You decided to build a bath yourself, which means that you will have to make a door to the bath with your own hands.
How to make a door to the bath? This we will discuss in this article.
The door - an important part of the bath complex, it depends on the preservation of heat and comfort. Therefore, if you plan to make it yourself, be sure to consider the following points.
Always opens outwards.
The smaller its size, the more heat will remain inside the bath. Do not make doors that exceed the standard size.
To ensure air circulation, keeping heat, will help the threshold, the height of 2-3 mm.
Contents:
- What are the doors?
- Self-made wooden door
- Step-by-step assembly instruction
- Installation
What are the doors?
Wooden - the traditional option in the Russian bath. It is made of wood from the following species: oak, aspen, birch. The entrance can be made of pine.
Glass - most often it can be seen in Turkish baths. It is easy to look after a glass door, it is well cleaned, withstands temperature loads. These doors are installed in the washing and steam rooms.
Metal - strong, serious door, but because of the high heat, if it is used, it is only used as an external one.
Thermoplastic door - a modern type of doors resistant to temperature changes, durable, reliable, durable.
Often, they substitute wooden, because plastic allows you to make imitations of many materials, including natural wood.
If there is enough material choice, the most demanded wooden bath remains for the sauna.
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Self-made wooden door
To properly produce and install the door we will need:
- boards from which we will make the canvas. Usually grooved, 30x200 millimeters;
- beams 30x20 and 30x30 millimeters, for tying, reinforcement. For the door frame you need a beam of 11x6 millimeters;
- hinges for the canopy;
- clamps;
- self-tapping screws;
- adhesive;
- construction foam;
- anchor;
- feigned strips.
Also required are various tools:
- screwdriver;
- electric jigsaw;
- plane;
- hammer;
- roulette and others.
Input will be insulated, so it will require:
- heater;
- dermatitis;
- carnations;
- lock.
Step-by-step instruction for assembling with your own hands
We begin to make the door structure with our own hands.
The standard size is 2000x800 mm. Pay attention, the height includes the length and horizontal strapping, which is made of a bar.
Its width is 30 millimeters( do not forget that the strapping is installed on all four sides).Thus, the length of the board will be 1940 millimeters.
We cut them in length.
We calculate the necessary number of boards.
We already remember about the strapping of 30 millimeters all around the perimeter, with the help of some clever mathematical calculations 800 millimeters( canvas width) minus 60 millimeters( two straps) - we get 740 millimeters.
The standard width of the pile board is 200 millimeters, we need three whole and one board 140 millimeters wide, which we will get by trimming along the length with an electric jigsaw.
We compose all the elements with our own hands. To do this, you will need glue( better use of PVA) and clamps. 
We process grooves for blanks with glue, we collect the sheet of the future door, fasten the clamps to the corners and leave the door leaf to dry.
More often use a workbench, on which create the effect of the press.
After that, we lightly process the wooden workpiece with a planer so that the surface of the canvas becomes smooth.
We pass to the strapping. We cut the beam into pieces of 2000 millimeters and 740 millimeters, each two. We attach the details to the screws.
In order to fasten the harness to the corners, you can overlap them.
Let's move on to fixing the cross bars to give the rigidity design. Since the front door must be insulated, we fix them only from the outside and lay a heater between them.
As a heater it is possible to use mineral or glass wool, thin isoslon. Sometimes add a layer of batting.
From above we cover with dermatome, and we beat with wide-headed carnations. On the edges it is better to make rollers - they will close the gap.
It remains a bit to make the door yourself, namely, to install a handle and door hinges.
For a bath it is desirable not to use iron handles due to their heating. It is better to install a wooden handle.
It remains to treat the door leaf with a transparent impregnation, which will prevent rotting. Pay attention to the composition. Impregnation should not release toxic substances when heated.
Installation
We form the box using a bar of 11x6 centimeters. Do not forget that the racks are always wider than the door leaf. In the bar, it is necessary to make a groove from the outside, a door will enter it.
Leave a few millimeters between the box and the sheet, since the wooden structure will expand from moisture.
We fix the box, using long anchors, to the doorway, the gaps between the wall are sealed with mounting foam, we cover with the platbands.
We turn to the door hinge. We have the curtains in the following order: one at the top, one at the bottom and one in the opposite direction.
The design is ready. In conclusion, we offer you to watch the video on how to make and assemble the door yourself.
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