Bath-barrel with their own hands: making, reviews, photos

What do not come up with different people to organize a bath. Even in large cities, people want to at least briefly immerse themselves in the healing steam and relax. But it is much more pleasant if the steam room is its own. And you can use it at any time convenient for you.

Apparently, therefore, anyone who bought a plot of land, after building a house immediately thinks about how to build a steam room. But what if the site is small? In this case, you can take advantage of such a surprisingly simple but very useful invention, like a bath-barrel, whose owners' testimonials testify to the convenience, beauty and economy of this device.

Description

Recently, many specialized companies, in addition to the construction of standard baths, also offer the production of a tub-barrel, carried out using cooperative technologies. This means that, having all the typical qualities, this steam room is built on a very original principle. All the room of the bath, built in the style of the most ordinary barrel, is intended for bathing procedures, although it looks like a household analogous to the metal hoops. This is done for the strength and reliability of the structure.

Banya-barrel, the photo of which clearly demonstrates its similarity with the ancestress, differs from it only in size. It heats up in just twenty or thirty minutes with the help of ordinary firewood or fuel briquettes. Some models operate on other types of energy carriers. In the floor there are technological vented holes provided for drainage of water.

Varieties

Many nations have long been analogous to such a device. Most often in the literature mentioned a Japanese bath-barrel, whose owners' reviews are mostly positive. This option is especially suitable for those who prefer a small steam room, as well as a constant presence in the water and the presence of bubbles. However, the Japanese bath-barrel, which many of us saw except in the movies, is not a good solution for giving: in bad weather it can not be used.

If for our country such a construction is considered know-how, then it is completely customary for Finland and other Scandinavian countries. As a matter of fact, it is a small frame of the original form, erected from coniferous breeds of a tree in which the furnace for a bath is established. The barrel-steam room, as a rule, is equipped with a steam generator.

Such a Finnish construction is very easy to assemble. It does not need a foundation, nor a long process of erecting walls. Literally in three hours you can put the finished barrel on wooden beams, make a drain to it and bring electricity. However, in our country, a somewhat different type of such original washing has so far taken root.

Russian bath-tubs

Oval structures, which we often see in the suburban areas, is our domestic version of the original steam room. It is said that Russians like solid buildings. It was not an exception and received popularity in our country, massive in comparison with the Finnish or Japanese version, a bath-barrel. Drawings of these designs provide all those functions that are in the ordinary steam room: a small dressing room, shower room, oven, shelves, doors and windows.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantages of barbecue baths are:

• Mobility - they can be rolled or transported by car to another location;
• Heating rate - 20 minutes on average;
• Compactness - often a bath-barrel, the drawings of which indicate its small dimensions, occupies no more than 10 square meters of area;
• Original design.

True, and there is a miracle of architecture in the construction market a lot: from 200 thousand rubles. That's why many people try to build a steam room, like a bath-barrel, with their own hands. Moreover, it is much easier to build it than, for example, the construction of a cinder block. And even a person far from building will cope with this task.

Erection

The construction of a capital bath is not a cheap pleasure, and it is quite long in terms of time. Banya-barrel with their own hands - a budget option for a small steam room. This design can be done by yourself in just a few days. Any need for exterior decoration is eliminated, if you create a steam room, like a bath-barrel. The photos show that it already has an attractive and unusual look. Banya-barrel itself is so unique and stylish that it does not require any decorations or additional decor.

Selection of materials

An important step in the construction process is the selection of quality raw materials. Bath-barrel - with its own hands whether it is made or with the help of professional carpenters - is built from well-dried and competently sawed woodworking machines of special blanks - boards with a thickness of 45 and a width of 90 millimeters. It is necessary that the wood material has spline-groove connections: when a special groove is made on one part - a milled notch, into which the comb, left on the next part, is closed. It is this design and allows you to perform multiple assembly-disassembly barrel steam room. In addition, this method achieves maximum stationary strength and reliability in combination with wear resistance and durability.

Another master, who undertook to build such a structure as a bath-barrel, with his own hands, will need several steel hoops. The latter will additionally fix a circular construction along the perimeter. All these and many other special materials for the bath-barrel are offered by manufacturers working in the field of similar goods and services.

Order of work

Depending on the height of the structure, prefabricated level ground from the beam gathers shields for future walls. Wooden material should be customized as tightly as possible. Then the resulting shield must be fixed with a screed.

The number of boards, as well as the final weight of the resulting pair, depend on the volume of the future structure. Usually there are bath-barrels oval or round. Their length varies from 2.5 to 5 meters. In addition, they can be supplemented with an extension or veranda, a visor or a terrace and so on.

The barrel steam room is erected as the simplest fundamental construction. Having determined on the shield an approximate center, on its outer surface it is necessary to draw a circle of the required diameter, which will correspond to the height of our round or oval bathhouse. The extra ends of the timber are cut with an electric saw. At the same time, it is impossible to allow chips and irregularities on the face of the surface of the resulting disk.

Floor and drainage system

Anyone who had previously been interested in the question of how to make a tub-barrel probably knows that it is arranged in a special way. And in particular, it concerns the construction of the floor, which should be positioned at an angle, so that it is as convenient as possible for natural flow. In this case, the bath itself is provided with special openings in the lower part through which the waste water flows directly into the ground. Of course, if you want and the availability of opportunities it is quite possible to organize the discharge into a centralized or local sewage drainage system.

In addition, in such a mobile steam room a full washing area should be organized where it is possible to take a shower, cooling the body after the high temperatures created by the stove and steam generator. It also connects to a local or centralized water supply system.

Internal organization

As in any bathhouse, lighting fixtures should also be installed in the barrel, if desired, an electric furnace and other equipment and apparatus. Therefore, after the completion of construction, which was carried out independently, it is worthwhile to invite an electrician to install electrical wiring. To this end, in the process of erecting a bath-barrel in its roof and walls, it is necessary to leave special openings and openings. In addition, following safety precautions, you need to carefully isolate the electrical wires that will be in a humid hot environment.

Inside, as in a stationary bath, to improve comfort you need to install wooden benches and shelves. They also need to be covered in advance with a harmless antiseptic compound, which increases the service life and gives an opportunity to retain an attractive appearance for a long time. When choosing a wood stove, the owner will need to equip an additional chimney and ventilation holes.

Care

Wooden building materials in itself creates optimal conditions inside the room of the steam room, and outside it is only required to be covered with fireproof and moisture repellent compounds. Caring for a tub-barrel in the summer months is a qualitative full airing of the internal space after each procedure. For this, it is necessary to open doors with windows for a long time. In the cold period of the year, it is necessary to take care of the qualitative and efficient operation of the ventilation system.