Commercial gas-fuelled Sauna Stove

This is the perfect solution when gas is available, smoke from burning wood has to be avoided (e.g. in the case of a business in the city), or the electric power supply is not sufficient to fuel a sauna. The stove is equipped with an automated gas burner, and in all other respects, is very similar to the design of a wood burning stove. Naturally, the finest features of an authentic stone stove are preserved in the gas powered model. Even large commercial sauna stoves that require increased power supply can be powered by gas. Please note, that a gas powered sauna stove is totally safe due to the fact that the heating and bathing processes take place at different times. The gas supply equipment is fully fitted with essential safety devices.



The stone sauna stove is without question the heart of the vaporarium and the main attraction of the traditional Russian banya.  The gas powered stove is fitted with an automated gas burner and flue pipe. All stoves produced at Furnace Art Engineering have a number of unique properties due to the technical perfection of our design.


A gas powered stove will suit you if wood smoke is to be avoided, the spare electric supply circuit available is less than 12 kW, or the steam room requires a stove with increased capacity. Even if there is no mains gas supply the stove can be connected to an autonomous Gasholder (private reservoir for storing liquid gas). 


The stove’s automatic gas burner meets the most stringent safety requirements (gas pressure control, combustion flame control, etc.) and is equipped with a thermostat and a safety shut-off device. If the flame is extinguished, the gas supply shut-off device is activated automatically. The burner heats the stove's stone mass quickly and evenly. The equipment and installation both come with inspection and testing certification.


Power, efficiency and environmental friendliness A gas-fuelled stove has sufficient capacity to heat a steam room with a total floor area of up to 90 square metres.  Our gas-fuelled sauna stoves have an exceptional efficiency rate of up to 80%. A gas powered stove can be fully heated in just five hours and brought up to temperature in as little as two to four hours on a night timer setting.  We only use environmentally friendly materials in any sauna construction. At Furnace Art Engineering we firmly believe there is no place for synthetics in a traditional Russian sauna.

Geography
Russia
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Spain
France
Italy
Gas Powered 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 light 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.  At this point the stove is ready and 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 all the vital benefits of using a sauna that produces light steam. Our commercial sauna stoves are to this day unrivalled by any other sauna maker in the world.

283
Projects
189
Customers
5
Countries
3
Awards
6
Inventions
Unique features
Sauna stove production is an extremely specialised field.

In comparison to what is involved when building a commercial sauna heater, 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 guidelines for chimney and stove manufacturing, as well as up to date construction standards and legislation.
Calculating stove heat transfer
The parameters of the stove 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. A commercial sauna heater produced by Furnace Art Engineering will provide a steam session at any point over several days on a single heating - an exceptional indicator of performance.

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.
Gas Powered 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
Gas Powered Commercial Sauna Stoves

Advantages

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 designs ensuring a level of durability that is more than sufficient for commercial use. The stove operating mode requires no specialised staff training. Simply following the operating instructions will guarantee a light steam and all the benefits of sauna use. We create commercial sauna stoves for steam rooms with a total floor area of between seven to sixty square metres.

  • Advantages Our product is without doubt 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 resistant design features. An electric or gas powered 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. In this case, the capacity which our commercial sauna heater has to ventilate the steam room is absolutely vital. People warm themselves through and sweat during a bathing session. 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 all our sauna stoves due to our full compliance with building rules and regulations and the sauna design which completes the heating process 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.

Test drive

Choosing the right stove

The root of the Russian banya’s fame 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 conventional electric sauna heaters, essentially a metal box ‘including rocks’, are an extremely poor compromise. This is why:

Special features

An authentic masonry sauna stove

An iron box ‘including rocks’ (an electric stove, 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. Wet steam. High humidity levels impede the evaporation of sweat - a potential cause of heat stroke. Reduced benefits of sauna session.

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 true benefits of sauna and steam room there simply is no alternative to a traditional Russian sauna stove.

Customers swayed by advertising and lacking information.

Gas Powered Commercial Sauna Stove

Which 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

Gas-fuelled Sauna Stoves

The stone sauna stove is without question the heart of the vaporarium and the main attraction of the traditional Russian banya.  The gas powered stove is fitted with an automated gas burner and flue pipe. All stoves produced at Furnace Art Engineering have a number of unique properties due to the technical perfection of our design. A gas powered stove will suit you if wood smoke is to be avoided, the spare electric supply circuit available is less than 12 kW, or the steam room requires a stove with increased capacity. Even if there is no mains gas supply the stove can be connected to an autonomous Gasholder (private reservoir for storing liquid gas).  The stove’s automatic gas burner meets the most stringent safety requirements (gas pressure control, combustion flame control, etc.) and is equipped with a thermostat and a safety shut-off device. If the flame is extinguished, the gas supply shut-off device is activated automatically. The burner heats the stove's stone mass quickly and evenly. The equipment and installation both come with inspection and testing certification. Power, efficiency and environmental friendliness A gas-fuelled stove has sufficient capacity to heat a steam room with a total floor area of up to 90 square metres.  Our gas-fuelled sauna stoves have an exceptional efficiency rate of up to 80%. A gas powered stove can be fully heated in just five hours and brought up to temperature in as little as two to four hours on a night timer setting.  We only use environmentally friendly materials in any sauna construction. At Furnace Art Engineering we firmly believe there is no place for synthetics in a traditional Russian sauna.

natopil.co.uk
Moscow
+ 44 203 318-44-54