Sauna in the house with own hands

Building a sauna in a house is not as easy as it might seem. This is a rather complex structure, requiring compliance with engineering, fire, electrical engineering standards and some design nuances. For a sauna in a private house you will need suitable rooms for a therma, a dressing room and a shower room. It is possible to build a sauna and as a detached house on the site adjacent to the house.

Read what the sauna looks like in the house,photos of all kinds of options are easy to find on the Internet. There you can also find houses with a sauna with the necessary calculations and sizes. For one person it is enough 2.5 - 3 m3 in a therma, and a rest room can be equipped with a compact shower stall.

Types of saunas for the private house

Depending on the type of steam, temperature and destination, there are several types of saunas and baths.

1. The Finnish sauna is characterized by dry steam and high temperature. Experienced sauna lovers catch up with temperatures above 130 ° C, with air humidity 7-10%.In a thermae, there must necessarily be a long-term thermometer designed for use in extreme conditions. Of great importance is the tightness of the doors and vents in the sauna.
2. In the Russian bath, on the contrary, high humidity and a moderate temperature of 65 - 70 ° C.In the steam room is equipped with a stove heater. The presence of a large amount of steam in the bath suggests a reliable isolation of all electrical appliances.
3. For people who do not tolerate high temperatures, the Turkish version of the sauna( hamam), which is characterized by a low temperature regime and high humidity, is suitable. At a temperature of 35 - 40 ° C, it is useful to perform physiotherapy and spa procedures, massage, wrapping, etc.

For any type of saunas, the best option is to have a pool on the adjacent territory. In a therma, except for a thermometer there must be a clock. Sometimes, for safety, the doors of the steam room are made from hot glass to order.

The foundation for a sauna on a private plot of land

Depending on the composition of the soil and the landscape erosion characteristics, the type of foundation for the sauna is chosen. The whole process of arranging the sauna from the zero cycle is on the video at the end of the article.

1. The easiest foundation for a sauna is a columnar one. For its arrangement does not require a lot of material and physical costs and drainage system. The corners of the building are drilled with holes for concrete support posts 1.7 meters deep. The perimeter supports intermediate support posts, and the whole system is connected by a horizontal run ball. This foundation is not afraid of swelling or subsidence of the soil. Such a foundation is not difficult to build for a sauna in the house with their own hands.
2. Monolithic tape foundation will require more material costs and time. A trench is digging along the perimeter of the projected sauna with a depth of 70 cm and a width of half a meter. Formwork, reinforcing skeleton is established and gradually poured with concrete. Continue to work only after 28 days, when the standing concrete will reach 50% of the design density.

As variants, pile or plate foundations are used. These foundations are designed for more massive structures and are rarely equipped for saunas.

Construction of walls and interior decoration of a sauna in a private house

Sauna walls are built from solid rounded logs folded into a frame. Most often the building is built of popular building materials - bricks, foam blocks, sawn coquina, etc.

1. The interior is finished with wood. The wood board and the bar for saunas are selected for high density, strength and low thermal conductivity. The boards and beams of both deciduous and coniferous species are suitable.
2. Before the beginning of the finishing work, the channels for electrical wiring are shrouded along the inner walls. Wire cross-section must correspond to the consumed design loads. Cables are laid in dry-tube sleeves and are blocked.
3. Naked, unfinished walls before the beginning of the finishing works are hydro and vapor-insulated. To do this, apply parchment or bitumen paper. On the surface of the walls, the insulation layer is laid in vertical strips, like wallpaper - overlapped, temporarily fixed with adhesive tape and fixed with a crate.
4. The shower room is faced with ceramic tiles, and the rest of the room is lined with wooden lining. The walls are filled with a 30x50 mm furring beam in steps of 1 meter from the floor and 1.5-2 meters vertically. It is assembled carefully polished lining in the lock and fixed with screws.
5. Floors and ceilings are also covered with wooden lining. If necessary, complete insulation of the premises. In the free cells, the battens are filled with a heater. It is better to use heat-resistant mineral wool. Expanded polystyrene does not like high temperatures and is prone to evaporation of harmful substances.
6. When adjusting the shelves, it is desirable to avoid fastenings on nails or screws, metal is heated from high temperatures much stronger than wood and can cause burns. Fastening of shops and shelves are carried out on wooden nagels.

It is important to remember that wooden panels in the thermostat are never varnished, therefore special attention is paid to grinding and polishing wood.

Arrangement of the furnace, vent and door for the sauna in the house

1. The stoves of the stove are made of refractory bricks and it is better to invite a specialist of the stove maker to build them. From the metal rod or square, a guardrail is ordered, and the working surface is laid out with cobblestone. Diabase or porphyrite is the most suitable mineral for heating, but it can be replaced by a regular river or sea rounded stone - a pebble.
2. Electric stoves or heaters are used only in the factory. Their parameters for network loads must correspond to the wiring section, and the devices are grounded. The furnaces intended for the steam rooms are equipped with cast iron screens and waterproof seals.
3. The vent in the steam room is made during the erection of the walls. A hole of at least 25x25 cm is covered with a wooden strip and sealant. The channel leads to a common exhaust system or directly to the street. The vent is closed according to the example of the window leaf or a tightly ground wooden gag.
4. Doors for the steam room in the sauna are made of plastic and heat resistant wood. Of coniferous species there are pine, spruce, fir less often cedar. Alkha, birch, oak, aspen, etc. are used from hardwoods. Doors are made initially insulated and double-chambered.
5. A rubber sealing tape is sealed around the perimeter of the door frame, sealing the door contiguity, and the interior is equipped with a canopy. The canopy is a curtain made of a dense and soft cloth fastened to the upper door frame of the door frame and preventing the escape of hot air and steam.

For tarpaulin blinds, fine felt or felt fabrics, you can use an old restored wool blanket or blanket.