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Wood Burning Commercial Sauna Stoves

The natural choice for a countryside sauna or hotel complex. This is a traditional Russian banya stove with a chimney flue which ensures that no smoke can escape into the steam room, hence the expression "white banya". The heated masonry stove mass ensures a light steam and soft heat for up to forty-eight hours. This kind of stove creates the most comfortable bathing conditions, giving off an even, radiant heat and keeping the air in the steam room clean and dry.

The stone sauna stove is without question the heart of the vaporarium and the main attraction of any traditional Russian banya. The stove is fuelled with logs and fitted with a chimney. This way no smoke can escape into the steam room, hence the expression "white banya". Thanks to our sophisticated construction technology, stoves produced by Furnace Art Engineering boast a range of features that are entirely unique. Interested? Read on.

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Wood Burning Commercial Sauna Stoves

Features

Functional features of a stone sauna stove

This type of solid stove emits a gentle, radiant heat that gradually warms the floor, benches, walls, ceiling and the bodies of the bathers inside. A stone stove will reduce air circulation in the sauna room to zero. Inside the stove there is a solid core which creates steam when water is splashed onto it giving out a characteristic ‘flap’ like the sound a very large bird makes when it flaps its wings. Consisting of stones and cast-iron ingots of a special size and shape, arranged in a particular manner, the core maintains a temperature of between 600 and 1000 degrees celsius.

The stove is heated until such point as the entire mass has reached temperature and the inner core is glowing red-hot. At this point the stove is left to stand for a while giving the steam room time to reach thermodynamic equilibrium: the stove surfaces, atmosphere, walls, floor and benches gradually reach exactly the same temperature at which point all air circulation in the vaporarium ceases. So what does a sauna do? When the stove is ready it will maintain a soft heat and produce light steam in the sauna room over the course of a number of days. Our stoves produce the famous light steam that is so precious to banya connoisseurs. Our customers enjoy a light steam that remains to this day unrivalled by any other sauna maker in the world.

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Unique features

Sauna stove production is an extremely specialised field. In comparison to what is involved when we build a stove for a sauna, a normal heating stove project is relatively easy to implement. A finished sauna stove must be capable of withstanding thousands of heating cycles that involve the fire-box walls being repeatedly heated until they are glowing red-hot. In order to obtain a light steam, the stove must have a red-hot nucleus at its centre.
The nucleus’ heat and weight, quite apart from the periodic output of steam, places additional demands on the stove's construction.
Every stove is individually designed drawing on our considerable experience and developments in engineering, and with full compliance of national best practice guides for chimney and stove manufacturing, as well as up to date construction standards and legislation.

Calculating stove heat transfer

The stove parameters such as power and weight must conform to the proportions of the steam room. The precise volume of the sauna room is arrived at by multiplying its total square footage by the ceiling height. In our experience, the ceiling height of the steam room should be at least 2.8 m (absolute minimum, 2.4 m), in order to give the light steam the ample space it needs to accumulate when water has been splashed onto the stones. Afterwards, it will gradually descend towards the floor. We also take the shape of the room into account although this is of secondary importance. The door and windows are also considered when determining the sauna room’s heat transfer factor. The stove must have the capacity to heat its own mass and core consisting of cast-iron and stones. The values of the stove’s mass, surface area and wall thickness will all affect the length of time the stove will stay at temperature and remain capable of producing light steam. Stoves created by sauna construction uk at Furnace Art Engineering will provide a steam session at any point over several days on a single heating - an exceptional performance indicator.

We pay particular attention to the thermal insulation of the stove and the steam room itself. Although the stove's every brick is designed to work for the efficiency of the vaporarium, a certain amount of heat is transferred to other sauna rooms creating a pleasant atmosphere in these areas also.

Furnace location and foundation requirements

For the ideal fulfilment of these requirements, numerous factors must be taken into account. At the beginning of each new project our experts make a scrupulous study of the brief objectives, conduct an engineering analysis and produce a series of technical solutions which are applied to the stove model. We will always take pains to propose the optimal positioning of the stove in the sauna room. We take full responsibility for creating the best possible spatial layout of the sauna interior.

Wood Burning Commercial Sauna Stoves

Making the Stove

Getting to know

the customer and brief

Digital

modelling, design and costing

Preparations

pre-assembly and production schedule

Manufacturing

creating and lining the stove, finishing the steam room interior

Customisation

delivery and instruction

Support

and care throughout the stove life cycle

Wood Burning Commercial Sauna Stoves

Аdvantages

Business advantages

For the satisfaction of guaranteed results, we strongly recommend choosing a 'turnkey' sauna.

Daily exploitation The stove is designed to sustain a daily operation mode of intense commercial exploitation. We use professional quality materials in all our stove projects ensuring a level of durability quite sufficient for commercial use. The stove operating mode requires no specialised staff training. Simply following the operating instructions will guarantee a light steam. We create commercial sauna stoves for steam rooms with a total floor area of between seven to sixty square metres.

Advantages Our sauna stove installation will without doubt be the most economically viable on the market per year of service because our stoves have a life cycle of up to twenty years. The conventional stove alternatives are a temporary compromise with a maximum life cycle of five years, perhaps two or three in commercial use, at which point they require a complete overhaul to say nothing of regular six-monthly servicing. While other conventional stoves are being repaired, our stoves continue to run and generate profit.

Reliability Our commercial stove design is ultra reliable. While other ordinary stoves that are in daily operation have to be taken out of action and serviced every six months which interrupts business and disappoints customers, our stoves will go on working for decades due to special design features that protect the stove from errors that could be made by staff or guests.

Operating costs Operating costs are kept to a minimum thanks to the stove's heat protective design features. An electric or gas-fuelled stove only has to be heated for between two to four hours per day on a night timer setting. A few armfuls of logs and one and a half to two hours daily is plenty to bring a wood burning stove back up to temperature.

Ventilation A commercial sauna presupposes an intensive flow of guests. Bathers warm themselves through and sweat during a bathing session and so the capacity our stoves have to ventilate the steam room is absolutely vital. The ventilation rate in the sauna room is between one and four whilst the temperature remains constant.

Stove safety We are able to guarantee the safety of every sauna stove installation we create due to our full compliance with building rules and regulations and the sauna design which enables the heating process to be completed before the bathing session begins.

Beauty Lined with tiles, our commercial stoves are stunningly beautiful and make an impression on guests they will never forget. Once a customer has remembered your product it needs no further advertising. A tile lining is a commercially viable, rational choice.

Hygiene The steam room is designed to be convenient to look after, ensuring that proper levels of hygiene are easy to maintain. Being tile lined the stove surfaces are non-hygroscopic. The wooden floor decking can be easily removed for cleaning and the wooden benches are treated with a special oil which makes them easy to keep clean too.

Getting to know

the customer and brief

Digital

modelling, design and costing

Preparations

pre-assembly and production schedule

Manufacturing

creating and lining the stove, finishing the steam room interior

Customisation

delivery and instruction

Support

and care throughout the stove life cycle

Choosing the right stove

The root of the Russian banya’s renown lies in its traditional masonry stove. Above all else, we specialise in crafting traditional Russian stoves. The experts at Furnace Art Engineering are convinced that the kind of conventional heaters produced by other sauna manufacturers are a poor compromise. This is why:

Special features	An authentic masonry sauna stove			An iron box ‘including rocks’ (electric fire stoves, wood burning, metal etc)
Design	A single, closed, monolithic design including the furnace, the cast-iron-stone core and casing.			A bucket "including rocks" can take various forms but the rocks are always placed on the surface.
Mass and heat absorptive capacity	Large-tonnage mass. The stove's high heat storage capacity.			Low mass, low heat capacity.
Safety of operating mode	Periodic use. The steam session only starts after the stove has been heated. The stove is never heated simultaneously to the bathing session instead giving out heat already stored beforehand.			Constant use. Always switched on or burning logs. Unsafe with hazard of electric shock or carbon monoxide poisoning (many examples and statistics).
What heats and how?		Radiant heat warms the floor, walls, ceiling and bathers. The stove surface remains at around ninety degrees celsius.There is no air circulation and it is safe to enjoy the steam session.	Heating elements and other iron objects dry out the air which is breathed in by the bathers. Air circulation raises the temperature on the surface of the skin to above 60 degrees celsius initiating burns.
Light steam		Produces light, dry steam. The bathers warm through gently and breathing is easy. The body works like clockwork.	"Cold" stones used in some saunas such as a conventional swedish sauna. Produces wet steam. High humidity levels impede the evaporation of sweat - a potential cause of heat stroke.
Temperature of floor and ceiling in the steam room.		Identical temperatures. Minimal air flow. The body warms up gently and evenly.	It is 50 C warmer at the level of the ceiling then at the floor. Hot air currents. The head is hot but the feet are cold. This can quickly make you ill. Analogy to a hot workshop in the production of harmful materials. Pneumonia.
Research		WBGT Index (Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature, according to Horace Middleton Vernon) from 52 to 58. Supportive to the health.	WBGT index no more than 33. To increase the index rating humidity levels are raised involving the installation of another electrical appliance - the humidity generator.
Who buys them and why?		For those who understand the difference there simply is no alternative to a traditional Russian sauna stove.	Customers swayed by advertising and lacking information.

Wood Burning Commercial Sauna Stoves

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