How to Choose a Sauna Stove?

Visiting a bath or a sauna can bring undoubted pleasure to the soul and body, cleanse the body from the outside and from the inside, and also contribute to the process of healing from a variety of diseases. But, in order to ensure that the pleasure brought only benefits, without negative consequences for health, there must be a suitable oven, for each specific case, a stove, it is also a stove.
There are several types of furnaces for baths and saunas: wood, electric and gas. Woodburning stoves have been installed in baths since ancient times. Despite this, this way of heating the steam room is popular even now, except that the design of the furnace itself and its exterior decoration have changed a little. To date, you can just buy a wood stove for a bath and enjoy all the benefits of the steamy process, or you can build this design yourself. A good fuel for such steam rooms will be firewood of hardwoods. Electric heaters - this is a more modern type of oven, which appeared with the emergence of electricity. Absence of smoke, small weight, compact dimensions, ease of operation and ease of use are the main advantages of such a heating option for the steam room. Gas furnaces are the newest type of equipment for baths and saunas, ideal, mainly for urban residents. In this case, the source of heating is natural gas or propane. The main advantage of gas furnaces is the low cost of their operation.
Proper installation is the key to a successful, long-term, and most importantly safe operation of the ovens of all saunas and baths. The most long and difficult is the installation of a wood stove. The whole difficulty lies in erecting sufficiently large dimensions of the heater and in the presence of a special separate foundation, which does not touch the general foundation of the building. The installation of a gas furnace is similar in many respects to the installation of a wood-burning furnace. The main difference is the supply of gas equipment. The simplest, but at the same time, and requiring a special approach, the installation of heating equipment is the installation of electric furnaces. To pass this process must with the obligatory participation of an electrician, skilfully versed with all the subtleties of future safe operation. In addition, the sauna heater requires a proper grounding.
The principle of operation of each furnace for a sauna and a sauna is to rapidly heat the room air, and to a high temperature. To achieve this result helps the construction of the heater, the most important element of which are stones. A classical model of a modern furnace is a metal structure, filled with a layer of special stones in the upper part or along the entire perimeter of the shell. This layer has the ability to maximally-fast self-heating, and in the end, and rapid warming of the air. At the same time, the oxygen in the room is not burned, the heated air remains fresh and acquires special properties. In addition, compact and convenient furnaces are considered preferable, having sufficient power not only to quickly heat up the room, but also to dry the steam room after all procedures are over.
Absolutely all furnaces for baths and saunas must meet the requirements of environmental and fire safety. Their design and placement should completely eliminate the risk of burns in cases of unexpected contact. Each type of furnace has its own safety requirements. Wood stoves require caution with fire, electrical stoves with electricity, and gas stoves with gas.
Enjoy Your Bath.