Shower cabin in a wooden house: types, choice, installation options

Many believe that a country house needs to be built entirely of wood. With this, indeed, it is difficult not to agree, because in a wooden house there is always a special air, there it is easy to breathe and it is surprisingly good to sleep. Our grandparents have adapted to live in such houses, without thinking about the lack of certain amenities, for example, hot water in the kitchen or a warm toilet. But modern people are used to comfort and are not ready to settle for a cold shower in the yard and a bath on Saturdays - the usual attributes of a village holiday.

Now a large selection of sanitary equipment allows you to equip any house in accordance with our ideas about comfort. The choice and installation of plumbing for a wooden house is a serious matter that requires careful preparation. In this article we will talk about what kind of shower cabin you need to buy for a wooden house and what works should be done before connecting it.

When choosing a shower cabin in a house built of wood, you must always take into account the bathroom parameters, as they will depend on:

• Length and width of the cabin. The minimum dimensions for which you need to navigate are 80x80 cm. To take a smaller cabin does not make sense, since in it the washing process will cause continuous convenience. The standard sizes of the cabins, which are suitable for almost any room - 90x90 and 100x100 cm. If the financial possibilities and the parameters of the bathroom allow, you can buy a large shower cubicle;the length of the largest models is 170 cm;the most expensive of them cost about a million rubles.
• Cabin height. If you buy a shower in a freshly built wooden house, then this parameter is especially important, since the tree usually gives a few centimeters of shrinkage. Therefore, from the ceiling height, which is at the moment, you need to take a few centimeters. In addition, the height of the cabin should be such that you can freely bring the unit into the room, and if necessary - take it out. For ease of installation, it is desirable to leave 30 cm of free space between the top of the cabin and the ceiling.
• The shape of the cabin. This item is especially important in terms of aesthetics and in terms of quadrature of the bathroom. The shape of the shower cabin can be different - round, rectangular, asymmetrical and even spiral. You need to choose according to the style of the room and its dimensions. In the smallest bathrooms perfectly fit angular models - in the form of a triangle or polyhedron. They allow you to save space, which is very important, if every square centimeter on the account.

Wood, like no other building material is rotting, so the arrangement of waterproofing in a wooden house plays a special role. For this purpose, it is possible to use coating materials or roll materials. Specialists strongly recommend giving preference to the first, because they do not have a sharp, specific smell and do not require preliminary surface preparation.

Waterproofing works start from the floor of the room. The concrete screed is best suited for this, however, if it is not possible to make it, it is possible to lay the floor base with a cement-particle board or an ACSEID board. Next, two layers of waterproofing materials are applied, and a floor covering is laid over them. As a floor covering, ceramic tiles, ceramic granite, moisture resistant laminate, linoleum will suit. However, the first two options are the most reliable. For tiling, be sure to use a good, high-quality glue.

The next stage is the waterproofing of the walls of the bathroom. As with the floor, for the best effect you will need twice as many materials - to get a two-layer coating. The waterproofing is fixed to the walls with a construction stapler or fused with special equipment. Ensure that the joints of the waterproofing sheets of the lower layer are overlapped by the top layer. For the finishing of walls, tile or plastic panels are usually used.

Ventilation in a wooden house is necessary, otherwise it will not be comfortable to live in it. In the absence of ventilation, condensate will start to accumulate in the house, unpleasant insects will be put up, and excess moisture will lead to gradual decay of all wooden structures. First of all, you need to take care of the passive ventilation, which is a system of channels and ducts, through which there is movement of air. If the wooden house does not have a bathroom, then this is enough.

Premises with high humidity, to which the bathroom belongs, require the arrangement of mechanical, that is, forced ventilation. To do this, you need to purchase a fan that regulates the speed and humidity level of the air. Normal air exchange in a bathroom in a wooden house should be approximately 110 cubic meters per hour - this is the power of the device you need to navigate when choosing a ventilation system.

If a wooden house is connected to a central sewerage system, then all the preparatory construction work for the bathroom arrangement ends here. If not, then you will have to take care of the construction of the water disposal system. This should be done during the construction phase of the building.

There are two ways to equip a drainage system in a wooden house:

• Under the location of the future bathroom, a capacious metal tank is digged into the ground. At the bottom of it spread large stones, and the walls are processed using a chisel. Then a pipe is connected to the tank, along which water will merge.
• On the land, a large, deep pit is being dug out, which will serve as a drainage well. Together with the laying of sewage, a drainage system is installed, consisting of pipes and trays, through which water will flow into the well.

The place for installing the shower enclosure needs to be chosen carefully, as changing it is not always possible - not all the places in the bathroom meet the following requirements:

• flat floor, without level differences;
• proximity to sewers and water pipes;
• availability of free space required for repair and preventive inspection of the control unit;
• availability of waterproof electrical outlet.

It is not necessary to buy a closed shower enclosure with three walls, a door, a pallet and a ceiling. You can combine these components in different ways. Choose the option that is right for you:

• shower cabin with two walls - mounted close to one of the walls of the bathroom;
• shower cabin without a shower tray - requires drainage in the bathroom floor;
• shower cabin without door and pallet - is a waterproof section in the bathroom, fenced off from the rest of the room by brick walls, tiled;
• shower cabin without walls , fenced off with a waterproof curtain.

• We are accustomed to consider the shower cabin as an attribute of a modern bathroom, which requires appropriate style decoration of the room. However, among the wooden walls, especially made of rounded logs, the glass and chrome elements of the shower cabin look very beautiful and unusual.
• With natural wood the stone texture is well combined. If you chose an open type shower cabin, we advise you to trim the section of the wall, to which it adjoins, with a tile imitating a natural stone.
• A wooden house is good because you can carry sewer pipes and pipes and install plumbing equipment in any room, without coordinating it with the appropriate authorities. In some design projects, you can see a shower enclosure installed in the bedroom or on the veranda. Take a closer look at these decisions, because they are not only original, but also practical!