How to choose and install a bath without the help of professionals, the simple step by step guide

Despite the increased popularity in the Russian market in recent showers 15 - 20 years, Bath continues to be the subject of a universal. In the bathroom you can take a shower, zadornuvshis waterproof curtains or by mounting special sliding screen. But taking a bath in the shower, even a deep and spacious - an attempt to recreate the conditions.

Bath in the apartment - this is not only the legacy of the Soviet past, because today the market offers such a variety of models.

How to choose a bathtub

The first option, which should be defined, this is the material of construction of the bath. This will determine the entire future strategy of choice, as different types of baths vary greatly in performance.

For example, choosing a bath in the bathroom on the second floor of a house where the floors are made of wooden log, once it is necessary to exclude cast iron bath due to their heavy weight. And in the case of a limited budget it does not make sense to consider ceramic products - they are too expensive. A brief list of the main characteristics of baths of different materials:

1. Cast iron - that these were equipped with Soviet apartment. A thick layer of heavy metal, in a two layer enamel, which, when contact with it carefully, will last for decades. Well keep warm and suppresses falling water jet. Modern cast iron baths are not cheap, and if the enamel is still skoletsya, restore or repair the damaged area will not be easy.
2. steel - replaced the cast iron, lighter, thinner, more varied in shape due to punching, not casting. Inside - all the same enamel. Steel baths - one of the most budgetTrue, some are inclined to complain about the "volume" of water drops hitting in the bottom. A special class of steel - stainless steel bath, luxury, practical and malorasprostranonnye in the domestic market because of the conviction that the bath should be white.
3. acrylic - cured acrylic resin lungsGive play to imagination as one can cast a bath any form - with seats, sills, headrests and other things. Acrylic is chemically neutral and easy to clean. True, a lot of drawbacks: it is easy to damage - or even leave a scratch punch. For mounting acrylic bathtubs requires a frame structure for load balancing.
4. ceramic - most expensive optionBut also the most "cool". Pottery combines the advantages of heat saving, low noise, ease of maintenance, but it has significant disadvantages: a lot of weight, fragility. Therefore, it is an indicator status, not just plumbing. A luxury item immediately finds its audience, even if not very practical.

Putting aside the level of "advanced" modern baths, such as hydromassage jets or the storage function of temperature, the other important parameters remain only two: the shape and size.

With the size is more or less clear: proceed from the area of ​​the bathroom. In small bathrooms have full-size bath "recumbent" unlikely to be appropriate. But also put "CD" 1200 mm long rash (some may remember these baths in homes with kvartirami- "Dormitory" of the Brezhnev era). We have to accept option 1500 - "sitz" bath with polulech bent legs.

Also, a small area is unlikely to be positioned round the bath, around which is supposed to empty space, just trim option. Owners of apartments in nice buildings and homeowners can afford a bath 1800 mm length and place it where they see fit.

How to install a bath - step by step guide

Ready for the cast-iron bath in the design performance on bent legs do not need any special work. The main thing is that the floor was smooth, and a sufficient number of assistants who podsobit to carry and turnover device products. Floor Flatness ensures that such a bath will be set to level.

Acrylic and steel baths a little more complicated. Their lower surface and legs look unaesthetic. Moreover such baths are often installed in a corner or the wall. You will need to make the following:

Step 1. If the floor and walls are ready, the above alignment can not work - legs of these baths have an adjusting thread. If the tile is not present, it will first need to lay out. Council for the initial installation of the bath, and then the tile work is wrong, since the dismantling of tubs in its place will gape unfinished concrete. It is justified only in order to save on tile.

Step 2. Acrylic bathtub is mounted on the frame, steel - on the stalk. Adjust the legs, ensuring the correct level. If no legs thrust bearings, underneath need to put a dense material is not afraid moisture.

Step 3. After you install the junction with the wall sealed border, which is put on the sealant. Connect the bath to the sewer by means of a curved siphon. If desired, construct screen of plastic panels or moisture resistant drywall, leaving access to the drain.

That's all, as you can see, nothing complicated in self-installing bath - no. Main intelligently approach the selection of bath material and its size.