling the bath, tips. Additional heating of a bath and a dressing room in winter

Fuel options for the bath. Instructions for melting a stove-stone for a bath.

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Among the people who recently built a bathhouse, many questions arise regarding the construction, arrangement, heating and the choice of material for the furnace furnace. In this article, we will tell you how and what to drown the bath correctly.

Choose fuel and firewood for a bathhouse

Please note that in our country the most popular are stoves-stone stoves that work on wood. That is, the insides are filled with stones. The main fuel raw materials are firewood. It is best to use birch, because they have a pleasant aroma, quickly burn, have high heat -intensive ability and calorie content. At the same time, they do not smoke and differ in a small amount of resin.

Fuel options for the bath:

The best option, as already indicated above, is birch. Coniferous rocks are not very suitable, which, when burning, secrete many essential oils and smoke greatly. Raw firewood, as well as just cut wood, are not suitable for melting the furnace.
It must be chopped and allowed to dry in a well -ventilated together. Wood is considered ideal, the humidity of which does not exceed 20%. At the same time, it is impossible to use old boards, rotten chips, as well as wood covered with some varnishes or paints for melting the furnace. During combustion, they distinguish substance toxic for the body and can cause poisoning.
Many will ask, but how to use coal, peat or waste oils. For melting the furnace at home, you can use such sources of energy. For heating the house, such fuel is really used.
But such energy resources are not suitable for melting the bath. The fact is that coal quickly flares up, immediately gives heat, after which smolders. Which is not suitable for the bath. Strapeed oil during combustion can form an explosive mixture, therefore it is not used during melting the bath.
It is not entirely advisable to use peat, which also smolders for a long time and is distinguished by a large content of combustion and flying gases. The best option is wood, pellets are also often used. This is a product that is formed on sawmills in the woodworking industry. Simply put - these are pressed chips characterized by high thermal conductivity, therefore can be used for melting the bath.

How to drown a bathhouse: Instruction

Stove molting instructions:

First you need to make a seed. To do this, a little chips and small twigs are poured under the grate, which are well dried.
A lump of paper is made on which chips are poured on top. Two logs are laid on the grate on top of the grate, that is, two pieces of fresh firewood. The seed is set on fire and wait for these logs to light up. If they are raw, they will be reluctant to light up.
In no case should you use substances for ignition, no organic solvents. The only thing you can use is a pill of dry alcohol. After the seed is light up, it is necessary to close the furnace door and half open the pipe to remove combustion products.
When the seed is well flared up, you can fill the stove with two third wood and close it again. After about an hour and a half, everything will flare up. Add firewood from time to time if necessary.
On average, in the winter, in order to melt the stove, you will need 5-6 hours. In summer, the period is reduced to 3-4 hours. Only after that can you carry out bath procedures, that is, directly steaming in the bathhouse.
Please note that 2 hours before carrying out bath procedures, you need to open the window and ventilate the bath. This is necessary in order to remove the residues of combustion products and an unpleasant odor. Then you can close the window and steam. During ventilation, the bath will not cool. Thus, the heat will be soft and not hot.

How to melt the bathhouse: tips

In order to correctly melt the bath, it is not enough to fill the furnace with wood and set them on fire. Remember that the presence of a blue-yellow flame indicates a carbon monoxide that is released.

Tips:

In this case, do not rush to completely close the damper, leave it at the beginning completely open, and as the firewood flares up, half the shutter, continue to drown the furnace. If everything is done correctly, in the paired, as well as in the bath, there should not be smoke and unpleasant odor.
The room should be dry and warm. This is evidenced by the color and condition of the stones. They should become raspberry. Pour water into stones in order to get steam, it is necessary in small portions, about 50 or 100 ml.
In this case, the movements should be fannered, water should not fall into one place, but evenly distributed along the stones. The stones should not be wet as soon as water falls on them, it should instantly evaporate, and the stone again becomes raspberry color.
It is also necessary to properly lay out firewood. They must be laid on each other so that there is a minimum number of cracks between them. It is necessary to leave 20 cm to the upper set of the furnace. It is not necessary to lay firewood to the top to create normal conditions for inciting, and combustion products go through the pipe.
Of great importance is how long your firewood will burn and drown the stove, has the quality of the selected stones. Here You can find out how to choose stones for the bath.

Additional heating of a bath and a dressing room

If with fuel, in order to bring the steam room to readiness and everything is clear, then with heating the bath in the autumn-winter period is somewhat more complicated. To do this, you should think about how you will be heated. Of course, the easiest option is to throw firewood or other chosen fuel into the stove stove and open the door to the dressing room. This will allow him to warm up a little.

This method requires your constant presence, that is, it is necessary to constantly throw firewood into the furnace and maintain temperature, monitor the boiler. In order to avoid fire, we advise using electricity or water heating as a constant heating for a bath using a double -circuit boiler. There are options when you can use the boiler for both housing heating and for heating the bath at the same time.

What to do if the bathhouse is in the country? An electric heater is not an option, just like water heating. In winter, freezing, pipe rupture in connection with a heating supply stop may occur. In addition, in the winter time in the dressing room is quite cold, even if the door in the steam room is often open. But basically inside the steam room, the temperature remains high, and in the dressing room it is quite cold, a strong temperature difference is felt.

We recommend installing warm floors. It will be enough to turn them on 3-4 hours before you are going to relax in the bathhouse, to invite guests. This time is enough for the dressing room to heat well, excess moisture dries. You can bring an electric heater and thus solve the problem of low temperature and damp in the dressing room. But most often humidity is increased in this room, which negatively affects the operation of electric heaters, can cause a short circuit and breakdown.