Country house

In the Russian bath tradition, the interior bath was given great importance. Often, his unit depended largely on the quality of bathing and procedures. The decoration of the interior of the traditional Russian banya is always used only natural materials – wood, stone, glass and metal.

Finish

When decorating the interior bath is desirable to use the board, obtained from wood, which does not contain a large amount of tar and not korobyaschihsya upon exposure to moisture. In our latitudes, such requirements are met by deciduous trees – birch, aspen, linden. Use cedar and pine from the family, and after appropriate treatment – and she pines. Particularly popular in recent years has gained a growing tree in Africa abachi (you can find his other writing – Abachi, Abish).

Typically, the inner lining baths is upright and tight to each other boards.

When the inner skin of bath boards usually have a vertical, tight fitting them together. The walls inside are not dyed to prevent release of hazardous substances and not to disturb the water vapor permeability. The walls of the steam to a height of 0.5-1.0 m can be covered with glazed tiles, so you can clean the most heavily pollute the bottom. The ceiling and floor all around the perimeter of the premises bath upholstered plinth, with a floor plinth is waterproof, with a minimum height of 10 cm is to be determined so that the lower number of inner cladding was imposed on him, and draining the moisture from the walls of the plinth does not get.

Sex in the bath and wood, but not insulated. This is due to the fact that he always gets the water and being unable to escape, it will cause decay of wood. For ease of cleaning floors in the baths (especially paired branches) spread with ceramic tile, and for water drainage plank with a slant toward the drain. If it is connected to the sewer system, installed a siphon, which prevents the penetration of odors from the sewer pipes.

Temperature and humidity conditions in the bath rather “severe”, so the optimum material for the manufacture of wooden doors – laminated wood, but they do and doors of solid, glazed or not.

Lighting

The light in the bath should be muted.

The windows in the baths are traditionally small, to reduce heat loss. For an ordinary wooden sauna – blank, no bigger than 50×50 cm large baths, skylights of glass are held, or using thermal efficiency double-glazed windows.

Electric lighting in the bath is usually dim, so as not to spoil the peaceful atmosphere of relaxation. The light is preferable to indirect, the lamp preferably quiet as possible with a wooden lampshade, in harmony with the interior of the bath. And, of course, can not be applied in the bath fluorescent lamps. The light source is usually placed on the ceiling or wall above and slightly behind, so that the light did not hit in the eye. Lamps in the steam room must always be in stainless steel ceiling. The wires are laid for a vapor barrier, and the switches are placed outside the steam room. In Finnish saunas, a weak reflection of the fire in the oven – often the only source of light. In a large sauna sometimes have light under the bench.

Internally, the device

Benches are made from a pair of boards (for the bench is taken poprochney wood without resin on it there should be no traces of sweat). Good material in this sense is aspen, which is easily handled and relatively accessible. Benches made of planks, with rounded edges and carefully sanded them with sandpaper to remove even the smallest burrs. Have a bar at a distance of 10-15 mm from each other. Slats screwed down. If they attach on top, you have to use stainless steel fasteners, utaplivaya hats. Stainless steel nails are easy to make the most of a copper wire of sufficient thickness. Trims for benches is preferable to use thin – they dry out faster. But the distance between the supports in this case should be proportionately less. Below is a required thickness of rough planks, depending on the distance between the supports.

Note that the width of the slats exceed their thickness than 4 times. Benches better attach to the walls, floor, in this case is still free, and easy to clean. It is also better because it was on the floor most often formed mold. Between the wall and the bench should leave a gap width of 10 mm. This facilitates the removal of pews and allows moisture to flow freely along the walls. Wash the floor much easier, if the lower bench is set on runners, allowing it to move. The upper bench is good to do a rising, if necessary, to secure the top position.

For bath bench is best suited aspen – it is available and easily processed.

Benches for saunas provide useful removable headrests of aspen or poplar, and footrests. The latter allows a person lying to keep their feet above their heads. Footrest mounted on a wall or serve as a handrail, the bar on separate racks in front of the bench. For the back benches suitable solid board width of about 225 mm of aspen or poplar. Often, the back and do a few bars of the same bench. Set back at a distance from the wall to simplify the process of drying after using the bath.

Washing in the bath department, usually arranged relatively primitive, and is just a shower. It must provide a small bench, a shelf for soap, shampoo, brushes, combs. It should also be provided for the storage bins, buckets, tires on the seat and other accessories used in the bath.

Locker room in the bath must be adapted to relax after a pair of procedures, and therefore it is desirable to make a fairly comfortable. With its design should take into account that for sitting on a bench about 60 cm is required for a single person with a width of the bench at least 40 cm If you use the bench for lying, then its width should be 60 cm in length 1.8 m. locker room (dressing room) should provide a small table or shelf and mirror.

Protecting wood from decay and finish

If the bath is constructed and how to properly exploited, it does not need the special protection of wood from rotting. Heat, smoke and soot protect the tree. With regard to chemical antiseptics, in this case they are completely unacceptable, as toxic, harmful and have an unpleasant odor. Board in the bath can not paint, varnish, lacquer, wax. Improves the temperature characteristics and is conducive to relaxing in the bath dark wood surface. Clearly, in a smoky sauna artificially pritemnyat tree is not required, but in other cases it can be done in two ways: by burning wood with a blowtorch, then the surface must be refinished wood emery cloth to remove the coal Coy plaque staining by chemical means using pyrogallol S6N3 (OH) 3 and subsequent treatment with ammonia vapor.

The latter process involves the following steps:
- Drying of wood surfaces and clean them with sandpaper;
- Cover all metal and plastic parts in order to protect against corrosion;
- Applying an even layer of 3 to 5 percent solution of pyrogallol on the wooden surface and drying;
- Sealing the room, placing on the floor a few superficial vessels (0.5-1.0 liter) containing 30-45-percent solution of ammonia.

After 15 minutes, ventilate the area must, if the color is not enough dark, have to repeat the whole procedure again.