Bath in the bathroom with your own hands

Arrangement of a sauna in a bathroom has long ceased to be a dream, but turned into reality. The statement that there must be a separate room for a bath is a mistake. Bath can also be arranged in a city apartment. So, bath in the bathroom with your own hands - step by step we consider this option in this article.

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Ways to design

There are two versions of the bath in the bathroom with their own hands:

• A stationary sauna for spacious bathrooms.
• Mini steam room, made in accordance with the small dimensions of the bathroom.

If you have experience of construction work, then you will be able to master this work yourself.

Important! In the building supermarket you can find different ready-made versions of the sauna for the bathrooms. It remains to choose the right option and install a steam room in the house.

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Do I need an agreement to arrange a bath?

Naturally, it is necessary to coordinate such an arrangement of the bath, and in this order:

• First of all, the project must be coordinated in the State Fire Service. Experts will check the reliability of your electrical wiring, certificates for materials.
• It will also require permission from the housing inspection.
• The sanction is necessary and from Sanitary-and-epidemiologic service, after all the mini-bath in apartment should satisfy all sanitary norms.
• You also need verification from representatives of architectural supervision. There are certain requirements that must be observed in such a reconstruction of housing.

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What are the advantages of a bath in an apartment?

Having equipped a sauna in the bathroom with your own hands, you get such advantages:

• Possibility to take bath procedures without leaving home.
• If the steam room in the bathroom is built correctly, it heats up literally in a few minutes.
• Arrangement of a steam room in the bathroom does not affect the amount of energy consumption. In a properly designed bath, the energy costs are extremely optimized.

Important! Many are interested: can I equip a sauna, a sauna on the loggia? This option is possible, but it is more expensive, since it requires additional communications.

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Kinds of microclimate

By rules, the sum of two digits - the relative humidity of air and temperature, should not be more than 110. Here are the different microclimate options for the sauna

Dry bath:

• Air temperature - from 90 to 110 degrees. Relative humidity is 10%.

Important! Characteristic features: dry air at high temperature stimulate increased sweating.

Wet bath:

• Air temperature - from 70 to 90 degrees.
• Relative humidity is 25-40%.

Important! Characteristic features: watering the hot stones on the stove contributes to high humidity.

Steam bath:

• Air temperature - from 40 to 65 degrees. Relative humidity is 45-70%.

Important! Typical features: the source of water vapor is the generator. It can be added herbal infusions for inhalation procedures.

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The procedure for creating a bath in the bathroom

Please note that the steam room in the bathroom with your own hands is a painstaking work that requires considerable effort and material costs. The work is not easy. You need to choose materials, choose an economical and quality stove.

General recommendations of

So, the basic principles of the work:

• The walls that separate the bath from the other part of the room are assembled as a skeleton partition.
• For faster heating and optimization of energy consumption, it is not advisable to make the ceiling more than 2.0 m.
• The insulation of the room is mandatory. As a thermal insulation material, mineral wool with a thickness of 50-100 mm can be used.
• To protect the heater from moisture, a vapor barrier film is used. The sheets are laid with an overlap without tension, and the joints are glued using scotch tape.
• Facing for the mini-sauna can be a block house or lining. The thickness of the skin is 10-12 mm. For the treatment of wood use antiseptics( organic, inorganic or mixed).This will increase the life of the tree. If desired, you can cover the skin of the bath with a heat-resistant varnish.
• The value of the ventilation gap between the lining and vapor barrier film must be at least 20 mm.
• As the outer skin of the bath can use the same lining. However, if the general interior of the room from this will suffer, you can use gypsum cardboard and glaze it with ceramic tiles.

Bath in the bathroom with their own hands: the choice of heat and vapor insulation materials

According to experts, it is desirable to use materials not rolled, but plate type. They:

• is denser;
• is more convenient in operation;
• holds the form well;
• are held in a vertical position, without sliding down.

Important! You can not use extruded polystyrene foam or polystyrene to build a bath in your apartment with your own hands, since these materials are operated at a temperature not exceeding 75 degrees. Thermal insulation of glass wool is also not suitable. Even if you work very carefully, you can not get rid of the smallest particles of glass. They can injure the skin and respiratory system.

Aluminum foil can serve as a vapor barrier layer:

• Due to the thermo-reflective properties of the foil, the time for heating the mini-bath is significantly reduced. But you need to remember that the foil requires great accuracy in the work. The cloth is easily torn, since its thickness does not exceed 50 microns.
• It is much more convenient to work with a two-layer film on kraft paper. It is easier to work and much stronger.

Important! There are also special insulating materials for saunas, one side of which is covered with a layer of foil. Lay the material with a metallic layer inside.

Features of the floor arrangement

The floor of the home bath, like the walls, and the ceiling, must be insulated.

Important! Mineral cotton wool is not suitable for this purpose, since it will shrink under load. In the end, the coating of ceramic tiles is cracked.

The best option is extruded polystyrene foam, located under a layer of tiles and concrete. Strength properties are good, but from the effect of high temperature it is reliably protected by a concrete "pillow".

The order of performance of works, so that the bath in the bathroom was correct, is as follows:

• Place the slab insulation on the floor. Preliminary it needs to be adjusted according to the size of the room.
• Seal joints, fill them with mounting foam.
• Fill the surface of the insulation with mortar for concrete floor screed.
• After the concrete has hardened, place a ceramic tile on the adhesive layer.

Important! To equip the waterproofing of the bath floor in the bathroom is not necessary, since the polystyrene foam itself has good waterproofing properties. In order not to slip on the floor, wooden gratings are placed on the aisles. In the place of drainage it is necessary to install a trap-receiver equipped with a siphon.

Benches and shelves

For making seats and sunbeds in a bath in the bathroom, the best option is hardwood:

• Pine or spruce is undesirable, because with strong heating, resin appears on the surface. It's not very pleasant to sit on a bench that is sticky with tar. In addition, you can ruin the objects of bathing textiles.
• The best option for the ratio of price and quality is aspen and linden wood. In this case, the boards will not get too warm.

Important! Typically, the shelves have two tiers:

• The first tier is located at a height of 0.5-0.6 m from the floor level.
• The second - on 0,4 m above.

To the shelf was comfortable to sit a man of any height, it is desirable to make the upper tier foldable or removable. If this is not possible, make it somewhat narrower than the bench below.

Steam room in the bathroom with our own hands: we equip the door

It needs to be arranged so that the room was closed, but it held the heat:

• An interesting solution is a transparent glass door. At the same time and save the lamp. But ordinary glass for this purpose is not suitable because of increased fragility. It is much more practical to buy a ready-made door made of tempered glass, capable of withstanding a strong heat.
• If you installed the light in a bathroom bath with your own hands, then a dull wooden door leaf is also suitable.

Important! The width of the door leaf must be at least 0.6 m, so that the outlet is free.

. What else should you foresee if you plan to organize a bath in the bathroom with your own hands:

• For security reasons, do not make internal constipation.
• Do the door so that it opens outward.
• Handle also make wooden. The metal is very hot and can cause burns.
• The oven should be fenced with wooden handrails.

Important! For a small bathroom, sliding or swinging doors from two narrow flaps will be a good solution for a bath in the bathroom.

Ventilation

To ensure that the bath in the bathroom was safe:

• The supply duct is equipped at the bottom of the room, near the floor itself. Its diameter is 5-6 cm, it is desirable to place the hole closer to the furnace.
• The air outlet is located at the top, on the opposite side of the cab or on the ceiling. The diameter of the exhaust duct, in comparison with the supply duct, should be greater( of the order of 9 cm).

Important! With this approach, heated air enters the room. And the air flows from the sauna booth at the same time warm and the bathroom room.

• The exhaust duct is arranged so that it goes out into the street or into the common vent of the house.
• A fan that is activated after the air temperature in the bathroom reaches a certain value is also useful.

How to make a steam room in the bathroom of an elite apartment?

Arranging a steam room in a spacious bathroom of an elite apartment is a common phenomenon:

• If you do not feel constrained in the means, use natural expensive materials so that the bath in the bathroom with your hands was not only beautiful, but extremely safe.
• For construction use profiled beam 40-80 x 140-180 mm in cross section. For walls of this thickness, neither vapor barrier, nor additional insulation is needed.
• Outside walls are decorated with lacquer or vapor permeable paint.
• The gap between the timber and the wall varies from 20 to 50 mm.

Furnace selection

For a domestic bath you need to choose a good oven that can not only store heat, but also quickly warm up. Before you make a purchase, compare the size of the steam room with the technical characteristics of the product.

Important! Depending on the type of material, it can be metal or brick. Metal products are more preferable, since they are light, compact and do not exert strong pressure on the supporting structures.

Depending on the fuel used, the furnace can be:

• wood;
• gas;
• electric.

Important! The latter option is optimal for a bath in the bathroom, as the wood oven is more suitable for a detached structure, and for installation of a gas device you will need additional permits.

Depending on the microclimate, the heater can be closed or open.

Important! If you are a fan of a traditional Russian bath with a moist steam saturated with the smells of herbs, you should pay attention to the oven with open stones.

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Disadvantages and safety issues

Sauna in the bathroom with its own hands has a number of drawbacks:

• If the ventilation is not well thought out, then the room retains a high humidity for a long time. This is fraught with the development of mold or fungus on the ceiling and walls.
• Pay special attention to fire safety. Failure to comply with the regulations may lead to a fire. Therefore, obtaining all the necessary permits is not an unfortunate formality, but a reasonable step, which makes it possible to secure you.
• Do not forget about the condition of the wiring. In advance, consult an experienced electrician so that, because of your desire for a healthy lifestyle, the tenants of the whole house are not left without lighting. Knowing the bottlenecks and potential problems will help you not solve them, as they say, as they arrive, but prevent them in advance.

In this article we have told you in detail how a bath in the bathroom can be used by our own hands, how profitable and how fraught with such a solution. We hope that if you did not abandon your original idea, you will do everything right and at any convenient time you can recover and relax right at home safely and pleasantly.