Tips on how to make shelves for a bath with your own hands

An ancient custom to be soared in a Russian bath with a vigorous broom, kvass and herbs again became popular with fans of a healthy lifestyle. Those who want to have their own steam room become more and more. Here grow and mushrooms, bathhouses in country and suburban areas. In each family, the Russian bath is arranged in its own way, but at the final stage, all the same question arises: "How to make shelves for a bath?"

Configuration and placement

In the Russian steam room, the main event is massage with a broom on the ledge. Consequently, its design should allow the steamer to approach the body of a man soaring freely and take a convenient position for the procedure. It should be taken as an axiom: when constructing shelves for a bath with your own hands, first of all you need to take care of its convenience, and only then about design and beauty, although one does not interfere with one another.

Parks are usually small in size, because the smaller the room (within reasonably limited limits), the faster, easier and more economical it can be to warm it to the desired temperature. The geometry of the poles for such a limited space should be extremely simple.

Masters who conceived to build shelves for the bath with their own hands, the imagination usually tells a kind of a ladder with several wide steps. As you know, at the top of the steam is hotter than at the foot of the structure. Multistage allows fans to "park the park" to choose for themselves a level with a suitable temperature background. Therefore, arranging the shelves for the bath with their own hands, it makes sense to adhere to the traditional configuration.

The layout of the shelves is chosen depending on the layout of the steam room and your own imagination. They can be located along one wall or two, in the form of the letter "G", etc. Only owners of new-fashioned steam rooms with windows that decided to make a convenient shelves for the bath with their own hands will have to confine themselves to placing them along the deaf walls.

Recommended Shelf Dimensions

At a height of the steam room of not more than 2.2 m, it is quite possible to do with shelves in two levels. But if the height of the room allows, it is advisable to install the third stage. In this case, the distance between the shelves is assumed to be 45-50 cm, and the top mark is 1.2 m below the ceiling.

Sometimes for the convenience of a steamer a low bench is provided, which is located under the first level and is pushed out as necessary.

The width of the shelves should be comfortable for a lying or seated person. The lower ones, intended for sitting, make a width of 40-50 cm. The upper step usually performs the role of a bed, and therefore it is better to make it wide enough - from 65 to 90 cm.

Helpful Tips

• Shelves should be made in the form of flooring from carefully ground boards, between which is left a drain for water drain of at least 1 cm. The deck is either attached to the frame or laid on supports like traps. The convenience of loose deck is that it can be removed and dried outside the walls of the bath.

• Between the shelves and the walls of the steam room, leave a gap (10 cm) for free ventilation.

• The recommended size for the frame is 70x50 mm. The thickness of the planks for the flooring should be less than the width 4 times, this will ensure the full drying of the wood.

• The number of supports depends on the thickness of the boards: the thinner they are, the more they are required, but the thin ones quickly dry out.

• For frame supports it is advisable to make the planking along the entire length of the board both from above and from below. This will provide additional rigidity of the structure.

• To ensure stability, and also to protect against moisture from the bottom, rubber gaskets are attached to the support bars. Some craftsmen use hockey pucks to isolate the shelves for the bath. The price for them is low, and the convenience and simplicity of such a decision are unquestionable.

About the cost

Each master, starting construction, begins by calculating the estimated cost of the object. To estimate how much the construction of poles will cost, you need to know the size and price of the material from which they will be made. In practice, even, it would seem, accurate calculations are approximate, because there is no single cost of components. Therefore, the price of polka-flakes, which are made by hand, primarily depends on the type of wood. For example, the cost of a profile from an African abash - about 170-190 rubles per 1 running. M. Lumber from the wood of the middle belt is much cheaper. So, the cost of a profile from a linden tree - from 130 rubles for 1 running. M. However, in each region their prices are for lumber, so for hardware and other materials.

For the comfort of the shelf in the bath can be complemented with cute footsteps and head made of wood. And if everything is ready, it's time to heat the bathhouse, steam up the whiskers, and ... With a light steam!