Making the “mirror” sauna
«Mirror» SAUNA
They say that passion sauna now in vogue. I think that this mode is mainly due to the growing hobby of people their health, vigorous condition, all of which provides a «healthy spirit» of the body. And so the said passion, as opposed to many other forms of fashion should be considered useful.
Now many are building a sauna in the cottages, in town houses. And when building «capital» (and not portable, inflatable), sauna, build its centuries-tested method. Oto double wooden steppe with warming and ventilation between the two, a stove-kamepka, including electric, solid wooden shelves, ladder. Is it possible to arrange a sauna in the city apartment? Of course, to build a traditional dry sauna with a wood stove in the multi-Kamenkov house unlikely to succeed. But do «alleviate» sauna, using cleaner sources of heat, and modern efficient heat insulation materials, it is the power of each. It would be only in a flat place for a bath!
What is needed for a sauna? Of course, the most simple and environmentally friendly source of heat - it is electric furnace, and without it unnecessary difficult and dangerous (in terms of cracking) of stones. Furnace without a stone lighter, easier, cheaper and less inertia in adjusting heat (if such an adjustment) than firewood «Kamenka».
Now, on the thermal insulation. The best that thought to date to preserve the heat - this is a thermos, or a receptacle with specular walls. Of course, to build a sauna with a glass casing trudnova something. But to reduce the heat saunas with the environment, obbiv or plastered interior steppe baths orgalitom, mats, cardboard and covering them with aluminum foil, you can. The cost of a small thermal insulation and energy consumption, in this case, electrical, heating the sauna will be much smaller.
As a representative of the exact sciences, I decided to build a house «scientific» cost-effective and, of course, environmentally friendly sauna. It is, I sacrificed space (alcove) in the flat, good to sleep in a «закутке» size 4X1, 5×3 m dushnovato. Fortunately, there proved to vent. Wall alcove abundance Vietnamese matted, which are sold in furniture stores. they are lightweight and have good heat insulation properties. I covered the mats alyumpnnevoy foil, which is sold in domestic stores for household purposes. A suspended ceiling at a distance of 3-5 cm agglutinate from heavy paper and coated with the same sheet of foil-screen. For all I took 4 rolls of foil. Paul painted aluminum paint «Serebryanka», although it could cover the same foil. At the vent and put plywood box with a tight lid, which also strengthened the foil. Of course, saupy inside the door and had to cover the foil.
I did not build within the resulting «mirror» rooms are massive structures made of wood - shelves, stairs, etc., so as not to waste their energy on heating. Just installed the normal lungs and openwork stairs - ladders, also painted a silver, with seats at the vorhu (such «shelf» is easy to enter the sauna on the number of people in it).
For heating, I used three reflector, which has established killovattnye helix, Total 3 kW. Sauna volume nearly 20 m3 is very low - in 3 times less than traditional. Reflectors installed on a metal sheet on the floor and sent almost at the ceiling, guided to some extent, security - if the burst ceramic shell heating element, hot fragments remain in the reflector cup.
So, I put on the wall thermometer included reflectors on the seat and sat down ladders. Heat 5 minutes later extended throughout the premises, and it was hot. I would like to recall that a normal sauna for warming the clock, with its attendant high cost of energy and concerns - to leave the house do not. 15 minutes later the temperature reached 55-60 ° C and a little more grown. The foil on the steppes to the touch was a bit warm, but dark objects heated strongly.
Experience in such a seemingly cold sauna were excellent. The heat emitted from everywhere, extremely gentle and pleasant to caress the skin. Breathe was easy, fever is not pressed, do not burn easy, but easy to pass through as if in the most depth of the body. When started to sweat, sweat began to roll, as they say, Hail, and the drops fell noisily to the floor (I’m going to continue to set the trays under the ladders).
I must say that I am fairly dryish build, and that sweating in mepya not even in a traditional sauna at a temperature of 130 - 140 ° C. Regular sauna heat is not felt, and did not want to even leave the room.
Prosidev a total of 45 minutes (the first 15 minutes after the activation of the reflectors were ineffective, it was possible to include in a heated sauna, which I did later), I have lost weight about 2 kg. The same weight I lose in a regular sauna for 1.5 - 2 hours, of which I was inside a hot room, the same half hour. And in the sauna, I for one entry are not more than 3-5 mins - this is the maximum.
Feelings after the mirror saunas Bodrov, not relaxed, not pulling even a cold shower. I accept the normally cool shower, and after that I kept vigorously, working state.
Finally the procedure, I open ventilation, and after 10 minutes, no one would say that there was a sauna. The inertia of my sauna - min.
I must say that, apart from thermal processes, while I agree in the mirror room and ultraviolet «bath», as shown for the strong and uniform tan.
Cosmetic a source of ultraviolet and infrared radiation «sun». sufficient for the uniform irradiation of the whole body of scattered light, which is very trudnoispolnimo in the usual room, in addition to the living room from the radiation of paint (a wall-paper, cloth, etc.) burn. It should be noted that conventional glass mirrors for such purposes are not suitable, because the glass absorbs ultraviolet rays, but only reflects the foil.
Remind you to using special UV protection eye goggles, which are sold together with the device.
I think that wishing to construct a «mirror» sauna will not be much difficulty in its creation and will have a lot of fun.