Many apartment owners are wondering where to place things that are so necessary in everyday life, but spoiling the interior. It can be cleaning products, containers, stocks of toilet paper and soap. All this requires a separate space. In kitchen cabinets there is usually no free space, but putting a cabinet in the bathroom is a good idea.
Solution
However, if the bathroom is small, then you can place a closet in the toilet, making it yourself. To carry out work, you do not need professional skills, you only need imagination, a sketch created, as well as tools and materials.
Preparatory work
If you want to install a closet in the toilet, then you should prepare. First you need to determine the place for the piece of furniture. Usually this is the space behind the toilet. A properly installed cabinet will cope with the task of storing various items and will become a place where you can hide water meters and pipes, ensuring a free approach to them.
The choice of material for the shelves and the cabinet should be taken seriously. Fasteners must be reliable, because objects can be difficult. If you plan to place different weights inside, then 10 mm plywood shelves will do. But blanks made of chipboard will become more practical, since they are able to withstand any load.
In order for the closet in the toilet to look beautiful, you should give it the appropriate look by creating a facade from sheets of chipboard. A more economical option is the use of polished chipboard, which can be faced with decorative tiles. The plumbing cabinet should be positioned so that it occupies the entire free space of the rear wall.
Preparation of materials and some recommendations
In addition to plywood and chipboard, for a cabinet in a small toilet you may need:
- corner profile;
- furniture hinges;
- door handles;
- furniture corners;
- aluminum profile;
- timber.
The corner aluminum profile should have dimensions of 25 by 25 mm. It is used for the convenience of placing cabinet shelves. The number of furniture hinges will depend on the size of the doors and their number. You will need furniture magnets and handles.
Aluminum profile - you need U-shaped products. These are suitable for the case when there are holes for the fan pipe on the shelves.
You can assemble the frame from a square beam with a side of 30 mm.
Tool preparation
If you want to independently install a closet in the toilet, then you need to prepare all the details. Their sizes should coincide with the specified values in the drawing. If you have difficulties in cutting material, then you can contact the masters. Almost every company that sells chipboard provides such services.
For the manufacture of the cabinet you can not do without the following tools:
- electric jigsaw;
- level;
- screwdriver;
- roulette;
- pencil;
- hammer drill;
- electric drill.
An electric jigsaw can be replaced with a wood file. As for the electric drill, it can be replaced with a punch. As soon as all necessary details are prepared, you can proceed with installation.
Installation Procedure
Work should begin with fastening the bars that will be used for the frame when installing the cabinet in the toilet. Self-tapping screws need to drill marked holes, and then insert dowels into them. The markup is carried out according to the level, because otherwise you may encounter a skew of the frame. This will cause the door to warp.
Once the wall is placed, it is important to ensure that the toilet bowl does not enter the cabinet area. In the next step, you should mark out the space under the shelves. First one wall is selected. Places for shelves are marked in random order. The main thing is that they are located conveniently and horizontally.
On the second wall, according to the level, another part of the shelves should be marked. In the places marked with a pencil, it is necessary to fix the aluminum profile, which is required to install the shelves. Fastening is carried out by expansion bolt shields and self-tapping screws.
Specialist advice
Plumbing pipes can be placed in the closet in the toilet. In this case, communications should not touch the shelves. Usually the pipes are not arranged strictly vertically, so each shelf will have to be processed individually. If the pipes have a small diameter, then the holes in the shelves are made with a pen drill. Then use a jigsaw and cut through the shelf so that it touches the wall.
For a fan pipe, a hole should be cut with a jigsaw, but the shelf is pre-drilled. This is necessary in order to pass a jigsaw file through it. It is important to determine the size of the hole as accurately as possible so that the files are in place.
There is no need to fasten the shelves tightly to the profile, because you may need a place to store tall objects. The lower shelf, which will not be fixed, can be used to access the valves on the pipes and meters. If you need constant access, it’s better not to secure the shelves. Indeed, in this case, you do not have to do additional doors and hatches.
Work on the installation of fittings and doors
A plumbing closet in the toilet will have doors that are best hung together. First, the hinges are attached to the door, after which you can try on the structure to the frame to make marking. When fastening, it is better to use self-tapping screws. The doors are then equipped with handles, and then comes the turn of furniture magnets. The work should be carried out in exactly this sequence.
The toilet is a place where operating conditions are quite aggressive. The room constantly maintains high humidity, in this regard, care must be taken to preserve the wooden objects that are part of the structure. They must be protected with special impregnation.
Materials and solutions
Plumbing closet in the toilet can be made of different materials. For example, it can be drywall. From its moisture-proof variety, aesthetic open shelves can be made. The frame should be assembled from a galvanized profile. When the frame is ready, plasterboard parts should be cut to size. Fastening is carried out with 25 mm screws. An electric jigsaw should be used for cutting drywall, but you can break off the sheet by cutting it with a sharp knife into a third of the thickness. If you are thinking about how to close the closet in the toilet, then GKL is perfect for these purposes. Hats and seams from self-tapping screws in this case are putty with gypsum putty. It is applied in 2 layers, between which intermediate drying should be sustained.
The seams are rubbed with a sanding mesh, dust is removed from the surface, after which the entire surface is primed with a penetrating compound. At the next stage, it is necessary to reinforce the seams. For this purpose, it is better not to use a sickle, replacing it with a rolled fiberglass. It has sufficient strength and will be able to make the seam less noticeable and will do without the cost of putty. Fiberglass is glued to PVA diluted with water.
When installing the closet in the toilet over the toilet, you will have to dry the reinforced joints, and then re-putty them. In this case, it is necessary to use a layer of gypsum, polished it with a mesh, dedusted and primed.
Tiled plasterboard shelves can be finished. It is suitable for upper horizontal surfaces. Finishing should be cut to size with a diamond disk and laid on ordinary tile glue, you can wipe the joints with colored grout. The facade of the closet in the drywall toilet can be covered with waterproofing water-based rubber paint. It is applied in 3 layers with a roller or brush. It is better to wipe off stains on a tile right away. This is due to the fact that after the rubber dye it will be difficult to get rid of, because it is resistant.
If you want to protect the corners, it is better to glue them with a PVC corner on silicone sealant. Under the putty, sometimes galvanized or plastic corner profiles are also laid. But, as practice shows, they quickly fail and lose their appearance.
Use of plywood
The cabinet will turn out to be quite durable and strong if it is made of plywood. Its thickness should be 15 mm. Moisture-resistant FSF is not suitable, since it contains harmful adhesives with phenol formaldehyde. If the shelves will have a length of up to half a meter, then they do not need stiffeners, you can fix them on dowels-screws screwed to the walls.
Longer shelves are reinforced with vertical ribs of the same plywood. The width of the rib should be 50 mm. It can be run along the edge of the shelf. For cutting plywood, it is better to use a circular saw. If you use a jigsaw, the edges will be uneven. Sawing should be slow - so you get less scoring. Oblong details are marked so that their long edges are parallel to the veneer fibers. The reason is the edges of the cut: when cutting along the fibers there will be no untidy burrs and raised chips.
By making a technical cabinet in the toilet from plywood, you can connect thick elements end-to-end with screws. If fastening will be carried out flat, then a 4-mm hole must first be drilled in the material. The end face of the part must be drilled with a 3 mm drill, and it is necessary to go deeper by 30 mm.