Door for bath and sauna do it yourself

Private bath in a private house or in the country has traditionally been the pride of the family. At the same time, the bath is not only a place for communication and recreation for family members and guests, but also as a recreational area. At the moment, the bath is the majority of owners of country houses. After a hard working week, it is so nice to relax with your family or work colleagues, get some fresh air, and, of course, take a steam bath.

If you are planning to build a bath, then it is necessary to take into account not only the cost of materials and components, that is, not only the cost of construction. It is very important to include in the cost estimate the cost of windows, doors, furniture for a bath or font. Construction of a bath implies significant material costs. One way to save money is to make a door in the sauna with your own hands. Regardless of what type of bath you plan to build, as in any room, a door is needed here.

Features of the steam room

1. The door should be narrow and low in order to “not release” the heat from the room.

2. The safety door must open to the outside. This condition must be observed for two main reasons:

• The iron hinges on which the door is held, while inside the steam room, will be very hot. In order to avoid burns, loops should be placed outside the room.
• The door must open easily or with little effort so that the steam room can be left at any time.

3. A prerequisite for proper installation of the door is the presence of a small threshold with a mandatory gap between the floor and the lower edge, which will serve to circulate air from the steam room to the dressing room.

4. It is recommended to install a door upholstered with insulating materials, the most suitable of which are:

• mineral wool;
• felt.

5. Hinges for the door to the bath is better to choose from brass. Also note that the door can slam at any time, if you install the latches.

Here, perhaps, are all the basic requirements and recommendations that should guide the self-selection, manufacture and installation of a bath door. Now you know how to install the door in the bath, otherwise you can bring to life all your ideas regarding the design of the bath room.

Recommendations по выбору

• The door can be either single or double. Traditionally, in the bath set single door. In the steam room and sauna, double doors are currently the most popular.

The size of the bath door should be less than the door standard for an apartment or house, this will prevent strong steam from leaving the steam room.

Making the door for a bath is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance. One of the easiest ways to self-fabricate the door is the following technology.

What is required for work

You need:

• two wooden frames;
• Fiberboard;
• felt or mineral wool;
• waterproof wood material;
• antiseptic;
• moisture resistant substance.

So, at the initial stage it is required to sheathe wooden frames of hardboard on both sides. The free space should be filled with felt or mineral wool, the choice of the most suitable material is yours. In any case, high-quality filling will provide you with a very good heat insulating door, which retains heat in the bath. It is very important to consider the size of the frame when making the door. The inner part must freely, without any effort enter the outer. In this case, the outer frame must exactly match the size of the doorway.

From the inside, the sheathed and insulated door should be covered with waterproof wooden material, which is moisture proof plywood.

Among other things, the door should be saturated with moisture-resistant substance. It is worth considering that the surface also needs pre-treatment with an antiseptic.

Recommendations

• The traditional height of the bath door is about 170 cm, width - 80 cm.
• External door insulation is welcome. It is important to pay special attention to the insulation of the edges of the upholstery with a special roller from an airtight and elastic profile. If you nevertheless decided to use a latch or a latch in the door device, then:
• it is necessary to locate any locking mechanism inside the bath. Outer heck are dangerous for the brewer, as the door may inadvertently slam. Recently, on the door of the door do two constipation: top and bottom. Such a mechanism ensures a good tightness of the door, while ensuring the safety of people in the steam room.
• As for the handles and hooks in the bath, here preference should be given to wood products, in order to avoid possible burns in the process of kindling the sauna stove.

In conclusion, it is worthwhile to separately consider the issue of manufacturing doors for washing rooms in the bath.

Low temperature and high humidity can contribute to the swelling of the door, which ultimately can jam and no longer fall into place. It is also important to pay attention to the type of wood from which the door is being made.

The solution to the problem of swelling doors in the bath remains for an alternative option - the door for the bath, made using fiberglass. In this case, it is enough to use one frame for the door. The technology is quite simple: the frame needs to be insulated with mineral wool or foam, then the door must be trimmed with narrow sheets of fiberglass.

The external and performance characteristics of such doors determine their popularity. The ability to tolerate high humidity is their main advantage. To ensure maximum tightness, the fixtures for the door must be installed on both the top and bottom.

Remember that in the manufacture of the bath door should first of all be guided by the principles that guarantee the safety of pastime in the bath.

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