The floor in the steam room with your own hands

Floor installation in the bath - is one of the important and rather complicated moments in the general process of its construction. The floor in the steam room can be executed by its own hands in many ways, and the choice of technology can depend on both the owner's preference and the material from which the entire structure is built.

In order for the bath to function normally and was most comfortable for visitors, certain conditions must be taken into account when constructing floors:

• The features an self-draining water.
• Sufficient rigidity surface, its anti-slip qualities, convenience for walking barefoot on wet surface.
• Good heat retention.
• Possibility of light surface cleaning.

The design of the floor in the steam room depends largely on the material from which it will be made, so there are several types of its device.

Required Materials

Ani for preparatory and main works on the device of any gender will be needed construction materials:

• Cement , gravel-sand mixture and sand.
• Waterproofing material - polyethylene film and ruberoid.
• Pipes for drainage of used water.
• Reinforcing mesh and beacons.
• Insulation material.
• Wooden beam, the size of which will depend on the structure being constructed. If it is supposed to make detachable lattices , then the beam is needed size 30 × 50 mm. When the device is completely wooden and the logs lag dimensions should be about 70 × 100 and 50 × 80 mm.
• A massive tongue-and-groove board with a lock "spike-groove" is needed for a non-flowing floor, and for a flowing coating you need a smooth, well-planed.
• Woodworking compositions that will make the its moisture-resistant.
• For the manufacture of some floor variants, asbestos-concrete pipe or brick will be needed.
• Lattice and siphon for draining.

Main types of

bath floor construction Floors in bath can be board, concrete or combined.

Whichever version of the floor is chosen, above all, the foundation is prepared for it. At this stage, the main tasks are the preliminary installation of the pipe for drainage of used water and the correct calculation of the slope of the floor surface.

The drain hole is located in the middle of the room or in one of its corners. In the latter case, it is somewhat more difficult to produce the calculation of the parameters, so a variant is often used when a general slope of the floor is made to one of the walls along which the flute is then arranged.

It is especially difficult to install a wooden floor at an angle. Therefore, most often use a combined floor system, when the black base is poured with concrete solution, forming the desired drain angle, and the top is installed with a wooden leaking coating.

This option is optimal, since all comfort conditions and design are provided in the .

The first version of the

• Work on such a floor begins with the installation of the foundation, as the drainage pipe immediately becomes embedded, passing through one of its walls, and is taken to a cesspool, or cuts into the sewer system. This pipe must immediately specify the desired slope, and on the other hand, the receiver side it enters the arranged pit.
• The pit can be made of bricks or built of concrete with a complicated formwork system.
• After this system is mounted, the pipe is completely, and the pit on the outside, approximately half or two thirds of the height, is filled with earth, which is carefully compacted.
• Then the gravel backfill is made at the right angle. its thickness near the wall should be approximately twice as large as that of the pit. Installed metal reinforcing grating - it will help to maintain the formed bias.
• Now you need to think about the insulation. A layer of concrete, enriched with with thermal additives -, can be applied to the mesh, this can be styrene foam. Such roughing screed must have a thickness of at least 30 - 50 mm. If desired, this layer can be replaced by with a thermal insulation material having an rigid structure - extruded polystyrene( EPS) boards.
• After hardening of concrete, lay the reinforcing mesh and install beacons to fill the "clean" screed. If insulation plate is used, then the film waterproofing must first be laid on top of them.
• On the insulation layer is laid concrete screed, thickness approximately in 30 mm. The best for is to use special solutions or building mixtures with increased hydrophobic qualities and micro-reinforcement, in the component composition of which microfiber is included.
• Once the is finally ready for laying on the , ceramic tiles are laid, or high-quality coating waterproofing is performed, for example, based on liquid rubber or liquid glass. The latter formulations are preferable to tiles, since they do not have seams.
• The filter is installed on the drain hole, it must be tight, being detachable .
• Wooden flooring, which will actually serve as a floor in the steam room, is made by the with a detachable -, which is convenient in that it can be regularly lifted and put out to dry, and at this time to clean the tiled or waterproof floor.

Schematically such a variant of the floor is as follows:

1 and 2 - The wall of the bath with reliable thermal and waterproofing.

3 - Waterproofing at the junction of the wall and the floor. Usually in such places dampness persists for a long time, so it is better to stack the material in such a way that it rounds the right angle.

4 - Concrete foundation nt st with a passing through the test tube.

5 - Bedding under the bath floor, consisting of gravel-sand or sand-crushed stone mixture.

6 - A layer of concrete with insulation fillers or EPS plates.

7 - Surface of rough floor - leveling screed.

8 - Ceramic tiles, topping hardening, or for this layer, liquid glass or rubber can be applied. These materials perfectly serve for a long time, as they are not only excellent waterproofing , but also create an absolutely smooth surface.

9 - Water drainage pipe, which is installed from the pit - from which the liquid flows into the sewer.

10 - Wooden leaking removable flooring.

11 - Lattice , through which water flows into the pit.

12 - Hydraulic lock , which restrains the flow of sewage into the bath room.

13 - A pit for collecting and draining water into the drainage pipe.

Second version

In this version, the floor does not have internal thermal insulation - in its structure, it can only be insulated from the outside. In the this case the floor consists of boards laid 5 - apart from each other, and the water has the ability to drain under it.

The rough floor is a gravel-sand bedding, which works as a drainage of . It is a shorter on the rammed clay layer on the , which is not the gives the a washover of the foundation design.

In the middle of the underground space there is a depression, also covered with a mixture of gravel and sand. Flowing between boards of water, in the final account of , concentrates in this pit.

Asbestos-concrete pipes, which fit on a compacted mound, serve not only as lags for boardwalk, but also for ventilation holes, which help to ventilate underground space.

In the diagram the figures are:

1 - Waterproofing laid on the top section of the foundation under the wooden elements of the wall. For this purpose, a ruberoid is usually used.

2 - The foundation of the bath.

3 - Log wall of the building.

4 - Skirting, covering the angle from direct water ingress.

5 - Submitting of or gravel from .

6 - Pit for absorbing used water.

7 - Floating floor boards.

8 - Asbestos-cement pipes, playing the role of beams and logs.

9 - Tamped clay layer.

The third variant of

Such wooden covering is arranged by the in general without the concrete concrete floor directly on the columnar or strip foundation. The space between the pillars or awnings can be concreted with coarse mortar or covered with clay and compacted.

For drainage of water in this variant in the middle of the floor of the room a tray is installed, which is connected to the sewage drain by a pipe. The tray is made of boards and installed on a foundation support through a layer of waterproofing.

The plank cover is laid under the slope that the comes from the walls to the central floor, to the location of the drain pan. The boards are laid tightly to each other, that is, the wooden covering in this case - is not leaking.

1, 2 and 3 - wall of the bath with hydro and vapor insulation and inner lining.

4 - Wall support logs that will set the semi required slope.

5 - Sealed or concreted soil surface between foundation supports.

6 - Tray for collecting water

7 - The walls of the tray, performing, in addition, the role of the lag in the center of the room.

8 - Not flowing board flooring.

Fourth variant

This variant differs from the others in that the drain design is installed between the white and rough floors, and the wooden flooring is installed not horizontally but horizontally, but above the funnel-shaped surface below.

In addition, in the this case, one drain system is used for two rooms of the bath - for steam and washing. Since a much larger quantity of water is used in the bath room of the bath than in the steam room, the drainage hole is just below it. For the steam room, however, a good slope of the underground structure for drainage.

1 - Lag.

2 - Board flooring of the flowing floor.

3 - Rough wooden floor.

4 - Gravel or crushed stone. Also, this form can be derived from concrete with insulation additives. If a second option is used, then lags will reliably waterproof .

5 - Fine concrete screed with waterproofing coating based on liquid rubber or glass.

6 - Sewage funnel.

7 - Sewage pipe.

Having considered the schemes of different floor designs, it is worthwhile to dwell in more detail on the installation of two variants, the most popular among bath house builders.

Insulated wooden floor

Wooden plaque is traditionally arranged with a wooden insulated floor, without a concrete roughing base. The installation of this structure is quite complicated and the still begins when the foundation is erected.

• . If a non-flowing floor is being arranged, a sewage pipe is necessary, and this activity is carried out together with the construction of the foundation.
• The rough floor of the bath should be raised above the ground by 400 ÷ 600 mm. For this, brick posts or walls are installed, on which the joists will be laid.

• After the construction of the walls of the structure go to the waterproofing of compacted soil and foundation. For this, a ruberoid is usually used.
• On the waterproof supports lay wooden joists. On the lower edge of their nails are crushed bars for laying planks of the rough floor.
• Next, the operation of goes to according to the presented scheme. The pipe for draining is carried through all layers of the floor, and more often a hole under it have in the middle of a steam room.

• The next step on the cranial timber is laying the planks of the rough floor.

• The foil is laid on top of the rough floor with a vapor barrier, on top of which a thermal insulation material is placed, for example, mats made of mineral wool or polystyrene boards.

• insulation plates. The warmer is covered with a waterproofing material - dense polyethylene with film. It is advisable to lay its with a single linen. If this does not work, then between the stripes, an overlap of at least 200 mm is made with seam piercing with waterproof tape.

Video: process of the device of a rough floor in a bath

• Further goes a complex process of removing the desired slope of the boards, directed to the sewage drain. At this time, the sewer pipe should be raised just above the level of the layer of insulation. A special crate is made around the hole of the pipe, on which the ends of the boards will be fixed. The thickness of the boards should be 15 - 20 mm.
• In order to achieve the desired gradient in the form of a funnel, the floor boards should be slightly elevated on the walls. To do this, around the perimeter of the room is fixed a bar, the height of 30 to 50 millimeters.

There is an still two ways to install a slope with a drain not in the pipe hole, but in the drainage groove( chute ), which can be installed both in the middle of the room and along one of the walls.

- In the first case, the boards at the walls are lifted from two sides, fixing them on the bars along parallel grooves to the walls, and the slope will go from the walls to the middle of the bath room.

- In the second variant, the floor is lifted only by on one side , and water drains into the chute located on the opposite wall.

• When the base for fixing the boards is ready, the plank cover is laid on top. The boards should be well prepared, covered with special protective means, which will make the tree resistant to constant moisture exposure.
• In addition, the boards must be very tightly fitted to each other, so for a non-flowing floor use only sheet piling boards with a lock "spike-groove".They must be assembled into a single plane without cracks and gaps.

• The skirting boards are installed on the walls. Slots between the drainage hole and the boards are hermetically sealed, the grille is installed on the drain.

Concrete floor in a bath

• The floor, filled with concrete, can be called the best option for a steam room, if it is arranged properly. Begin his installation of also while installing the foundation, conducting in the right place, according to the project, through its wall branch pipe sewage.
• Next, the primer under the future floor is compacted, and a pillow made of sand, and then made of rubble, is made on it. It is better to immediately form this embankment in the shape of a wide funnel with a slope to the center of the room.
• Sewage pipe in advance, still to sand-gravel backfill, extend to the center of the room, and all other work is carried out with the considering the its location.
• After that, the waterproof film is stretched onto the surface, which covers the tt pipe, leaving not only the nt willow closed.

• Next stage it is necessary to lay hard heater( best of all - EEP), which should, as far as possible , repeat the shape of a wide funnel, the center of of which will drain.
• It is recommended to cover the heater with a reinforcing mesh on top of which the beacons are exposed. On them will be a concrete screed. Therefore, if the desired form for the direction of water flow has not been arranged earlier, then its else can be deduced by beacons. However, pouring uneven layers of concrete is a rather difficult task.

• The next step around the perimeter of the room is to install a damper tape that will keep the screed from deformation and fracture during expansion processes under the influence of thermal surges. Further, the prepared area is poured with concrete, which is aligned with the considering the of the exposed beacons.

• You can lay a ceramic tile on the ready frozen screed, or you can cover with its with detachable wooden gratings .
• When using ceramic coating, grate plum can be made the center of the decorative floor composition.

• There are another one solution that can be called the optimal - is laying on the tiled bath floors, and the top is the installation of wooden gratings .

In this case, the ceramic coating will retain the floor of the bath for a longer time, and the wooden flooring will make it comfortable for visitors.

Video: laying tiles with creating the necessary slope for collecting water

Water drain

Well, if the sewerage system - is connected to the site, there will be no problems with tapping the used water.

If there is no central sewer, then the water is diverted into the gutter( pit) or the drainage well can be dispensed with.

• It is excavated in depth 1,3 ÷ 1, 5 m depth ( with an average freezing level of 0,5 ÷ 0, 7 m .
• For a small bath that is built only for personal family use, there will bea well with a size of 90 × 90 or 100 × 100 cm is required. If the bath is large or is used very intensively, the well should be made larger than with a bulky
• The bottom of the well is filled with with gravel or expanded clay with a thickness of 40 ÷ 50 cm., which have drainageFor example, brick fragments are often used

• Water draining pipe must enter the well at a depth of 20 ÷ 30 cm.

Video: a variant of organizing water drainage from a bath

Arranging floorsin a bath, you need to take this process very carefully, so as not to miss any technological stage, as each of them affects the durability of the structure and the convenience of everyday use. If you start to perform the work, understanding them well, then all these construction activities can be carried out independently.