Brick stove for a bath with his own hands

27-03-2018

Useful

Building your bath is undoubtedly a decision worthy of respect. The bath not only allows, without leaving the yard, to solve issues of hygienic procedures, moreover, regardless of the season, but it will help to improve health and bring the nervous system back to normal.

The healing properties of the bath are known from time immemorial and are part of traditional medicine in many countries. It is important to understand that in many respects these qualities are caused by special methods of heating the room. For example, it is not uncommon for the bath to “work as it should,” it is necessary to heat it for several hours, while using special firewood and additives. And, therefore, the stove for such a bath is needed, able to withstand such intense temperature loads.

In the article we will talk about how to make a brick furnace for a bath with your own hands, give step by step instructions, drawings, photos and video materials.

general description

Before proceeding to the technological process of manufacturing the stove for a bath, it is necessary to say a few words about what the general points of the work will be and what materials and tools will be required for this.

First you need to say that the stove for a bath will be significantly different from a simple stove installed in the house. Mainly differences will be due to the functional purpose of the stove. The fact is that the construction of the furnace in the house involves its use in order to heat the room, prepare food and in some cases use it as a bed. In this case, it is planned to use it in a room that has normal humidity indicators. And if we are talking about a stove for a bath, then in addition to heating the room, it must also heat water, and it will all happen in a room with, to put it mildly, high humidity. In addition, bath temperatures are often required at higher temperatures than from its home counterpart. These circumstances leave their imprint on the technology of work and the materials used in this process.

Manufacturing process

In order to understand in general how to make a brick furnace for a bath, you need to clarify for yourself that the task is not easy. Even in villages where furnace heating is a familiar moment and without exaggeration a part of life, only a few undertake to manufacture furnaces. The secrets of the process are transmitted orally and require a long practice. Although on the other hand, it is possible to make a simple stove with an adequate amount of knowledge and experience. Work at the same time can be divided into several stages, which should be performed consistently.

Training

One of the most important moments of any business is preparation. In the case of installation of the stove in the bath, it is a question of what you need to purchase all the necessary materials and prepare the tools. Everything here seems to be simple, but there are some nuances:

First of all, it is important to note that for the manufacture of the furnace will require several varieties of bricks. So, for the installation of the furnace you need heat-resistant (fireclay) brick, and for the manufacture of chimneys, you can do the usual.
At the same stage, it is necessary to prepare all the metal elements of the furnace, such as doors, plugs, grate bars, etc. It is important to check that the parts do not have cracks, as this will shorten the useful life and there will be a risk of fire hazards.
If it is planned to install a heating boiler for water, this should also be taken into account at the preparatory stage, since depending on the location of its location, the actions will be somewhat different. By the way, in order to provide visitors with hot water, you can do without the equipment of the heating tank.
Also at this stage, you need to decide on the location of the future furnace and dismantle the flooring, as well as cut logs, if the floor is already installed.

Mounting base

In order for the oven to stand for a long time and fulfill its functions, it is impossible not to do without the installation of a solid and even base.

To do this, the flooring and logs are dismantled in the place of the proposed installation, and the earth foundation is slightly buried in the shape of the future furnace.
Then in the recess is cement-sand screed. It is necessary to take into account that the thickness of the screed must be at least 30 cm, and its layer must be reinforced with steel reinforcement, the thickness of which must be at least 10 mm.
After the screed dries, it is necessary to lay the first layer of bricks, which will play the role of the base of all subsequent masonry.

Here you can add that the work associated with cement mortar can hardly be called clean, so if you want to protect the surface, such as the floor, from contamination, you must cover it with a film.

Further installation

Once the base is ready, you can proceed to laying the next rows of bricks. By the way, a complete and detailed order of a brick furnace for a bath will differ depending on the chosen construction. Its detailed description is a separate material, below will be only an approximate procedure.

First, the first row of brick is laid. Already at this stage it is necessary to reflect all the design features of the furnace. This refers to the air ducts, directly the place of the firebox, the future pipe and so on. Bricks are laid close to each other on the solution. Remnants are removed with a trowel.
Further, in rows in a similar way, the subsequent layers of brick are laid up to the place of installation of the first duct door (blower). After installing it, laying brick continues. Here you can add that if you perform not just a duct, but leave space above the blower, then it can be used to solve the issue of supplying hot water to the washing compartment. A corrugated metal hose is placed inside this space, which is outputted to the outside. When the stove is heated, the hose will heat up accordingly. If you run water over it, then the output will be hot water. Thus, there is no need for a heating tank, which is especially important for rooms with modest dimensions.
So, moving gradually along the rows, the “body” of the stove is formed. When the turn of the grate installation approaches, for convenience, you can choose a certain space in two bricks, equal to the thickness of the grate, and install them in this place.
After the furnace space has been formed, in accordance with the design of the furnace, it is possible either to block it with bricks or to lay a metal base on which stones will be laid later.
Further, in approximately the same way, a chimney is laid out, at the very top of which, to save material, a metal pipe can be attached and brought out through the roof.

Stove heater

The most important element of the bath is the stove. Nowadays, stoves-heaters are usually used for these purposes. They are brick and metal. It is difficult to say what material the stove is best of. Here, rather, it all depends on certain circumstances, namely, on the area of the bath, the number of people staying per day in this room, etc. In view of this, consider the features of the metal and brick heaters separately.

Heaters are also closed and open. The open heater heats up quickly, but also cools quickly. It is great for small companies. The stones in such a furnace are laid over the heap of the firebox. Their temperature can raise to 250 ?.

The closed Kamenka transfers heat on the same level. It has a steam door. In the process of burning the door is closed, so that the smoke from the fire does not penetrate into the room. The door can only be opened before entering the steam room. Due to this, the temperature in the steam room warms up to 60 ?.

Of brick

The peculiarity of the brick stove is that it has thick walls built of heat-resistant bricks. The stove of this type is quite large, has a closed heater and a large amount of stones. Only solid fuel can be burned in it. As a rule, it is firewood or peat.

Among the advantages of the furnace are the following:

Possibility to heat baths over 30 m².
The design is fireproof.
Retains heat for a long time in the bath.
Even on the second day, the heat in the bath is kept around 20 ?, which allows you to use the room, for example, for washing clothes.

Of metal

Metal heaters only 1.5-2 hours heat the bath. They are quite compact, so are ideal for small spaces. Kamenka usually open type. Stones are heated by the combustion chamber. In a metal furnace, you can burn different types of fuel, depending on the model.

The main advantages of the furnace:

Fast heating baths.
The design is small-sized, has a small weight, and this reduces the cost of its installation.
The possibility of taking bath procedures in the process of heating.

On how to make a stove, you can learn from this article, "stove-heater with your own hands."

In this general description of the installation of a brick furnace for a bath can be considered complete. For the most complete understanding of the process can be found with the relevant video on the subject.

Video

This video explains in great detail and clearly how to make a brick stove for a sauna with your own hands:

We also invite you to read the article "Do it yourself boiler".