If a cottage or country house can be built from a variety of materials, for example, folded out of brick, then only natural wood is traditionally used to build a bathhouse. The tree as a building material for the bath is distinguished by durability, environmental purity, and due to natural air circulation creates a special unique microclimate in it.
However, there are a sufficient variety of materials from natural wood. For the construction of the bath, chopped whole logs are most suitable. The use of this natural material in the construction of baths for rich in forests and talented masters of Russia is a traditional. Log baths warm up quite quickly to the desired temperature, and since the tree, due to its natural properties, has low thermal conductivity – heat is stored for a long time. The walls of such baths “breathe”, even in the hottest summer season, there is no overheating of air in them, and a soft and pleasant atmosphere is preserved.
To build a bathhouse from a log house, it is recommended to use chopped whole logs made of coniferous wood – spruce, larch, pine. The wood of precisely these breeds has a special natural aroma and creates a unique microclimate in the bathhouse. But to melt and drown the bath best birch wood.
Chopped logs intended for the construction of a bath should be without signs of decay and damage by pests. In order to avoid cracking logs, strips of bark should be left at their end ends. These logs should be selected so that they have almost the same diameter, with a difference of a maximum of five centimeters. The width of the grooves between the logs when laying them directly depends on the severity of the climate in which the bath will be used in the future. The harsher the winter cold in your area, the wider the grooves between the logs of the bath should be made.
The carrying design of the bath, otherwise called the crown, is its wall of logs laid longitudinally. It is, as it were, a rectangle, where the logs are connected in the corners of the so -called “castle” way. This basis of the future bath after its assembly should be treated with aseptic solutions to prevent the rotting of wood and its damage by pests, and then, for several months, can be kept for drying and shrinkage. If there is a need, during such exposure, the design of the crown of the future bath is strengthened.
Chopped log baths are erected in several stages. At the first stage, logs are harvested and dried, which will form a log house. At the second stage, this log house is assembled on a prepared basis (the crown of the bath), it is well drowned, and is left for endurance during the year. At the third stage, the bath log cabin (and, if necessary, the crown) is again pricked, dried, after which finishing work is performed. That’s all! You can go steamed.
