Determine the optimal size of the steam room for the bath

If you take a look at the history of the Russian bath, then it turns out that in the olden days( and now even here and there in the villages) the steam rooms were not at all a certain small element of the structure. The village Russian bathhouse, as a rule, consisted of only two rooms - actually a bath( you can call it a steam room) and a dressing room.

Moreover, what we now often call a steam room - combined many functions. Yes, it was possible to give a pair in it and walk along the back with a fragrant birch broom, but also just washed in this room, moreover this same room was used as a laundry. Yes, and washed in village baths often by the whole family at the same time, a simple peasant would not allow unjustified waste of fuel. Based on these reasons, in a traditional village bath, a therma( washing and laundry) sometimes reached a considerable size.

Now in the baths do not wash clothes even in the most dense villages, but in cities, large and small, the bath has turned from a purely utilitarian room into a kind of club that has grown to several rooms. Obligatory attributes of a modern city( or dacha) bath are not only the steam room, but also the toilet room and rest room. As a consequence, the need to make a therma in a large-sized bath disappeared. This room now performs one single narrow function - "pouring steam" and infrequently in a private home or country bath it comes in more than two or three people. However, the size of the sauna steam room is determined not only by the optimal number of its visitors, but also by a number of safety standards, we will tell you about all of them.

The heart of the sauna

However, the optimal size of the bath each owner chooses, as they say: "to your taste and color."Someone likes huge palaces in which there can be a place not only for a bath, but also other pleasures, starting from a fireplace hall and ending with a huge billiard. Someone on the contrary, uses a bath room purely for narrow utilitarian recreational purposes and does not seek gigantism. But in any case the whole bathhouse, no matter how it was: a huge palace or a small house is built around a single room - a steam room, which is its heart.

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

campaign Steam room options for one or two people

What do we want from the steam room? That's right - "light steam".If in the Finnish version of the sauna - in the sauna the temperature in the steam room can reach hundreds of degrees Celsius, then in a classical Russian bath this heat is not required. There is enough heating up to 50 degrees. However, lovers of bath comforts all the same design steam rooms in baths so that it was equally comfortable and with the "Finnish" version of the temperature and the "Russian" method.

It is worth noting that a well-designed steam room for a sauna transmits heat to the human body not only directly from the stove-heater, but also from all surrounding space. For this purpose, the materials used in the steam room lining are good for keeping heat, but in no way reflecting the radiant energy. The presence of any metal parts in the steam room, be it doors or design elements, can lead to burns and injuries. Iron, freestanding stoves can be placed only in large steam rooms, reliably separating them by a solid barrier from the habitable zone of the steam room.

On the other hand, an electric heater is unlikely to provide sufficient heating for a large steam room, so it is better to use such stoves in small rooms. In addition, the use of an electric furnace in a steam room is fraught with high financial costs for paying bills for electricity.

In order to understand what should be the size of the steam room for a particular type of stove-heater it is necessary to use a special formula. It is worthwhile to know that the intensity of thermal radiation from the heating source weakens in an inversely proportional relationship to the distance from the heat source. In this case, the heating decreases with increasing distance not linearly, but in the square of the distance. In practice this means the fact that your guests, who will be located three meters from the stove-heater, will receive heat four times less than those who rest from the source of heat in a meter and a half.

Because of this, the large size of the steam room causes significant problems with its even heating, because in order for the radiant energy to reach everyone, you will have to significantly increase the temperature of heating the stove, which is unlikely to be comfortable for those people who are in close proximity to the heat source. On the other hand, a particularly high temperature is not recommended for resting impaired people and children. Many members of the fair sex do not like too hot a steam room. So if you are not planning a purely "men's club", but an institution for a pleasant family holiday, then you can increase the size of the steam room, having received in it both the frying of a zone where it is nice to steam from the heart, and relatively cool areas wherewill feel comfortable and women and children.

The optimum height of the sauna

The optimal height of the steam room, according to the absolute majority of lovers of the Russian bath should not exceed 2.4 meters. On the one hand - high ceilings in the therma allow the construction of seats and shelves on several levels, providing holidaymakers with a choice for them rest areas most suitable for them in comfort. But on the other hand - high ceilings significantly increase the internal volume of the room, which causes a significant increase in the time required for its warm-up. So, raising the height of the ceiling by only 0.1 meter will increase the internal volume of the middle pair by a half-cubic meter. But too much to reduce the height of the ceiling steam room, too, should not be - in fact it will not feel comfortable people above average growth.

In order to effectively and optimally use the entire internal space of your steam room, experts recommend reducing the floor area and increase the space occupied by shelves and sun beds. The most optimal solution will be the arrangement of three consecutive rising sun loungers, one after another, each of which will be 35 centimeters from the other in height. The width of the regiments you can choose according to your taste and conforming to the internal dimensions of the steam room, but do not forget that the upper shelves should be the widest, as it is on it that, as a rule, all the magic of the Russian bath.

Thus, the size of the steam room in the bath you can choose, based on the planned number of guests, their sex and age composition, the size and efficiency of the stove-heater, your personal preferences and the wishes of your cronies. Approximate typical sizes of different options for steam rooms are shown in the figures for the article, so you can always choose the basic version to your liking and later adjust it according to your individual preferences.

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