Screen for a bath with your own hands

To ensure that the bathroom has its finished look, a special screen will need to be installed around it to hide the plumbing units. If you manage to mount a reliable screen for a bath with your own hands, then in this way you can save significant money. Moreover, in this work there are no difficulties.

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Selection of material for the
screen Requirements for
Installing the
screen Installing the screen for the bath with your own hands

Selecting the material for the

screen Many people do not understand how this screen is done with the bathtub with their own hands, because they do not represent what material it is frompossible to do. In fact, there is a large number of different building materials that can be used in such a room with too much moisture. If you look at the proposed photos of the screen for a bath made by yourself, this will make it possible to see that the following materials can be used for such work:

It is very convenient for this purpose to use a moisture-resistant plasterboard;it can be finished later with tiles, plaster or wallpaper.
It is possible to trim with moisture resistant MDF boards, also covering the trim.
For this, PVC panels are suitable.
You can use the sliding screen, installed under the bath or with the doors opening.

If we consider all these options, then only the screen for a bath made of PVC panels does not require further special finishing. This material is very convenient to use, because it is practical, completely moisture resistant and easy to clean. In addition, it is also durable, and if it is necessary to repair the screen, it will be possible to change one or several bands of plastic.

Requirements for

When the desire to solve an urgent question has matured, how to make a beautiful screen for a bath, you should first understand what requirements to it should be presented.

Access at any time to the sewer units, the screen should have an opening opening or doors.
The connection of the floor to the screen in certain cases must be leakproof so that moisture does not flow under the bath.
The screen must not be a supporting structure, so it is advisable to ensure that the bath can not rest on it.

If you make a quality screen under the bath, using a moisture-resistant plasterboard or PVC panels, then under it you can leave free space so that it can not interfere with the legs. But in this case, this gap should be at least 10 cm, so that under the bathroom you could wipe the emerging moisture.

Screen mounting

You can see the video of the correct installation of the screen under the bath;only this will give an opportunity to understand how to do it and what materials will be required for this. Consider a variant of gypsum board and PVC panels. To do this, you first need to install a reliable framework. As a frame for the screen, you can use as a wooden bar 30x30 or 40x40 mm, as well as a metal profile.

So that later the rot does not rot and the fungus does not appear, the wood must first be treated with a special antiseptic.

But when installing the frame, if you use gypsum board, you should consider not only its thickness, but also the material for the subsequent finishing of the screen.

In order not to be mistaken, it is necessary to make markings on the floor and on the wall before installing the frame. And only after the frame has been made, is the final stage in the form of fixing the screen under the bath, where you can use gypsum board, plastic or other material.

But, when making such a screen, it is necessary to consider what kind of material the bath is made of. For example, a frame to a bathroom made of cast iron can be attached, drill holes in it to a depth of 5 mm and already attach a metal profile to them. And to the acrylic bath the frame can be attached only by using liquid nails for this.