Tips for beginners on how to build a multifunctional sauna with a veranda on their own. Content:
- General recommendations
- Foundation
- Building materials
- Box
- Veranda
- Roof
A bath with a veranda is not a novelty for Russians for a long time. In many regions, such a dacha or suburban building has become traditional. Such a bath allows you to ergonomically use free square meters on the site. There is no need to build several buildings, everything you need is located in a separate building. The veranda will not only decorate the bathhouse, but will also become a full-fledged place for relaxation in the warm season.
General recommendations for the construction of a bath with a veranda
A veranda is a small extension to a bathhouse or a residential building. It is open and closed, can have a roof or a canopy. It has a common wall with the main building and is installed on the foundation.
Even the smallest veranda, no more than 6 square meters, can accommodate a small garden table and chairs for a close company. If you want a full-fledged large veranda where you can install, for example, a barbecue, then you should lay a veranda of 10-12 squares in the project.
This room can be accessed from a bathhouse or from the street - this is its main feature. Also, sometimes the veranda connects the residential building and the bathhouse.
There are several types of verandas:
- Frontal - the veranda is attached to the facade;
- Side - the building is located along the wall;
- Shingles - the structure is built around the entire perimeter of the building;
- Corner - in this case, the main walls, which converge at an angle of 90 degrees, are the walls of the veranda;
- Semicircular - the entrance to such a veranda is carried out only from the side of the bath.
Before developing a project for a bath with a veranda, consider the following points:
- Place the front door to the veranda or bathhouse on the south side. This way you will be able to use the sauna even during the winter months - snowdrifts will not obstruct the entrance.
- If there is a body of water in the immediate vicinity of your site, build a veranda closer to it. This saves you the hassle of designing and building an artificial pool or hot tub.
- If the veranda is made glazed and insulated, then in winter it can be used as a winter garden.
Note! A bath with a veranda should be located no further than 10 meters from the living quarters. This rule also provides that the veranda can be a connecting element between the house and the bathhouse. In this case, it is necessary to lay the foundation for 3 buildings at once.
We build the foundation
The foundation for a bath with a veranda can be of different types. The choice depends on the type of soil where the construction is being carried out, on the level of groundwater, the size of the building and the material from which the bath will be built:
- Tape - for stable ground and low groundwater occurrence.
- Column foundation - for areas where there is coarse sand, fine gravel, clay or loam.
- Base on piles - for problem soils: sandy soil or quicksand.
- Pile-screw - on peat bogs or on too damp ground.
IMPORTANT. The finished foundation must withstand at least six months, especially for large baths.
Basic building materials
For the installation of a log house, prepare the following building materials:
- chopped or rounded log (from 7500 rubles per cubic meter);
- birch pins (14-16 rubles / piece);
- mezhventsovy insulation - jute, moss, flax fiber (from 2, 8 rubles per running meter);
- timber for the sub-floor and ceiling log (from 5500 rubles per cubic meter);
- boards for a rough floor (from 7000 rubles per cubic meter).
For the roof you will need:
- timber for rafters (from 5500 rubles per cubic meter);
- board for lathing and counter battens (from 16 thousand rubles per cubic meter);
- waterproofing membrane (from 150 rubles per square);
- fasteners (10-100 rubles);
- roofing material (from 250 rubles per slate sheet).
Box construction
After the foundation is prepared, we proceed to the construction of the building. The construction of the bath takes place in several stages: laying the foundation crown, building the floor and walls, arranging windows and doors, laying the roof. We put the first crown on a larch board, it successfully resists moisture. We install floor logs, mount the subfloor. Using a simple planed log, mount the butt to the top to keep the walls level. We fasten the elements with wooden pins. We perform corner mates in a bowl (to reduce heat loss). We interlace each crown using a jute sealant.
Openings for windows and doors are made after shrinkage, after about a year.
How to make a veranda to the bath
For a veranda, a bar with a section of 150 mm is needed. Bearing crowns under the veranda are exposed, without tearing them off from the main frame, and the mates are made under its walls. The main steps are: we install the racks; immediately we do the strapping of the racks - upper, middle, lower; we fill the rough floor; we build walls (including glazing); if the veranda is planned under the same roof with the bathhouse, then we make the rafter system after the walls have shrunk.
When solving the problem of how to attach a veranda to a bathhouse, which was once built without one, it should be borne in mind that the soil under it may be different. And this means that there will be a problem of joining the main room with the extension.
Roof erection
The roof, which covers the bath with a veranda, can be gable or pitched. The first option is more complex and is used in the construction of large buildings. For work on the construction of the roof, a bar with a section of 150 mm and 50 mm is used, fasteners - brackets and anchor bolts.
Sequence of work:
- install the central part (ridge);
- we attach the rafters to the penultimate crown;
- we make gables;
- we fill the crate on the rafters;
- insert insulation into the sectors of the lathing and cover it with waterproofing;
- we carry out roofing.
IMPORTANT: The rafters are not installed immediately. The log will shrink and this can negatively affect the stability of the roof. Therefore, to avoid damage, the roof is made last. Watch a video about the features of the construction of a bath with a veranda from a bar:
In order to prevent the building from freezing, we carefully caulk outside and inside. The floors should also be insulated. At the last stage, we equip the steam room, make shelves, install a stove and special lighting.
