Facilities with high humidity. Finishing and repair.

The materials used in the decoration of high humidity, there are special requirements. They should have a low coefficient of water absorption, have high mechanical and chemical resistance to abrasion and detergents.

Along with the classical method of finishing wet rooms, such as tiles, and there are plenty of other options. It is about them we will cover in our material, and to help us in this, experts FORUMHOUSE!

From our material you will learn:

• How to start the choice of material for decoration with high humidity.
• How to design this space affects the choice of material for his finish.
• What, besides the traditional tiles, you can decorate the room with high humidity.
• What are the nuances to consider when you finish.
• What are the most frequent mistakes are made when such works.

Features rooms with high humidity

Before proceeding to the choice of material for finishing wet rooms (eg bathrooms), you must ask yourself the question: what is a room different from the other rooms in the house or apartment, and how it affects his design?

In one case, a bathroom - it's a simple washroom facilities, and in the other - a real complex of swimming pools with hydro massage and stylish sanitary equipment.

Therefore, what kind of functionality was originally laid in the bathroom, in many respects depends on the choice of material for its decoration.

Elena Golubkov (Project Designer):

- In the house or apartment has a room with varying degrees of importance. In the bathroom we spend a lot of time, with daily use it.

Additionally, in a humid environment focuses a plurality of communications: the tube with hot and cold water, electricity required for connection of the washing machine, etc.

Therefore, well-built and finished wet room - is the fruit of the labor of the architect, designer plumbing, electrical and tiler.

To damp rooms need applies to a well-functioning and well-functioning machine consisting of a plurality of interrelated components.

Failure to "work" of one system leads to additional spending. Moreover, the "problem" may occur immediately or in the distant future.

Finishing materials for wet areas must meet a number of specific requirements, ensure their long-term operation under the aggressive exposure to water and intense mechanical loads. In the repair and decoration of bathroom, kitchen and a bathroom are among the most expensive rooms.

So think about what and how to dispose of wet room, these materials will be combined with each other and look in the interior must be at the design stage country house. For example, the lack of ventilation in the humid environment can cause mold or mildew. Error when installing communications - to leaks. And how much will be trouble if the pipes are laid inside the already decorated the walls! The lack of waterproofing - to waterlogging structural elements flat and rapid loss of their performance. Wrong choice of location for the bath, kitchen and bathrooms increase further the cost of their operation and the decoration.

Elena Golubkov:

- I would advise to arrange the bathroom in the house so that there is at least one window through which the room can penetrate daylight in it. He transforms the room, treating us from the spleen and gives energy. And then - it's just lovely - to take a shower in the sun.

If the window is not possible to make, for example, as projected, or bathroom is located in an apartment building, it is necessary to provide sufficient artificial lighting. This may be a light at the mirror (built-in or separate it - in the form of a sconce next to it), ceiling light, muted lighting - for a relaxing bath. Mirrors, reflective surfaces are also used as decoration element.

Well-chosen natural or artificial lighting fully discloses finishing elements in a humid room. Conversely, even the most expensive decoration "fade" when properly chosen lighting.

The next step, also influencing the choice of materials for finishing wet rooms, are communication, necessary to connect the toilet bowl, sink, shower, heated towel rails and other plumbing instruments. It is necessary to take into account the many nuances - the slope of the drain pipe, the presence of the downcomer is correct wiring pipes for hot and cold water. No one wants to drill an expensive tile, if after its laying it turns out that to connect the mixer to the desired height is not enough a few centimeters of the pipe.

Also, do not forget about ergonomics wet room. Ask yourself the question: how easy is to use the bathroom when used in its decoration tile, wood, stone or plastic panels? Would it not be too slippery in the bathroom for an elderly person or a child?

Elena Golubkov:

- It is necessary to take into account the relative position of the individual components and objects in a humid room. You should not put the toilet and bidet next to each other. Run around the room from one to another - not the most comfortable pastime. It is also possible to dispense with a bath, because in many cases it is enough for a shower.

The presence of certain equipment in a damp environment affects the choice of material used for its finishing. For example, open requires a more serious attitude towards the waterproofing and moisture resistance finishing materials bath (since water will fall on the floor and walls). At the same time, private shower itself performs the function of enclosing, protecting the room from the water, which allows you to "play" with a variety of finishing materials.

Finishing materials in wet areas

The construction market offers a wealth of materials, which can be finished with a wet room. All depends on the availability of funds and desires. Tile, stone, decorative plaster, tiles, plastic panels, painting, wood treated with preservatives - may be any combination of these materials.

- Materials such as natural stone, marble and mosaics from it for centuries been used for lining term, hammams and pools. They are aesthetic, well tolerated in a moist environment, are long. If you have the means and the opportunity to decorate the humid these materials, then that's great.

The first thought that comes to mind to any developer who chooses the material for finishing wet room - it is certainly, ceramic tile. Aesthetics, low moisture absorption coefficient and a variety of colors that material brought deserved fame.

But is there an alternative to ceramic tiles, natural stone, glass mosaic? How to save money? Let us think, and whether you want to "roll" all wet room not cheap these materials?

You can go the way of the combination - to close tiles, granite, mosaic only "wet" areas, which are closely in contact with the water, and all other surfaces - plaster or paint.

kan74 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- I'm in my house did not lay tile in the bathroom. I thought suddenly will disappear, and expensive. In doing so: I primed, painted walls and proshpaklevat. In ten years, no cracks appeared.

Rual(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- I was in the bathroom wall curves. Took plaster, promptly I inserted it into the wall, lined, double primed and painted with latex paint. Since then, three years have passed, and the new wall.

In addition to paint, in a humid environment, you can use a special water-resistant decorative plaster. With its help you can give walls a stylish and sophisticated look, imitating marble, stone, wood.

Vitali Pozhidaev (specialist repair and finishing):

– While ceramic tile - a classic of materials, from my own experience I can say that in the interior wet room looks great combination of tile and plaster. It turns out the real picture of where the tile, as the frame, acts framing elements.

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To understand how best to combine these materials, you can use the following tips.

Elena Golubkov:

- The first option - zoning. We highlight in the bathroom "wet" area and put it in the bathroom or shower. In the "dry" zone is placed sink, cabinets, toilet and bidet.

Thus, we selectively apply the expensive material - tile and mosaic - and cost savings.

Option Two: permitting the bathroom size, you can just isolate the "dry" block from the "wet" glass wall and finish it less demanding of water-resistance materials.

You can paint the ceiling in the bathroom, or to mount the tensioning system. It plays a key role as the project budget, and the need for any special effect: a mirror or reflection.

It can also be used for finishing the bathroom moisture resistant wood, such as larch, but it is an expensive option. Less expensive types of wood: elm, alder.

Wood must be processed antiseptic compositions which protect it from rotting. When using wood as a decor element should "protect" it from direct contact with water.

Budget method of finishing wet rooms can be a water-resistant plastic panels.

Yossarian(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- Plastic panels in the bathroom - it's quick and inexpensive solution. They are easy to work, but we need to look carefully at the quality of the panels: there are thin and flimsy, there is strong enough. Everything depends on the manufacturer.

Thanks to the installation of technology, the panel allows a short time to decorate their own bathroom.

Alternatively, the plastic panels are used as a temporary solution for 2-3 years before you start to finish wet areas with more expensive materials - ceramic tiles, etc.

Advantage panels - ease of washing: the dirt can be wiped off with a cloth or launder.

Do you have an unpleasant smell of plastic panels? This issue is of concern to many developers. Generalizing the experience of users FORUMHOUSE, we can say that the smell of poor quality panels made from PVC with a violation of the technology. Quality laminate panels have almost no odor. Also not recommended to install the panels in the closed plastic profiles: U-shaped, starting / finishing slats, where there is no water discharge. It is stagnant, dirty water oozes like "flavors".

When installing panels PVC better use of special profiles and additional elements: an outer corner, the inner corner start / finish rake ceiling profile / plinth. But there is a caveat.

Cake(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- It is necessary first to calculate how much it will cost finishing the bathroom plastic panels. The estimate should include all rails and corners, glue (if the panel is glued on a flat wall). It may happen that the low cost of the panels will be imaginary.

How to avoid mistakes in interior decoration with high humidity?

Despite all the advantages of a material used in the decoration of the premises with high humidity and all its virtues can be reduced to "no" because of mounting errors. Consider the main ones.

Vitaly Pozhidaev:

- Since we are talking about the plastic panels, the relative cheapness they are not deprived of this disadvantage as brittleness. The panel consists of two parts with partitions and a layer of air. Therefore, she is afraid of sharp blows, it can stay on the hole or dent.

For fastening the panels is better to use a metal profile used when installing plasterboard (this structure provides rigidity). If you fix the panels on a wooden crate, it may eventually "story" that will lead to a structural distortion, as the tree can start to rot. Reliability for the panel to be mounted on a press washer (screw with a big head). Ideally, the best panel mounted on flat wall with glue, which is suitable for bonding plastics and plaster.

Ceramic and stoneware tiles are often used for finishing wet rooms, also deserve special attention. One of the most problematic areas in tiles - grout joints (there gets the moisture that eventually leads to a drop in tiles, the appearance of mold and mildew), especially if the clutch is configured to breach technology and poorly prepared base.

On why the tile behind the wall and how to properly glued in a room with high humidity, gives details in this article .

Vitaly Pozhidaev:

- If the grout contains gypsum-based framework in the seams may eventually appear mold (as gypsum - hygroscopic material). It is better to use grout, cement or epoxy.

There are also grout, which are based on introduced special additives that prevent the appearance of mold.

In addition, it is important to protect the stitches already laid tile special varnish. The varnish prevents the penetration of moisture into the grout (glaze is applied after drying grout) and seams will not mold.

A common mistake novice developers becomes the use in "wet" rooms plaster gypsum-based. Gypsum absorbs moisture, and a base such aligned plaster may fall off. Better to use plaster, cement-base.

Another nuance that is often overlooked - quality waterproofing indent (in stone houses) for sewer and water pipes. If we neglect the waterproofing of these places, the moisture gets inside the walls.

You should also pay attention to the walls, lined with gypsum partition blocks and foam concrete. If the wall, built of these blocks, rough, something from them often peels plaster, and with it - and tile. To avoid this, the wall overlaps the metal (for foam concrete) and masking (on gypsum partition blocks) mesh. Thereafter glued tiles.

Grid multiplies the carrier of the substrate.

Vitaly Pozhidaev:

- I advise you to be sure to prime the foam concrete. If this is not done, when applied to the surface of the wall plaster foam quickly "suck" from it all the moisture it needs to acquire grade strength.

Tiles, laid on a base, can drop with time.

Another problem place in a humid environment becomes abutting wall / floor. Any fracture leads to the accumulation of moisture here, and moisture - it is mold and fungus, bad smell, peeling tiles. To avoid this, you need to properly seal the this site. It is better to use acrylic waterproofing. This waterproofing allows small shifts between the wall and the floor, which keeps the abutment assembly tightness.

The wet rooms to decorate? The discussion is conducted here. Learn how to glue the tiles can be read this topic. Detailed photo reports on repair bathrooms are available at first and second link. Learn how Canada remodel bathrooms, can be here.

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