No bath can do without a high-quality and productive oven. Those times when a primitive firebox was attended in the bath, and in it, literally melted on the eyes of wooden lamps, went into the past.

One of the popular stoves for the bathhouse in our time are cast iron furnaces. One of the common stove models for a bath is a furnace on firewood. Due to the fact that the furnace is made of stable material - cast iron, it heats up very slowly, but the heat in it has been saved for a long time.

Advantages

Compared to crops made of steel, cast iron has a number of significant advantages:

1. The wall thickness in the cast iron oven is several times higher than the thickness of the furnaces from ordinary steel.
2. The cast iron is not deformed, does not roast and is not corrosion.
3. On the walls of the cast-iron furnace will not accumulate inside the nagar, and the resulting raid on the outer walls is easily removed by an ordinary soft cloth.

About warm

Cast iron is the only and main source of heat conductivity. In terms of its heat exchange properties, even reflexion bricks and natural stone are not inferior. The coefficient of useful productivity of the cast iron furnace is more than 80 percent, compared with ordinary furnaces. And if you lay just one bookmark of the lane, then they are enough for the whole ten hours of work!

Sometimes, due to the fact that the stove walls in the old days were laid out with a stone or brick, with time, due to the high temperature, this material was deformed, which led to deformation and the entire structure of the furnace. What you can not say about the stove of cast iron.

And this is not all the advantages of pig-iron furnaces. Despite the fact that we are accustomed to a massive and enough heavy cast iron, a high-quality cast-iron furnace will have a small weight. It will still be much easier than the brick oven, which weighs about one and a half tons!

Some furnaces can simultaneously heat the standard steam room and provide people with hot water for a shower in a volume of 50 liters. Such furnaces are made of cast iron having a surface resistant to temperature differences.

Care

Pig-iron furnaces for a bath, despite its massiveness, are quite simple in care. They are not corrosion and they do not need to be covered by a special heat-resistant paint. Do not require furnaces and mandatory cladding, so install the cast-iron oven is much easier. Also, it can be easily removed and, if necessary, move to another place or install in the new bath.

About design

One of the puesses of cast iron furnaces for a bath is its diverse design. Currently, manufacturers offer a wide selection of furnaces for both bathhouses and sauna. Buy cast iron stoves can be any shape and size, with beautiful doors and even with a pattern. They have furnaces and several color shades, from pale gray to black with a matte tint or glossy. Some stove models have bright elements, an example - a tank for water heating is painted into scarlet color.

About security

Foreign safety - and this is a significant and indisputable plus when choosing a cast-iron stove for a bath. Compared to a brick stove, cast iron products have no risk of ignition and the appearance of a sudden spark. In brick furnaces, the spark can be revealed unexpectedly, due to the microcracks between bricks. In the cast-iron bath, such a furnace will not happen. I. By the way, the stove of cast iron can serve much longer - more than thirty years!

To avoid trouble during the operation of the furnace, it is necessary to establish it in all the rules - from all sides the furnace to protect the brickwork or other material, which has a special impregnation of clay. Before the first furnace, the front need to put a sheet of metal. He will take over the first sparks overlooking the winding door.

Only one is noted from the disadvantages - the stoves from the cast iron have a fairly high price.

Comparison of quality

It turns out the cast iron is different. According to experienced cooks, there are practically no high quality cast iron in the country. Alternative to Russian furnaces were fireplaces and stoves cast iron made in Sweden. The famous Keddy company produces ovens made according to the method of solid casting cast iron. The doors on the furnaces are specially customized by manual in order not to install the seal. The camera of such a furnace will be hermetic. If you exploit such a furnace correctly, it will not burst, because it is manufactured by a special way that the company still holds in the Secret.

And all the same from the appearance of the crack is not insured by any cast-iron oven. Cast iron can burst from thermal impact. This happens if the difference between the temperature at two points has more than 80 degrees. This is due to the fact that someone in the bath will accidentally sprinkle cold water to the furnace. Specialists advise: if the Russian-made furnace was acquired, it is necessary to exploit extremely carefully and carefully, then it will serve for many years.

Choosing a furnace

The market presents models of furnaces that have a lattice container. It is located above the furnace. Some models have a water-heated built-in tank, no more than 30 liters. It is located at the top or side.

Recommendations for choosing a cast-iron bath furnace:

1. Power. Pay attention to the labeling of the furnace. Its performance directly depends on the volume of the room of the steam.
2. Which fuel is applied. The cast-iron furnace can be both wood and work on gas. Widespread furnaces operating from electricity in modern baths. They are convenient because they practically do not require maintenance.
3. Where is the furnace. Furnaces that have several layer location options are available: standard and elongated. The second can be built into the wall so as not to use the pre-banner. This option is chosen by many owners who have decided to build a bath on their own.
4. Material for the manufacture of the furnace can be of different thickness. The wall thickness in the furnace is directly related to its durability. The thicker the wall, the longer the oven will serve.
5. The presence of the door. It is made of heat-resistant glass. Such a furnace will not only look good, but the flame can be seen through the glass. It should be borne in mind that the oven without the door will cost a little cheaper.
6. The presence of water tank. The tank can be both built-in and hinged and located on different sides. When it is elected, it is necessary to consider the features of the structure of the bath and the location of the steam room.

Common models

The market presents the main models of cast-iron furnaces that use the harshness of bath lovers. Consider the characteristics of each of them:

1. ATB under the labeling of the numbers "two" and "four". Lifecycle for about 25 years. The tank is inside. The time allotted for firebox is three hours. The weight of the furnace is 250 kilograms. The furnace is necessary after installation to bore a stone or brick. The volume of the steam, which can heat the oven - up to 12 meters of cubic. Firewood in the furnace is laid up to 30 centimeters long.

2. Oven "Sudarushka". It has weight of more than 100 kilograms and wall thickness 1 centimeter. It is necessary after installation to bore with brick or stone. The heating time is up to one hour in the absence of cladding.

3. Furnace "Fire Bird". The manufacturer gives a warranty for five years. The weight of the furnace is up to 300 kilograms. Heats the steam room to 35 cubic meters. A unique oven - the load of the stones can be increased to 1000 kilograms! It has a beautiful door with artistic forging.

4. The furnace "Slavyanka" has a guarantee - five years. The thickness of the stone or brick is permissible 40 millimeters. It has three options for housing. Loading with firewood up to 50 centimeters. It serves steam room from 8 to 18 meters of cubic. In the premium model, there is a door with refractory glass. The wall thickness is 6 millimeters in the furnace and in the heater - 3 millimeters.

All of the above models have a fairly high price. There is an alternative inexpensive option for cast iron furnaces for giving, which produces the power engineering Chelyabinsk plant. The power of such a stove from cast iron is small.

The second version of the cast iron furnace economy class produces a casting plant in Udmurdia. Prices for these models are significantly lower. Furnaces are allowed under one condition: reworking the furnace. Lovers of real baths do not dismount the quality of the materials for the bath, including the hearts of the baths - the oven. That is why economy class options are subject to alteration and only after that successfully operated.

Unfortunately, the service life of cheap furnaces will be only a few years. So it is worth thinking how to do - buy a high-quality and expensive option and not have thirty years in a row no problems, or cheap and doubtful, which will last from the strength of three or four years. The choice is yours.

Nuances in operation

What can not be done during the operation of the cast iron furnace:

• sprinkle and water the stove with cold water. It can form cracks that are not subject to restoration;
• from above on the firebox it is undesirable to load a large number of stones;
• if it is supposed to load the upper part of the furnace with a massive stone, then its design must be enhanced by an additional frame of durable steel, which will avoid pressure and will protect the oven from the formation of cracks;
• to avoid radiation of heat from the side walls of the cast-iron furnace and getting the maximum comfort in the steam room, the furnace is necessary to "wear" into a special casing or perform a plane with brick or stone.