ll right, the house is there. It has a roof, doors, windows, floor, and even walls. But we have to bear in mind that it's not a house, first of all it's a bathhouse. So, before
the cold weather arrived, I started building the steam room. No experience, no money, no understanding, so I tried to do my best. I also profited from a discount and bought a steel stove, which would burn out in a year and a half.

The list of mistakes I made is huge, and it includes the floor – weak and not waterproof, the lack of ventilation, walls and shelves of terrible linings, no taps in the steam room, and so on and so forth.
But my burning heart and the incessant desire to get my family and friends steamed did the trick: the gorgeous pine logs were lined with mineral wool, wrapped in foil and upholstered with linings.

At that time, I thought it was a work of art, the best bathhouse in the world, worthy of the first place in the World Bathhouse Contest. And to completely shock my guests, I adorned the oven with stone!
ll right, the house is there. It has a roof, doors, windows, floor, and even walls.
But we have to bear in mind that it's not a house, first of all it's a bathhouse. So, before the cold weather arrived, I started building the steam room. No experience, no money, no understanding, so I tried to do my best. I also profited from a discount and bought a steel stove, which would burn out in a year and a half.

The list of mistakes I made is huge, and it includes the floor – weak and not waterproof, the lack of ventilation, walls and shelves of terrible linings, no taps in the steam room, and so on and so forth.

But my burning heart and the incessant desire to get my family and friends steamed did the trick: the gorgeous pine logs were lined with mineral wool, wrapped in foil and upholstered with linings.

At that time, I thought it was a work of art, the best bathhouse in the world, worthy of the first place in the World Bathhouse Contest. And to completely shock my guests, I adorned the oven with stone!
A masterpiece! Moving to tears, I'm telling you….
That's how we met the fall of 2013. We heated the steam room to 120 degrees Celsius (thanks to the mineral wool and foil creating the thermos effect), spent 5 minutes there and ran out pleased with the effect. Sometimes there was snow outside, and other times there was mud. And there was a lot of mud left after the construction.

Since there was no gas on the property, we tried to heat the house with infrared lamps, heat guns, vodka (it was relevant then), and hookah (also relevant back in the day).

Yeah, it was cold, the house was chilled through, there was no furniture, no hot water, no drains, no beds. But it was delightful – my friends and I vacationed every week, and I decided to spend New Year's Eve there with my family. We invited over the Kobylianski family, asked them to dress up warmly, and we did a party with kids, Santa Claus, Russian salad, fireworks, presents, and music!
After the winter holidays I got back to the steam room, realizing that my boathouse would soon burn down due to violations of fire safety rules, so I built a stone ledge around the stove and encased the chimney in jadeite.

That's when the first prototype of ventilation came into being. Back then it was a hole in the bathhouse wall with a damper. Today, there's a smart home to manage the level of carbon dioxide in my steam room.

Sure, a lot has changed over 8 years. I learned a lot about bathhouses, their construction, temperature and humidity peculiarities. I took apart the linings and built ergonomic shelves of Altai cedar, installed a cool cast-iron stove weighing a ton with stones, covered in ancient bricks from church archeological digs. Finally, I installed a smart home system with rain, mist and automatic steam to the stones. On top of that, we added a warm, stone floor, a Himalayan salt wall, herb shelves, a hot water faucet, a gong, carbon monoxide sensors, a crazy steampunk design of the stove, and much more.

The one thing that hasn't changed is the feeling of holiday when you and your family or friends walk into the warm steam room and let off some steam...

All the bathhouses of the Woloshin banya resort are designed to the smallest detail and located in the bosom of nature.

Each of them is a unique experience of purification of body and spirit, immersion in yourself. This is how we make you fall in love with bathing and give you warmth.
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