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For lovers of relaxation in the lap of nature in harmony with the surrounding world, real bliss is a hot bath in the open air at any time of the year. In addition, water procedures in the fresh air, especially in the off-season, are an excellent way to harden and an integral part of a healthy lifestyle.

You shouldn’t deny yourself pleasure with health benefits - just install a hot tub with a stove in the courtyard of a private house.

Manufacturers offer different design options, and there are also homemade solutions from home craftsmen. Let's look at what kind of font can be installed on a suburban area. Which is better: choose a ready-made one or make it yourself. We’ll also tell you what you need to know before you start using it.

DIY bath font

Very often, inherently wonderful ideas cannot be implemented due to lack of finance. But not in the case of a personal wooden bathing barrel. You can always make a font with your own hands, even if it’s not quite as beautiful as in the advertisement, but it’s certainly more convenient and reliable than the one left in the picture. The costs of materials cannot be compared with the price of a ready-made barrel-pool for a bath, while it is possible to build a font with your own hands with a stove to suit your height and dimensions, and not be content with the arbitrary dimensions of the bathing tank.

Country version of a heated bath

Types of fonts and their design

Of the existing options for constructing a container for outdoor bathing with heated water, only two schemes are available for making with your own hands:

Wooden fonts of oval or elongated shape;
Round oak baths with straight vertical walls.

Both options are quite popular and are often built for a bathhouse, both in carpentry workshops and handicrafts, in a garage or in a country house.

Small-sized sauna bowl without heating

The manufacturing method may seem overly complicated, but this is not entirely true. The only complicated part is cutting the profile at the ends of the planks and mounting grooves; both operations will have to be done on a router. You can do everything else for the font and heating the water yourself.

The heating inside the bath is electric.

You can, of course, buy a plastic box for a lot of money, dig it into the ground and pass off a half-pool-half-tank for water as a real, classic, home-made font with a stove.

Outdoor heated swimming pool furako (ofuro)

Well, I am glad to welcome you, O Chosen One! After all, according to statistics, no more than 5% of visitors to this page reach this section. This means that you really are attentive and thoughtful and decided to find out for sure what kind of Japanese heated bathing barrel this is and which option to purchase among all the variety of offers. The Cedar King will try to help you with this. All the information below will be presented in the form of questions and answers for convenience and clarity.

QUESTION: What is the correct name for this thing? Finnish barrel or Japanese hot tub with stove?

ANSWER: You can read in detail about the history of this amazing product and the procedure itself in our “articles” section. There are many names, but the best name is the one that reveals the essence. This is a wooden barrel with stove-heated water, for taking baths in the open air. In short - an outdoor swimming pool with a stove.

QUESTION: What should be the “ideal” wood-burning hot tub?

ANSWER: Several important conditions must be met, as if a puzzle were being assembled, so that as a result this purchase will please you for many years.

Quality, reliability, durability: They provide good materials, thoughtful engineering solutions, and high-tech production. And of course, experienced staff, masters of their craft.

Beauty, style, aesthetics: Design, quality of processing and coating are responsible for this. When looking at such a font there must be a “wow” effect.

Honest price: If a product is offered to you at a too cheap price, know that you saved a lot on something (on the quality of materials?), or expect additional payments to appear unexpectedly - “for delivery to Moscow, -” for varnishing, etc.

Full set: the product must be delivered to you completely ready for use and have everything necessary for comfortable use, including such pleasant little things as a shelf for drinks and an ash scoop

QUESTION: If we look in more detail, what exactly is included in the concept of “quality” when we consider an outdoor hot tub with a stove?

ANSWER: We proudly declare that each bathtub from Tsar-Kedr has excellent quality, spectacular appearance and a fair price, meaning not only the result of our work, but also specific facts that can always be “touched” and assessed in person. For example:

4 things that make your ofuro the best:

1. Altai cedar of the “extra” variety. No knots. Perfect processing . Magical cedar taiga aroma.
2.Hoops made of mirror stainless steel. Beautiful and reliable. Equipped with adjustable ties.
3.Reliable and powerful stainless steel oven. Convenient loading of firewood. Fast water heating. Will last a long time.
4.High-quality Italian protective coating. The tree breathes. It smells. Absorbs moisture. Releases useful phytoncides. Protected from damage.

QUESTION: How is the ofuro delivered, unloaded and installed?

ANSWER: Your Japanese Ofuro bathing barrel will be delivered assembled and ready to use. All that remains is to install it on a flat surface and connect it to the drainage system. You must ensure transport access to the unloading area; if this is not possible, unloading must be done manually. In this short video you can see firsthand what the unloading process looks like using a manipulator crane

QUESTION: How is the stove lit?

ANSWER: You will need dry birch firewood, the process is as simple as possible, all the nuances are described in the instructions and in the article on the website. The design of the stove is as convenient as possible, both for kindling and for cleaning ash.

QUESTION: How should I care for an outdoor wood-burning hot tub?

ANSWER: Cedar is a very durable and fairly easy-to-use tree. Therefore, caring for your Ofuro bathhouse will not take much of your time and effort. Disinfection of the internal surface is carried out by cleaning with a rag or soft brush moistened with a solution of hydrogen peroxide diluted 50/50 with water. This solution perfectly disinfects without destroying the wood or coating. Also, do not forget to change the water regularly so that it does not stagnate, and once a year coat the outside with oil or wax. But this is as an additional preventive measure, since all our products are supplied with a multi-layer professional coating with high-quality Italian environmentally friendly varnish, designed for a lifetime.

QUESTION: Will you deliver to any region?

ANSWER: We deliver our products to the following cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Ufa, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Irkutsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Saratov, Tyumen, Voronezh, Tomsk, Kirov, Tolyatti, Izhevsk, Penza, Surgut, Tula, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Stavropol, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Murmansk, Syktyvkar, Cheboksary, Petrozavodsk, Sochi, Astrakhan, Khabarovsk, as well as to all other cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

So, furako is a product that has no analogues for health improvement, relaxation and communication in nature. A unique thing is the opportunity to get indescribable thrills and create a great mood. Finally, this is an original and very aesthetic product that will decorate any cottage area or bath complex. We will be happy to answer all your remaining questions by phone, WhatsApp or any other way convenient for you!

Make your choice , make it right,

and we will do everything so that you get maximum pleasure from a real Japanese bath made of natural cedar!

How to make a font

Of the two options for a wooden bathing pool, it is best to choose a round option, similar to the Japanese ofuro bathhouse.

Classic model of a Japanese bath heated by a submersible oven

There may be many reasons for such a decision; here are just a few of the most important:

Heating of water in the round font container is faster and more uniform;
The round body is simpler and more convenient to carry on site; you can roll the container from home to bathhouse alone;
The barrel provides good stability even on uneven ground; strong heating or even overheating of water does not lead to leaks;
The main thing is that the tightening hoops compress the planks of the walls of a round structure almost evenly, which cannot be said about collapse fonts.

A huge number of elongated and oval baths begin to leak at the first serious heating of the water in the bathhouse. The problem is that such structures are made glued; the body of the font is actually assembled using sealant and polyurethane glue from 3-4 glued sections, one example is in the video:

Due to uneven compression, the wood “shrinks” differently, and after heating the poured water in a bathhouse, a leak may appear. To repair such a font, you will need to disassemble the body into boards.

Therefore, if you build a wooden font with your own hands, then it is better to have a round one; it looks more stylish than a long wooden “trough” with heated water.

Drawing of the font and materials for its manufacture

The best materials to use are oak or Siberian cedar pine; their wood is not afraid of heat and water, and in the latter case the pine also emits a pleasant resinous aroma. Natural Canadian cedar can also be used if funds allow. In addition, if ordinary pine and oak darken from water and heating, then Canadian cedar remains red throughout the entire period of using the font in the bathhouse.

Cedar font

You should not try to make wooden bathhouses from larch. The material is very caustic, cracks easily, and in addition, produces a huge number of splinters, even after grinding and polishing the surface.

A drawing of a round font is shown below; water heating in a bath can be done using an electric heating element from a washing machine. If you place a font in the courtyard of a bathhouse, then heating is easier and more convenient to organize using a stainless steel metal stove.

Preparation of components

The design of a wooden barrel of a heated font for a bath consists of identical boards or slats, 90-120 cm high, mounted on a rigid panel bottom. This scheme uses straight walls, without bending or tilting. Therefore, such a font is easier to assemble than a regular cognac barrel, and most importantly, with any method of heating water in a bathhouse, the risk of the hoop loosening is minimal.

The groove is precisely adjusted to the thickness of the bottom

First of all, it is necessary to glue the bottom; it is assembled from several identical panels, glued and tightened on the conductor using clamps. The optimal diameter is 1.2-1.5 m, with a board thickness of at least 30 mm.

The second stage is cutting blanks for wall planks. In each part of the font, along the end surface you will need to cut a cylindrical tenon and a counter groove of the same shape and size.

In order to connect the walls of the font with the bottom, you will need to cut a transverse groove on each workpiece. It can only be done on a machine with a special ring or disk cutter according to a pre-selected template. It is impossible to cut arbitrarily with a circular saw or grinder, otherwise after assembly, even with a slight heating of the water, the joints on the bottom of the font will leak.

Installation stages

Before starting to assemble the font, all parts are subjected to final finishing:

The surface on both sides is sanded with an emery wheel and polished with felt until smooth;
All burrs are removed manually, using a block of sandpaper, and sharp edges are rounded and leveled.

Usually, the first heating of the water in the bathhouse “reveals” all potential splinters well, so before installing the barrel in the bathhouse, the adjustment procedure will need to be repeated.

The next step is to assemble the bottom of the barrel; two support beams are placed on the back surface of the bottom of the font

DIY heated font

If you do not take into account the electric heating method, then two types of stoves can be used to heat a bathhouse:

An attached heater with a built-in heat exchanger; you can use a standard metal stove, designed for a bathhouse volume of no more than 10 m3. To heat 250-300 liters of water, the thermal power must be at least 10 kW;
Submersible metal stove with a high chimney and top loading. Such heating is often used for mobile portable bathhouse models; you can buy a ready-made one or make it yourself.

Comfortable relaxation in a barrel sauna is not always associated with a protruding and smoking chimney pipe, even if you cannot do without heating. In this case, the owners prefer to load the stove body with rubble stone and heat the font long before the start of water procedures. In this way, you can ensure heating of water in the bathhouse for one hour, even in the autumn cold.

Heating the bath with an attached stove

The second way to heat water is more convenient. In order to connect a stove with a heat exchanger, two to four fittings are installed in the wall of the font, through which hot water enters the bathhouse - barrel and drains back into the coil. Such heating can provide the bathhouse with heat for 3-5 hours.

Do-it-yourself wooden font, how to check the quality

The pain point of all wooden barrels - hot tubs - is the build quality of the body. In a good mini-sauna there should be no leaks even if the new bath has just been brought from the salon and freed from packaging. By the way, a sign of a good manufacturer is the transportation, storage and installation of the barrel in a bathhouse only in packaged form.

When assembling, many craftsmen use dry powder to grout the joints of wine barrels, no glue. After first filling the font container with water and heating it in the bathhouse, the glue peels off at the joints, like dextrin for wallpapering.

The first thing to do after assembly is to settle the barrel. Before tackling the hoops, it will be useful to roll the walls of the font on edge, illuminate them with a flashlight and look at the joints in the light. If a thin, barely noticeable light stripe flashes somewhere, you will need to lightly tap it with a rubber mallet or mallet.

At the final stage, the barrel is sent to the bathhouse and rinsed several times with boiling water to warm up the walls, and only after half an hour can the hoops be fully tightened, after which it is considered that the font can be used.

Production of wooden heated outdoor hot tubs: technologies and features

Using a unique technology, our company produces heated outdoor wooden barrels of various sizes and configurations. During the production process, we process materials in such a way that they become more resistant to temperature changes, mechanical stress and moisture. As a result, you will be able to buy an elite-class outdoor hot tub. During the technological process, a quality control system is applied at all stages of production. Therefore, our products receive many positive reviews.

Heated ice bath from a Eurocube - we make a sauna and an ice hole in the yard

On a hot summer day, in the courtyard of a country house or dacha, an inflatable or stationary pool helps to relax, and on a cold winter day, a plunge pool. Moreover, you can build two types of fonts at the same time - ice and heated. To save money and effort on building a hot tub, we suggest you make a practical option from a Eurocube (plastic container), equipping it with a convenient and simple heating system.

The classic version of the font is made of wood. The design of such a font is a large wooden barrel (oval, angular, round), which is tightened around the perimeter with steel hoops. Previously, wooden construction was considered inconvenient to use. The water in it had to be collected manually for hours, and then drained. Modern options are free of medieval inconveniences; they are equipped with an automatic pump for filling and draining water, as well as hydromassage and a heating system.

Did you know that in Rus' it was customary to bathe in ice holes or frozen vat barrels, which served as a font. Before plunging into ice water, our ancestors steamed in a bathhouse. But the tradition of steaming in a heated hot barrel came from Japan. The procedure was divided into two stages. First, a person sat in a barrel of hot sawdust (ofuro) for a long time until he began to sweat profusely, and then took bath procedures in a wooden container with hot water (furako).

The Japanese idea of furako became the basis for the construction of modern heated swimming pools. Most often, such models are represented by an external heat generator and are installed in an open area. To prevent the wooden structure from leaking, a closed assembly system is used, and steel rings are placed on top of the barrel, which are adjusted using a wrench when the threaded rods become loose. Oak, beech, cedar, and larch are used as the base.

A final few words about heated outdoor hot tubs

To protect swimmers from burns when the stove is located internally, a wooden grate is installed. If you attach a shelf for beer mugs and glasses of wine to the grille, you will be able to partially compensate for the loss of usable space.

Instead of an internal shelf, you can make external protruding sides on which it is convenient to place snacks and drinks.

To heat water, you can use a spiral-shaped water heater. Water circulates through a tube, which is heated by a fire from the wood. A mandatory attribute of such a device is a protective screen on the side of the font; also, for greater protection and reduction of heat loss, the coil can be lined with brick, but at the same time leaving small gaps.

The lid is a mandatory accessory for the hot tub: it protects against debris; limited access to sunlight slows down the “blooming” of water; The heating process goes faster with the lid closed; Water in a closed container cools more slowly.

An outdoor heated plunge pool cannot replace a swimming pool or sauna. This is an additional attribute for lovers of water treatments with contrasting temperatures in the fresh air.

When choosing a suitable option, people often focus on price, forgetting about durability and ease of maintenance. At the same time, owners of budget bathtubs point out difficulties in washing and constant care.

FURNACE FOR font

When we say a stove for a bath or a barrel for a sauna, we mean the heart of the product. Which manufacturer should you prefer and why?

The most common way to heat water in a sauna barrel is to use a wood stove. Depending on the method of use, the oven can be internal or external. How these two options differ from each other, and which solution should be given preference, we will try to describe in this article.

Internal wood-burning stove for hot tub with vertical loading (forced convection)

An internal hot tub stove is designed for installation inside a hot tub with a stove and heating water through direct contact with the hot walls of the stove. As a rule, such a hot tub stove is separated inside the hot tub by a protective wooden fence. The advantages of this design include only the low cost and simplicity of the process of its implementation in relation to an external stove for a font. Internal hot tub stoves are characterized by the following disadvantages:

reduction of the internal useful volume of the font;
continuous penetration of impurities into the water from the stove and chimney;
inconvenience of servicing the furnace, difficulty in cleaning ash, etc.

External hot tub oven with horizontal loading (free convection)

This is the classic and most practical option for installing a hot tub stove. The distance from the font to the stove, as a rule, should be up to 40 cm so that the water circulates independently. Water is heated by transferring heat from the furnace to the water through an internal heat exchange process. The water in the furnace is supplied to the bottom, and the heated water leaves the furnace at the top and is then supplied to the font. But depending on where in the font the water is taken, and where the water is returned to the font, and also what is the distance between the inlet and outlet openings of the font stove - the temperature of the water in the font can vary significantly!

The only drawback is the higher price compared to an indoor oven, but this is justified by the positive aspects of using this type of oven:

using 100% of the volume inside the font;
combustion products do not enter the water;
ease of installation, use, etc.

In addition to the criteria of price and furnace power, you should understand the process of heating water in the font, on which not only the efficiency of the water heating process depends, but also the pleasure of bathing without the need to use additional tools such as shovels, a circulation pump, etc. The consumer will pay attention for implementation, which does not require additional effort, as well as for the factor of the natural water heating process, which ensures the most uniform heating of the water inside the font. There are a large number of low-efficiency wood stoves available on the market that require more wood fuel and waste the energy generated down the chimney without heating the water.

For a deeper understanding, we present detailed information about the physics of the water heating process in various hot tubs: the Finnish company SpaDealers Oy and others.

External stove for SpaDealers Vilpra hot tub (water temperature difference approx. 6 °C)

First filling of a heated font

First filling of the font.

The moment you've been waiting for so long has arrived - the font is installed and connected to all communications.
The time has come for the first filling of your larch font. Only at first glance this is an easy process. And really, no big deal, just fill it with water and use it! But it's not that simple. The first pour is a process that largely determines further characteristics. It lasts from several hours to several days and depends on the time of year, ambient and water temperatures, and the material of the font.

There are several simple rules that make pouring easier and ensure its success:

Rules for the first filling of the font:

-The first filling/spilling is carried out only at a positive air temperature of at least -5C

Rules for lighting the internal oven:

— Prepare in advance only dry wood for lighting the stove, with a humidity level of no more than 10%.
High humidity significantly reduces combustion efficiency, and, accordingly, heating. — It is required to use only dry firewood. The internal wood-burning stove is deep enough, so logs up to 90 cm are suitable. -Damp wood creates steam, which can be mistaken for a leak.

-For initial ignition you will need: dry paper, birch bark or wood chips.

— Place a layer of paper in the firebox, birch bark/chips on top and then firewood. Leave the oven lid open to ensure an uninterrupted supply of oxygen.

— If you see that the smoke does not rise up the pipe, you need to blow several times into the hole intended for air supply, thus directing the draft into the pipe. During combustion, the draft can be controlled by slightly opening the stove lid.

— At the initial stage of lighting the stove, do not close the lid completely, because the fire may soon go out.

— After lighting the stove, as well as after using the hot tub, it is necessary to close the stove with a lid to prevent sparks or flames from touching the wooden surface of the hot tub.

Tips for quickly warming up the water in the font:

-To speed up the water heating process, it is recommended to use a wooden lid.
Thanks to it, it is possible to reduce heating time by 2-3 times. — Typically, the water heating time depends on the temperature of the water entering the font and the ambient temperature. In winter, at a temperature of -10 -20 C, the average heating time for the font is 5-6 hours. In summer time 2-3 hours. In addition to the function of reducing the heating time of the water, the cover, consisting of four sections, performs such functions as: protecting the inside of the font from leaves, insects, and precipitation; as well as a protective barrier for children.

— To evenly heat the entire volume of water, use a wooden paddle. Since the heat rises to the top, the oven temperature is higher at the top, the water needs to be stirred.

-Pour water into the font as high as possible, and the top layer of water will heat up better and faster; use a paddle to mix the heated top layer with the bottom layer, thus ensuring more uniform heating.

— To prevent cooling and heat up faster, keep the font with the lid closed, opening it periodically only to stir the water.

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