Lining is a thin board of standard sizes for covering rooms. Initially, it lined the salons of passenger railroad cars. And so the term came about.
Eurolining and timber of domestic production are widely used, including for finishing saunas and baths. The board is a material that can be sheathed not only the ceiling and walls, but also the floor.
Advantages of using a lining in a steam room
It is not for nothing that the material has become popular for cladding rooms with high humidity. The main factor that put him in the leading position is a high degree of drying. The only requirement for the correct facing of the future steam room is to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature - about 15-20 degrees. After the manipulations, the lining does not require extra costs for finishing, as it is still impregnated with special solutions at the factory.
An important aspect for lining the bath is the environmental friendliness of the material. Lining is made of solid wood and does not require artificial coating. The board not only provides safety, but also has a beneficial effect on the body, especially during bath procedures.
There are several more benefits.:
- Attractiveness. At the end of the work, the bathhouse looks aesthetically pleasing, and the craftsmen can sheathe the room under a “beam” or “log”.
- Soundproofing. Even the smallest thickness of dried wood makes the steam room soundproof.
- Heat retention. Like all solid wood paneling, lining is a heat-resistant material.
- Disguise. Correct forms make it easy to sheathe and hide small parts of the structure, masking communications.
- Treatment. The material can be cut even with the help of the simplest home sawing technique, for example, a jigsaw. No matter what the thickness of the beam is used for work.
Tree species
When choosing a lining, the first classification feature to be considered is the feedstock. Eurolining and domestic softwood materials are poorly adapted for facing the steam room: during heating, resins can be released from the board, adversely affecting the atmosphere of the room, adding smells to it. In addition, not all coniferous wood is well adapted to the effects of moisture and high temperatures. The cost of material is an order of magnitude lower than hardwood counterparts. It is for this reason that they try to choose coniferous beams for sheathing the dressing room. However, there are some exceptions. They are material from pine and Canadian cedar.
- Lining from pine. It can be used for steam rooms with electric heating of the room. The maximum temperature under these conditions does not reach the level of emission of harmful elements. A pine beam is most often positioned as a lining for a sauna.
- Boards made of Canadian cedar. This material has a beneficial effect on the body with healing substances. They help fight colds. Resin isolation is minimal, which allows you to choose a lining from the Canadian cedar, even for a bath with furnace heating. Due to its unique properties, the material is much more valuable than hardwood. Cedar lining is a refined and durable material.
Hardwoods are much more often used for cladding inside the bath. Lining for a pairing sheathing is selected depending on the ratio of the price and the desired characteristics. For a bath, you can use any hardwood board. However, only three types deserved the status of leaders wood - linden, aspen and alder.
- Lining from linden. The board is used less often than aspen or alder. However, a linden bath lining is least affected by moisture and does not rot when exposed to water. The heat capacity is quite low, touching the lining is safe. Of the usual hardwoods, this lining for a steam room fits almost perfectly.
- Aspen material. The bars are harder than lime. When heated, a characteristic bitter smell is emitted. Aspen has a white color.
- Alder. The material “combines” the characteristics of linden and aspen. At the same time, the board is cheaper. During operation, alder is very similar to linden wood; when heated, it releases a bitter aroma. Over time, alder can change color - from pinkish to brown-red.
- Lining from wood abash. This is an African novelty. Abash is difficult to compare with any domestic board. Baths lined with this material are quite rare. However, their sheathing has unique properties. Abash does not accumulate temperature, which means that it is impossible to get burned. Even if the beam is close to the source of heating. However, sheeting a steam room using abach is expensive.
Grade and Profile
Eurolining and domestic material go through the same stages of processing and drying. Classification takes place immediately before packaging. There are three main categories: A, B, and C. Recently, manufacturers often distinguish between the Extra or Premium classes. Lining for a sauna and a bath should correspond to grade “A”, however, the use of extra-class beams can increase the lining service life.
The board, which is taken to finish the bath, can have a length of one and a half, three or six meters. The size should be selected based on the dimensions of the room and the smallest number of joints between the trim parts. For operation in the steam room, only that euro-lining is suitable, the fastenings of which are made using the “comb / groove” technology. Thanks to such a system of joints, the thickness of the cracks in them is minimized.
The advantages of eurolining
Unlike domestic counterparts, it is produced not according to regional GOSTs, but according to international standards. It is the euro lining that has the Extra and Premium class. It is noted that it undergoes more thorough surface treatment and a high level of drying. Equipped with longitudinal grooves for ventilation and stress relief from a wooden beam. Cladding elements remove excess condensate. Eurolining has an improved fastening system. This is facilitated by deeper mechanisms.. The characteristics of a foreign class “A” board are much higher than the GOST parameters, and, according to domestic requirements, it can be classified as Extra.
The advantages of the Euro-beam affect the final cost, so the demand for it is not too great. The sizes of foreign and local material practically do not differ: thickness - 12.5; 14 and 15 mm, and the width can vary from 80 to 135 mm excluding grooves. Eurolining has more stringent parameters, and some errors are allowed in domestic products. Although this, if it affects the final result of the facing work, is not significant. It is necessary to determine and choose between imported and domestic producers, based on the estimated cost of the bath. Imported and domestic materials of the middle price category almost do not differ in the quality of wood and its processing.