Shelves in the bath with your hands: the size, the device description

Steam treatments relaxes, heals the body, beneficial effect on the nervous system, promote healthy sleep. With time, coupled with the necessary knowledge, you can build a bath on his summer cottage. This article will help the owner to make the shelf in a sauna, bath, build inside the room.

What is the bath shelves? How to make a shelf in the bath with your own hands?

Shelves represents wood flooring on a rectangular frame made of beams. Material carefully prepared for operation - is subjected to grinding, grind angles treated impregnated. Terms for use of wooden structures in the bath is hardly favorable. Time spent preventive treatment ensures boards increase service life.

The frame is assembled from vertical strut-webs and boards. For additional security the frame is attached to the wall. On the basis of installed flooring of narrow planks. Leave a small gap between the boards to allow water to drain. Appropriate step - 1 cm. For natural ventilation between the wall and flanges retain clearance 8-10 cm. Flooring is possible to design a composite. This type is convenient enough - design elements are easy to disassemble for washing followed by drying in the street.

Make calculations, diagrams, drawings shelves in the bath or sauna, please note all the design features, select materials for work, prepare the tool. Let us examine each step in detail.

Having defined the size and number of shelves in the steam room, go to the drawings. A simple way - take a pencil, ruler and a schematic view on a sheet of graph paper, or placing the pair in the right scale. Indicate on the chart - the location of the windows, if any, of the furnace, the door opening. Experts insist that the windows in the steam room - an optional element of the large heat loss and traumatic.

Recommended dimensions for bath shelves in the steam room

Dimensions of shelves may differ materially in two different baths. Dimensions are directly dependent on the total area of ​​the pair. Convenient to assume such dimensions.

• Length - 150 cm or more (on a shelf that can be comfortably sit and lie down, its length is 180 cm). If your height is above average, the length of the shelf is allowed to increase up to 2 meters or more.
• Height - the lower-rung regiment should retreat from the floor for more than 25-30 cm. Hot air is lighter than cold air, the greater the distance from the floor to the shelves, the better. Depending on the height of the ceiling in the steam room, calculates the number of shelves and dimensions. The distance from the ceiling of the upper tier to be more than 1m.
• Width - for a comfortable seating - not less than 60cm. Love sweating lying? The minimum shelf width - 90 cm.

Decide furnace choice. If the room size allows to place a brick, stop your choice on it. This oven retains heat for a long time, almost eliminates the possibility of accidental burns on its surface, therefore, the shelves may be placed in close proximity.

Select the form of shelves, scribble sketches. Note relevant features - length ratio, height, width shelves. So you get the most complete picture of how it will look your personal steam after work.

Types of bathroom shelves.

• Coupe - two shelves arranged one above the other. This option is ideal when a small steam room. For more space-saving top tier supply a simple mechanism. If necessary, the shelf is folded like a train.
  

  Shelves coupe in the steam room of the Finnish technology

• Stepped - shelves in the bath are placed along one wall. They can be as two or three, depending on ceiling height. The lower level is the coolest, the top - for those who like it hot.
  

  The stepped design of the shelves is good in the steam room a spacious bath for a large family

• "L" -shaped type. The name speaks for itself. The tiers are located on two adjacent walls, forming a letter "G".
  

  L-shaped shelf in the steam room

Instruments

To assemble Poloka need the following tools:

• Roulette
• Screwdriver, Drill
• Hacksaw on wood grinder, chisel
• Wooden hammer (mallet), a normal hammer

The choice of material

The main criteria.

1. Thermal conductivity. The wood must have a low thermal conductivity, or on the shelf will be impossible to sit down.
2. Durability and practicality.
3. High resistance to moisture, high temperatures, the absence of defects.
4. Chopping, splitting.

Some breeds, in conditions of high humidity, are more likely to crack. To avoid cracking bath regiments nailing, use screws or pre-drill the holes. Prefer dowels.

Eliminate burrs and slivers that emerged in the course of work, or lovers of steam guaranteed splinter. Do not use soft wood, which are particularly amenable to splitting.

Smell

Use hardwood. Choosing all the same in favor of the softwood, buy timber harvested in the winter and brought from the northern regions of the country. It is a material with a higher density. At the beautiful fir wood texture, color, and there are no pockets of resin, which is not about all kinds of pines. A tree with a sharp flavor, how have some kinds of firs, would nullify the "no" effort for improvement steam. Resinous types will create a wonderful "woody" scent in the sauna, which will promote relaxation. In this note, if the wood is pine failed special treatment (degumming), under the influence of hot air to the outside tread resin. When work on the steam is completed, the harder to heat steam bath for one hour, scrape off the shelf stand out from the pockets of resin resin. Action repeat several times.

An overview of sawn timber for sauna and bath

Aspen - democratic value of the material; It does not crack when dry; eventually it becomes lighter; not afraid of water; It does not emit tar. Disadvantages material - low resistance to decay, with constant contact with water darkens allocates bitter aroma when heated.

Larch - wood contains gum, so it is very durable. The material has a high resistance to high temperatures and moisture. It has valuable medical properties: throughout the period of use will allocate volatile. Beautiful texture, a vast range of colors. Disadvantages - high density, many pockets of resin, it is difficult to process, price.

Oak - The best selection of hardwood trees. If the financial situation allows, consider the African oak abashi - he has a very low thermal conductivity, so sitting on a shelf hard burned. Attracts appearance, cell structure, color selection, high adaptation timber under application of a pair. The lack of one - the high price.

Linden - has a remarkable odor, low thermal conductivity. Healing material comprises essential oils, which contributes to prevention of colds. Easy to process. It takes the average price niche. Disadvantages - the average strength, quickly darkens, easy to rot. Poloka of lime should be thoroughly dry.

Cedar (not to be confused with Siberian) - is unique in its properties. Flooring cedar no tar does not burn the wood is good in handling, it is highly resistant to rot and crack. The therapeutic effect of pine resins are very useful for upper respiratory tract. If the board does not pick the color, you get shelves with amazing game of shades. Disadvantages of the material - the price.

When you purchase the material should lay in the budget an additional 15 percent for contingencies - damage, marriage, etc.

These rocks have long made it a favorite of those who build baths and saunas. Made from such wood rack, back for sun beds, the benches and many other, without which it is impossible to do in the bath. Do not forget - the entire interior trim guy (on the advice of experienced craftsmen) should be made from the same type of wood. Then the room will receive a nice appearance and will delight its owner for many years.

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