How to hide pipes in the bathroom

With the advent of new materials, the design of the bathroom becomes more perfect. Comfort creates functional furniture, modern plumbing, beautiful finishes, mirrors and lighting fixtures. All this loses its appeal when pipes in the bathroom remain in sight. It is advisable to leave open only wall mounted towel rails having a chrome finish and attractive shape.

Before you start creating a design in the bathroom, all pipes must be hidden or masked. You need to hide them at the first stage of repair so as not to harm the finish. To do this, the pipes are placed in boxes or sealed under a cement mortar.

Installation of pipes in boxes

In a box it is possible to hide pipes of large diameter or a whole cluster of them. To build it, you will need the following tools:

• hammer drill;
• screwdriver;
• construction knife;
• hammer;
• scissors for metal;
• level, plumb line, tape measure.

For making the box The following materials are required:

• profiles for the frame;
• plastic or water resistant sheets drywall for sheathing;
• insulation;
• dowels;
• self-tapping screws;
• putty.

Access pipe connections

Where periodic maintenance is required, access to communications should be ensured. Suitable for this plastic boxthat are easy to understand. The disadvantage is that they quickly lose their attractive appearance.

When using drywall, its further decoration is required: putty with painting or gluing with tiles. After this, disassembling the box becomes impossible.

Therefore, plastic fencing is used mainly for old pipes or if they have sections in which leakage may occur over time. The box can be mounted on a wall with a finished coating.

Access must be provided to the following types of piping connections:

• threaded from steel or plastic, hand-tightened or using keys;
• fitting with crimping, in which there is a risk of leaks.

Soldered or welded joints are closed without the possibility of disassembly, if they are made by specialists. They can be hidden in strobes, screed or placed in boxes from the gypsum board.

How to make a box

• Pipes near the floor are easy to hide behind podiums or decorative screens that look beautiful in large bathrooms. Often use boxes made by yourself.
• The frame for plastic and drywall is the same. Guide profiles are fastened to the walls using self-tapping screws. Fixation is made in the gaps between the tiles. The outer corner is formed of two guide profiles twisted together by screws at right angles. The corner rib is fixed using segments of the supporting profile to the guides on both converging walls. To fix the panels, jumpers are installed on the frame in increments of 50 cm.
• A start profile is attached to one of the wall rails. A strip of plastic cut into size is inserted into it. The other side should be hidden by putting on it an angular profile of plastic and attaching it to the glue to another plane of the frame.
• The next side of the box is also sheathed, but a plastic strip is attached with a starting profile worn on it. It is better to install the connection on silicone glue, which can be cut with a knife during dismantling.
• Revision openings are cut out in panels for access to taps or counters. They are glued to them with silicone plastic hatches from the same material.
• Drywall box can be easily sheathed with your own hands. To do this, cut out strips of moisture-resistant material, which are fastened with screws to the frame. Then perforated corners made of plastic or metal are attached with a thin layer of putty on the box and in places where it adjoins the walls. After installing audit openings with plastic doors and putty putty. It is advisable to provide access to pipe connections with the central riser. This must be done to facilitate the elimination of blockages or the replacement of elements in the future. Doors need to be installed so that they are less visible.
• Drywall is most suitable for creating boxes. Under the joints of the sheets, bases are made from the supporting profile. The material is easily processed and any finishing method can be chosen for it. After gluing the box with mosaic or ceramic tiles, the unsightly riser is turned into a decorative column. In this case, the doors of the box can be hidden if they are made of drywall and finished with the same material.

Strobing

Pipeline communications can be placed in a cavity made in the wall. To a great depth, pruning will not work, as this can damage the integrity of the structure of the house. In the gates, it is possible to hide communications whose diameter does not exceed 50 mm. Strobing is not allowed if the wall is not thick enough.

Cavities are made using the following tools:

• grinder with discs in stone;
• hammer drill;
• chisel;
• hammer.

It is believed that pipes should be walled into the wall only with insulation, otherwise condensation appears inside it and there is no possibility of temperature deformations. The following materials are used as thermal insulation:

• polyurethane foam;
• thermoflex;
• rotband.

Water pipes different temperatures are placed at a distance of at least 5 cm. To remove the wall material under the strobes is required 2-5 cm deeper than the diameter of the product. Cementing is done with cement mortar, and then plastering is performed.

Screed application

There is no need for gating in this method. To hide pipes in the floor is not as difficult as to wall, but if it is still heated, then the bathroom will lose 15-20 cm in height.

AT screed the pipes are run in the shortest way. For large areas, corrugated packaging is used. In a small bathroom, this is not so important.

Pipe filling is carried out with hot water or heating turned off. After that, wait until the floor has hardened completely. If it is wet, cracks will appear if the temperature is not correct.

Pipes of small diameter can be hidden with tile glue, which is used for tiling the floor.

Conclusion

Despite its small size, the bathroom has to spend a lot of time and its design requires special attention. During the repair, an important step is the concealment of pipes that spoil the appearance of the room. To make a beautiful bathroom with your own hands, the pipes are closed with boxes or hidden in the walls for decoration.