Bath 2 in 1. Our budget option
We live in a village, we work, although we are already retired. We decided to build a new bathhouse and a gazebo on our site, so that in the summer there would be somewhere to sit with guests in the fresh air, relax after the bathhouse, and drink tea. There was not enough space on the site, and there was not much money either. Therefore, we immediately dismissed the option with gas heating. It was decided that the bathhouse would be on wood and always a log house.
And so they did. They took a pine log house and installed it on a stone foundation. And when it came to the roof, they thought. Initially, it was assumed that the bath will have a small veranda, like a canopy, and a gable roof. In this case, the roof turned out to be cumbersome, and the gables would have to be sheathed with something, and this is laborious and costly.
And then the thought came to mind: why not make a spacious veranda, which will be a summer gazebo for gatherings? As they say, we will kill two birds with one stone. We thought, made calculations, and - go ahead!
Now the width of the veranda was 2.5 meters along the entire length of the log house - 6 meters. For this size, a hipped roof, which rested on metal pipes, is best suited. The size of the roof was calculated so that the profile was cut without scraps, again to save money. I had to tinker, but the roof turned out to be neat and compact.
Inside the bathhouse itself, there are no fashionable delights, everything is simple and sound. The stove was welded on the usual, the so-called "steam locomotive", but it was installed deeper so that the floor was warm.
A sewer pipe was laid under the floor and led into a pit. After that, the soil was laid in the form of a bowl, insulated with foam plastic, a layer of cement mortar was put on top, and a siphon was placed. Later, tiles were laid on the cement to make it easy to clean. You lift a couple of floorboards and quickly rinse the tiles with a brush and water from a hose - simple and hygienic.
From the inside, the bathhouse and the dressing room are sheathed with pine clapboard, and they look like this.
The stove is fired from the dressing room.
At first glance, the stove seems to be too small, but as many as 15 buckets of bare stone fit into the grate. The bath heats up quickly, the steam is wonderful, dry, like in a sauna. But the tank turned out to be too big (100 l), we fill it only halfway, otherwise the water heats up for a long time. But this can be fixed.
We plan to bring cold water to the bathhouse, but for now we are filling the containers through a hose from the house.
And the bathhouse itself now looks like this from the outside.
I will add that we insulated the walls, ceiling and floor of the veranda, put wooden frames, so it is warm there until late autumn. It turned out to be a fairly spacious room.
The veranda really turned out to be very functional. There is a table with benches, two armchairs, a small cupboard with dishes. After the bath, we rest there, and when children or relatives come, the veranda becomes a favorite place for gatherings.
Probably, to someone this version of the bath will seem not modern. Now they are building on a grand scale, with a maximum of amenities. And we are quite happy with this. For a village family with a small income - that's it. We will be glad if our experience is useful to someone.
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