Shower cabin with his own hands: nice, just, "not like everyone else"
Long gone are the days when this "Soviet" iron bathtub was the number one goal for a person to think about how to equip a bathroom. Today, the modern market offers a lot of plumbing, ranging from acrylic and steel baths and home to entire complex equipped with the most modern equipment for spa treatments. Moreover, in recent years there has been a trend away from lying in the bathtub and replacing "splashing" on showering. Impact and fast pace of life in modern cities, and winnowing the fashion trends, and the desire to reduce water consumption.
In this alternative case becomes a shower bath.
And although the range of products offered in stores, is able to satisfy the most demanding customer, there is a large group of people who are not satisfied with the designs.
One does not like the price, the second is not satisfied with the appearance. After all, in a country house, and in the apartment, you want something special - not like at all. In this case remains to roll up their sleeves and do their own walk-in shower.
In this article you will learn:
- What materials do shower.
- How to make your own walk-in shower is cheap and easy.
- The nuances of assembling the shower stall.
Options makeshift showers
Before we tell you about the options of self-made shower stalls, dwell on the moment, why the factory model does not always justify the money invested in them.
Zikan (User FORUMHOUSE):
It has managed me to buy a walk-in shower. Paid for it 40 ths. rub. Like the first, and I, and my wife enjoyed it. And then it started! First ceased to hold head, then began to creak the door. When taking a shower the water falling on the door joint, flowed out and I had this knot promazyvat sealant. Even after some time fell off the thrust bearings and spare nowhere. Well, the curtain of the bursting of the tray. With a light heart, I threw it, and take the factory do not want to stall. That's my brother did everything right. Shower area is decorated with nice tiles, put a quality mixer, and to spray did not fly out, it is necessary swing doors of tempered glass. It turned out not to purchase cheaper cabins, of course, but it looks great, no plastic, for the ages!
The issue price and quality - one of the main motivators that govern domestic master, deciding to make their own walk-in shower. You must agree, it is insulting to give a lot of money and not be sure that the cabinet will last for five years. Of course, the market has showers from renowned manufacturers, the characteristics and service life which can not be doubted, but the cost of such equipment rolls over.
Therefore zealous owners prefer to do everything yourself. It not always is cheaper than to buy the product of an average price category, but as a product and its components, no doubt. After all you do for yourself.
If the show imagination, that their hands can make a shower, which by its characteristics do not concede many industrial designs, and the design will leave them far behind.
Before starting work, the main thing to decide on a functional shower stall, her appearance and, necessarily, with the dimensions.
Igor D. (User FORUMHOUSE):
Experience shows that showers the size of 800x800 mm is too small. They are cramped and uncomfortable to wash. Cabs 900h900 mm is better, but the best is the size of 1000x1000 mm.
Also, there are times when you need a booth to squeeze into the narrow cubicle, for example, in a small apartment. Usual booth there will not put, and to buy equipment of non-standard sizes, with unequal sides or made to order - too expensive. Exit - homemade booth.
In order to simplify and reduce the cost of the problem is possible to buy a pallet and is already on the basis of this "base" to build the booth, using ready-made walls and the door.
Or go the hard way, which opens a wide scope for creativity - make a fully self-made shower cubicle, using materials from the construction market.
In this embodiment, the base (pallet) purchased or made of concrete and the walls of polycarbonate mounted alternatively on a metal frame.
Also, plastic panels used for the construction of showers.
Ordinary glass.
Moisture resistant gypsum board from which the walls are made lockers, which are then glued over with ceramic tiles or mosaics.
Or glass blocks.
And colored and textured glass blocks allow to give a bathroom stall or washroom area is the intricate design in the form of curved walls.
Another advantage of glass blocks - presence decorative series in which in the block are various elements in the form of sea stars, shells, butterflies, etc.
Dragon (User FORUMHOUSE):
I think homemade shower looks always better than the factory - the plastic. Only need to do everything qualitatively, to themselves or neighbors do not flood. We are here to make this version of the booth, as in the photo below. In my opinion, it looks much better than the purchase.
Inexpensive shower with their own hands
The experience of our portal users shows that make home-made shower cubicle under the force of any master who knows how to handle a common tool. It does not require any special skills or specific building equipment. The key to success - careful planning and execution of all works scrupulousness. And if you do not set ourselves the task of making designer walk-in shower equipped with a rain shower, you can do a little blood and mount a budget, but high-quality option.
Matilda (FORUMHOUSE Consultant):
My sister made herself Economy cabin follows. Bought ready-made tray, put it on the bricks in the corner of the bathroom. Under the pallet held communication. Additionally, I bought two sliding doors to the stalls, all of which are connected together. Faucet and shower is fixed on the wall. Grooves in the pipe laid. Two sides of the booth - a bathroom wall. The size of the booth 0.9h0.9 m. In comparison with the purchase of finished, this cabin is much cheaper.
Another economy version shower stall - the rejection of the sliding glass doors and replace them with a waterproof shower curtain. Or a combination of several budget materials.
Surovsky (User FORUMHOUSE):
I shower cubicle did so: he bought a regular pan, put it inside a wooden frame. Wall polycarbonate sheathed inside, instead of doors - sliding shutter. Use cabin is not the first year. Nothing anywhere else is not leaking and the tree does not rot.
Samara Kostya (Member FORUMHOUSE):
At first I wanted to buy a ready-made shower, but I was told that the normal cabins cost from 25 thousand. rub. Therefore, I decided to save money and do everything with their own hands, on the basis of the purchased 6 thousand. rub. tray made of sanitary ware.
Pallet user has installed on wooden blocks section 10x5 cm, set on edge. frame cabins are also collected from the tree.
Draining tubes made of "50-ki". The walls are covered with plastic panels, 8 mm thick, which were sawed from the 4 panels in two parts on a length of 2 meters.
The lower part of the pallet abutting made on baseboard channel manner with a slot width of 1 cm.
The front wall of the booth, for rigidity and to secure the shutter, made of OSB panels of 12 mm thickness and also lined with plastic panels.
At the finish the work in a booth mounted faucet, shower heads and rack.
Total for the construction of the shower stall out:
- pan - 6 thousand. rub;
- panels, interior angles, starting the profile and tiled plinth - 1 thousand. rub;
- siphon - 600 rubles;
- OSB boards - 640 rubles;
- Mixer - 2.5 thousand. rub.
Total: about 11 thousand. rub.
Note: The prices are for 2016.
Samara Kostya (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Later also oboshyu ceiling lockers plastic panels, bend pipe for IPA and hang shutter curtain. Cabin use and are satisfied. The same did myself and my neighbors. If you buy a metal tray, then the budget will decrease significantly.
All of the above cabins were built on the basis of purchased finished pallet, but it imposes significant limitations on the design and size of the booth. Therefore, the following will talk about "rock" the shower, which is built with his own hands in the "Khrushchev" portal user with the nickname Mokrushin.
Mokrushin (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Bathroom in the "Khrushchev," you know, what size. I wanted in it and even got into a washbasin and a washing machine. So I planned to put the shower. Because size of installation space is strictly limited and booths are ready exactly the size I did not find, I decided to make it their own.
First, the user got rid of all "unnecessary" - the old baths and stiralki.
Eventually freed "snout" with communications, which especially will not clear.
The base overlaid by a booth of 20 cm thick expanded clay concrete blocks (they are lying around in the premises).
Zamonolichivat pipe Mokrushin not, because the compounds can leak over time, and to be repaired, it is necessary to break everything.
Mokrushin (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Drain water from the cabins down the drain, I organized, prodolbiv wall through and withdrawing the pipe through the kitchen. Ibid spent draining from the washing machine.
The walls of the booth are built of brick, put to the edge.
At the entrance to the cabin is made small "border".
After the erection of the wall on the floor in a booth filled screed user. Sand and cement made with an emphasis on beacons in the direction of a further drain laying tile-mosaic size 100x100 mm with waterproof grout.
Bringing the brick wall to the desired height, the upper part of the cabin, and pasted over tiles, Mokrushin Framed glass, 6 mm thick.
In the glass on both sides chamfering, and not "working" part is inserted into a plastic sealant on the profile. The profile itself is also put on sealer to tile.
Instead of a sliding door cabinet while taking a shower "from within" normal shutter closes.
An important caveat: the length of the curtain is selected so that it is in the shower was on the floor of the booth. Overlaps of about 4-5 cm. Due to this, water flows down the well film and splashing out.
Mokrushin (Member FORUMHOUSE):
I use a cabin and all happy. It is convenient, practical and not very expensive. Before entering the booth cast rubber mat on the basis of going out and stepping over the ledge, not to slip.
Summarizing
Having decided on their own to build a shower, we should start with the development of construction and draw the sketch plan, starting from the size of the installation site. Do not forget about utilities and liner pipes of hot and cold water and keep the correct deviations sewer drain diverters.
For example, for tubes to "50" is the minimum value of the slope is 3 cm to 1 meter. cornering angles of 90 degrees do not a challenge, but using two fingers at 45 degrees.
Making homemade pallet of concrete, waterproofing remember about the quality of the parts and all the junction nodes.
Water trapped in the gap can lead to leakage and unpleasant smells in the bathroom.
If you use ready-made plastic or metal pallet factory, that he did not "play" in the way, when installing it voids are filled with foam to form a flat surface.
The tray is seated on the foam, not immediately after it slightly hardens and forms a crust. To pan not surfaced because of the secondary foam expansion, it is possible to pin down with something heavy, such as sandbags.
The main thing in building a makeshift shower stall - everything correctly calculate the estimate budget their strength and skills to make even a simple drawing and, of course, study the experience of those who have passed this way!
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