So, you have a private house, and you decided to get hold of a bath. You can use various materials, but competitors have not yet come up with a wooden bathhouse. Of course, for its construction you need professional skills, but you can try to build it with your own hands. Let us dwell on the most important, perhaps, stage of construction: selection and nuances of making materials.
The first task of the bath is to create a microclimate that will be useful for you. Therefore, it is necessary to build a bath so as to emphasize such properties of wood as low thermal conductivity, the ability to air exchange and naturalness.
If pine wood is more often used for the construction of houses, then it is better for a bath to take aspen, abash or lip. These breeds of trees will allow your bath in the summer not to pass hot air from the street, and in winter – quickly warm up. An important point: walls, ceiling, and shops are made from one type of tree, therefore, having chosen one breed of wood, it will have to be true to it until the end.
Having chosen the material, decide on the technology. Fast construction is the use of ready -made glued beams, frame. That is, the bath is “gathering” as a constructor. This happens quickly, in 3-4 months, but the cost of glued timber “bites”. In the case of “classic” construction, you will have to wait two to three years before you can use the bathhouse. True, the same smell of the bath and all its beneficial influence can only be felt in the designs of long construction.
Classic in the construction of baths – the use of logs or timber. In favor, they have allocated logs – due to special processing, they have the same diameter and this simplifies construction. And the prices for the log of the log are very moderate.
The service life of a wooden bath depends on the quality of training and drying the tree. Therefore, pay careful attention to the processing of materials. They are the key to your bathhouse long life. It is best to bring down a forest for a bath in winter. With drying, such wood will almost be rotted, as well as deform. Further, the logs need to be cleaned from the bark along the entire length, except, as at the edges, treated with special equipment and leave to lie for at least a month. After that, the tree must be left in an open shaded space about half a meter from the ground, so that it is blown. Before building a beam, processed with insects and forgiving rotting. If all the conditions are observed, then the bathhouse will last fifty years.