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Do-it-yourself bathhouse with an attic - ideas and advantages
A regular bath is good. And a bathhouse with a gazebo, attic and veranda is also very functional. A steam room equipped with an additional relaxation area automatically becomes a favorite place to hang out. But adding a gazebo and veranda requires a lot of free space on the site. Another thing is to add an attic on top.
Just imagine how good it is after the steam room not to rush anywhere and not go outside. You can simply go up to the second floor and continue your vacation. How to arrange the attic floor depends on personal preferences. Perhaps you will make a billiard room there, where you can continue relaxing by breaking balls. Or you can organize a living room, a relaxation room, a room for children, a gym, in the end.
The idea of an attic appeals most to men. Having gathered with friends, they can relax, make noise, bang billiard balls, and no one will blame them for being too noisy. At the same time, the family can safely stay in a house nearby. Getting maximum freedom, having fun, and at the same time improving your health – isn’t it a dream? In addition, the owner of such a bathhouse can safely count on the envy and approval of his friends.
Another advantage of the attic floor is that the remaining free area can be allocated for a swimming pool, terrace with barbecue or the same summer veranda. Or perhaps you are a special connoisseur of relaxation and would like to combine all these benefits in one place? For example, you can make a whole complex for recreation and wellness, with a swimming pool, gym, barbecue, billiard room and recreation room. Are you dreaming? Now to the point!
Installing the oven correctly
When installing a stove, you will need to follow the following rules, which will ensure maximum efficiency in using a particular type of stove.
Safety. The stove used must be completely safe to use. That is why the SNiP rules clearly stipulate the need to line the stove with brickwork. In this case, the minimum distance to wooden coverings from brickwork is 12 centimeters.
Ventilation. The stove requires a large amount of fresh air to operate. That is why special ventilation systems are installed that provide fresh air from the street directly to the firebox. With proper organization of air flow. Actually used as a heat pump.
Infrared radiation. It is necessary to decorate the stove with bricks or use special protective foil. Such protective foil will reflect a large amount of infrared radiation, which unnecessarily heats the wooden surfaces in the steam room.
The need to make a foundation for the stove. It is recommended to install the stove on a concrete base. That is why it is necessary to decide on the location of the stove at the construction stage. Remember that placing an iron stove on a wooden floor is not always safe.
Chimney made of sandwich pipe. You should not skimp on chimney installations, so we recommend that you use sandwich pipes that are as thick as possible.
When choosing a tank for a stove, preference should be given to stainless steel.
Construction of a bathhouse with an attic - starting with planning
If you decide to become the happy owner of such a building, then start making calculations. The first thing to do is select a site. Is there enough space for this pleasure? Remember that you cannot build a bathhouse closer than:
- 2.5 m from the neighboring plot;
- 20 m from wells and boreholes (take into account neighbors too);
- 10 m from other buildings.
To find out how to build a bathhouse with an attic, decide on the material from which the bathhouse will be made. But first, without deceiving yourself, evaluate your physical and financial capabilities. Do they fit your plans? If everything is in order with your finances, you can safely order a turnkey bathhouse. Then everything is simple - pay on time. It’s a different matter if you only have enough financial resources for building materials. In this case, we build a bathhouse with an attic with our own hands.
You can choose any material to build a bathhouse. Sometimes they are even built from various leftovers that were laid out in sheds after the construction of the house. The main condition is that the bathhouse must be warm. The heat in it must be retained for a long time and distributed evenly.
Give preference to the material you can work with. Sometimes they build a bathhouse from timber - an option for those who are not looking for an easy way. But the frame structure is considered the most optimal for independent construction. If you prefer this option, a residential frame bathhouse with an attic will be completely ready for use in just a couple of weeks. Another option for DIY is a cinder block bathhouse. To improve its appearance, such a bathhouse can be covered with a block house.
Project development
Number of persons.
When making a steam room in a bathhouse with your own hands, you need to take into account the exact number of people who will relax here. For a comfortable location, it is recommended to make the room more than 6 m2. 4-5 people can fit here. Ceiling height. Here the height of the tallest family member is taken into account. Next, add 30 cm. Good thermal insulation will help reduce heat loss in the room. The optimal ceiling size is 2.3 m.
Placement methods. Seating shelves allow you to create a more compact area. Reclining benches require the most spacious room possible.
Furnace structure. Fire safety standards require the location of furnace equipment at a distance of 40 cm from the wooden walls of the building. If the surface of the material is impregnated with a special impregnation, then the distance is reduced to 30 cm.
A brick oven heats up slowly and retains heat for a long time. The thickness of the walls of such a structure is impressive. Electrical installation is considered the safest equipment. The only requirement will be to reduce the height of the ceilings. This will reduce the heating time of the room.
Do-it-yourself attic in the bathhouse - important features
The specifics of constructing walls and foundations are the same as in other buildings. Start with the water supply and sewage system. Carefully plan and organize the interior space of the bathhouse. Particular attention should be paid to the construction of the attic roof, heat and waterproofing.
A comfortable bathhouse should have:
- dressing room Here you need to think about a system for storing things, hangers for clothes and places for shoes. It is advisable to place windows near the ceiling. They should be wide and allow natural light to pass through well. A prerequisite is the ability to open windows for ventilation.
- shower and washing room. Can be combined or separately. Benches, showers, water containers, and a bathtub are installed.
- steam room The most important room in any bathhouse. The heat in the steam room should spread evenly from all sides; it is important that the body also warms up evenly. This can be achieved by making the room square. A small door to the steam room with a high threshold will help retain heat. The main attribute of the steam room is the shelf; a comfortable stay in the bath depends on how well it is made.
Since the building is small, it is better to make the attic roof on the bathhouse in a broken structure. To do this, U-shaped frames are installed on the floor block. Thus, the roof will not lie directly on the walls, but will be raised. This will make it possible to preserve the internal space as efficiently as possible. Take care of natural lighting in the attic. There should be a lot of light here, as well as the ability to ventilate the room.
Do not forget about the insulation of the attic roof, as well as hydro- and vapor barrier. Choose a high-quality roof covering that can retain moisture and conserve heat. Carry out work using technology.
After the bathhouse is erected, it's time to start interior work. The main task here is to avoid moisture from the steam room getting onto the second floor. To do this, the floor between the first and second floors must be covered with a vapor barrier membrane, a sheathing is constructed, insulation is laid and again covered with a vapor barrier membrane. Finishing materials for the interior design of the attic must have the highest possible moisture resistance and heat resistance. It can be chipboard, lining, plywood, etc.
Have you thought about how you will climb from the first floor to the attic? That's right, up the stairs. You will also have to tinker with it. The best option would be a flight of stairs. It is both beautiful and practical at the same time. In addition, such a staircase is easy to make yourself. The placement of the stairs should only be internal, otherwise the attic floor will lose its attractiveness.
Dome bathhouse - a well-forgotten old thing
The dome of the Roman Pantheon is one of the greatest domes surviving from modern times.
Domed baths were built from strong stone, often semi-underground. Thick walls were built for thermal insulation purposes, as were burials underground. The oldest hammams, Safforon and Basori Kord in Bukhara, and the underground sulfur baths in Tbilisi have survived in good condition to this day.
The dome is one of the most expressive architectural elements, and at the same time an economical design solution.
Visually, the dome is a rather complex structure. This scares off many developers from the desire to build a beautiful and functional structure with their own hands. Fear of making a mistake in calculations, lack of established techniques, instructions and experience in mass construction - these are the main reasons that dome-type buildings are extremely rare in our country.
You can cite economic calculations and prices, prove the clear advantages of a dome project over a conventional one, but the psychological barrier is difficult to overcome.
In Russia today there are only a few hundred residential dome buildings, in Ukraine there are 20 of them. While in the USA more than 50 thousand of them were built over the past year alone.
It is believed that a country house must have a bathhouse and a dome; this type of bathhouse is gradually gaining popularity. Since, unlike a residential building, this small building is much easier to assemble with your own hands.
Option for a domed bathhouse project.
All types of domes can be divided according to the method of construction:
- sprayed (most often polystyrene foam).
Of the above methods, spraying is the fastest. A frame of reinforcement is assembled on a light foundation, a pneumatic frame is placed inside it, and a layer of polystyrene foam is sprayed. But since polymer walls do not breathe well, this method is not used for building baths.
Stratodesic domes have the most elegant shapes. They are assembled on the basis of bent ribs running in the meridional direction. The easiest way to install a stratodesic dome is to install doors and windows that are familiar to us, and to attach a veranda or terrace to a bathhouse using standard technology. For a bathhouse, bent-laminated timber will be expensive, and this is perhaps the only obstacle.
Geodome is the most common and deservedly popular. Other names are geocell and geosphere. It was invented in the late forties by US engineer Richard B. Fuller (1895 – 1983).
The basis of the geodome is made up of equilateral triangles. Some connections in the design have six ribs, and some have five. Geocell is durable, since a triangle is a rigid figure. The builder is required to ensure reliable fastening in the nodes and fix the base of the structure.
The geodome is most optimal as the basis for a bathhouse project.
Structurally, a geocell consists of ribs connected by ends of five or six at one point.
Geocell is the basis of the geodesic dome design.
Construction stages
The following approximate instructions will help you decide on the construction sequence:
- Foundation. The lightweight design will not require large expenses for laying the foundation. A strip foundation for a bathhouse or screw piles are suitable.
No matter how unusual the design of a domed bathhouse may be, its construction begins traditionally - by laying the foundation.
- Selecting the type of fastening. Methods for attaching geosphere ribs can be divided into two types:
- Connector method. There are, frankly speaking, an innumerable number of connectors. Both branded and homemade. The following are more or less widely used:
- The classic Fuller connector - steel “petals” welded at an angle to a piece of pipe, two for each edge of the sphere;
- The “partisan” connector is an invention of Russian craftsmen;
The “partisan” connector—that’s what it is.
- V-connector;
- Branded patented “Medusa” connector;
- NSD connector, also proprietary;
- T-connector – like Partizan, it’s our work...
- … and others.
- Connectorless method (photo).
Connectorless method of dome assembly.
For those who are good with a saw, as you will need to make many cuts at the right angle. A plus is the absence of metal in the bathhouse frame, with the exception of long self-tapping screws and a small amount of mounting tape.
Then the cells of the sphere are covered with moisture-resistant plywood or other suitable material, leaving a hole for the chimney and windows. Further work will be carried out inside the building.
The frame cells are covered with plywood.
You can pre-mount triangular ecosphere modules and then assemble them into a log house.
- Filling the frame with insulation.
Dome baths also need insulation
The best insulation for a bathhouse is ecowool, based on cellulose. The material is non-flammable and safe for health. An excellent heat insulator. Its price is low, since it is made from cellulose, unsuitable for paper production, and from waste paper.
- Internal lining of the bathhouse. Aspen lining will create the desired climate in the bathhouse. Aspen is good because it does not leave splinters, since its wood has soft fibers. It is also recommended to make shelves in the bathhouse from aspen.
What will we use to heat it? Let’s think over the heating features
Without a stove, even a bathhouse with an attic room loses its charm. Nowadays, electric and gas models are popular and very convenient to use. Installing them is easy to do on your own and heating them is not difficult. It's another matter if a real stove is preferred. It would be right to entrust its masonry to professionals. After all, the life and health of you and your loved ones depends on it.
Follow all recommendations, take into account the nuances and strive for the ideal result. With the right approach, you will get an excellent residential bathhouse that will warm you for a long time and give you positive emotions.
- Author: Mikhail Malofeev
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