Incredibly fashionable in recent decades, showers have inspired users not only to install them not only in comfortable urban-type apartments, but also in cottages. It is worth paying attention to: rather expensive showers can be replaced with a ready-made tray and a makeshift cabin installed above it.
Shower tray for summer cottage
This version of the hygiene device is in no way inferior to advanced glass booths with lights and other high-tech elements, on the contrary, it makes it possible to experiment, allowing the use of cheaper building materials to complete the summer shower. Shower trays for the cottage can be purchased separately, despite the fact that they are included in the package of modern shower cabins. They are made of various materials (steel with enamel, cast iron, plastic, ceramics, marble) of various colors, come in a variety of shapes - round, square, triangular, with rounded corners of various radii of curvature. Their depth varies from 5 to 20 sentiments. The shower tray for a summer residence can have either a smooth bottom or a ribbed one with embossed embossing. The purpose of this picture is not only in aesthetics, but also in preventing the feet from sliding on the wet surface of the pallet while taking a shower. For this, the shower tray for summer cottages can also be covered with special anti-slip material.
Acrylic pallet
In summer conditions, both in the early morning and after a hot day, I especially want to drench myself in a stream of cool water. Consequently, a full-fledged indoor shower is not only expensive, but also unnecessary pleasure with a country house. In such conditions, perhaps you need to take care that under your feet it is warm and there is no slip. In this regard, enameled steel, ceramic or marble pallets are less comfortable. But there is a way. Especially popular are pallets made of acrylic - a variety of polymer material. Acrylic shower trays have such an important advantage as low weight, which facilitates and simplifies their installation, provides ease of transportation. But the main advantage of an acrylic pallet is its warm surface, which adds comfort while taking a shower. Some acrylic
shower trays require screens or tiling. This is not necessary if the acrylic tray has a cast screen on all sides. Some varieties of square acrylic pallets are made with molded seats. However, do not forget that in winter conditions an acrylic pallet may not withstand low temperatures or its extremes.
We build a pallet with our own hands
A shower tray for a summer residence can be made with your own hands from a wide variety of materials - brick, concrete, paving slabs or ordinary boards. It should be equipped with a drain for water, but, perhaps, only if the land near it does not absorb the volume that you used. Then a simple drain is constructed, which is a half-meter deepening under a makeshift pallet, covered with gravel. To complicate the design of the drain can be by strengthening the walls of this recess in the ground or the construction of a full sewer. Water drainage from under the pallet can be carried out using a pipe with a diameter of 10 cm to a drain pit, having a depth of up to 1.5 meters. The latter must be filled with filter media. Above this whole structure, a home-made cabin is installed, equipped with various shelves and hooks for shower accessories.