Doors for a bath do-it-yourself
As soon as you cross the threshold of a Russian bath, you can hear how a tight, cocky flame in the stove is buzzing. From the incandescent stones, life-giving and invigorating heat is poured, which securely stores the door. Doors for a bath, made by yourself, what can be more solid and reliable?
Content
- What kind of wood is needed for a bath door
- Basic requirements for the door
- Making a door for a bath video
- Do-it-yourself door installation
- Where does the bath door begin video
From time immemorial, doors for baths were made according to certain rules and secrets that only craftsmen knew. Today, owners of private houses can be called with full confidence the craftsmen who can repair any complexity. So what are the secrets of building a bath and how to make a door to the bath?
What kind of wood is needed for a bath door
The main secret of long-term heat storage is carefully selected wood bath door. For the manufacture of doors used aspen, alder and linden. Preference is given to linden. Lipa is considered a universal biodonor, its fresh and invigorating energy is useful to everyone. After all, it is not without reason that after a visit to the bathhouse, recharging takes place: your mood improves and optimism appears.
Basic requirements for the door
In order to keep the heat in the bath better and longer, the steam room doors are made smaller than in traditional living quarters. The height of the door is preferably 160-170 cm, but no more, the width is about 70 cm. As a rule, single-leaf doors that open outwards are made and installed.
The main requirements for the door to the bath:
Do not deform or resize due to temperature and humidity differences
open quickly and well.
Today you can freely purchase and buy a suitable bath door that meets your needs and desires. A variety of shapes of doors made of artificial materials has a rich color scheme, various options for decor and pattern.
But what can be compared with that door made of natural wood, which can be made qualitatively independently?
There can be several doors in the bathhouse: the front door, the door to the washing compartment and the door to the steam room.
Making a door for a bath
Entrance door to the bathhouse
Downed from the boards, one layer of the door leaf of the entrance door is insulated with an upholstery. The following materials can serve as upholstery:
Styrofoam
felt
mat.
The heat-insulating layer is firmly attached, glued and covered with a decorative fabric. On the edges of the upholstery of the door leaf of the entrance door, it is necessary to arrange a roller. Suitable material for such a roller is dense felt.
If the bath is made of a log house, then the entrance door is made in the following ways:
first way
a spike is made on the log in the opening, then the door jamb is put on it
second way
a groove is made on the log and a bar is inserted.
The manufacture of the front door for a bathhouse from a log house is shown in the video
Doors for washing and steam rooms
The manufacture of doors to the sink and steam room is provided for by two technologies: the first is single-layer, the second is by connecting two wooden frames. The second manufacturing technology is more time-consuming, but more effective, because the heat is stored more reliably in the bath.
Initially, it is necessary to choose boards for the door leaf. The boards should have a radial cut, and it is desirable to alternate the slump of the boards. With radial cut, the cut plane is carried out through the core of the barrel being processed.
The wood of the radial cut boards is uniform in texture, while the percentage of inter-ring inclusions is minimal. Boards are resistant to water or moisture and are practically not subject to deformation.
This is a prerequisite for the selection of boards, otherwise the door can distort very quickly.
Further, the door leaf for washing and steam rooms is knocked down from individual boards and adjusted to the size of the doorway. An ideal option for the door is an array of wedge keys. In the manufacture of doors to the sink and steam room, drying oil, paint, plywood and polystyrene are not used. Doors for the steam room should open outward and not have deadbolts and heck.
Tightness in the dressing room is achieved by the correct installation of door locks on the door. The locks are installed inside the door in two working areas: above and below. The upper lock of the door is made in the form of a valve; for the lower lock, you can make an ordinary metal hook.
The door frame for installing the blade is made of linden timber. The traditional dimensions of the beam are 40x100 mm. In order to reduce and eliminate warpage and deformation, expansion joints are made on the outside of the box. The height of the threshold in the steam room is at least 150 mm.
Expansion or expansion joint is the gap between two adjacent sections: screed and ascending structure. In practice, the expansion joint is filled with elastic or poorly deformed material.
Do-it-yourself door installation
Installation of the door for the bath is no different from conventional installation. Fastening the web can be done using brass and screw loops.
For fastening the door leaf, preference is given to screw hinges made of metal with an anti-corrosion coating. Such a coating of loops will allow them to last a long time. The smooth rotation of the built-in hinge pins made of durable steel is ensured by bearings and lubrication. A neat canopy is made on the hinges of the prepared door leaf.
Ready for use, the door for the bath must be equipped with a handle made of non-heating material.
Where does the bath door begin
Well, and what kind of a do-it-yourself bathhouse does without an exclusive designer pen? After all, your own bathhouse should be distinguished not only by the famous heater, benches, but also by a memorable stunning handle. Any steam room should start with what? right! with a homemade wooden handle. This will be the first thing that touches the hand of a person who decides to take a steam bath from the heart. Therefore, the handle should be gentle and pleasant in all respects and kindly open the door to the bathhouse with your own hands. And again, linden wood, which can be easily processed and stores the warmth of human hands, hurries to the rescue. It’s a pleasure to fix a ready-made handle. It is best and most reliable to install with screws.
After the construction of the bath with your own hands, do not rush to immediately install the door. Felling must necessarily stand for some time without windows and doors. This is necessary so that the bath is dry and ventilated.
And finally, the proposed video will tell and show all the secrets in the manufacture of the door. These guys thoroughly know how to make a door for a bath and not only.
