Bath with your own hands: projects, photos, description of the stages of construction. Mini-bath for a summer residence: materials, varieties, budget and economical projects

What could be nicer after a long day at work? garden plot visit a steam room with a fragrant fresh broom? Immediately relieve fatigue and back pain will subside! But not everyone knows how to build a bathhouse on a garden plot with their own hands, economically and in compliance with the rules. We will teach our readers to assemble an inexpensive, but high-quality bath in compliance with all technologies.

Bath on the garden plot should be not only practical, but also beautiful.

For the garden plot choose a small bath of inexpensive material. You can assemble a structure from a bar or frame, so you do not have to carry out a massive foundation. The main thing is that the bath on the garden plot meets a number of requirements:

• includes a steam room for 2-3 people, a dressing room, a small place to relax and a dressing room;
• a wood-burning stove, since not every site has electricity, and firewood is always available;
• the firebox can go into the dressing room, so the room will warm up at no extra cost;
• the steam room and water should warm up quickly;
• can be used not only in summer, but also in cool times in spring or autumn;
• located at a remote distance from the house and not closer than 1 m to neighboring plots and plantings;
• minimum costs on materials and finishes, according to the principle “we sculpt from improvised materials”;
• all work can be done by hand.

To comply with all the rules, you need to make a plan. You can use the standard one, which can be taken on any commercial site. But it's better to cook individual project, especially since it will not be necessary to approve it in the architectural companies of the city. It is good to choose projects with a small veranda. In winter, the veranda can be used as a tool, and in summer it will serve as a recreation area. Comfortable benches and a table are placed on the veranda.

Project small dacha for the garden area.

If the bath will be used as an additional room, for example, a guest room, then projects with an attic are chosen. In early spring you can stay in the attic yourself, you don’t have to heat garden house.

How to economically select materials?

You can buy everything new for construction, but it will be more economical to use improvised materials: old window frames, doors, everything will go. You can make a good water heater from an old boiler, cook a stove from KAMAZ disks. Wood can be taken in the forest, old deadwood. But initially it is necessary to take permission from the local forestry, the issue price is from 50 rubles / m3. Agree cheap.

Another plus is that the dead wood will not shrink as much as kiln-dried wood. Felling is carried out on straight trees with less rot damage. The lower part is sawn off, as the tree starts to rot from the root. The length of the log is taken from 2.5 m, with a section of 18–25 cm. The bark and knots are removed from the logs, and skinned. Carry it out of the woods larger diameter, like living wood will be difficult.

Bath house assembled in the country with their own hands from dead wood.

To work, you will need the following tools:

• chainsaw, for example, Makita;
• electric planer, the speed of working with a log depends on its quality;
• grinder with nozzles for metal and stone, for the foundation and furnace;
• axe;
• improvised tool (screwdriver, screwdriver, pliers, etc.).

If you decide to buy a new one construction material choose the most inexpensive, for example, a simple edged beam natural humidity, round timber or foam blocks. Linden lining is used as a finish, the price of which starts from 120 rubles.

For the roof, they purchase inexpensive roofing material, slate or ondulin. Issue price from 70 rubles.

Mineral wool, ecowool are purchased as a heater. but you can collect and dry moss from the forest. So you save at least 15,000 rubles.

After the purchase of materials, you can begin construction.

The main stages of the construction of a bath on a garden plot

All construction takes place in several stages:

1. Foundation installation.
2. Wall assembly.
3. Roof, floor and ceiling.
4. Insulation and vapor barrier.
5. Finishing external and internal.
6. Accomplishment.

Let's consider each stage in more detail.

Installation of the foundation on the garden plot

To build a foundation, you need to purchase material. It will depend on the choice of foundation. The most inexpensive option is to fill in the posts or perform a tape that is not recessed.

The foundation for a bath is easier and cheaper to do with your own hands.

Work is performed in the following order:

1. For the columns and the tape base, markings are made and removed upper layer soil.
2. Drilling wells or digging a trench. The depth should not be less than the freezing of the soil. A sand cushion is laid at the bottom of the trench and carefully rammed. Then a layer of gravel is poured. A rebar frame is simply inserted into the wells.
3. For the tape, formwork is made to a basement height of at least 20 cm.
4. In the formwork, strapping is made of reinforcement and binding wire.
5. Concrete is being poured. It is important to fill in one step, since the base must be monolithic.
6. On hot days, the foundation is shed with water 2-3 times a day for a week, until fully ripe. After a week, the foundation is opened and allowed to dry completely. Without watering, the base will dry out unevenly and may crack.
7. Remove formwork.
8. Columns in loose soil can be overlaid with roofing material before pouring. Reinforcement is left on top for further strapping.

At the stage of installation of the foundation, you need to take care of drainage system and a foundation cushion under the stove. For iron oven there is no need to make a massive base, since the structure is 3-4 times lighter than a brick one.

After drying, the foundation must be waterproofed from above with roofing material in 2 layers.

Assembling the walls of the log house

The walls begin to be assembled from the bottom strapping. It is made of moisture resistant wood, such as aspen or larch. A log or beam is taken with a larger section and laid on the foundation. From below it is necessary to lay thin sticks in two rows, they will ensure uniform shrinkage of the walls.

The log house is assembled on a ready-made and waterproofed foundation.

You can assemble the box with a release or in a closed corner. The corner connection with the release "into the bowl" is considered warmer, but it is easier to assemble it "into the paw" with your own hands. Between themselves, the timber or logs must be fastened with wooden dowels. They can be made independently or any type of wood.

Moss or flax insulation is laid between each log or beam. When laying logs, pay attention to cracks, they are hidden inside the masonry. Compensating cuts are made in the timber before laying to reduce cracking.

Laying is carried out to the top log according to the plan. Door and window openings can not be cut immediately.

It is important to treat any lumber with an antiseptic composition, for example, Senezh, before laying any lumber. Do not use old engine oil or a mixture of copper sulfate for processing, at high temperatures they will emit toxic fumes.

When the box is assembled, proceed to the roof truss system.

Assembling the truss system of the bath

The roof for a bath in a garden plot is chosen of the simplest design, single-pitched or gable.

A simple gable roof for a bath is perfect.

The shed is laid on the Mauerlat, on the one hand, on the other hand, it can be laid directly on the upper log. The gable is assembled on the ground and lifted up by separate elements.

Roofing material is used as a roof for a bath in a garden plot. If the log house was assembled from wood of natural moisture, then we do not recommend immediately laying slate or ondulin. The building is left to shrink for 1 year. It is necessary that the bath stand for all seasons with a rough roof, only after that they lay a fine one and proceed to install windows and doors.

Windows and doors

In a small bath, there is no need to make many windows and doors. It is enough to install a window in the dressing room, for ventilation and doors to the steam room and to the entrance. Doors by technique fire safety must open from the inside.

Before installing windows and doors to the bathhouse, a pigtail is made from a 40x20 mm timber in the garden. The pigtail is mounted to prevent distortions and jamming of windows and doors in any wooden structure.

Finishing the bath in the garden

After shrinkage, the log house must be caulked. Dried forest moss is used as an economy. Caulking is performed around the entire perimeter of the log house, punching each log from both sides. It is necessary to caulk the bath starting from the bottom, rising along the entire structure. If you first caulk one wall, then the second, then the bath will warp.

Inside the bath is hydro and vapor barrier with foil insulation. The material is laid end-to-end, gluing the seams with metal tape. A crate is made on top, on which lining or lindens are sewn.

Inside, the bath is trimmed with clapboard and a canopy is mounted.

The canopy and benches for a bath in the garden can be made with your own hands from boards. From above, the structure is sheathed with the same clapboard. For convenience, hangers and a mirror are hung.

The stove is thermally insulated, the chimney outlet is laid with asbestos. Water can be drawn from a homemade well or a well can be improved next to the bath.

Do-it-yourself bathhouse in the garden plot is assembled quickly. But it will take free time and diligence. If there is neither the first nor the second, then it is better to use the services of professionals who will assemble a small steam room in a matter of days. And what can be a bath manual felling in the garden, look at the video:

Washing in a country bath is a pleasure available to everyone. Its construction does not require large financial investments. In the minimum layout, such a structure is being built in a few days.

In this article we will consider the topic of how to build the simplest bath in the country quickly and inexpensively.

Let's start by studying ready-made options, we will discuss the designs of walls, floors, stoves and sewers that are popular among masters.

The main conditions for the comfort of any bath are:

• Walls, floor and ceiling well protected from heat loss.
• Reliable isolation of structures from water and steam.
• Compact fast heating oven.
• Efficient sewerage and ventilation.

Examples of country baths

In photo No. 1 we see the simplest bath, reminiscent of a barrel of Diogenes. You can only steam in it. It will not be possible to wash here, because there is no sewerage in the building. However, if desired, it is easy to do. To do this, you need to install a standard shower tray in the corner of the bath and remove drain pipe into a septic tank.

Photo No. 1 Build such a “barrel bath” in the country and take a steam bath

An important advantage of this design is its low weight, which allows it to be placed on a wooden terrace.

The device itself the simplest bath from the container category is shown in photo No. 2.

Photo No. 2 Option container country bath

It consists of one steam room. For washing, the owner needs to attach a canopy with outdoor shower or supplement the room with sewage, and the stove with a tank for heating water.

Photo #3

Improvising on the theme of a barrel-shaped bath, let's pay attention to cellular polycarbonate. It can be quickly and easily assembled original design. In order for it to keep heat well, you will need two large sheets of this material and a frame made of metal or wooden blocks. Between them, a mineral wool insulation, 10 cm thick, is laid.

Photo #4

The ends of the structure can be made of boards by stuffing them onto a wooden insulated frame. Put such a bath anywhere: in the country, on a polar ice floe or on the top of Everest, and you will always be comfortable in her steam room (photo No. 5).

Photo No. 5 A simple barrel-shaped bath

A small Russian bathhouse made from timber scraps can be installed on oak posts. We see an example of such a structure in photo No. 6.

Photo No. 6 Oak posts - an excellent support for a small wooden bath

Larger structures need their own foundation. There are three options here:

• Concrete tape.
• Brick pillars.
• Piles from asbestos-cement pipes.

Do not forget that the type of foundation affects the choice of material and the design of the walls. Pile and column foundations are used for installation wooden frame, as well as for baths made of timber or logs (photos No. 7 and No. 8).

Photo No. 7 Sauna from SIP panels on screw piles

Photo No. 8 Brick columns - best option for timber, log and frame structures

The "tape" of rubble concrete is suitable for any walls (from gas silicate blocks, logs and frame).

Photo #9

A cheap, reliable and simple version of the bath is obtained using a technology called "clay". For such a structure, you will need a little: a firewood truck, a cart of straw and a clay dump truck (photo No. 10).

Photo #10

The best shape of a wood-burning structure is round. It eliminates the need to reinforce the masonry corners, looks aesthetically pleasing and original.

Borrowing from birds the technology of building nests from branches and clay, you can build just such a simple and warm bathhouse (photo No. 11).

Photo No. 11 Wicker frame coated with clay - "know-how" of an inexpensive bath design

For exterior finish frame baths, you can recommend the following materials:

• Wooden blockhouse.
• Metal tile or profiled sheet.
• plastic siding.
• Cement particle board (DSP).
• OSB board.
• Flat slate.

As a heater, it is best to use ecowool. It does not accumulate moisture, does not rot and does not burn. If there is no ecowool in your area, then you can buy a regular mineral insulation in the form of a semi-rigid slab. It is easily and simply placed in the gaps between the racks of the frame.

To protect the mineral wool from water vapor and reduce heat loss, the walls are lined with sheets of foil polyethylene. After that, a frame of slats is attached to them and trimmed with wood: alder, linden or pine clapboard (photo No. 12).

Photo No. 12 Steam and heat insulation of the walls of a country bath built from any material

We do not recommend installing OSB board indoors. This material releases toxic gases when exposed to high temperatures.

Variants of steam and heat insulation of the walls of the frame structure, as well as a bath built from blocks or logs, are shown in Figure No. 1.

Rice. #1

Building a simple do-it-yourself bath includes a sewer. It can be made from standard plastic pipes bred into cesspool or drainage well.

The water intake funnel is placed in the center or in the corner of the room, and the floor is made in the form of expanded clay concrete screed with a slope towards the drain. Before concreting, it is necessary to compact the soil and cover it with several layers of waterproofing. Wood flooring is a great option, but in a bath it rots quickly and needs to be replaced. Instead, we recommend making gratings from wooden slats and put them on concrete screed. After washing, they can be removed, taken outside and dried.

Photo #13

The design of the bath ceiling is standard. First, a vapor barrier film is “shooted” to the rafters and counter-rails (3x4 cm) are stuffed. They fix the lining of the lining. The gaps between the rafters are filled with insulation and covered with a roofing film. It protects it from weathering and atmospheric moisture (Fig. No. 2).

Fig No. 2 Design of the ceiling of a country bath

A counter-lattice is stuffed onto the film, creating a ventilated gap between the roof and the insulation. The work on the installation of the ceiling and roof is being completed by installing the main crate and laying roofing material(slate or metal tiles).

The main "detail" of any country bath is a stove. It should provide rapid heating of the air and maintain a high temperature. The metal stove heats up the fastest.

To accumulate heat and create steam, it must be equipped with a compartment for stones. There are a lot of options for stoves for simple baths, so we will not dwell on them in detail. Let's just say that the simplest heat generator can be made from steel pipe large diameter, old gas cylinder or barrel (photo No. 14). Another easy-to-use material is a steel sheet 3-5 mm thick (photo No. 15).

Photo No. 14-15 A simple pipe stove and a ferrous metal stove

Knowing the simplest welding techniques, you can assemble such a structure without outside help.

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  From what and how to build a simple bath in the country? Washing in a country bath is a pleasure available to everyone. Its construction does not require large financial investments. In the minimum layout, this

How to build a bath in the country

It is difficult to meet the owner of a dacha who does not dream of a bathhouse. For this purpose, you can invite specialists or try to master the construction with your own hands. For beginners, it is better to choose a room project from a bar. Recommendations on how to build a bathhouse in your own country house will help to get an overall picture of the process.

Location selection

The right place is the key to future comfortable rest and long-term operation of the facility. For building a bath with your own hands, it is important to find such a site so that external factors do not disturb the peaceful atmosphere and at the same time you do not cause inconvenience to your neighbors in the country. The following recommendations will help you choose the space where it will be most practical to build a bath:

• The object should not be erected in the immediate vicinity of water bodies in order to exclude soil erosion as a result of floods.
• Dust from the road or from the field is useless, so aim to build a bathhouse in the backyard, in the shade of trees.
• An effective ventilation system and a properly equipped do-it-yourself sewer drain will prevent the spread of unpleasant odors around the site.
• The south side of the dacha site contributes to better lighting of the bath, while creating a barrier to the wind.
• In order not to disturb the neighbors, it is better to build the object away from the adjacent areas.
• A log bath is more prone to fire, so it is better to build it away from other summer cottages. In the case of adjoining to the house, fire safety measures should be maximally strengthened.
• Minimum distance between bath and sources drinking water in the country is 20 m.
• It is advisable to put the door on the south side in order to facilitate the clearing of snowdrifts with your own hands in winter. It is practical to equip windows on the western side of the site for the possibility of observing the sunset.

Video material will help to create a general picture of the construction of the bath:

Design

Any bath needs project preparation. With a modest budget in the country, you can build a small-sized steam room from a 3x4 m timber.

A standard bath from a bar includes a steam room, a washing department and a dressing room, which simultaneously functions as a rest room. Do-it-yourself construction involves choosing the most convenient location for you and the size of the premises.

To build an object in the country on your own, you must have the following sketches:

• general design of the bath;
• foundation scheme;
• beam fastening algorithm;
• the order of installation of the roof;
• floor and ceiling drawings;
• a separate plan for each room;
• furnace installation project.

A compact bath from a 3x4 m timber or a spacious 6x8 object is built in a similar way. Therefore, you can draw up drawings with your own hands, having previously read the recommendations of professionals. If desired, a special project is ordered from a specialized company.

The finished bath project is used to calculate the volume necessary materials. You will need:

• Bar with a section of 150x150 mm.
• The floor is recommended to be built from 4 meters edged board 15x5 cm.
• The installation of the ceiling is carried out from the lining, the minimum dimensions of which are 10x2 cm.
• It is also convenient to carry out the interior decoration of the bathhouse in the country with clapboard.
• The vapor barrier film will perfectly cope with the vapor barrier function.
• Penofol is used as a waterproofing material; polyethylene film is suitable for the same purpose.
• To insulate the ceiling of the bath, it is practical to purchase mineral wool materials.
• The isolation of the wooden parts of the bath from high temperatures is carried out with sheet asbestos. To build a safe steam room from a bar with your own hands means to take care of all the nuances correctly. In addition to protecting the panels near the red-hot stove, the bath area near the chimney is also covered with asbestos sheet.
• Jute is suitable as a heater for the inter-crown space, in extreme cases, use moss and tow.
• A bath in the country is impossible without a foundation. For its arrangement, sand, cement and gravel will be required.
• The design of the roof depends solely on your own preferences.

It is better to start building a bath in the spring, so that after the end of the main construction phase, the wood remains for a six-month wintering. During this period, the timber will dry and give the necessary shrinkage.

Foundation arrangement

If you strive to do everything right, you won’t be able to quickly build a steam room from a bar with your own hands in the country. At the initial stage, the bath area must be cleared of debris, roots of trees and shrubs. The next step is to build a foundation in the country; for a bath from a bar, it is practical to dwell on the option of a columnar support structure. To build it correctly, use the recommendations of the masters:

• The required number of recesses is being prepared for the installation of pillars. Mandatory places for mounting supports: at the corners of the bath, at the intersection of internal partitions, along the perimeter of the building.
• The installation step is determined based on the type of soil and the projected load of the bath on the foundation. The 3x4 m object planned for the dacha does not need a powerful supporting structure; a more spacious bath should stand on a solid foundation.
• The optimal depth of the pits is 1.0-1.5 m, depending on the level of freezing of the soil where the bath will stand, these parameters may vary.
• At the bottom of the pit, a sand-gravel cushion is formed with a layer of 10-15 cm.
• The asbestos-cement pipe is inserted strictly vertically, reinforcing bars are placed inside, after which the space inside and outside the pipes is filled with cement mixture.
• After hardening, a brick wall is laid out between the pillars.

Construction of walls and roofs

For arranging the walls of the bathhouse in the country with your own hands, it is recommended to purchase a beam of 150x150 mm.

To build even walls, after laying the first crown, the timber is leveled in all respects. Usually, do-it-yourself installation goes by the “paw” method. When forming the side surfaces of the bath in the country, do not forget to leave window and door openings. Installation of crowns is carried out with wooden dowels. Insulating each crown with jute or other heat-insulating material will help to build a high-quality bath from a bar in the country.

When the walls of the bath are laid out under the roof, the rafters are fixed in accordance with the planned roof configuration. Installation of rafters to the last crown of the bath from a bar is carried out with brackets. If you want to build with your own hands shed roof, rafters are fixed with internal and external support. It is also possible to install two external supports for the bath roof. The lower ends of the gable roof rest on the walls, and their upper edges create a ridge.

After the formation of the rafters, a crate should be built. The roof of the bath needs the installation of materials that provide heat, steam and waterproofing of the room. After that, the roof of the bath is made out with a roofing covering.

Interior fittings

Building a foundation, a wall and a roof with your own hands is not enough. Bath in the country needs to be equipped with communications. What to consider:

• Installation of sewer drains is carried out at the stage of formation of the foundation of the bath. For this, a drainage well or pit is being prepared outside the building. Between the drain place and the steam room, a pipe is laid with a slope.

• When the installation of the bath sewer is completed, you can build the floor. It is made of wood or concrete. In the latter case, the surface is tiled. This option for a bath in the country is more practical in terms of long-term operation.
• If you want to build wood flooring, make it leaky. The essence of the installation is simple: the boards are nailed to the logs with a gap. When forming a small hatch for drains, it is closed with a grate.

• Inside, a bath from a bar is made out with materials that prevent the penetration of moisture.
• Doors and windows are being installed.
• To build a comfortable steam room, you should take care of the availability of running water and electricity. At the final stage, set lighting resistant to moisture.

Installing the stove and shelves

You can build shelves to your taste. In order to safe operation baths in the country, it is advisable to take care of the absence of sharp corners in the design, because slipping indoors is quite simple. Do-it-yourself installation is quite simple: the frame is initially fixed from a bar, subsequently the supports are made out with boards.

Bath in the country is equipped various models stoves, among the options:

• build a traditional heater with your own hands;
• install a metal structure;
• buy an electric heater.

At the final stage, the bath in the country is complemented by the necessary accessories:

• birch and oak brooms;
• buckets, tubs and a mug for adding water;
• wooden gratings, etc.

If it was possible to build a spacious room for relaxation, the bath is decorated with a TV panel, upholstered furniture, utensils for tea or soft drinks. These little things are especially relevant if the bath in the country has a terrace.

How to build a bath in the country

How to build a bath in the country It is difficult to meet the owner of the cottage, who does not dream of a bath. For this purpose, you can invite specialists or try to master the construction with your own hands. For beginners

Bath in the country

Usually a bath in the country is one of the first buildings on the site, and this is not surprising, because it can be used as temporary housing when building a house.

Today we will talk about how to build a Russian bathhouse on our own, how to lay a foundation under it, build walls and how best to arrange a stove so that the bathhouse is rustic Russian.

How to build a bath in the country

It is necessary to start the construction of a bath from drawing up an estimate for the layout and for the construction of the main building. But first of all, you need to have an idea about the work ahead.

1. Selection and laying of the foundation. The option of laying the foundation depends on the design of the structure, on the terrain and type of soil. The base for the bath can be tape, pile or columnar.

2. Building walls. For this stage, choose natural natural materials.

3. In the case of building a two-story Russian bath, think about the ceilings between the floors. This will help the publication of a house made of timber built by hand.

4. Construction of the roof.

5. Insulation of walls, ceiling and floor outside and inside the bath.

6. Exterior finish.

7. The device of the furnace and chimney.

8. Installation of doors, windows and flooring.

9. Interior decoration walls.

10. Arrangement of the premises.

We will analyze the main stages of construction.

Determine the location of the bath in the country

If there is a river next to the future building, then install a bath near the reservoir at a distance of 15 m from the water in order to exclude the possibility of flooding.

Is there a road near your bathhouse? Then install the bath away from it, on the opposite side of the selected area.

A bath in the country can be a separate building or a combined building with a house, a greenhouse or a summer kitchen.

There is an opinion that dampness and unpleasant odors, but if you follow sanitary and hygienic standards, correctly install waterproofing, ventilation and sewerage, you will be able to avoid such troubles.

Often the entrance to the bath is made in the form of a veranda or terrace, and a recreation area is built nearby, where benches, tables are placed, trees are planted and a fountain is erected in an artificial reservoir.

Dimensions and layout of the bath in the country

The size of the bath, of course, varies according to your wishes, we will analyze the commonly used standards. Usually, the dimensions of a bath in a country house with their own hands are 6x4 m or 6x6 m, less often rather small 3.6x3.6 m baths are erected.

These sizes are usually enough for planning, where they can accommodate: a steam room and a dressing room, which simultaneously serves as a rest room. You can also include a room for a toilet, shower and fuel storage.

Various literature sources recommend considering the following ratio of steam room and sink as 1:1. The locker room, in turn, in the common room should occupy a fifth of the entire area. This ratio, of course, is not strict proportions, but it is desirable to take them into account.

Do-it-yourself foundation for a bath

For a reliable building, it is necessary to choose the right foundation.

For dry and homogeneous soil, the following bookmark is suitable:

Lay flat stones on the ground at the corners of the bath, at the junction of the outer and inner walls at a distance of about one meter from each other.

Put on top lower crowns in the form of beams.

Treat the tree with an antiseptic or grease with hot bitumen.

Fill the gap between the stones with clay.

With a similar construction of the foundation, the stones can be embedded with a continuous tape, and a layer of waterproofing can be laid on top.

For wooden buildings suitable: columnar, tape and pile type of foundation.

Find out how to lay a strip foundation with your own hands by going to the "Building a House" section of the site. It is with the tape form of the foundation that the bath in the country will become a reliable structure.

The columnar foundation is laid with the help of asbestos pipes, which are dug into the ground at a distance of 70 cm, then poured with concrete.

Then a wooden formwork is constructed, which will connect the pillars and give the foundation strength.

A screw or pile base under the bath is ideal for heaving soils. This type of foundation involves the installation of piles of metal or concrete, laid in a certain way.

How to build bath walls

One of the best materials for the walls of the bath are timber and logs. Recently, baths built from frame walls, due to the simplicity of the structure and the use of inexpensive materials, these buildings are often used by many builders.

The next layers of logs are placed perpendicular to the first and connected "into a cup". Such a connection is considered one of the simplest and least laborious, it is also called a "castle" connection.

Then a groove is made on one side of the log, and a spike on the other log. After the logs are stacked on top of each other. Such a connection is made with a tool called a “line”, this tool will measure the desired height and width of the recess.

After that, according to the marks, a recess is cut with an ax, the main volume of which is removed with a chainsaw to save time and effort. If the log cabin of the bath is built from a bar, then you will need a special machine, working with which you will get bars with the same and high-quality processing.

Lay the spacer between the logs with tape insulation made of jute or linen, secure with a stapler.

1. The logs are laid out across the room towards the window at a small distance from each other.

2. Boards are placed on top in a checkerboard pattern and close to each other.

3. Boards are nailed.

4. The finished floor is treated with a primer.

Construction of a roof for a bath in the country

After erecting the walls, start building the roof with your own hands.

Learn more about the types of roofs for the house by clicking on this link.

Many amateurs most often begin to build a roof using the following method.

First, a Mauerlat (thick beam) is attached around the entire perimeter of the upper part of the walls of the bathhouse for giving with anchor bolts.

Such wooden beam is intended to connect the future truss truss and the main walls of the building. After the base beam has been laid, work on laying the roof is carried out in the following way:

Installation of a truss truss, the shape of which depends on what type of roof you choose.

Construction of a crate, which is a paving or plank mounting grid.

The next course of the building depends on what type of roof you have chosen.

Now insulate the walls, floor and ceiling. When insulating the floor, the technology for its installation may differ slightly from that proposed. Read more about this in the article insulation wooden house with your own hands.

Thus, after the erection of the frame of the walls, the insulation is laid out, after the vapor barrier in the form of aluminum foil and again the board, which will serve as the internal walls of the steam room.

Do-it-yourself steam room in a Russian bath at the dacha

The device of the steam room in the bathhouse in the country is rather primitive. Its main elements are the stove and shelves.

A brick oven is a heater, you can lay it out yourself.

Metal and electric ovens.

The last two types are purchased in specialized stores ready-made and supplemented based on your own wishes, for example, you can choose the type of fuel as firewood, stone, coal or liquid / gaseous fuels.

Furnaces made of soapstone, a durable rock, are also popular.

This stone is famous healing properties and allows you to warm up the steam room quite well.

In the steam room, a low threshold is made and a small door is inserted, which is additionally insulated. Windows to keep warm are most often abandoned.

At the end of construction, the bathhouse in the country should be equipped according to your desire.

Construction of a bath in the country: the choice of material and the process of self-construction

As you know, in order to relax comfortably, you need to work hard. This phrase can also be attributed to the dacha, since things are always busy there. And it is the bath that will be the place there, because without it it is almost impossible to organize a good rest.

It is simply necessary in order for the summer resident to earthworks I was able not only to swim, but also to relax in the steam room with a whisk, thereby cleansing and improving my body. In a word, such a structure is a very important and necessary summer cottage attribute.

A photo small bath from profiled timber on a columnar foundation.

True, not everyone can afford to order a bath from specialists, and the price of finished products is much more expensive than, for example, making it yourself. Therefore, the question of how to build a bathhouse in the country yourself is very relevant today among the owners of suburban areas.

What material to prefer

Photo of profiled timber.

So, if you decide to build such a useful building with your own hands, then at the first stage there will be a dilemma, which bath is better to build in the country, since the list of materials for this is now quite extensive. And since, as a rule, many visit the dacha seasonally, it makes no sense to consider expensive options.

Most will ask how to build a summer bath in the country so that it turns out to be inexpensive, while being strong and functional? There is no specific instruction for this, but there is a correct solution.

In this case, it is more expedient to focus on more cost-effective materials, from which, despite the relatively low cost, it is also possible to build a high-quality and reliable structure. These include at the moment brick or profiled timber.

But how to choose between these two options? To make the picture clear, for this you should consider the characteristics of each bath, built either from bricks or timber.

Brick buildings have the following features:

• strongly shrink;
• have good fire resistance;
• during construction, they require large time and labor costs;
• reliable;
• more durable;
• heats up for a long time;
• the final price is more expensive than the bar;
• needed inner lining walls.

A brick bath requires additional wall cladding.

A bar bath has such characteristics as:

• minimum shrinkage;
• high environmental friendliness;
• timber creates a special atmosphere inside the room with a pleasant smell;
• internal wall cladding is not needed;
• attractive appearance;
• quickly and easily erected (from 5 to 10 days);
• cheaper than brick.

Thus, it is seen that brick bath, unlike timber, is attractive only in terms of durability and fire resistance. However, in which case there will be no use from the burned-out walls, since they will still need to be demolished.

In a word, a bath from a profiled beam is the most correct solution. Therefore, we will further consider how to build a bathhouse from this material in the country.

Phased construction of a country bath from a bar

Like any construction, the construction of a bath requires the correct selection of a place, and determination of the parameters of the building, and much more. Therefore, we will study these issues gradually.

Selection of a building site and optimal parameters

A true example of the location of the bath.

Most appropriate place under the bath - this is some far corner of the site. Given that it is a potentially fire hazardous object, according to safety regulations, it is better to place it away from residential buildings. You will need to bring engineering to the bath communication systems, so its location should be such that it is convenient to lay them.

If there is a reservoir nearby, then such a structure will be the very place near it, because after taking pair procedures, plunge into cold water- unheard of pleasure. However, the distance between the building and the reservoir should not be less than 20 m, which will avoid flooding in the future.

Note! The place under the bath should be flat, without high drops.

As for the dimensions of the bath, it is better to build a small one, since such a structure will take less effort, time and money. Because the correct device baths in the country should include a dressing room, a shower, and a steam room, then, as practice has shown, a building with an area of ​​\u200b\u200b6 by 6 m can be considered optimal.

The photo shows the optimal arrangement of a bath in the country (project 6 by 6 m).

The device of the column foundation for the bath.

To build a bath, either a tape or a column base is often used. The choice of one or another option depends on the type of local soil.

Important! At the stage of laying the foundation, you should definitely take care of the sewerage. To do this, a drainage well is dug outside the building.

So, if the soil at the building site is slightly heaving, it is better to give preference to a columnar base. For its laying, the pillars are exposed around the entire perimeter of the future structure in all places where loads will occur: in the corners, at the junction points of internal partitions and external walls. Usually the interval between the supports is 1.5-2 m.

Note! The denser the soil on the site, the easier and cheaper it will be to lay the columnar foundation.

Device strip foundation under the bath

If the soil is heaving at the construction site, in this case, a strip foundation should be laid.

It is done as follows:

1. First, the site is marked with pegs around the perimeter of the future bath, and then a cord is pulled between them. The foundation must repeat all internal design walls.
2. Next, you need to dig trenches. Their depth will depend on the occurrence of groundwater.
3. After that, sand should be poured into the bottom of the trenches with a layer of 10-20 cm. It should be lightly poured with water and carefully compacted.
4. Then the same layer of gravel is applied.
5. On the last step reinforcement is laid on a pre-made sand and gravel cushion, after which a formwork is installed and then concrete mortar is poured into it.

Note! The tape base must necessarily rise above the soil by about 15 cm. In addition, its width is made larger than the beam section by about 10 cm.

After laying the foundation, the surface must be treated with a layer of molten bitumen. Then roofing material is placed on top.

The location of the insulating layers on the strip foundation.

The process of building walls

At the first stage this process the strapping and the first crowns are laid from a profiled beam with a section of 20 by 20 cm, which must be treated with an antiseptic. This is very important point, since the entire final result will depend on the evenness and quality of the work performed. To do this, be sure to use the building level.

Some advise not to fasten the bars of the first row to the foundation, since under the weight of the structure they will already hold well on the base. In fact, experienced craftsmen still advise doing this for reliability. anchor bolts with a diameter of 15-16 mm. They should go into the foundation to a depth of at least 10 cm.

Scheme of fastening the strapping to the foundation.

After the installation of the base beam, the laying of all subsequent crowns follows. Since the profiled beam has a “thorn-groove” system, it is very simple to build walls from it - the whole process resembles the assembly of a designer. Unlike conventional timber, caulking is usually not required for a profiled version.

Options for fastening the beam in the corners.

In order to tie the crowns into a single whole, at the corners the timber can be connected in several ways:

Whichever method is chosen, the strapping angles must be strictly 90 degrees. Interior partitions can be erected either simultaneously with the external walls, or after they have been raised. Also be aware of the doors and window openings in the bath.

Fastening the rafters to the last crown.

For a bath it is better to choose gable roof. After the walls are erected, beams are attached to the upper crowns, and already on them in a ridge way - rafters, the strength of which must be given Special attention. Next, a crate is made, on which the roofing will be laid in the future.

Be sure to lay heat - and a vapor barrier layer between the rafters. The fronts of the roof are sewn up with siding or board.

Conclusion

Finally, you can focus on the fact that the beam looks very natural and beautiful, therefore, both outside and inside it can not be sheathed. The only thing, to give a more aesthetic appearance, it can be varnished.

Building a bathhouse in the country: how to build it yourself, a device, a video installation manual for your own hands, a photo

Building a bathhouse in the country: how to build it yourself, which one is better, device, do-it-yourself video installation instructions, photo and price

Small baths for summer cottages - some interesting projects for self-construction

Bath- This is one of the main buildings on a modern personal plot. Here you can relax and take a break from household and garden work, while improving your health. However, in order to bath building functioned correctly, when building it, you should take into account a number of nuances.

Traditional bath includes several functional premises, however, due to the territorial limitations of personal plots, home craftsmen strive to minimize the dimensions of the structure. Sometimes this reduces the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe premises, and in some cases one of them has to be completely abandoned.

This article outlines several useful tips on design and construction of small bath facilities.

Features of bath buildings

Traditional Russian bath was made from wood. However, today such structures can be built from any building blocks.

Ideally bath building should include the following areas:

1. dressing room. This is an ordinary entrance hall or dressing room, in which there is a closet where the clothes of bath visitors are hung, as well as a place to store fuel.
2. Restroom- usually the largest room in the bath, where there is a table at which you can have tea parties and have conversations with friends.
3. Washing where a container with water is located for receiving cooling procedures.
4. steam room — the main place in the bath, where stove stove installed heating the air in the steam room.

Unfortunately, due to space savings, such a set of rooms is not present in every bath, which will be discussed below.

Reasons for building a small bath

Nowadays small bathhouse can be built for several reasons:

1. Lack of free space.
2. Low price, because the costs for small-sized construction will be much less.
3. For practical reasons. The smaller the building, the lighter it is and puts less pressure on the foundation, respectively, it is easier to maintain it in proper form. Yes, and a lonely person or a small family simply does not need to build a whole tower to receive bath procedures.

About the distribution of space in small baths

If your goal is small bath in the country with their own hands, then to save space you should heed these tips:

1. dressing room and rest room most often combined into one large room. Naturally, if it is not planned to operate the bath by several people at once, then it is better to make the rest room a small, cozy room, putting a table for four people and four stools here.

Advice! Should be used exclusively simple wooden furniture . Cushioned furniture, covered with leather or fabric for such premises is not suitable, because constant humidity will have an extremely negative effect on the appearance of such upholstery.

You also need to decide from which room the fuel will be loaded into the furnace.

Often the oven is loaded from the rest room, because:

• It is more convenient to store firewood here, in which case they do not need to be brought into the steam room.
• Despite the small size of the steam room, it will be inconvenient to load fuel from this room.

• One wall has a place for storing firewood, a stove door and a door to the steam room.
• On the opposite wall we have a wardrobe and a table with chairs.

Advice! The interior of the rest room should be as simple as possible. Before decorating it with various items, think about whether they are suitable for this room. Skins and stuffed animals are obviously a bad choice.

1. If you plan to build a very small bath (for example, 3 by 3 meters), then you can completely refuse the rest room.

In this case, you must do the following:

• At the entrance there is a small hallway, which fits a cupboard and a place to store fuel.
• Fuel loading is carried out in the steam room.
• The interior consists of three rooms: an entrance hall, a sink and a steam room.

Calculation of space for bath rooms

Wishing build a small bathroom, it is very important not to overdo it, because space saving considerations should not be higher than the functionality of the room.

1. The volume of the rest room should be calculated taking into account the fact that each visitor has 2-3 square meters of area.
2. The area of ​​the washing room is calculated similarly to the rest room.
3. The steam room can be closer, one and a half or two will be enough square meters per person.

It is desirable that in each of the rooms there is one small window. This will save you energy costs when taking bath procedures during the daytime.

Advice! Windows should be located at a height above the height of the average person, that is, at a distance of 185-190 cm from the floor.

Construction planning- a very important stage, since it is during the development of the plan that further comfort from using the bath is determined. Therefore, making project of a small bath for a summer residence, you should compare all the pros and cons as much as possible in order to get the most functional structure.

Small baths to give a photo

Many people want to have a bath in their summer cottages. But for operation only in the summer, it makes no sense to make a major construction. Lightweight compact a steam room, corresponding to the size of the summer cottage, will completely cope with its functions.

Advantages and disadvantages of the structure

The summer bath is a light building with a metal stove, a dressing room and a washing department with a steam room. It is practically no different from the capital Russian steam room, except for the size and lack of enhanced insulation. In small summer baths, in order to save space, the washing room is equipped in the steam room, without separating these rooms with partitions.

Of course, the size of the building depends on the capabilities and desires of the owner. Baths are installed as a separate building, and combined with country house, workshop, greenhouse, summer kitchen and other buildings. A rest room in the summer building is not needed. It is enough just to install a comfortable gazebo nearby or just a canopy, place a table and several benches there. In summer it is more pleasant to sit on fresh air, and the walls of the gazebo can be closed with mosquito nets.

If on suburban area water supply is not laid, then it is necessary to equip summer water supply. It is somewhat different from the winter one, namely, that it needs mandatory conservation (draining water from pipes) so that frozen water does not destroy the plumbing system.

The benefits of summer country baths include:

• low cost;
• construction in a short time;
• no need to build a capital foundation;
• able to do it alone;
• easily dismantled;
• has a low weight.

The main drawback of the country bath is the inability to “turn around the Russian soul”: the building cools down quickly, as it perfectly holds heat, but does not accumulate it.

Examples of summer baths

When the hosts cottage construction they want a lightweight version of the steam room only for the warm season, brick buildings are used infrequently. For such a heavy bath, a strong foundation is needed. Accordingly, it is not advisable to make a brick summer steam room.

According to the materials of manufacture, buildings are as follows

Often, if a plot for a dacha was purchased recently, then it lacks the most basic amenities. In such cases, a change house can help out, which contains everything you need for use.

You can also purchase a bath-barrel, consisting only of a steam room. But even in it, if desired, you can find a place for a shower and bring the drain from the pallet to the street. Such a bath does not take up much space.

Sometimes summer residents, not wanting to spend time and money on the construction of an expensive bath, purchase mobile baths. It can be on wheels and move with a trailer. For such a bath, you do not need to build a foundation, but a stand and an extension cord are enough to heat an electric furnace.

cheap a reliable bath called "clay" can be built from a firewood machine, a cart of straw and a clay dump truck.

Stages of construction of a summer steam room

The first step in preparing the construction of a summer bath is to create a project. At the same time, a location is selected. The distance of the summer bath from neighboring areas is taken into account. It must be at least a meter.

Initial work

Marking and preparation of the construction site. Possible tree roots are uprooted, the site is cleared of construction debris. Next, the first stake is driven in strictly vertically (this is how the corner of the bath is marked). From it, through the planned length of the walls, the second, third and fourth pegs are hammered, which are tied with a cord. After checking the equality of the marking diagonals, we begin to dig a trench or pits for the foundation. Then proceed to the construction of the foundation. Next comes the construction of a blind area, 120–150 cm wide, made of clay or concrete.

Varieties of the foundation for a light structure

The basis for a summer bath in the country can be built different type, depending on the weight of the building. The strip foundation is strong and reliable, despite the ease of its construction. For its construction, coarse sand 20 cm thick must be poured onto the bottom of the dug trench, spilling it with water and tamping with a board with a handle attached to it. Next, you need to fill up a layer of gravel of the same height as the sand, install a reinforcing cage (2-3 metal rods fixed to each other with a piece of wire) and pour the entire structure with concrete.

If your site is not in earthquake-prone regions, then you can refuse to reinforce the foundation of the summer bath. But we must remember that over time, the structure settles, and if the soil is clayey, then the foundation may not withstand and collapse. And reinforcement gives the structure elasticity and protection against sudden collapse. It is important to remember: the foundation takes time to gain maximum strength. Usually this period is 28 days. For proper drying, the erected part is covered with a film and moistened for several days. Only on the 3rd or 4th day open and allow to dry completely.

The columnar foundation is easy to build. It is necessary to dig shallow holes with a step of 1.5–2.5 m and install concrete pillars. For a uniform load of the bath on the poles and their possible uneven shrinkage, they are tied with a beam, a bar or a shallow tape. This type of foundation is not suitable for clay and swampy soils.

Pile foundations are rarely used. It is needed in case of difficult soil in your summer cottage or when building a bathhouse near a pond. In this case, the structure is installed on metal, wooden or concrete piles.

The clay foundation is a reality that has come down to our days.

A trench is dug, the depth of which should be below the level of the fertile layer, and the width should be 3 times the width of the foundation itself. In a separate open pit, a solution consisting of clay, water, sand, sawdust or straw is kneaded with bare feet to a state of plastic mass and left for several hours. A ready-made clay foundation mortar (necessarily tamping) is placed in the installed formwork from boards or a metal sheet and left to dry completely. After removing the formwork, the foundation is wetted with water and rubbed with fine sand.

And then the most important thing begins: firewood is laid in the space between the walls of the foundation and the walls of the trench and set on fire. This is done so that, under the influence of high temperature, the foundation is fired - in order to gain high strength. In order for this process to occur more intensively and better, the trench should be covered with a metal sheet. Such a foundation will stand for a very long time. Do not forget to close it before laying the walls waterproofing materials. Sometimes site owners build a simplified version of the foundation for a summer bath: from flat stones and clay.

Construction of walls, supply of communications and finishing

It is necessary to immediately determine the location of the stove and make a foundation for it. It is important to remember that the base for the stove should not come into contact with the base of the bath itself on any side: it should be a separate element.

Then you need to do communications and finishing work.

1. Drain arrangement. Inserted into a special hole in the center or corner of the bath plastic pipe 40 mm in diameter, led into a cesspool or drainage pit.
2. Before erecting walls on the foundation, it is necessary to lay high-quality waterproofing. Frame-shield technology is very popular. In this case, the construction will require lumber in the form of a bar 150 x 150 mm or boards, profile pipe for the installation of a frame structure and sheathing made of sheet materials with a heater. Wooden elements are treated with an antiseptic.
3. The construction of the walls of the summer bath.
4. Roof installation. Suitable for single or double.
5. Finishing work. They consist in laying floors, ceilings, lining walls with clapboard, removing a chimney.
6. Arrangement and decor. The shape of the shelves is selected individually, because someone likes to just sit, and someone wants to lie in the steam room. Therefore, in the first case, the length is usually 40-60 cm, and in the second - 150 cm.

Building your own summer bath in the garden is a doable task. The lack of insulation work will simplify the task. The time and effort spent on construction will pay off with the convenience and comfort during the adoption of bath procedures. It's so nice to take a steam bath in a bathhouse built with your own hands.

Traditionally, baths are usually installed on their own household plots or in dachas in the form of detached buildings. However, not everyone has enough territory to mount such a full-fledged bath complex. In this case, a mini-bath for a summer residence comes to the rescue.

You can build this miracle yourself, based on the space allocated for it. In this case, you will need to draw up a full-fledged project with scrupulous geometric calculations. Also, this stage is easily delegated to professionals who, for a certain cost (it can be quite large) in as soon as possible will provide a result. In some cases, it is appropriate to use ready-made standard offers.

Dimensions

A do-it-yourself mini bath for a summer residence will bring more joy to the owner and will significantly save on the project and on paying third-party builders. At the design stage, you will have to pay attention to the fact that in the projects of mini-baths for summer cottages, as a rule, not all traditional premises available in classic bath complexes are included.

In most cases, such buildings are devoid of a rest room and other frills. Only functionally important elements remain:

• a steam room that combines the functions of a washing room;
• dressing room in which they undress and leave things.

Foundation pouring

The implementation of the mini-bath project for a summer cottage with your own hands begins with the construction of a foundation. Since the structure is assumed to be with a small load, in most cases they manage with columnar piles or a shallow strip foundation.

For a small design, a tape base is suitable

The second option is relevant for loose soft soils. Piles are used in cases where the soil is hard enough, and it is not advisable to dig a deep trench. When a mini-bath in the country (the video is presented on the page) will be mounted on solid and dry soil, then they get by with pouring a lightweight version of the foundation. For its formation, a layer of stones is laid close to each other over the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe future building. A layer of clay is applied on top of it and tamping is carried out. After carrying out such work, it is necessary to level the surface and then lay a waterproofing layer on it.

If the mini-baths for giving (the photo is on our website) assumes the presence of a strip foundation, then the following actions are carried out:

• a sand cushion up to 150 mm is poured into the trench;
• lay roofing material for waterproofing;
• wooden formwork is mounted;
• prepared concrete is poured into the formwork cavity.

To do columnar foundation mini baths for summer cottages, you need to buy concrete pillars and bury them at an approximately equal distance from each other 0.8-1.0 m. This type of foundation will be relevant for frame construction.

It is also worth paying attention to the pile-screw foundation, which is much easier to install than concrete pillars, but at the same time is a stronger foundation.

The distance between the piles should not exceed two meters along the perimeter of the building. Piles can be screwed in manually or using special equipment (yamobur), while they are always immersed to a depth below the level of soil freezing (150-200 cm).

Piles for one house up to 60 sq.m. two people can do in 1 day.

Wall mounting

You can facilitate the construction of the foundation for yourself using the frame method of construction. This option is the most economical in this situation.

Wall construction

The inner side of the installed wooden frame is sheathed with timber. On the next step an insulating layer is formed. To ensure the effective functioning of a budget mini-bath in a country house, mounted with your own hands, you need to choose the right layer of insulation. The following materials serve as it:

• mineral wool;
• sawdust with clay;
• expanded clay.

Sheathing on the outside with a block house will give an elegant appearance to the structure. You can choose the finish of the building in the same style with the house located on the site.

When choosing materials, it is necessary to take into account their fireproof properties.

Water supply and drainage

In order for a mini-bath for a summer residence to be inexpensive, it is necessary to install an effective, but compact drainage system. For him, a hole is dug nearby with a useful volume of about 100 liters. This is enough for 1-2 people. Inside it, you can put a barrel without a bottom so that the walls do not collapse. It is necessary to conduct a pipeline from the steam room, taking into account the operating time of the mini-bath. For winter period plastic sewer pipe deepen below 0.8-1.0 m so that it does not freeze.

Draining

To provide a mini bath in the country hot water need to buy cheap electric heater. It will quickly heat a small amount of water, which will reduce the time to kindle the stove. Containers with water are placed higher in order to use it without additional pumping, and it drained by gravity. In some cases, a mixer is mounted.

The water drain can also be connected to a common household sewer system. This option will reduce the cost of additional arrangement of an autonomous drainage system.

Drain communications are laid at a slight angle of inclination so that water does not linger in the cavities. For an autonomous pit, a layer of expanded clay or large gravel is provided at the bottom of the cavity. From above it is necessary to reliably insulate it from freezing. It is enough to lay a layer of soil or clay.

Installation of ventilation

In order for a do-it-yourself mini-bath house assembled to look like in the photo for a long time, it is necessary to provide it with high-quality ventilation. If this is not done, then it will form inside bad smell which will be difficult to get rid of. With good ventilation, the interior wooden base for a long time will have therapeutic and prophylactic properties.

Ventilation

For a small bathhouse, a glazed window is suitable, which will be located opposite front door. It can also be seen by simple shuttered openings in the wall. If the budget allows, then buy an exhaust or supply opening of the required dimensions.

Even during the construction of a frame bath, attention must be paid to thermal insulation. It does not matter what the temperature inside the room and the steam room will be, if more than 50% of the heat goes through the walls and ceiling. The main points of heat loss are walls, floor and ceiling. For their insulation, standard heat insulators are used, but with mandatory waterproofing.

Single design

Most simple option is a do-it-yourself frame mini bath in the country house. The minimum structure in terms of dimensions is often limited to a length of 2 meters. Its width rarely exceeds 1.3-1.5 m. The outer layer is lining, and the waterproofing is roofing material. Heating of the room can be carried out with a powerful heater up to 4 kW. It is located next to the stove made of fragments of soapstone or basalt.

Single sauna

Limestone, flint or layered sandstones must not be used as heating stones for the heater.

If space permits, it can be filled with a wood-burning stove. small room it heats up very quickly.

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