A modern Russian person is a citizen who carefully monitors his health, diet, and also does not shun sports and traditional for our country health-improving procedures, like visiting saunas and baths.
Moreover, in the care of their own health and beauty, many of our compatriots equip baths, saunas in their apartments, homes, in order to be able to actively monitor the state of their body, literally without leaving their native penates.
In the event that this idea is not so long ago came to your bright head, we strongly advise you to equip your steam wooden fonts.
Next, we just talk about what they represent and what are the wooden fonts for the bath and sauna.
Contents:
- History of
- appearance Healing properties of
- wood Doing your own hands
- Where to buy and how much does it cost?
The history of the appearance of
The very word "font" has Slavic roots - it is directly related to the rite of baptism. In fact, the font is a kind of a cup, a vessel.
By the way, in the process of the rite of baptism, an ice-hole can sometimes be called a font.
Curious, but wooden fonts for the bath, in the most modern sense of the word, appeared relatively recently.
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The thing is that earlier in such constructions a Russian person simply did not have any need.
So, baths in Russia were traditionally built on the shores of a variety of water bodies, so that a person had the opportunity, after leaving the steam room, immediately plunge into the cool waters of a nearby lake, a river, well, or even swim in the snow.
Such a seemingly simple procedure with a sharp temperature difference provided our compatriots with strength and health for a long time, preventing various ailments.
In particular, it was about strengthening the vessels, protecting against hypertension, strokes, heart attacks, etc.
If you talk about modern baths, saunas, then a Russian person does not always have the opportunity to build them next to any water body.
First, if we are talking about a private house on a separate land plot, then not all Russians have in the immediate vicinity a river or a private lake.
And what to say about bathhouses, saunas, equipped in apartments, beauty centers, health, etc. In this case the wooden fonts for the bath are becoming topical.
Healing properties of wood
It is curious that depending on which tree the font will be made from, it will have different healing properties.
So, for example, oak fonts, due to the substances contained in the tree, will contribute to the early healing of abrasions, wounds, slow the inflammatory processes, and improve sleep and increase the overall tone of the body.
The cedar font is credited with almost magical properties.
But in fact, cedar fonts perfectly affect people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases, are hostages to the ailments of the nervous and cardiovascular system.
And, it is worth noting, this bathing can have beneficial effects on people with skin ailments. But this is not all - cedar bathrooms increase the production of hormones, promote rejuvenation of the body.
Fonts from larch for their useful properties are almost in no way inferior to cedar baths, the properties of which we spoke above.
Beech fonts are especially useful for women.
In particular, such baths will help improve the color and condition of the skin, strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
In addition to its undoubtedly useful properties, wooden fonts are also durable enough and perfectly fit into the interior of almost any modern sauna and bath. And still such constructions are simple in leaving.
Do it yourself
If desired, wooden fonts for the bath with their own hands can be done. Immediately note that for these purposes only resistant to decay, moisture, wood species, namely, cedar, larch, oak.
Most often, wooden fonts have an oval or round shape. The general construction consists of the bottom, as well as the sides.
The latter are created from typed, specially prepared dashboards, which are pulled together by special bandages made of metal.
First, let's talk about how to properly make the bottom of a wooden font.
So, you will need to glue to each other in a quadrilateral, and also to tighten the carpenter's clamps with flat racks.
Then it will be necessary to thoroughly polish the surface and cut out the bottom of the required shape. Do not forget to drill a hole for the drain as well.
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The finished bottom will need to be installed on the bar-racks so that it rises slightly above the ground.
Now it's time to talk about how to properly make boards for your wooden font.
The first thing you need to do is how to prepare dostochki for the sides of the future font. In particular, you will need to miter their edges in a special way.
Unfortunately, the ordinary manual cutters here do not fit categorically. In this case, only large mills with which only milling machines are equipped will be relevant.
If you have such a machine - it's fine, if not, then you can turn to a professional carpentry workshop where you, for a small price, prepare dostochki the right way.
Also, except for the edges, dostichki must be supplied and a groove for the bottom in the form of the letter "P".
When all dostochki will be ready, it will be possible to start assembling the sides. It traditionally occurs with a screed with three rows of metal hoops, as well as using nuts, bolts.
Only when the whole structure is ready, you can proceed to the installation of water extraction and supply systems.
Where to buy and how much is it?
If you do not want to bother with doing it yourself, you can always buy a wooden font for a bath.
Fortunately, such products today are not uncommon - they can be purchased in both building stores and in the network on the sites of products for saunas, baths.
Please note that the price for a font for a wooden bath will depend on how many people it is designed for, what additional functions are provided( lighting, hydromassage, etc.).
