Calculate everything seven times - install once. How to choose the best wood-burning stove for a sauna?
The wood-burning sauna stove attracts attention with its compactness, aesthetics appearance and at an inexpensive price.
Heating speed on the positive side characterizes the technological component of the design, and ease of maintenance allows you to keep the heating device in good working order.
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Which one to choose? Requirements for wood-burning sauna stoves
The construction of wood-fired sauna products includes:
- installation of the stove and screens, made of metal;
- presence around the structure chimney, isolated from heating;
- arrangement in the adjacent room fireboxes, consuming oxygen;
- air access and circulation;
- air circulation during facing the casing with brick;
- firebox with firewood predominantly deciduous trees;
- timely removal of combustion products;
- regular chimney cleaning from soot.
Important! Fire safety When constructing and operating bath stoves, strict adherence to established rules is required.
Criteria for choosing the most suitable stove for a bathhouse
The consideration of the features of the structure being installed will depend on efficiency and quality of heating premises. Wood-fired bath structures are built mainly made of brick, they rarely require cladding and have a good balanced thermal output.
Metallic Firewood products can be purchased at specialized retail outlets. Industrial enterprises have mastered the production of these products and offer consumers different models with technical specifications.
When purchasing a stove, you must be guided by certain criteria, including:
- power ratio constructions to volume bath room (per 1 cu. m - 1 kW power);
- heat output steel or cast iron construction (air temperature at the bottom of the steam room should be 40-50 degrees);
- duration of combustion of one bookmark firewood (determined by the consumer on an individual basis);
- availability furnace tunnel, ensuring unimpeded air flow;
- presence in the firebox door heat-resistant glass, through which the flame of fire can be seen.
Reference. The choice of heating design is significantly influenced by square steam room, as well as properties and characteristics of the material, from which the stove is made.
Area of the premises
The power of the heating structure must correspond to the area and volume of the steam room. During construction ovens taken into account:
- type, power and volume future heating device;
- location;
- volume constructions together with cladding;
- ceiling height indoors.
Important! Often consumers mistakenly believe that the power of the structure should be greater than necessary. Exceeding power ratings leads to a disruption of the temperature balance and reduction of the obtained effect from staying in the steam room.
High-quality and uniform heating is achieved only when it is found correct ratio power to the area of the steam room.
Furnace size
The power of any heating device directly depends on firebox dimensionsWhen building a wood-burning stove yourself, you should correctly calculate all the necessary parameters that will correspond to the dimensions of the room.
Based on the total volume of the steam room, the power is calculated according to the following scheme: 1 cubic meter = 1 kW power. If the power divide by a factor of 0.5, we'll find out firebox volume in liters, A extracting from the obtained volume cube root — linear quantities wood burning stove.
The parameters of the brick structure will be determined by the established dimensions. Standard the size of one brick (long 250, width 120 and height 65 mm) will allow you to calculate the dimensions of the heating installation. At the same time, 5mm is added for each seam.
The produced metal structures have established dimensions And technical specifications. Thus, the device is selected taking into account the volume of the steam room.
Materials
The production of bath stoves involves the construction of a structure from the appropriate grades fireproof heat-resistant bricks or their production made of metal.
The brick structure is characterized by a long period of heating, but it retains and distributes heat evenly for a long time. The brick sauna stove is safe in case of accidental contact.
Metal structures heat up quickly and cool down just as quickly. If handled carelessly, high risk of getting burned.
To solve the problem of heat loss and safety, the owners of most bathhouses try to impose metal structures natural stones, artificial stone or brick.
Efficiency cladding with these materials significantly is increasing, the structure begins to conserve thermal energy and use it rationally.
Description of the best stoves: how to make a personal rating
The choice of design depends largely on from the purposes, purpose and characteristic features of the premises. Bath and sauna are completely different directions with opposite temperature conditions, dry or humid air, and the absence or presence of steam.
Interior decoration such premises are different and require a special approach in choosing heating devices.
For a wooden bath
Wooden baths are different increased fire hazard. The walls, ceiling — almost all elements of the steam room are made of wood. In wooden rooms, stoves are built mainly made of brick. Metal structures purchased in a retail network are faced with natural stones, bricks or artificial stone.
When choosing a heating device, the main attention is paid to designs with remote firebox, which, for safety reasons, is taken out into a room adjacent to the steam room.
Photo 1. Brick stove for a wooden bathhouse with a remote firebox; firewood can be loaded from the changing room.
The choice of the stove depends on technologies of its production and is characterized by a large firebox, as well as the presence of space for placing a certain number of stones above the heating structure.
Special attention when purchasing a design, please pay attention on the chimney, which is made of metal and, for safety reasons, must be insulated from the ceiling with non-combustible materials.
Reference. The choice of a stove largely depends on the criteria that take into account Features and characteristics of the structure, as well as the existing finishing of the steam room.
For a traditional Russian bath
The Russian bathhouse is distinguished by its heavy stove. high power, which retains heat for a long time and provides wet steamThe requirements for choosing a design for a Russian bathhouse are much higher and it can be difficult to select a heating device to constantly maintain high air humidity.
To reach in the steam room 100% humidity air and temperatures 50-70 degrees, the oven should be checked for compliance with the requirements of the instructions.
Photo 2. A brick oven with a closed heater and a boiler for heating water is perfect for a Russian bath.
The design for the Russian bath is made in such a way that stones are located behind a permanently closed door inside the heating device. Access to the stones is opened only when there is a need to add water. This feature allows increasing the heating of the stones several times more than with their surface placement.
The choice of a stove for a Russian bath is also made according to a criterion that provides for the possibility heat water in a boiler.
Important! Unlike a sauna, a person staying in the steam room of a Russian bathhouse, is constantly on the move, throwing water on the stones. Rest comes after leaving the steam room. This fact also influences the choice of a suitable heating device.
For sauna
Saunas are characterized by dry, hot air, temperature which reaches 120 degrees, A humidity does not exceed 25%.
In saunas, as well as in wooden baths, there is a provision open loading of stones and periodic overturning of water on stones. But the process of obtaining steam in a sauna is not the main one and the steam effect quickly disappears due to good ventilation of the room.
Photo 3. A compact metal stove with an open stone heater will provide the sauna with heat and dry steam.
The choice of heating devices for a sauna is based on designs that, according to the features and characteristics of the room, can provide a supply dry hot air.
Important! When choosing a sauna stove, pay attention to low human activity, relaxing in the steam room. Thanks to dry steam, sweating is achieved naturally, after which the person calmly leaves the steam room.
The choice can fall on any wood-burning stove with an open arrangement of stones. The power of the structure is selected according to the size of the room.
Useful video
A video that talks about some of the intricacies of choosing a sauna stove: when to start planning the installation, what to heat it with, and what heating modes are available.
Safety precautions: you need to heat a wood-burning stove correctly!
Any oven, where fuel is used to heat the room, considered a fire hazard. Basic rules safe use of wood-burning sauna stoves:
- forbidden leave burning stove unattended;
- avoid overheating;
- You cannot dry wet firewood and clothes in the steam room on the device;
- It is forbidden to melt design with firewood protruding from the firebox.
The task of users of a sauna with a wood-burning stove is to comply with all these rules during operation.
Comments
Next, having figured out the power of the stove, when installing it, you should provide that the chimney in the form of a sandwich pipe is below the ceiling at least 30 cm. Seal the ceiling unit with a sheet of stainless steel at least 50 cm by 50 cm and at least 1 mm thick. With all this, if the floors are wooden, then the stove in the bathhouse should be 20 cm below the floors.
An important point is the installation of a hot water tank, if you install a tank that is built into the chimney, the water will boil, and the bathhouse will not warm up yet. I installed the tank so that one corner of it is on the stove and the edge touches the pipe, and it turned out that in the bathhouse 55-+60 and the water became hot
So it turns out like a tailor: measure seven times, sew once.
Also - ordinary pebbles are placed on a cube of steel, to which firewood is burning. The steam from them is softer and drier than simply splashing water on the steel. The stone absorbs, and the iron turns the water into steam. Good luck!
So, the frame is made of wood, then the insulation is made of foil, which is covered with a thick tarpaulin - that's it, the bathhouse is ready! Inside there is a wooden lounger and a bench. In the corner there is a rectangular metal stove, welded into two halves. We pour water into one half, which is heated by the partition, because there is firewood burning behind it. You can wash yourself, there is always boiling water. The pipe from the tin stove goes up, and the firebox door is installed outside. When you live in tents with a large group for your entire vacation, such a bathhouse is both for hygiene and for the soul!
That's it! There's always firewood in the forest, water two meters away. By the way, here's a link to a similar bathhouse, adapted in a tent. There's a photo there https://thermo.washerhouse.com/en/pechi/dlya-bani/pohodnoy.html
I decided to do it myself, my hands grew out of the right place. I welded a frame from metal, inside I also made it like a chimney, lined it with wild stone, inside I also made a chimney with wild stone, and on top in the steam room itself I poured small stones (from Crimea 5*5 cm, on top already more 10*15) You won't believe it, the steam room is very excellent, perhaps because of the Crimean stones!