Not for each bath you can find a ready-made screen. Someone is set high, someone, on the contrary, is low, there are still baths of non-standard sizes. In addition, not everyone wants to put plastic - no trust material or do not like outwardly. In all these cases, you need to make a screen under the bath with your own hands or call the wizard. In any case, know how it is possible to do everything, it does not hurt.
Screen under the bath with your own hands can be done at least two retractable hatches or shelves
Materials and requirements for them
The screen under the bath do it yourself from:
- galvanized profile, sheathed with sheet material:
- moisture-resistant plasterboard;
- moisture-proof or laminated plywood thickness of at least 10 mm;
- GWL (a good choice, since it is absolutely not afraid of humidity and is not deformed);
- brick;
- aerated concrete 50 mm thick;
- Plastic panels and editing guides (this option is exclusively decorative, suitable only for cast iron or steel baths).
All these designs, in addition to the last, need finishing. Most often it is a porcelain tile or ceramic tile, the same as laid on the walls of the bathroom.
The most common option of the self-made bath for the bath is from profiles and drywall. In order for the design to be reliable and not bent when loaded, the profile should be taken with a thick wall, you can - reinforced. Also, a prerequisite is a good quality galvanized. If possible, it is necessary to take the branded profile so that there are no problems later - all the same in the bathroom, the increased humidity is the norm.
Galvanized framework frame for sheet material
The leaf material for the frame should be moisture-resistant. This is a prerequisite. And even in this case, the installation does not prevent it from being projected to the composition that increases water-repellent properties. Not bad if this composition is also antibacterial - protection against mold and fungi does not prevent.
Brick screens are made mainly under acrylic baths - so that part of the load can be transferred to the wall of the brick. Although, if desired, the framework of the profile can be made with a sufficient bearing capacity - make double reinforced racks.
If it is decided to make the screen under the brick bath, it must be used ceramic, red. Silicate is better not to take due to its hygroscopicity. Ceramic brick is also hygroscopic, but absorbing his ability less. To minimize possible problems (coloring from high humidity), the masonry on the inside is desired to cover the layer of plaster. It is not easy, but if desired, it is possible to apply a solution as the screen is erected. No particular accuracy is required, the main thing is to protect the brick from moisture.
Brick screen under the bath is ready for laying tiles
Another version of the screen under the bath, which can be made with your own hands is made of aerated concrete. This material is easily processed. The required relief is formed easily, at least with acute piece of iron, and the unit is cut in the ordinary saw. With all that, the blocks have a good carrying capacity. So this material can be used for a homemade screen under the acrylic bathroom. In addition, blocks have large sizes, so it makes up this small wall very quickly.
Laying the screen under the foam concrete bath
Note! In the photo above, you see the block fitted on one side. This is done in order to after laying the tile, it was in short with a bathroom side, and did not appear out. With the same purpose, when installing blocks, blocks are slightly bleed, leaving the gap equal to the thickness of the tile and tile glue.
In the photo, the master keeps the part-up part downward, but when laying the unit turns over. In this position on its lower part, glue is applied, which fixes the block to the floor. The glue is applied on one side face and on the upper part. This ensures fixation with a border of the bath and the previous block. The technology of manufacturing the screen under the bath from aerated concrete is easy if there is at least some kind of masonry experience, cope.
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Designs
It will be about how you can make the screen under the bath with your own hands so that it is functional, beautiful and comfortable. Everyone has their own ideas about convenience and beauty. Therefore, we will look at possible options, and you yourself decide how you better do it.With a widespread or no
Sometimes there is a wide side of the bathroom. It turns out as if inserted into the case. On the one hand it is convenient - you can put something on the side and from aesthetic point of view the bath more harmoniously fits into the interior.
Sample Bath Screen With Wide Fort
But not everyone can afford to highlight a large space. Bathrooms usually do not make up their size and extra 10-15 cm can be critical. In addition, such a type of installation may be uncomfortable for the elderly. To go into the bath, you have to make a big step that it is not always possible for them.
But this option has another positive moment: under the bathroom you can make a shelter of a large width. They can be open or with sliding / hinged doors.
Functional bathroom screen with shelves
Similar shelves are made without a wide side, but their depth is much smaller. Although, maybe this is not a minus, but plus it will be less to be gathered different things, it's easier to get something and clean.
Recess for foot
Wash the bath or wash the underwear more convenient if there is a notch for the legs. Its depth may be small - 10-12 cm enough, width - about 35-45 cm. Such dimensions allow without voltage to get to the walls and the opposite side.
With dimensions decided, it's small - to choose how it will look. The most simple in the organization is a square excavation. It can be made of bricks, aerated concrete and profile.
Small recess under the feet of rectangular shape
The non-standard variation is more interesting - the entire screen is made of two levels when the upper part hangs over the bottom (in the photo below). In this embodiment, you can mount the moisture-resistant LED tape for the backlight. It should be wondering.
In two levels - unusual
The following option is part of the screen under the tilt. In the case of a profile, it is realized easily - with brick - it is almost impossible, with aerated concrete - it is possible, but difficult.
Frame for an inclined plane
Plasterton covering
What looks like
There is another option - lift the top edge of the screen above the floor for several centimeters. It turns out on the legs and no problems with the place for the feet. But there are problems with cleaning. Highly facing do not take - ugly, and if you leave a small slot, how to remove? Problem.
The screen under the bath can be made not to the floor
In general, from all these options, you can choose something most suitable for yourself, although they make a deaf smooth screen in the floor.
Hatches for revision
The screen under the bath must have a removable / opening part through which you can access communications. There are several features to do it. The first is to install a plastic hatch. Not everyone doesn't like it, but it is the easiest and cheapest option.
Plastic plumbing hatch
The next option is to make a removable panel, which will be attached to the frame on the magnets. Do not say that this option is difficult to implement, but requires more experience - you need to calculate the place of installation of the hatch so that whole tiles are placed on it.
Instead of Luke - Removable Panel
One moment: if the seams wipe light paste, the hatch will still stand out. There are no shutters in this place, but there are small gaps that are very noticeable on a light background.
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On the dark tile with dark grouting gaps is almost not visible
The most technological, but also the most expensive way is to put special hatches for revision. They are two species - folded on chains and swivel.
Types of revision hatches under the laying of tiles
These hatches, in contrast to plastic, are designed for laying on them tiles. With a good installation and correctly calculated it is not easy.
It looks in a closed state
Opened like that
Work convenient
How to make a screen under the bath do it yourself
Not always according to the general appearance of the same screen you can guess how to do it. Those who have at least some experience in repair and construction work are likely to appear, but here are ordinary people - hardly. To navigate it easier, lay out several photo-reports on the manufacture of homemade screens for bathroom of different types and views.From the profile and drywall
Production The screen under the plasterboard is happening in three stages: first they collect the frame, then they are trimmed with drywall, and then the glue is put on the glue.
The order of work is:
- On the floor and walls make marking.
- Sliced pieces of profile in size.
- Fasten the lower guide from PN 27 * 28 to the floor of a dowel.
- Install side planks from PN 27 * 28. Height - from floor to the side. They are fixed to the walls, mostly dowels.
- The profile Mon27 * 28 cuts off a piece equal to what lies on the floor. This piece will go under the side of the bath. It is based on the side racks installed earlier. As a result, the frame turned out. While it is fixed only from three sides. Next is not fixed on top. It will be fixed later.
This frame is made under the excavation that goes along the whole bath.
- The profile 27 * 60 is cut racks. Their height is the distance from the floor to the side of the bath. Racks are inserted into the resulting frame, attached to the floor. The distance between the racks is 35-40 cm. It is also desirable to make horizontal jumpers around the middle of the height. So the design will be more rigid. If you do not install a horizontal jumper, when the screen can be broken down (if someone is stripped with the knee).
View from another angle
- Do not forget to put the rack under the selected hatch, as well as under the bottom of the legs.
- When the entire frame is assembled, we take a canister with mounting foam, we throw the top profile.
- When the foam is polymerized, install the hatch.
- Moisture-resistant drywall ground from two sides (you can paint with oil paint).
- Cut in size, mounted on the frame.
- Sheets can not be missed, but you can also sharpen.
Screen from tile under the bath is ready
- We drag the glue for the tile (for wet rooms), lay the tile.
- After a day after laying, we drag the seams.
The screen under the plasterboard is ready.
An interesting option of a more rigid screen design of the floor bath is in this video. It will definitely be breaking even with significant loads. And then it is necessary that we need to fix the rack to the bath case. For this, liquid nails are glued to the wall of the bath piece of the profile. Then the racks are fixed to this profile with short segments.
For curvilinear bath
When making a screen for a bent bath, the main task is to repeat its smooth bends. In this case, you can also use a galvanized profile for drywall PN 27 * 28. Instead of drywall, put an EPPS (extruded polystyrene foam) with a thickness of 50 mm, high density (preferably the most dense). Since the nonlinear form has most often acrylic baths, they need a more reliable support than a sheet of plasterboard. Extruded high density polystyrene is a fairly hard material that will withstand the walls of the baths filled with water.
Also need a Bulgarian or scissors for metal, two or three cylinders with mounting foam. The order of work is:
- Mon 27 * 28 profile of the desired length (measure the side of the bath) cut, leaving only one shelf. Cuts make approximately 3 cm.
- Sliced profile apply to the edge of the bath, one edge is fastened with scotch.
- Smoothly and gradually give the profile the required form. Bending a small plot, we glue it with a scotch tape. It is important to repeat the form correctly.
- After graduating from bending, we take the scotch and sample the profile from the other side where the petals are sliced. They must be securely fixed. So that the form has not changed, we sample twice.
Installing pieces of Epps
- We remove the scotch that crept the profile to the side of the bath.
- Break it on the floor (dowels). So that the screen finishes was in a side with a side, the profile must be shifted into some distance. This distance is equal to the sum of the thickness of the tile (measure themselves), tile glue (2-3 mm on average) and putty (2-3 mm).
- Fresh profile cuts to walls.
- Cut the EPPS on the strip of a small width. To say exactly what is difficult - depends on curvature of bends.
- At the place, the EPPS segment is cut under the desired size. We bring it from the bottom to the profile, on top - under the side of the bathroom. At the top, so that the tile also sticks out, from the front side we put the gaskets of the required thickness.
- Turning the plate vertically, filling the gap between the wall of the bath and Epps. For a sheet of foam does not move, it should stand firmly, take care that the gaskets are securely fixed in the desired position.
- So gradually exhibit the screen, leaving a seat under the audit lung.
- After the polymerization of the foam of the surplus cut off. We put the revision hatch of the selected design.
Before putty
- Shit. It is better to take the putty waterproof. After drying - whirlpool.
- We put the tile. For curved baths suitable or very small tile or mosaic sizes.
This technique is suitable for manufacture with your own hand screen under an acrylic bath. Mounting foam will support the walls as well as they will warm them. In such a bath, it will be warm for a long time.
Screen under the bath from PVC panels
Durable this product will not call, but it is built quickly and costs - meager. Two PVC panel layers will be required, starting guides for them, corners, liquid nails. From the tools - a ruler or roulette, a canvas floor metal, scissors.
As a result, it turned out such a screen under the bath
For convenience, the walls are tilted inside. This design determined the order of the assembly: if you stick a profile - immediately, insert PVC planks do not work. Therefore, we first collect the wall of plastic into the profile, then put the entire wall in place, sticking the profile (we apply the glue, slightly moving back the wall back, then it moves it into place). Such a focus was removed with a short end wall.
Collect the walls of PVC panels
With a long wall had to do differently. At first, they collected all the pieces in a single canvas (without a starting profile at the bottom). The planks relied on the floor and the launching of the side. Then under the finished wall we sucked the guide. This became possible since the planks are cut by 1-2 mm shorter than necessary. In general, all sizes were measured very precisely, all the planks have the same length. The wall is reliable and without glue. She did not glue it, as she is long, and how to return it to the place - it is not clear.
It remains to seal the joints with the walls and finish the corner of the screen. Thoroughly measure a piece that is missing, we carry the dimensions on the plastic, cut off. Carved parts put in place.
Close Corner
Now it is necessary to reflect the joints. Under the planks that the guide profiles are attached to the walls are attached. They could be put immediately when installed - there would be less problems.
The junction is closed by a segment of the starting profile
Here with the corner I had to tinker. We must simultaneously drive two planes into it. It was possible only with the steel line. There is a lot of time.
This corner took away a lot of time.
Make this screen under the bath with your own hands is easy. Just handle it should be careful - plastic is very simple. More minus this option is the lack of a revision hatch. How will problems be - you have to disassemble a part.
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