Agree, it is somehow unusual to think that steam procedures for cleaning the body and soul can be carried out not in a public place, but at home. However, over the past few years, more and more often in the houses there are saunas. Moreover, this unit is installed not only in a private house, where it is rational to plan all sorts of similar "gadgets".Today, and the sauna in the apartment - this is not a curiosity, but quite an obvious trend in the design business.
Sauna in the apartment Photo
Mini-sauna in the apartment Photo
What place in your apartment will be the most suitable for the installation of the sauna, which one to choose or how to do yourself, we will tell in this article.
Where you can install a sauna in the apartment
Those who like to take care of their health, regularly remove slags from the body, lose weight without exhausting diets, has long appreciated the advantage of finding a steam room right in the house. Even if the place in the apartment allows you to install only a single sauna - this is not an excuse to abandon it in a small space.
According to the sellers, a mini-sauna in the apartment can be placed anywhere: the most common place is a bathroom. But often the dimensions of the bathrooms are rather small, so the sauna is "lodged" in the closet, in the corridor and even on the balcony.
Sauna in the bathroom
How to make a sauna in the apartment
Bathroom design with a sauna Photo
However, despite all the absurdity of the location of the steam room, for example, in the pantry, the installation of a sauna in a city apartment needs to be thought out in advance, even at the stage of repairing the premises. First, you need to get permission to install a steam room, and this business is not easy on time and finances. Secondly, for the normal functioning of the sauna, as well as the safety of your and neighboring apartments, it is necessary to have a reliable electrical wiring that will withstand the operation of the sauna, and good ventilation. In addition, for the joy of employees from the fire services better get and fire alarm. But do you understand that such an alarm system is necessary first of all to you, not to the meticulous firefighters?
Buy ready-made sauna or make to order?
Like many things in the modern world, a home sauna for an apartment can be bought ready, or can be made to order. If the room allows you to accommodate a spacious sauna, then, of course, do not give up this idea. But if the premises are small and you need to add a sauna to it, then the master comes to the rescue who will develop such a project that will satisfy the owner of the apartment and does not take up much space. Typically, in small apartments put single saunas - only such small steam rooms in them are placed. The smallest Finnish saunas for an apartment have dimensions of 80x80 cm.
In custom made saunas, it's still good that you can plan their shape, size, materials from which they will be made, and even the size and location of the heater can vary.
The design of saunas in the apartment
By the way, for those who do not know what a heater is. It is clear that the sauna in a multi-storey house can not burn with wood, but an electric sauna in an apartment is the most optimal option for a densely populated home. A stove is a stove, on the gratings of which stones are laid and heated to the desired temperature with the help of an electric heating element( used for this purpose by fire).Here lies the key moment in choosing a sauna: the more powerful the heating element, the larger the area of the room needs to be heated, the greater the voltage in the network will be needed. For a powerful steam room, 220V is not enough, in this case, supply all 380V.
Types of saunas for flats and houses
Saunas differ in the material of manufacture, and depending on the value of the tree species, the price of the finished sauna also varies. Most often, the steam rooms are made of alder, linden, Scandinavian spruce, Canadian cedar, pine, aspen.
Installing a sauna in the apartment
As already mentioned above, saunas can be calculated for one person, and for several.
Sauna in a large apartment or private house
A popular alternative to a home sauna is infrared. Despite the fact that the temperature of taking the procedure in infrared cabins is almost halved, the therapeutic effect of its use is many times greater. With the help of infrared rays, a deeper warming is carried out - the body warms to a depth of 4 cm, providing an effect on deep tissues and internal organs. And in a normal sauna, despite heating the air to 100 ° C, only the human skin warms up. Therefore, we draw conclusions: from visiting the infrared cabin the sense is greater - cholesterol and fat are better displayed, and weight loss is more intense.
Infrared sauna in the apartment photo
Infrared cabin in the apartment
How to make a sauna in the apartment
To the craftsmen and masters of all trades it will be easy to install the steam room in your apartment yourself. However, a little knowledge will not hurt. So, let's figure out how to make a sauna in an apartment.
Before installing a sauna in your apartment, make sure that the room is spacious enough - according to safety rules it should exceed the size of the sauna itself in half. Often, making a sauna in the apartment with their own hands, it is located in the corner of the bathroom or any other room, in this case, so that it quickly heats up, the walls are insulated with mineral wool. It is clear that in this scenario we significantly reduce heat loss, which, naturally, is at our disposal. At the same stage, you need to take care of the wiring - it is desirable to lay the cable in the pipes and hide in the skin.
Then the foil is fixed to the frame, and then the walls are lined with lining. Thus it is necessary to pay attention that all metal fixing elements have been sunk inside of a finishing material. This is necessary first of all for your safety, so as not to burn yourself, for example, with a hot nail.
The frame is ready, now we begin to make the regiments. Their width can be any, choose the most suitable distance for you, but the height is desirable to observe the same - 40cm from the floor or the previous "step".When covering with wood, as a rule, leave a space of half a centimeter empty for better air circulation.
The oven is insulated from the floor and walls with a fire-resistant material, asbestos board is ideal for this purpose. At the final stage, waterproof and heat-resistant fixtures are installed.
And after that the sauna in the apartment is completely ready! Now stock brooms and all kinds of accessories for the bath, invite your friends and take bath procedures.
