Guest house-sauna can become an excellent place for a secluded holiday or, conversely, a haven for a noisy company. The presence of this object in the summer residence solves a lot of problems, among which there is a shortage of places to accommodate guests, as well as the opportunity to steam up and celebrate an event with friends, without causing trouble to household members.
The design of a guest house with a bath
The construction of a guest house-bath, with hard-working hands, construction skills and the necessary amount of money, becomes quite simple. Overcoming the same difficulties that the owners of the suburban area expect when making the decision to create such a structure with their own hands?
Project selection and budgeting
First of all, it is necessary to determine which house-bathhouse is to be built? To date, the most popular are two-tiered structures, the first floor of which is occupied by a bath with a steam room, and the second is assigned to the rest rooms. About the creation of a guest house-sauna of this type and will go further. This structure has a number of advantages:
- does not take up much space - enough 25-30 m2 of the site;
- saves money - excludes spending on additional foundation and roof meters, for heating;
- increases the level of comfort - there is no need to go out after bathing from the bath to the street, it's enough to just go up to the second floor.
Before starting construction, you need to be puzzled by creating a plan for a future home. Determine the location of the guesthouse-bath on the site. A huge number of different construction projects can be found on the Internet, however, the most interesting is the option of independent drawing development.
On the first floor, as already mentioned above, you should place a bath: a dressing room or an anteroom, a washing room and a steam room. The dimensions of these rooms are determined from the calculation of at least 3 sq.m.for a comfortable stay of one person. Particular attention should be paid to the location of the oven: the place for the laying of firewood should be put into the waiting room( hallway), the heating part - in the washing room and steam room, where additional stones are placed for steam. If desired, you can equip a shower, a small pool, a toilet, a billiard room, etc. on the first floor.
Drawing of the first floor of a house with a bath
The second level is most often reserved for rest, and all space is left as a single room and partitioned into separate ones.
Drawing a project of a guest cottage with a sauna
After determining the plan, we turn to the compilation of an approximate cost estimate. Its main articles are:
- foundation;
- wooden components: materials for a frame, a floor, a ceiling, a roof, a ladder, a porch, internal partitions and so forth;
- roofing;
- insulation and vapor barrier: glassine, ruberoid, mineral wool, tow, etc.;
- fittings: staples, nails, self-tapping screws;
- windows, doors;
- oven;
- materials for communications;
- materials for external and internal cosmetic finishing.
Site preparation, laying of foundation and socle
The level of labor at this stage depends on the quality and composition of the soil, its waterlogging, availability of groundwater. The preparation of sites with chernozem, sandstone or loam in relative distance from the water bodies is reduced to mowing the grass, cutting down the interfering trees, stubbing stumps and leveling the surface. In wetlands, it will be necessary to partially replace the soil or create a drainage system.
When choosing a foundation, it is best to stop on columnar from asbestos-cement pipes. The number of poles for him is calculated on the basis of the following requirements: in each corner, along the walls through a meter, along the partitions in half a meter. The pillars are wrapped with a piece of roofing material to prevent freezing to the soil, they are installed in pits, a depth of about one and a half meters, to the bottom of which a layer of sand is poured. Further in the pipes pour 20 cm of concrete, sprinkle with rubble and rammed. More information about foundation construction read on our website.
Construction of the foundation for the house
To create a socle, it is necessary to excavate a trench 30 cm deep, lay the bottom of it with sand and lay ordinary brickwork over the entire thickness of the foundation pipes. As far as the creation is made, ventilation pipes are embedded in the masonry, and the masonry itself is fixed to the posts with wire.
Base foundation for the house
The finished basement is waterproofed as follows: the surface of the socle is greased with hot bitumen, on which the sheets of roofing material are pasted, then again the layer of bitumen and the layer of roofing material.
At the location of the washing and steam rooms a water basin is built. To do this, dig a hole up to one meter deep, the walls of which are rammed, smeared with clay or cement. From the pit, a pipe is led to the sewer, an approximate diameter of which is 15 cm.
. Floor, walls, roof: material selection, assembly and finishing process.
. On the finished foundation, lay the floorboards from a wooden bar size 150x150 mm, then cover the rough floor, the layers of vapor barrier, a heater and a finishing floor. The rough floor in the washing and steam room should be laid with a slope of 10 degrees to ensure the flow of water.
As a log material, it is best to consider round or log-cut logs, profiled or natural drying of trimming beam. Before starting the installation it is necessary to cover all the components with an antiseptic. The lowest log or beam should be slightly larger than the others in size. Angular connection can be different: "in the paw" or "in the bowl."Each crown is necessarily shifted with moss, stick, flax or jute. Mount the partitions. The inner part of the log house is covered with a pergamon and a heater, depending on the preference, it is finished with a lining or imitation of a beam made of wood of various species.
The process of erecting the walls of the house
The ceiling, the same as the overlap between the floors, consists of logs 150x150 mm in size, on which nails are nailed with wooden planks 3-4 cm thick. To create a roof, beams of the size 100x80 mm are needed. In the last crowns, through each meter, a groove is made with a depth of 7.5 cm, in which beams are mounted, the upper parts of which are connected by a bar. The entire structure is stapled and covered with a crate of planks two centimeters thick. On the outer part of the crate, the roofing material is fastened - roofing material, corrugated board, steel, tile, slate, etc. On the inner side, the roof lath and ceiling are covered with a layer of hydro and vapor insulation, insulated, clogged with lining or imitation of timber. More about the construction of a saddle roof for the bath we already wrote.
Roof construction
Furnace for steam room
The choice of the most important element of a bath depends on the area and intensity of heating, as well as the type of fuel. Most often used is a so-called furnace-heater of periodic action, metal, subsequently covered with brick and stone. It can be bought ready-made or, if you have special skills, to mount on site yourself. Firewood and coal are suitable for furnaces of this type. About the oven for a bath read on our website.
Homemade metal oven for sauna
In summary, the average service life of a bathhouse is 50 years. The use of quality materials and the approach to the business "with the soul" prolongs this period for an unlimited period of time during which the building will please you and cause envy of neighbors.
