A bathhouse with a guest house is a great place to relax for the whole family. Knowing the main stages of construction and arrangement, you can create it yourself. How to rebuild a guest house with a sauna according to all the rules, read our article. Content:
- Main features
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Construction of a guest house
- Project and location
- Foundation installation
- Walling
- Roof construction
- Steam room device
- Finishing a bath with a guest house
A guest house with a sauna is a real treasure for people living and working in the city. A weekend in such a rented building costs a lot of money, and thousands of people are ready to pay them, since rest with a light steam in a pleasant company of friends attracts our compatriots much more than a trip to hot regions. But such a wonderful building can be erected with your own hands on almost every site. Russian craftsmen and the sea up to their knees: bought the material, prepared the instrument - and go ahead with a song …
The main features of a bath with a guest house
A guest house-bath is not a simple summer cottage or a guest house with a built-in “by the way” steam room. This is a construction with an atypical mode of operation and a single concept of architecture and style, where the steam room is the semantic center.
Unlike a typical bath with a relaxation room, a guest house with a bath is suitable for living for at least 3 summer months. There must certainly be available: a full bathroom, a kitchen or a kitchenette, a bedroom, a heating system, a water supply system and a sewerage system. A bathhouse with a guest house should not be confused with an ordinary wooden guest house, which has a minimum steam room in its design.
A full-fledged project of a guest house with a bath has distinctive features:
- A bath with a dressing room, a plunge pool and a washing room is the starting point for the rest of the building.
- The steam room with the accompanying zones must occupy at least half of the area of the house.
- Any materials used in the construction of a bath with a guest house must be environmentally friendly and safe. The primary function of such a building is to heal the body.
On a note! Since most often the guest house-bath is not used all year round, but periodically, it is necessary to think over its heating system in the absence of tenants.
Construction of a guest house-bath
Many homeowners choose to use natural building materials when constructing new buildings. Of course, a sauna with a guest house made of foam blocks looks solid, strong and durable, but a house made of wood turns out to be more beautiful, cozy and warm. Most often, a bathhouse with a guest house is built from rounded logs or profiled beams. Jute or felt are used as heaters. Often, when erecting such a building, they resort to frame technology, which is more economical and promising in terms of external and internal decoration.
Project and location of a bathhouse with a guest house
Today it is not difficult to get a project of a guest house with a bathhouse. It is easy to find it on the Internet or to compose it yourself, taking into account the subtleties characteristic of such a specific structure. Before starting construction, you need to decide on the dimensions of the guest house, its location, the type of foundation and roof. It is also worth making sure in advance that you have the necessary tools.
An equally important point is the preparation of a construction estimate. Having knocked out the preliminary amount, it is easier for the owner to navigate the final cost. Upon the assurance of the planning and design stage, you can proceed to the start of construction.
In most cases, the construction of a guest house with a bath is carried out on a site where there are already one or more buildings. In this case, when choosing a suitable place, it is worth considering their location in order to prevent typical mistakes.
Regardless of the purpose, any wooden building must be adequately protected from accidental fire. All existing buildings should be located at a certain distance from the future bath, the ideal option is a 10-meter interval.
Installation of the foundation for the guest house-bath
Taking into account the local climatic conditions and the type of soil on the site, they choose one of the types of foundation, to one degree or another suitable for arranging a guest house of a log bathhouse - tape, columnar or pile. The tape is considered the most popular and versatile option, because it meets all the requirements.
For the complete installation of this type of base, you must perform a number of actions:
- Dig a trench around the perimeter of the future building, after making a markup on the site.
- Lay a layer of sand not thinner than 20 cm on the bottom. Fill the bottom with water and tamp thoroughly.
- Lay the crushed stone in the next layer, install the formwork and place the reinforcement in it.
- Pour the formwork with concrete at the floor level.
For arranging a small guest house with a bathhouse or a frame-panel building, a columnar base is perfect. For its installation, brick, concrete, asbestos cement pipes, wooden logs are used. The last option is considered the least successful, because it has rather low characteristics and will not be able to operate for the prescribed amount of time.
When building a guest house in an uneven landscape or heaving soil, it is better to choose a pile foundation. It is quite strong, reliable and durable. Piles of metal and concrete will protect the structure from destruction due to subsidence of the earth and landslides.
Erection of walls for a bath with a guest house
Before you start pushing the walls, you need to equip the floor. For this, lags are installed on which the rough base is mounted. This is followed by layers of glassine, thermal insulation, etc. The last stage is grooved boards. After installing the floor, you can proceed directly to the walls.
Most often, a bathhouse with a guest house is built of wood: it is environmentally friendly, aesthetic and easy to install. But recently, brick and stone have also begun to be used, arguing the choice with greater efficiency and practicality.
Installation of walls made of logs is as follows:
- The foundation is covered with waterproofing. The logs of the first crown are treated with an antiseptic and waterproofing mastic.
- Then the first crown is laid, choosing larger logs for this. During installation, the corners should be performed "in the bowl". In this case, the building will be protected from drafts and precipitation.
- Optionally, you can choose the option of laying "in the end tongue", that is, the spike at the end of one log goes into the groove at the end of the other.
- To fix the layers vertically, a pin is made on the previous crown, where the next layer is put in a groove.
- The optimal section of the beams for the walls is 15x15 cm.
For laying between the logs, choose a mezhventsovy sealant, moss, tow. The jute sealant is slightly better than the one made of flax, it protects the wood from drafts and moisture, and also completely fills the gaps between the beams. For the flooring of such a sealant, the material is unwound and a piece of the required length is cut off. Then they put it on the crown and fasten it with a stapler. Thus, there is no need to use caulk.
Roof construction for a guest house with a sauna
The roof for a bathhouse with a guest house must be strong and durable. It consists of a supporting structure (beams and supports) and the roof itself. Floor beams are the basis of the roof, they are fixed on the upper trim of the wall. In some cases, the attic flooring is assembled on the floor and then lifted to the top and mounted.
Roof rafters are made from various materials - logs, beams, boards. The beams are fastened to the beams using staples. The tops of the rafters are fixed with a bar. The ends of the rafters form a cornice of at least 0.5 m in length.
Depending on the type of roofing material, the type of lathing is selected. Today the bath can be covered with slate, corrugated board, various types of tiles - metal, ceramic and bitumen. For a soft roof, a sheathing in the form of a continuous flooring is required. For a roof made of slate, metal, ceramic tiles, a dense lathing is not required, the distance between its elements can be 0.4-0.5 m.
The device of a steam room in a guest house-bath
The steam room is the most important element of the Russian bath. Depending on the number of people who will be in it, determine its optimal size. Also, the scale is influenced by the size of the oven and shelves. Of course, the square of the steam room is solved even at the stage of creating a project for a bath with a guest house.
The same applies to the furnace, its type is determined by the scale of the area that will need to be heated and the type of fuel used. The traditional option for a Russian bath is a heater, but other types also have a place to be.
As a rule, the stove is installed in the corner of the steam room. If a dressing room is located behind the nearest wall, it will also be heated. A stove of suitable size and power is easy to find on the specialty market. You can also build a stove with your own hands.
It is important to know that among the heaters there are models of constant and intermittent operation. Constant-mode furnaces run on gas, liquid fuel, electricity. The temperature at this time is set manually and is maintained all the time. Since models with continuous operation are considered highly flammable, appropriate approvals are required for their installation.
An ideal option for a guest house-bath is a periodic-action stove. Its scale is somewhat larger, the design is more optimal, and firewood (less often coal) is suitable as fuel.
Finishing a bath with a guest house
Guest houses with a bathhouse, built from a log house, do not need additional external cladding with finishing materials. However, in order to preserve the properties of wood, it should be protected from the negative effects of the external environment - it should be coated with a protective impregnation, varnish or painted with a special paint. Quality bath products are produced by manufacturers Tikkurila, Neomid and Senezh.
Block buildings can be finished with decorative plaster, siding or any other material suitable for building facades. In any case, the advantages are always on the side of natural materials. They look aesthetically pleasing, have a beneficial effect on the general condition of visitors, and have high performance characteristics.
For a full interior decoration of the guest house, you can use different types of wood. For a steam room, it is better to choose hardwoods - aspen, linden, birch. In the dressing room or washing room, pine trim is acceptable. It is strictly forbidden to use plastic, linoleum, slabs, etc. in hot rooms.
The decoration of the guest house itself with a bath and a swimming pool can correspond to the style of the bath itself or be made with any other material - tapestries, putty, block house, clapboard.
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At this stage, the process can be considered complete. Of course, there is still a lot of work ahead on the interior arrangement of the guest house with a sauna, but the main part has been successfully completed. Following the technologies described above, everyone will be able to build a magnificent bathhouse with a guest house to the delight of themselves and their guests.
