Any bath are at risk of rotting. In practice, most baths in one degree or another rot, this process is inevitable, as it is related to the chemical and biological processes, but it can greatly slow down. What to do to bath not rot?
What if the room is already rotten
If some parts struck by a fungus, it is necessary to thoroughly clean them and treat with antiseptic. You can buy ready-made, but it is necessary to choose only intended for baths. Suit and folk remedies: 25 percent solution of hydrogen peroxide or conventional bleach solution.
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Secrets of proper ventilation
To prevent decay, it is necessary to take care of ventilation. We formulate briefly the basic principles:
- in a bath (including in the steam room), it is necessary to have a vision window, albeit small. bath room after each bathing it is necessary to ventilate;
- in the steam room must be made ventilation holes and output pipe outwardly. It is recommended to make two openings: one at the top for removing an excess of dry hot air, a second bottom, for outputting wet steam;
- with floor joists device should be located no less than half a meter. Sex in the bath is better to fix tiles, laid it carefully, well-crafted seams, so that moisture does not penetrate to the board;
- as the rot is usually two lower crownInside the sauna should bottom wall tiled in one or two layers. Put tiles with a slight slope inwards, so that the water is guaranteed dripping on the tile down;
- bath shelves should not sew, air must pass freely under it. Many sheathe the sake of beauty. If you really really want, you have to do skin in the form of lattice, leaving large gaps honey boards;
- Shelves should not be mounted flush with the wall, a small gap is required 2-4 centimetersTo moist air circulates freely between the flanges and the wall.
Periodically inspect all parts of wooden baths for rotting and if they are, just to make processing.
A few general tips
Baths made of building boards coniferous trees, spruce and pine. The advantage of this material is cheap. However, if possible, it is better to build a bath of cedar and larch, they are much less susceptible to rotting.
To improve the microclimate in the sauna stove you should choose the optimal size. It is a mistake to put in the bath a small stove: it examines a little heat from the walls do not warm up properly, and it promotes rot.
It is better to use a large oven, although this will increase the cost. But it will give more heat, this is important: high-temperature micro-organisms and fungi are killed.