The floor in the dressing room (it is impossible to imagine a bath without this room), like most other rooms, can be built independently, as well as use the services of professionals. However, it should be borne in mind that the services of outside contractors will cost much more, and not the fact that the result will be better than the person imagined. In addition, in most cases, professionals work on several sophisticated technologies, and you can carefully weigh the pros and cons of all available methods. In addition, when collecting the floor in the dressing room with your own hands, it is necessary to take into account the design of adjacent rooms and the general concept. However, structurally, in any case, it will be different, and this must be understood even during the development of the project for the entire bathhouse. This article describes how to make a warm floor in the dressing room with your own hands. However, before this, you should familiarize yourself with the basic requirements of flooring.
Flooring in the waiting room
Before the main work, you need to determine the type of coating that will be used for the floor. In fact, the construction of the floor in the dressing room begins from top to bottom: choosing the type of flooring for yourself, you should consider the option of arranging the dressing room in practice. To do this, consider the thickness, as well as the structure of the underlying layer and its composition.
Floor requirements
Before constructing a warm floor in the dressing room, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the basic standards and requirements for flooring. It must meet the following requirements:
- To be pleasant to the touch, which depends on the relief and physical properties of the material.
- Do not slip.
- Looks pretty attractive outwardly.
- Just mounted.
- Easy to tidy and maintain.
- Be very affordable.
The floor in the dressing room, made by yourself, should also have excellent environmental characteristics.
Which tree to pick up?
The wooden floor in the dressing room is in most cases assembled from a planed, grooved, massive board, the normative humidity of which is about 13 percent. By purchasing raw lumber, you can get dubious savings, which may disappoint in the future. The fact is that the ideal fit of the material during its laying in the near future is violated by deformation of drying.
But what sex should be in the dressing room? What wood species are used in this case? As in other cases, preference is given to materials with medium or high hardness. These types of wood include the following:
- Beech.
- Birch.
- Maple.
- Ash.
- Larch.
- Elm.
- Yew.
- Oak.
- Acacia.
- Hornbeam.
We examined above how to cover the floor in the dressing room. And now you should familiarize yourself with how to build this floor yourself. But before that you need to prepare all the necessary materials and tools.
Structural elements
The floors in the dressing room can be compared to a layer cake. This design includes the base, thermal insulation, vapor barrier, waterproofing, as well as flooring. In various bathrooms, floors are located in different conditions, and the quality of their surface often helps to ensure operability.
In most cases, Russian baths are made of wood, so the main problem is to ensure the insulation of the floors in the dressing room. As well as the entire structure, in this case, the floors are made of wood. The base is made of lags, between which waterproofing, thermal insulation, and also a vapor barrier layer with foil should be laid alternately.
Another very common option for arranging a rough floor is a concrete screed. However, such a surface will be very cold, therefore, it needs reliable thermal insulation.
Floor insulation
The flaky floor design in the dressing room includes several elements. These items are described below:
- Waterproofing. It is needed in order to protect the floor from flood and groundwater, to prevent the accumulation of moisture that comes from the inside. The waterproofing layer will be formed from moisture-proof roll materials, which should include a plastic film and roofing material. The second component for waterproofing protection is the impregnation of wooden parts, thereby eliminating the risk of decay of the material. In addition, the so-called gluing method is used, in which the joints of the elements are sealed with special tapes with an adhesive layer.
- Vapor barrier. During the opening of the doors to the steam room, steam begins to fall into the dressing room, thus affecting the materials of the floor structure. If a vapor barrier is provided, a layer that is impervious to steam is included. As this protection, in most cases, films with aluminum foil are used. The basis of the film can be PVC, polyethylene, as well as polypropylene. In principle, membrane materials that provide good vapor tightness can also be used.
- Thermal insulation. A reliable thermal insulation layer in the dressing room is a must. The thickness of this layer will depend on the material used, but on average it is 15 cm. The most popular insulation material is ecowool, mineral wool, expanded clay, extruded polystyrene foam, expanded polystyrene. As for the cheap options, you can use ordinary wood chips. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the thermal insulation properties of expanded clay or mineral wool will be significantly lower if moisture gets in. Thus, during their application, the role of the waterproofing layer increases.
Necessary tools
Before you make the floor in the dressing room with your own hands, you will need the following tools:
- Bulgarian.
- A circular saw.
- Grinder.
- Plane.
- Electric drill.
- Hacksaw.
- Screwdriver.
- Chisel.
- Furniture stapler.
- Hammer.
- Screwdriver.
- Pliers.
- Paint brush.
- Building level.
- The line is metal.
- Roulette.
Manufacturing Features
Before starting the main process, you should choose a place for future work. If you do not know how to insulate the floor in the dressing room, then first of all, you need to remove all the vegetation on the soil surface, and also remove the soil layer to a depth of about 20 cm. After this, the soil surface should be carefully tamped, and the depression filled with a sand pad or crushed stone with a seal . Then the surface is leveled, after which the first waterproofing layer is laid there, for which, in most cases, roofing material is used.
Wooden logs should be made of timber, the thickness of which should be 10-15 cm. During laying, they will rise to a height of about 10 cm above the surface, for which stone, brick or concrete columns are used. The level of lags must be carefully aligned horizontally using the construction level. The step of laying these bars will depend on the size of the room, and it is in the range of 40-60 cm. Immediately before laying, they should be impregnated with a non-combustible solution and antiseptic composition.
Backfill
The next step is to lay the insulation between the resulting lags. If roll or tile material is used, then the racks must necessarily be covered with a film with an adhesive layer.
The material is attached to the lags using a furniture stapler with the establishment of the edges on the beam. Overlapping on the walls is done with a height of about 15 cm. If expanded clay is used, then it is poured directly between the lags with a layer of about 20 cm and densely compacted. On top of the insulation layer, it is necessary to lay 2 layers of waterproofing, after which a vapor barrier layer is laid, with the foil layer up. The rolled material is laid with an overlap of 15 cm, and the joint is sealed with a film with an adhesive layer.
Finish coating
But what covers the floor in the dressing room from above? This issue should be resolved after the formation of the rough floor, which is the basis. The most common coating in the form of boards. For these purposes, softwood is most often used; it is better to use larch. The thickness of the board is about 3 cm, and the width is about 25 cm. The surface of the board must be well-trimmed. After this, the boards are stacked very tightly.
It should be noted that it is mandatory at this stage to impregnate the wood with an antiseptic composition. As such a composition, water-soluble impregnation, a combined antiseptic, an oil composition, an antiseptic made on the basis of an organic solvent can be used. These impregnations are applied with a paint brush in 2-3 steps.
Painting
And how can I paint the floors in the dressing room? In most cases, in this situation, 2 methods are used: painting and varnishing. When applying such coatings, it is necessary to properly prepare the surface. To do this, completely remove dirt, grease stains and dust. After that, a primer layer is applied over the wood, which provides an ideal coating.
Technical solution
As mentioned earlier, one of the important conditions for arranging a dressing room is the provision of underfloor heating. Thermal insulation keeps heat well, but the greatest comfort can be achieved by equipping a special floor covering with the use of technical solutions.
Water floors
In the bathing conditions, it will be quite simple to implement the option of water floors. In this case, heating of the floor surface is carried out through pipes that are laid under the floor covering. Hot water is passed through the pipes, which is heated through the sauna stove. Water supply can be provided from a central water supply system, and you can also use your own system, which is powered by a well or a well.
Electric floors
Another way to heat floors is electric underfloor heating. To equip the heated floors in the dressing room, a special heating cable is mounted under the surface, which has a high electrical resistance of the conductive conductors.
Infrared panel
Another modern option for floor heating is the infrared panel. It can be placed directly under the outer cover throughout the room or in some specific area. During the supply of electrical voltage to this panel, it begins to emit infrared rays, which heat up not the air, but the person who is in the field of their distribution.
Conclusion
It is not at all necessary to seek the help of professional builders to arrange the floors in your dressing room. If you follow all the recommendations and tips that were given in this article, then you can build very good floors yourself. You should also remember that underfloor heating is one of the important conditions after bathing procedures.