What Russian person doesn’t love a real bathhouse? Many people associate her visit with health procedures, and for some it even becomes a ritual. Every person would like to have a real Russian bathhouse in their garden or even in their own home.
Bathhouse designs with a font are extremely popular in Internet queries, so we decided to publish all the available information in one article. This greatly simplifies the task if you decide to build the object yourself.
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Font in the bathhouse.
With separate rooms
In compact buildings, to save usable space, several rooms are combined into one. This allows you to properly organize the layout of the interior rooms in the bathhouse. True, this is not always convenient. For example, when combining a steam room with a shower room. Someone took a steam bath and decided to wash themselves. The rest of the visitors continue to steam.
And everything would be fine, but how to soap your hair in hot air? If the proposed building site allows, then it is better to separate these two rooms. In addition to the main rooms, you can now enjoy taking a warm bath directly in the fresh air. Get an unforgettable pleasure from hydromassage bubbles. Now let's talk about everything in order.
With font
Since ancient times, people, after visiting the steam room, plunged into a nearby body of water to slightly cool down their heated body. Nowadays, owners of private estates do not always have the opportunity to enjoy swimming in a natural reservoir.
In order not to break tradition, people came up with a simple device - a font. This is a kind of bowl filled with cool water. It’s not difficult to download or order a drawing of a steam room with a plunge pool. The forms for such mini-pools are:
- Oval;
- Round;
- Rectangular;
- Square;
- Angular.
The most pleasing to the human eye will be pictures of bathtubs with rounded shapes.
Sometimes they are made in the form of a barrel or a wooden bathtub.
True, for their location it is not always possible to use the chosen place economically.
Therefore, developers often opt for forms with right angles.
Information. The most convenient and compact option, without a doubt, remains a corner-shaped font. It will fit perfectly even into a small corner.
The range of materials used to make the bowls themselves offers a wide choice of products. This allows each developer to choose an option at an acceptable price. The fonts are located in two ways:
- Open (install a portable bowl on the floor in the wash room);
- In-depth (similar to arranging a swimming pool, a niche is dug into which the bowl of the future font is later placed).
Such a design must be thought out in advance at the design stage. If the size of the complete bathhouse project does not allow you to take up additional space, and the desire to plunge into invigorating cool water is irresistible, then the best solution would be to take the font outside.
Attention! Consider the climatic conditions specific to your location. Select bowl materials that are resistant to harsh weather conditions. Baths installed outdoors can be equipped with heated water.
With steam room
The design of a bathhouse with a separate steam room and washing room is the right solution.
Small, but such a significant room for the entire building.
After all, without a steam room, a bathhouse will turn into an ordinary place for swimming.
This room is the main one in obtaining benefits and healing.
The steam room does not require anything unusual for its arrangement.
But there are several nuances, the observance of which will allow all its visitors to steam comfortably. First of all, this is the size of the room itself.
The next important point will be the insulation of the walls. It is carried out in two stages:
- During construction;
- During finishing work.
Important! The design of the steam room must take into account the maximum number of visitors. The standard size of a steam room for 3 people is 2x2.5 meters. The ceiling height should vary from 2 to 2.2 meters.
Good thermal insulation will allow you to quickly warm up the steam room. It is better to avoid windows in this room. This will reduce heat loss. Bath complexes with a washing room and steam room are quite functional; a more expanded complex with a steam room, washing room and changing room.
Information. Daylight can replace electric lighting. The brightness is selected taking into account the wishes of the owner.
The last moment will be finishing the steam room. Materials must be accessible, inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and resistant to high temperatures. After the main construction work, the heater, doors and furniture are installed.
Important! Remember that treating materials used to decorate the steam room with varnish is prohibited. Heating the walls and shelves will cause not only an unpleasant odor, but also the possibility of intoxication of visitors.
With washroom or shower
Separating the shower room and steam room is a good solution. As we said earlier, this allows avid bath attendants to steam at a time when some, unable to withstand the effects of high temperatures, decided to cool down under a cool shower. A shower cabin can be installed in the wash room. It’s worth noting right away that this is not a cheap option. You can replace it with a regular pallet. There are several types:
- Enameled steel;
- Earthenware;
- Marble;
- Cast iron;
- Acrylic.
There is no need to make the shower compartment completely closed.
It is enough to use one partition for visual fencing.
You can hang a regular shower curtain.
It will hide your process of taking water procedures from prying eyes, if necessary. Bathing water is heated using:
- Flow heater;
- Storage heater;
- Heater stove with water tank.
Important! When using instantaneous water heating, the power of the heating element must be at least 8 kW. The pump supplying water must process 8 liters per minute.
With locker room
The first impression of visiting the bathhouse will be when entering the locker room. A separate room for storing clothes during bath procedures is an ideal solution. Its size depends on the functions that the locker room will perform. The following requirements apply to this room:
- Good insulation (from the outside of the walls, sealing windows, if provided) When installing a door, insulate it too, make a high threshold. This will allow you to change clothes without drafts;
- Take care of good ventilation, comfortable temperature in the room;
- Lighting can be natural or artificial. The main parameter will be its brightness;
- If there is a place in the locker room for a wood burner, it should not cause inconvenience to visitors.
To feel comfortable in the place that is used for changing clothes and putting yourself in order, you will need several mandatory interior items:
- Mirror;
- Hanger;
- Stalls.
If it is possible to allocate more space for a dressing room than the required minimum of 3 square meters, then simple hangers can be modified into a wardrobe. Place a simple chest of drawers next to it for storing things. A small table will do just fine.
Information. If the humidity in this room is not high, you can connect electrical outlets to it. This will allow you to use devices such as an electric hair dryer, which is necessary after taking water procedures. Especially the fair sex.
With Jacuzzi
Pleasant water treatments after visiting the steam room have not been canceled.
It all started with simple dousing with water from a bucket. Later the fonts appeared.
Now they have all been replaced by hydromassage baths.
This device has many configurations. There are various additional options.
Their availability changes the price of the relaxation unit. There are several types of Jacuzzis:
- With chromotherapy, aromatherapy (treatment using different colors, light effects, aromas);
- With aeromassage (massage with small bubbles rising from the bottom of the bathtub);
- With ultrasonic massage (high-frequency sound waves affecting the body at the cellular level);
- Recirculation system (special movement of water flows directed from the center to the edges);
- With oriental massage (imitation of “water fingers”, acupressure on both sides of the spine, restores the body’s energy balance).
Thanks to hydromassage, the functioning of the vascular system improves. Metabolism accelerates. Muscles are strengthened. The skin acquires an unprecedentedly smooth and even surface.
A place for installing a jacuzzi can be arranged in the washing department. It will be easier to connect it to the necessary communications there. You can allocate a separate room, if desired, if there is free space.
Installation location
Even before you go to choose a font suitable for your bathhouse, you need to think through such an issue as the place to install it.
The model, size, and type of necessary communications will depend on this.
The font is most often installed in the washing room. This is the most suitable place for it, since this room has a high level of moisture resistance, and there is no need to be afraid that water will spill from this device and ruin any furniture. If the bathhouse design also includes a relaxation room, the font should be handled especially carefully.
But not everyone installs such structures in the washing room. You can often find fonts in a steam room, but this is not always convenient, and, as a rule, there is not enough space in this room.
In the case where the bathhouse project involves the construction of a very small room, where there is not even a free corner for a barrel font, you can take it outside the building and place it near the entrance. In this case, you need to choose the most durable version of the font, since it will be constantly exposed to the external environment. It is best to purchase a plastic font that will be equipped with a lid. In this case, the hot tub will not be damaged by rain, snow and wind, and thanks to the awning or lid, dirt will not get into it.
Necessary premises for comfort
The completeness of the bath complex project will depend on the individual preferences of the owner of the building. For some, visiting the bathhouse is limited to entering the steam room and pouring water on the street. For others, for comfortable soaring and bathing, a washing compartment is already necessary. To fully steam, and then carry out proper hygiene procedures.
Still others need a place to store things and other bath utensils. So, judging the usefulness of the project can only be subjective. Everyone must determine for themselves what the process of soaring is for them? The issue of free building area remains an important issue. And, no matter how much we would like to, we cannot ignore the financial component of such an idea.
Taking into account all these influencing factors, setting priorities for the use of the future premises, you can begin to develop a project.
The standard set of rooms in a bath building will always remain: a steam room, a washing room and a dressing room.
Additional premises are added, developed during the design, if possible, necessary.
The same applies to arranging and equipping rooms with additional functionality.
Wooden bath font
Bath baths for 2-8 people or more bathers, made from natural wood, are extremely popular. Barrel benches allow you to use the container for comfortable seating. Such baths are used not only for cooling after a steam room, but also for warm bathing. This stainless steel water heater kit allows you to quickly and conveniently heat water to your desired temperature. The font is made entirely of wood, and, for example, thick boards (44mm) made of Scandinavian spruce or cedar wood will allow the structure to serve for many years. Scandinavian spruce is a very durable wood that successfully copes with harsh weather conditions. The individual elements of the font are so coordinated with each other that they maintain maximum tightness.
