Do-it-yourself wall and ceiling cladding with clapboard in the steam room
The steam room is considered the most important place in the bath. To improve health and enjoy your time in this place, you need to make the correct decoration of the walls and ceiling. Below is a step-by-step instruction on cladding walls and ceilings in a steam room and why you should choose lining as a finishing material.
Lining properties
In order to be comfortable in the steam room, and you could steam safely for health, you need to use only natural materials. For cladding, as a rule, there is a lining, an edged profiled board with grooves of non-coniferous origin. The best planks are made from oak, alder and cedar. However, it is very expensive. Despite the fact that it is better not to save on material, it is most reasonable to choose larch, pine.
This lining has a perfectly smooth, even base. Strength, resistance to deformation, powerful lock connection, resistance to high temperature conditions. When heated, it releases phytoncides, useful substances for the human body.
Step by step instructions for plating
Before finishing, it is imperative to protect the ceiling from hot steam with a heater, and then with aluminum foil or a construction membrane. Do not use expanded polypropylene to avoid toxicity. Further, the sequence of actions is as follows:
1. Creation of lathing from planed boards with a step of 50 centimeters, perpendicular to the direction of the lining;
2. Warming with basalt wool between the sheathing beams;
3. Creation of a vapor barrier to reduce thermal conductivity by attaching glassine (each strip overlaps the previous one by 5 centimeters);
4. Installation of lining from hard-to-reach corners in a horizontal manner. It is worth clarifying that it is impossible to fix the lining vertically, because a fungus may appear.
5. Then the installation of the lining is done on the created ceiling lathing. It is applied over the top of the insulation. There is no need to provide any gaps.
Note! At the end, a wooden ceiling plinth and corners along the walls are necessarily laid. Insulation from the stove with red brick, which is placed between the wall and the fire, is certainly provided.
As a result, it is not difficult to make wall and ceiling cladding in a steam room. You need to follow the instructions above. It is worth choosing lining as a material, since it is environmentally friendly, aesthetic, versatile in installation material that creates a subtle aroma in the steam room and creates a relaxing microclimate in the room. In addition, it has excellent sound insulation and sound absorption.
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