A modern assortment of sanitary appliances allows homeowners to make a bathroom as they like. This also applies to the functional filling of the bathroom, and the appearance of the room. However, there are only 3 most practical and distributed options for building a bathroom of a typical apartment: installation of a traditional bath, installation of a shower or shower with a drain in the floor.
The last option is now becoming increasingly popular, as it allows you to significantly save the free space indoors. If water when washing is not assembled using a pallet, but runs directly to the floor, then you must install a special device, which is called the ladder necessary for collecting and sending flows into sewage.
What is a ladder and what is it needed for?
The ladder is a special device that is installed in the bathroom, if the draining of water in the shower is not carried out using the pallet, but directly to the floor. It is used to arrange shower outdoor type. Frames can be made of metal, plastic or combination of these materials, they are a flattened siphon mounted directly to the floor. This useful device performs the following functions:
- Carries out the collection and direction of "waste" water through the sewer system. If the plum in the bathroom is located directly on the floor, then a ladder is needed to collect water, stitched from the shower.
Ladder
- Protects plums from clogging. A protective and decorative grille that is put on top of the ladder does not allow penetrating inside the drain hole of the shallow garbage, so it does not climb longer, and the water goes into the sewer.
- Protects against strangers. Inside the ladder there is a hydraulicum or even a dry castle, which, acting on the valve principle, does not give penetrating unpleasant odors from the sewage inside the bathroom room.
- Leaves the ability to read the drain on their own. When a jam inside the drain hole, due to the accumulation of small garbage, hair and household chemicals, the ladder can be easily disassembled and clean it with their own hands.
Note that the ladders are used not only to improve the bathrooms of private apartments, but also in public shower, for example, pools, sports halls or baths. In addition to its main purpose, this device can perform the role of an additional drain hole.
Device
Many homeowners would like to abandon the installation of the standard shower cabin of a closed type, but simply do not know how to make drain in the soul in the gesture and efficient. In fact, thanks to the existence of modern and functional lads, it is simple enough to do it. Structurally, this device resembles a normal drain, installed for the baths, and consists of the following components:
- The base of the passage of drain. This is a plastic or metal part that connects the ladder with a sewage tube.
- Glass of plum. This is a cylindrical element of a device that is inserted into the base of the passage of drain. Through a glass, water enters the sewer.
- Sealing ring and flange. Two of these components of the drain floor ladder perform the same function - the sealing of the connection between a glass of drain and the lattice fastener. They prevent water flowing outside the device in the field of joints.
- Lattice fasteners. This is a metal frame on a cylindrical base that is inserted into a glass of drain and serves as the basis for fixing the decorative lattice. Since the drain made directly in the floor is subjected to intense weight loads, the lattice fasteners should attach significant rigidity and strength of the structure.
- Protective grille. It is usually plastic or metal part in the form of a round lattice, which is inserted into the lattice fasteners. It is needed to filter out the small garbage, hair, but at the same time pass water.
Lattice
- Decorative lattice. This is another lattice that is installed on the ladder above, only it usually has a rectangular or square shape and performs exclusively decorative functions. Most often, this item is made of metal.
Decorative grille
Note! As you can see, the drain ladder for the bathroom has the simplest design, it is easy to install and be sure to work. The main thing is to know how to make the floor, prepare its surface to install this device so that the water go well, and not delayed on the surface.
Types of showers in shape
Soul swabs are so diverse on the device, appearance and material that they are easy to choose for any finishing material. Properly chosen in color and form, the floor drain is harmoniously merged with the finishing material from which the floor was made, and not stand out. Therefore, the installation of the ladder does not destroy the uniform appearance of the room, but organically and delicately embedded in it. The following main types of outdoor plots are distinguished:
- Point. The dump type is usually a small-sized device with a grid of a rectangular, round or square shape. Models are most popular with square and rectangular shape, which repeat the geometry and size of floor ceramic tiles. They can be located at any point of the room by a group or alone.
Pathway
- Linear. Linear is called a ladder having the shape of a narrow stretched into the line of the rectangle. It has a larger size than the point, therefore it is capable of collecting and passing through itself a larger amount of water per unit of time. Linear type lathes are usually placed in the corners of the bathroom or by its perimeter.
Linear ladder
- Wasted. Wailed ladder differs from all other types, as it is installed only in places of the walls of the walls to the floor surface, it is more compact and visually inconspicuous.
Warred
Taking into account! So that the floor plums did not fall out of the united architectural look room, it is important to choose the right shape and the form of the ladder. If a square tile is used for floor cladding, then you should prefer models in the form of a square of a compact size. The correct choice of shape and size of the device makes it the installation more accurate and simple.
Varieties of shutter
Frames installed in the floor of the bathroom for the organization of the drain, in addition to the form and size, differ also on the inner structure. Mostly we are talking about the device of the shutter, which prevents the penetration of smells from the sewage inside the room of the bathroom. The most common varieties are read:
- With hydrotherapy. These are simpler and inexpensive models that are very similar to the device very much resemble a regular siphon. Thanks to the porcelain of the liquid inside the drain hole of such landscapes, a shutter is created that do not pass out of the sneakers from the sewage inside the bathroom. The disadvantage of this option is that the water inside the drain pipe can rehash if the gaps between the use of the soul are large enough. Then the water barrier between the sewer and drain disappears, and indoors can unpleasantly smell.
- With a dry shutter. Models with a dry shutter In addition to the usual hydraulic circuit, which are equipped with all the ladders due to the design features, has an additional shutter using dampers. These dampers are freely passed water, and when the plum does not function, they fold under their own weight of the protective and decorative lattice of the ladder, not passing outside the unpleasant sewer odors.
Important! By means of connection, there are ladders with a vertical and horizontal connection to sewage. But the most important factor that takes into account when choosing a model is the height of the device. This parameter depends on how much the floor can be lifted. If the height is small, then the screed of a smaller thickness will be required. However, higher models have a greater bandwidth.
Installation technology
Many homeowners do not know how to make a ladder in the bathroom, without resorting to the help of professional masters. Indeed, this task is complicated, since installation errors usually lead to the fact that water is stored on the floor, and does not go through the drain. Approximately the installation scheme of the ladder looks like this:
- You must first determine the place of installation of the ladder. Most often, this device is installed in the middle of the room, in the corners or near the walls. With this you need to take into account that a multiple number of tiles come to the ladder.
- Then the sewer pipe is then applied to the future place of installation of the device. In order for the water well to flow through the sewage, the supply pipe must have a slope of at least 3 mm per 1 meter length.
- Then the casing of the ladder is installed, and then the screed is performed. Usually the height of the floor at the same time rises by 10-15 cm, this indicator depends on the size of a particular model.
- After that, the hole around the ladder is waterproof using a liquid waterproofing material and is covered with a special flange. Next, you can already collect the ladder completely, and then pour another layer of screed.
Important! So that the water is not stood on the floor surface, and flowed across the ladder, it is necessary to give it a slope of at least 1 mm per meter in the direction of the drain hole.
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