The bathhouse always occupied a special place in the life of a Russian person. Many people want to build such a building on their own. For them, this article can be useful. At the very beginning of construction it is necessary to decide how to make a drain in the bath. The best decisions in financial and practical terms will be if the bathhouse is on a raised platform or adjacent to the house. In the first case, you will save on arranging the outflow of contaminated water, and in the second, on lighting and on the supply of sewage and water. This question must be considered before installing the foundation.
The first option is
to drain the drain pipe directly into the
sewer well, but this is usually possible only in urban conditions. The second is to dig a hole for water drainage directly under the foundation, and fix the walls with a brick. Water accumulates, then is removed using cleaning technology. Such an arrangement of the drain is possible if the room is used by no more than three people. Nowadays, they began to apply soil filtration, in such cases, a sump (distribution well), an autonomous septic tank and the laying of drainage pipes throughout the site are needed. The method is convenient for irrigation, but quite expensive and difficult to install, especially if the site is equipped. For those who choose options for how to make a drain in the bath, there is a reliable and long-tried method - drainage to the well behind the foundation.
During the arrangement of the base of the bath, you choose the part of the site that has the greatest slope. Dig a hole 3-5 meters from the foundation. It should be at least 1.5 meters deep. Ideally, 50 cm below the freezing point of the soil. This is necessary so that the water does not freeze. The bottom of the well is covered with gravel, rubble, expanded clay, creating a drainage system. The edges of the pit must be strengthened from shedding. This can be done using reinforced concrete rings, old tires are also used or concreted using formwork. Soil is poured over the drainage system and rammed. Before that, a pipe is laid from the bottom of the base of the building, and it provides drainage in the bath. The material can be made of cast iron, PVC, asbestos, ceramics - any, but not steel, as it can rust. The pipe should not have creases, bends, should be laid with the necessary slope. The joints are additionally coated with concrete, the pipe is insulated. The diameter must be at least 50 mm.
This option of how to make a drain in the bath
is suitable for all types of buildings. But it requires periodic
cleaning of the well and pipes from pollution. Therefore, we recommend that before choosing a place for a bath, pay attention to nearby ravines or natural drains, you may not have to equip a well and clean it when agreed with the relevant services. It is only necessary to warm the outlet pipe.
When deciding how to remove water from the building itself, few people think about how to make shelves in the bathhouse so that water does not accumulate on them, and this is an important point that many people forget. So, to drain water from the shelves, it is necessary to leave a gap between them and the bath wall of at least 1 cm. This will allow water not to stagnate on the surface and at the corners of the wall, will facilitate their processing and maintain operational performance.
The functional qualities of the building, simplicity, convenience and ease of maintaining the structure depend on the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of the approach to the question of how to make a drain in the bath.