Shower cabin with own hands

The modern market offers a lot of ready-made solutions, that is, you can safely buy a shower, while not particularly bothering. However, many believe that the shower cabin with their own hands is the most expedient way. All this is due to the fact that when choosing a ready-made solution, you face such difficulties as selecting a pallet, as well as its coverage, and many other difficulties. In addition, you will need to pick a booth strictly in the size of the room, and you can not be completely sure that it will be suitable. We can say that with factory cabs usually there is a lot of problems, while their design, too, leaves much to be desired. It's hard to say that a rustic plastic box is generally capable of decorating the interior of a room.

Shower cabin with own hands: how to make it

From the materials for its creation it is necessary to stock up with gas silicate blocks, mortar for screed, tile glue, tile, fugue for sealing seams, metal profile, moisture resistant plasterboard, metal screws, dowel nails, and pipes designed to provide inflow and outflow of water. If you talk about tools, then you should have at hand a special trowel for tiles, a rasp for blocks, a trowel, a drill, a sponge, a rule-level, a screwdriver. First of all, you need to determine the place where you will install the shower enclosure yourself. At this point, you should arrange a cavity, where then we will lead the pipes for the outflow of water into the sewer system. After the pipes have been installed, the cavity will be raised due to the fact that it will be flooded with a screed solution that lifts the floor height in this place by 5 centimeters. Filling is carried out so that the drain pipe remains in the center of the cavity.

If we talk about how the shower is done by our own hands, then we should say that at the next stage we should start building the walls. If you chose for your shower corner of the room, then the wall needs to be built only on one side, and when positioned in the center, you will need to build walls on both sides. Do walls better from plasterboard, as it has a lot of advantages, such as ease of installation, lightness, strength, quality and all this with the minimum thickness of the partition. To install gypsum boards, you need to install the profiles from which the frame will be constructed. It is worth noting that the drywall for these purposes should be moisture resistant. As a result, you will get a sufficiently strong partition, the thickness of which is about 10 centimeters.

The shower is almost ready by the hands, now it is necessary to be engaged in furnish. To do this you need to buy in the sanitary ware shop semi-circular sliding doors for your cabin, different taps, shower rain, you can buy a hydromassage and so on. Now the doors can be installed on the shower walls. You must bring the pipes for water flow, then install the fasteners for the cranes, rain, hydromassage and other. Once this is done, you can begin laying the tiles. The pallet is best laid with tiles with good texture, which prevents slipping. It is stacked on a pallet in such a way that it has a slope towards the center, which will allow the water to flow smoothly. Now the tiles should be laid on the walls of the shower room. Tile glue, used in these operations, should be the same moisture-resistant as plasterboard.

After laying the tiles , jointing of the tiles can be made, followed by the installation of shower appliances. Tiles should be ground using a special mixture containing antifungal additives. After all has dried, the tile must be rinsed to remove the fugue from the surface.

The shower cabin with its own hands is done very simply and quickly, and it serves much longer than its factory counterparts.