A poured bucket for a bath is a simple and affordable type of font, which is easy to translate into reality with your own hands. Read about the necessary materials, prices and methods of manufacturing and installation in this article. Content:
- Features of use
- Bucket design
- Installation Requirements
- Bucket with plastic liner
- Wood bucket
- Water supply
Today, a bucket-changer for a bath is easy to find in specialized retail outlets. But given the average prices for doused buckets, most owners decide to make the mechanism with their own hands. Consider the process of making a structure with your own hands.
Features of using a dousing bucket in a bath
The list of bathing pleasures is incredibly wide. An honorable place among them is the process of cooling a hot body in a cold reservoir, a snowdrift or under an invigorating drenching bucket. All these procedures not only give physical pleasure and acuteness of sensations, but also provide invaluable benefits to the body: they accelerate blood circulation, tone the skin, cleanse toxins and toxins. In a word, they strengthen and rejuvenate the body.
It is good to have cold water diving facilities in or near your bath. Otherwise, we recommend that you make a douche bucket and enjoy all the delights of a primordial Russian bath.
The bath bucket is a modernized improved version of the wood bucket, movably mounted on the wall of the washing room. This is a kind of container of considerable size, which instantly throws cold water onto the head of the visitor who pulls the cord or chain. In terms of functionality and similarity of form, such a device has acquired several more popular names. For example, a waterfall bucket for a bath or a flip-flop bucket.
On a note! For the first time, the primitive form of such a bucket was invented by ancient Russian bath attendants. At that time, birch bark or a solid log was used for manufacturing, from which the middle was hollowed out. Only over time, barrels began to create them, using smoothly planed dies and metal rims.
Bath bucket design
Regardless of what material was used to create the pouring mechanism, its design will always be the same. The bucket for pouring into the bath consists of the following components:
- Brackets for fixing the vessel to the wall;
- A wooden or other container for water;
- Water level control systems supplied from the water supply system;
- Rope, with the help of which the bucket is tipped over if necessary.
In fact, the design is both ingenious and simple. Even a novice master can create one. There are many options for execution, among which the manufacture of a bucket from wood is considered the most problematic. The finished product will need special care, but at the same time it will look more aesthetically pleasing than all other options.
Some inconveniences of a wooden bucket are associated with the need to fill it with water in advance. The bucket must swell, otherwise cold water will simply ooze through the cracks. At the same time, it is impossible to leave the container filled regularly. Over time, the wood will become covered with mucus, and the water will become cloudy and start to stink. The solution to the problem can be a plastic insert mounted in a wooden vessel. It will help to avoid unwanted hassle of caring for the system, while leaving the appearance of the structure completely presentable.
Requirements for installing a dousing bucket in a bath
If the size of the pouring bucket can be chosen personally by the owner of the bath (large and tall or small and wide), then its location must certainly meet special requirements. In most cases, the inverted bucket is installed in the washing room: water is supplied there, and the drain system is established. Although the presence of a water supply system is not at all a prerequisite for the functioning of the "Russian soul". Water can be brought to the container using a flexible hose or simply filled in by hand, standing on a bench.
Sometimes the douche bucket is mounted directly on the street near the bath itself. This option allows you to collect and use useful rainwater for good purposes. But it is worth remembering that a drainage system on the street is needed no less than inside.
The most difficult stage of installing a bucket in a bath is a competent determination of the required height. For people of average height, the recommended height is 2 or 2, 2 m. For tall owners, it is worth putting a mark at 2, 6–2, 8 m. In any case, a person should be placed under the douche bucket with arms outstretched to the top. Do not forget that the vessel will turn over. Therefore, it is worth adding the height of the bucket itself to the planned mark.
The calculation of the level for a person with an average height indicator will look like this: 170 cm (height) + 40 cm (outstretched arms) + 40 cm (tank height) = 2.5 m. Regardless of the choice of place for installing the bucket, the mount should be strong and durable enough. Please note that the fasteners must be able to support at least 60 kg! In the traditional version, the container is fastened to the wall with metal brackets (even stainless ones are better). To create a movable connection, special ears can be welded to the tank barrels. And even easier - to install a stainless steel rod, passing through through a wooden boat.
Pouring bucket for a bath with a plastic liner
You can make a douche bucket in the most primitive way, accessible even to people who have not previously had any business with wood. To do this, it is not necessary to get acquainted with the basics of cooperage and learn how to use special tools.
A couple of simple steps will help you quickly make a wooden container that costs a lot of money on the shelves:
- First, pick up an ordinary plastic bucket of the most successful color. For example, white or azure blue. Water in such a container will look very advantageous.
- Next, remove the handle and any other items from the bucket. You don't need them at all. Do not rush to throw them away, perhaps they will be useful on the farm in the future.
- Prepare 25–30 not too wide sanded wood planks. Their exact number depends directly on the size of the plastic bucket.
- Using a super strong glue, attach the strips to the outer walls of the plastic container, simulating a wooden bucket. Coat the joints with transparent silicone.
- Cover the "wooden" container with a suitable varnish and reinforce it even more with metal rings.
The wooden bucket with a plastic insert is ready. Outwardly, it is difficult to distinguish it from natural, while inside it meets all the requirements.
Pouring bucket for a bath made of wood
This method of creating a wooden bucket will be more to the taste of those who have previously dealt with the processing and use of wood. For a high-quality pouring device, you will need a piece of iron strip for two rims (about 3-5 cm wide) and a grade 1 board 1 cm thick. As a result, we get a 10 liter bucket with a height of 40 cm.
The manufacturing process is a little more complicated than in the previous method, but the result, respectively, is much better and more aesthetically pleasing:
- Prepare a template for the bottom parts and rivets (side strips).
- Saw the existing board into parts corresponding to the riveting template. Work them thoroughly with a plane and scherhebel.
- Bring every detail to a state similar to the template. That is, carefully cut off the excess, giving the rivets a slightly trapezoidal shape.
- On each rivet, mark the outside. At an angle of 3 degrees, cut the ends so that when the planks are connected together, a circle is obtained.
- Also, on each rivet, make a 4 mm depression 4 cm from the bottom edge. Such a recess is necessary to install the bottom of the container.
- Make your first fitting. Collect all the parts in a heap, picking them up with metal wire. Number all the rivets. Determine the size of the bottom part.
- Using a template, cut out a piece for the bottom. Cut the top and bottom of the ends, forming a circle, so that the diameter is 1 cm less than the initially measured one.
- Measure with a margin and cut a piece of metal strip for the lower rim. Use a hammer to give it the required round shape. At both ends, make holes and rivets for them (with a five wire).
- From the pieces of metal strips, make two tight clamps.
- Attach two opposite rivets to the rim, securing them with clamps. Next, insert all the other parts, tightening them up as needed. Thus, completely fill the entire clearing on one and the other half of the bucket.
- Place the workpiece in its natural position and install the bottom piece.
- Measure the top girth of the bucket and make a second rim 10 cm from the top.
- Sharpen and file the product if protruding places are visible anywhere.
Bringing water to the dousing bucket in the bath
A factory douche bucket is usually sold already equipped with a water level control system. In most cases, the principle of its operation is identical to the system in the cistern. In fact, the system for supplying water to the douche bucket is as simple as the design of the mechanism itself. The pipe is brought into the room at the height of the container. The crane crashes at the level of one and a half meters from the floor.
A rubber, plastic hose or stainless steel braided tube is connected to the pipe itself. A water level control system (if any) is connected to its second edge. In most cases, it is similar to mechanisms installed in toilet cisterns. This completes the simple process of supplying water and connecting the pouring bucket.
The technology for making a wooden bucket for a bath is presented in the video:
The bath bucket is ready! You can ignore small cracks, as the wood will swell on contact with water. It remains only to bring water to the selected place in the bath.
