What can be pleasant and more useful swimming in cool water after the steam room! Such a pleasure is available today and the dacifices whose possessions are removed from natural reservoirs, it is enough to buy a bathing carpet. However, choose a quality product is not easy.
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Finnish companies, such as Kirami, are widely used by plastic inserts and heat-treated wood (mostly spruce and northern pine), resistant to the fungus and warming, almost not swelling from moisture
The font of the tree can be installed in the pre-tribbon, on the terrace of the bath or on the adjacent to the construction site. For the premises, compact corners are perfectly suitable, as well as oval and rectangular model in terms of model, while round is optimal for the street.
The minimum volume of barrels allowing to fully immerse itself into the water is 250-300 liters (depending on the form). A font for a family of three people should accommodate at least 600 liters. Models at 1200-2500 liters are able to perform a mini-pool function, however, roads and are complex.
How to warm the water in the font?
Not everyone can plunge into the font, just filled with ice water from the well or well, and use to heat a large amount of water homemade boiler equipment is not always comfortable. Fortunately, there are several ways to quickly heat the water to quite comfortable temperature (18-22 ° C).
Photo: "Macron TK"
- When filling the filling of water through the flowing electrical heater. The device with a capacity of 5 kW is enough to heat 300 liters of water by 10 ° C for 1.5 hours. True, it will be impossible to regulate the temperature to regulate the temperature.
- Apply a circulating electric heater for the precast pool. To connect it, it will be necessary to cut into the board of the bought two cigro with a diameter of 32 mm. The power of such devices does not exceed 3 kW, so the heating will take several hours. The price of the question is about 5 thousand rubles.
- Purchase a bath oven with a heat exchanger and connect the font to it. Such a solution will save electricity, accelerate the heating and reduce the diameter of the nozzles up to 19 mm (small holes will not affect the strength of the wall). The heat exchanger will increase the price of Kamenka by 4-6 thousand rubles.
- Buy submersible wood stove. Such an aggregate cost from 45 thousand rubles. Provide the fastest heating, but it is suitable only for bought with a capacity of 500 liters (this will take about a third of its volume).
How to determine the quality of the font
A significant part of the foaders presented in the market is made according to traditional technology from the wooden railclocks fitted towards each other. True, today there are often t-shirts, butts are treated with plumbing sealant and protect the tree from water with polymer varnishes. But despite these and other improvements, wood quality remains a very important factor, largely determining the service life of the font.Material
Domestic firms use birch, beech, pine, larch, cedar and oak. For cock, only the highest quality material is suitable - without bitch, from one layer of wood (preferably kernel, without inclusions with lighter swamp, especially if we are talking about oak), with linearly directed fibers. One-only defective cock, for example, with a fragment of a bitch, is able to cause a strong curvature of the wall of the font and the appearance of cracks. Another important nuance concerns the width of the clap - it should not exceed 70 mm, so that the rails are breaching as small as possible and small moves compensated for each other.
If we talk about the rocks of the tree, it is better to stop the choice on larch, oak or the Altai cedar. Resinous larch resistant to rotting
and maintains strength for decades. Oak swells stronger and eventually acquires a characteristic dark gray color, but remains strong (often oak clutches "live" longer than steel hoops). Cedar is somewhat less than the racks to the fungus, but it emits a wonderful coniferous aroma and saturate water with useful essential oils.
Eventy companies, such as Blumenberg, are known to products from wood tropical rocks of Iroquo and Canadian red cedar. Such fonts are beautiful and durable, their only drawback is an extremely high price.
Traditional technology suggests that the rails are racking by stinging the hoop from a narrow ("skinny" part of the barrel to the broad ("Tolstoy"). However, this method requires significant labor in the manufacture of closes of complex shape: they must be narrowed to one or both ends.
Today, direct t-shirt rails are used more often, which are tightened by adjustable stainless steel hoops. At the same time, the joints "Ship-Paz" are sampled by waterproof joinery glue, and the bottom is planted on a plumbing sealant. This method of manufacture ensures the tightness of the font, but the owner must ensure that it does not remain in the summer heat for a long time without water.
Otherwise, there is a possibility that clans are cracking; Eliminate similar "accidents" by adjusting the hoop clamps, as a rule, is not possible.
Finish
Many modern fonts are impregnated from the inside and outside with oil and hot wax, and sometimes sequentially the other. It is undesirable to acquire toned from the inside, since the caloring composition may be painted water and highlight harmful substances. Some firms, such as Bentwood, are used for finishing (external and internal) polyurethane yacht varnish, which is permissible.Drain-overflow
The font must be supplied with a drain hole - it is done in the bottom of either the wall. Without overflow, you can do, if you use a special pipe attached to the plum inside the font.
Compact (per person) The domestic font of the larch will be able to acquire for 30-45 thousand rubles, from cedar or oak - for 40-60 thousand rubles. The imported barrel made of heat-treated wood costs from 80 thousand rubles, from the tree of exotic breeds - from 150 thousand rubles.
Photo: "Our cedar"
Products with hydromassage installation (A, b) cost at least one and a half times more expensive (B). The pump and pipes to the nozzles are hidden by mobile boxes. It is important to know that such wooden jacuzzi is designed mainly on the installation in a heated room.
Sealed liner
A font plastic insert will cost 25-35 thousand rubles. More expensive than the traditional model, but it will not be guaranteed to leak. In addition, such models are much easier to care: with a smooth surface of plastic It is not difficult to remove even the traces of fungus, there is no need to grind the walls and re-cover the protective composition - it is enough to wipe them with a sponge with a detergent. Funking with a polypropylene insert is in the assortment of Barel firms, "Phito-relax", City Wood, etc.
"Luxury" options (from 180 thousand rubles) - the bowls of aluminum alloy or stainless steel, decorated outside the rails from a tree or a wood-polymer composite, are presented mainly by Kirami and Blumenbereg. The service life of such models exceeds 20 years.
Photo: Jobi, Belinka
Again as new
Initial storage and frequent moisturizing lead to the appearance of mold on wooden surfaces. Easiness of active oxygen will help to get rid of black raids. After processing the board it is necessary to span, and then resume the coating. It is best to use a colorless oil, such as Woodex Aqua Classic (Teknos), or special wax, say Supi Saunavaha (Tikkurila).Outside the font can be tinted and covered with weatherproof varnish.
If you decide to install the font on the street, do not forget to purchase a hermetic cover, and better - the conservative casing of PVC
The filled font has a significant mass and must rest on a slaining platform or other solid base. It makes sense to take care of the removal of water, overflowing through the edge and leaning through the slot
With regular moisture, even the best paints and varnishes are capable of protecting wood from moisture only for 3-4 years, and then the coating must be resumed
Any font can be equipped with an appropriate staircase from the tree of the same breed. Other possible options - Drink and seating
In winter, water from street font need to merge at the end of the bunny day or cover the lid and constantly warm
Bought from unfolded boards, assembled without the use of glue, begin to flow when drying, but repairing them much easier than glued