In the summer heat at the cottage it is especially pleasant to take a cool or warm shower, to wash off dust and fatigue. Believe, especially if you yourself built a shower in the territory of your dacha.
Summer summer shower, independently and lovingly made, better than commercially available shower cabins - this I can declare with full confidence. Such a shower can be sewn with a durable material with thermal insulation( often a wooden "lining", siding or board).They perfectly store heat, so they are successfully applied in cold weather. This shower is already called a temporary structure.
Choosing a place for a dacha shower
To start building your own shower from a tree in the country, you need to work painstakingly and thoroughly. The construction of a country shower should start with the choice of a shower area. The best option if you build a shower in a sunny place( for the planned heating of the water by solar heat).Also it is necessary to take into account the way of water supply, as well as its drain.
The shower is a room of high humidity, sometimes it attracts insects. For this reason, this building is recommended to be located away from the country house, and at some distance from it. Most often, the structure of the shower is placed as close as possible to the edge of the country plot. To drain water, dig a gutter on the site or, if possible, outside it.
Base and drain
At the site of the planned construction of the shower, you need to dig a small groove to install its base. Deepening is necessary for a waterproofing to cover with a sheet of roofing material or a film of PVC, and it is even better to concreate it. Thus, it turns out a kind of waterproof "pallet", which protects the soil under the shower from souring. From the drip tray, water must flow directly into the gutter. For this purpose, the pallet must be made with a certain slope. In order for the water to drain a certain distance, it is necessary to excavate the trench under the drain pipe. So that the water in the shower can flow freely, you must always withstand the direction of the slope of the pipe in the direction of the pit, or into the drainage system of concrete rings, if you have already started to build it.
Cabin
The shower cubicle is built of wood, necessarily coniferous. The dacha douche is a rather high construction( up to 3 meters) with a relatively small footprint. Such structures are quite unbalanced. For the frame of walls, usually a bar measuring 100 by 100 millimeters is used. To build the design of the shower more resistant, the base of the bar is better to be concreted or dig into the ground.
Do not forget to turn the beams into a ruberoid, parchment or tar for preventing the rotting of the wooden beam in the soil. Installed support pillars from a bar with each other are connected on top with a dressing from the same bar. Note that the shower design should be strong, designed for a load of up to 200 kilograms. After the upper dressing is done, the bottom bandage will be used - it will also serve as a frame for the shower floor. In the simplest version, the shower floor is made of a floorboard, which is stuffed on the frame with small spaces between the planks for draining water.
The walls are also lined with a board. Do not forget before you start working with wood, cover boards and beams with linseed oil, which will protect wood from dampness and decay. It is very important to provide a window for ventilation of the shower enclosure with the door closed. This same window will serve for lighting.
Warm water
As capacity for water in the showers, barrels with capacity from 100 to 200 liters are usually used. They are painted in a dark color and mounted on the roof of the shower, as you know, this will allow the water to heat up faster. In addition, you can lay on the roof of any reflective material( for example, foil or galvanizing), which will also contribute to a faster heating of water. The tank must be equipped with a pipe with a tap and a diffuser of water.
It is very important to consider in advance how you are going to fill the tank with water. In the event that it is planned to fill the tank manually, it is necessary to attach a ladder to the roof.
Door
The final stage of the construction of the dacha shower is the installation of the door. Do not forget to rinse it and paint it. After the completion of all construction work, all the wooden parts need to be covered again with a protective layer of paint. So dare - go for the construction of a shower in your dacha, you will succeed. The pleasure of refreshing, standing under your own rain, is worth it.
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