It is no secret that the primordially Russian baths made of logs are drawn for such an amount that is absolutely unaffordable for an ordinary summer resident. Even I got tired of counting zeros in it, spat and decided to get down to business on my own. The hired labor was abandoned at once - I have at my disposal a "team" of two adult sons and an ideological inspirer in the person of my wife.
For the foundation, they took literally everything that came to hand. There are pieces of iron and bricks in the bins of every summer resident, so there was no need to spend money on materials.
After the shrinkage of the structure, we carefully concreted this whole town and, moreover, added fragments of bricks and foundations from the old bathhouse. A trench was dug along the perimeter of the load-bearing walls 50 centimeters deep and 30 centimeters wide.
Having admired local builders who made concrete foundations, I decided to repeat this dubious experience. However, it seems doubtful to me now. I bought a round stone car and cast the rubble concrete flush with the ground.
An experienced neighbor told me that it was necessary to take crushed stone much later. Prior to that, my knowledge in butobeton was characterized as "not to the teeth." The conversation between us took place in the style of a troll-teacher against a student of a poor student.
- We indulge in boo-concrete. I am making the foundation for the bathhouse.
We indulge in butobeton. I am making the foundation for the bathhouse.
-Oh well. You will make a refrigerator from a bathhouse over the winter this rubble concrete. Did you process the basement with mineral wool or expanded clay?
-No.
-The stones are sorted? Did you prepare materials manually?
As I was later explained, for good rubble concrete, small stones are taken as filler - not like the cobblestones that came to me. After standing on my own rake, I invited a good friend to pour the concrete.
This pleasure cost me 100 rubles an hour. This operation took 12 hours - from nine in the morning to nine in the evening, we poured 3 cubic meters of concrete with my concrete mixer.
I made the floors in the bath from tongue-and-groove boards. Here we also saved money, because put a board 2 meters long. One rule applies here: the shorter it is, the cheaper it is. If the tongue and groove fit in length, it would cost 150 rubles more per m2. Internal walls are made of 150 * 150 timber. The floors are insulated - except for the tongue-and-groove, they are insulated with a 15-cm layer of expanded clay.
The inside was chamfered, the walls sanded and covered with acrylic varnish. Everything is soaked, nothing will be blown anywhere. The stove could have been supplied with a metal one, but in the end we settled on a stainless steel. The brick portal was made for fire safety.
We chose a stove with an internal heater. The stones are laid inward using a special funnel. They heat up quite strongly and give finely dispersed steam.
The entrance door to the steam room is made of aspen (~ 3,500 rubles in a hardware store). They bought the cash on the doors not the expensive one that goes for a running meter, but framed it with clapboard. The steam room turned out to be surprisingly spacious. Even when creating drawings, I imagined it differently. Steam room with sink combined.
For those smart people who begin to resent such a decision, I will answer briefly. Previously, all the baths were united - it is absolutely normal to wash in such steam rooms. We took a steam bath, opened the window and aired everything through - no problem. You can wash - it is not hot after airing.
The shelf is made of aspen boards. Those who like to quarrel will surely be indignant because I used self-tapping screws to fasten the boards. Self-tapping screws are inserted there universal. They are rolled through the top solely to preserve the aspen. If you scroll the screws from the inside, then the long board simply turns out. Previously, I already stuffed myself with bumps on unsuccessful experiments with self-tapping screws - now I'm not going to.