Where to start construction?
The construction of a bathhouse with your own hands is divided into several stages. Before purchasing the necessary materials, you need to think about the layout of the structure (size of rooms, presence of doors, windows, location of furniture, switches and sockets). The next important stage of preparation is drawing up a plan for the work to be performed. Then you need to choose the type of equipment, tools, and draw up a cost estimate.
The first and most important stage is drawing up a design for a bathhouse, which depends on the dimensions of the garage. A standard one-story garage has an area of 24 m2. The minimum size of a Russian bathhouse designed for 1–2 people is 8 m2. This room includes a steam room with a stone stove, a toilet, a shower, a locker room with a locker and benches, and a relaxation room.
To save space, the sauna can be designed like the letter “L” or a second floor can be built for it. But this is only possible in a brick garage, since the unstable iron walls will not support the additional weight.
Some craftsmen set up a bathhouse in the garage basement. To do this, you will need to treat the walls with a special antiseptic that will prevent the formation of bacteria in the space between the insulation and the wall.
Before starting construction, you need to clean the room from dirt and dust, pay attention to the front door, floor, and partitions. If they are, it is better to remove them to facilitate further redevelopment.
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- 1 room
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Bath Slavyanka project
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- 53.5² Total area
- 8 x 7m Construction area
from RUB 722,250
Construction period 35 days
- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Project of log bathhouse 4x6 m
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- 4 x 6m Building area
from 190,000 rub.
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- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Bathhouse project BBm-6
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- 38² Total area
- 4 x 6m Building area
from 513,000 rub.
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- 1 room
- 2 bathrooms
Bathhouse project BD-63, Kozino
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- 63.4² Total area
- 9 x 9m Construction area
from 977,000 rub.
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- 1 room
- 2 bathrooms
Project Banya Orange 8.5*10.9
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- 83² Total area
- 9 x 11m Construction area
from RUB 964,813
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- 1 room
- 2 bathrooms
Sangria Baths Project
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- 75.5² Total area
- 11 x 10m Construction area
from RUR 1,019,250
Construction period 40 days
- 1 room
Sanduny Baths Project
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- 17² Total area
- 4 x 6m Building area
from 320,000 rub.
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Barrel sauna project “Super-Lux”
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- 2 x 5m Building area
from 184,900 rub.
Construction time 1 day
- 2 rooms
- 1 bathroom
Clementine Baths Project
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- 120.04² Total area
- 12 x 7m Construction area
from RUR 1,620,540
Construction period 64 days
Log bathhouse project AR-027
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- 17² Total area
- 5 x 4m Building area
from 229,500 rub.
Construction period 90 days
- 2 rooms
- 1 bathroom
Acapella Baths Project
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- 70.62² Total area
- 6 x 7m Construction area
from 953,370 rub.
Construction period 35 days
- 3 rooms
- 1 bathroom
Bani Sloboda project
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- 75² Total area
- 9 x 10m Construction area
from 1,040,000 rub.
Construction period 30 days
- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Project AS-2000-6
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- 48.4² Total area
from 653,400 rub.
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- 1 room
- 2 bathrooms
Bani Khvoynaya project
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- 66² Total area
- 9 x 9m Construction area
from 891,000 rub.
Construction period 35 days
- 1 bathroom
Log bathhouse project BO-028
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- 36² Total area
- 6 x 8m Construction area
from 486,000 rub.
Construction period 90 days
- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Olympia Baths Project
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- 32² Total area
- 6 x 8m Construction area
from 550,000 rub.
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- 1 room
- 2 bathrooms
Bani Frog Project
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- 64² Total area
- 8 x 8m Construction area
from 1,140,300 rub.
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Project Baths Anastasia
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- 25.5² Total area
- 5 x 4m Building area
from 355,000 rub.
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- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Bathhouse project No. 15006
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- 43² Total area
- 5 x 11m Construction area
from RUR 1,806,313
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- 1 room
- 1 bathroom
Project AS-2002-14
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- 76² Total area
from 1,026,000 rub.
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When planning to acquire a place for a car on your property, you need to know that in addition to the garage, it can be supplemented with another useful building and the optimal solution will not always be a utility block - it could be, for example, a bathhouse. One of the advantages of this solution is that there is no need to allocate additional space for a new building. Bathhouses and garages can be built in one building, placing them under one roof. Design features of such projects, as well as recommendations for the selection of materials, can be found in this article.
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Ventilation system installation
A bathhouse is not only a room for steaming, but also a place of increased danger, since high humidity, accumulating gases, and rotting products can harm health and provoke corrosion. To avoid negative consequences, it is necessary to create a ventilation system that ensures the penetration of fresh air.
It should be taken into account that a bathhouse built in an ordinary garage needs to draw up a diagram (path) for the passage of air masses into the premises, ensuring the interaction of heating with ventilation. For uniform heating of bath rooms, it is better to install exhaust ventilation from below, so that hot air circulates not only at the top.
The air outlet should be located around the steam room, providing the largest volume of vortex flows, which will reduce costs for heating materials.
Insulation of the interior
When building a garage steam room, you need to take care of additional insulation of the room. The bathhouse cannot be warm enough only due to the walls of the garage. Therefore, you need to create a sealed “thermos” that guarantees heat retention in the bathhouse (up to two days). The insulation consists of several layers:
- foam plastic or mineral wool
- vapor barriers;
- foil cardboard;
- strips to secure the structure (it is necessary to leave a 5 mm wide gap between the trim and the foil cardboard).
The insulation is secured with a construction stapler or overlapping wood screws. The joints are sealed with double-sided adhesive tape. After insulating the walls, you need to take care of the floors. After cleaning and repeated application of penetrating primer, they are insulated in the same way as the entire structure, only instead of foil cardboard, construction film is used to prevent rotting of the insulation.
The gate or common entrance door also needs to be insulated or replaced if it is not airtight.
Thermal insulation of garage
The garage should be insulated both outside and inside. One way to insulate a garage quickly, with the least amount of effort and minimal financial losses, is to use polystyrene foam.
Insulation from outside
There are several rules for insulating a building with foam sheets:
- The thickness of the foam must be greater than or equal to 50 mm;
- Sheets of foam plastic must be installed in a checkerboard pattern (with a shift along the seam in each subsequent row);
- Polystyrene foam is a soft and crumbly material, so a reinforced mesh should be glued on top of it;
- The installed mesh must be puttied with a cement-sand mixture; it is better to choose a ratio of components of about 1:3 (one part cement to three parts sand);
- The facade should be painted with water-based paint to protect it from external humidity.
Insulation from the inside
The inside of the future bathhouse can be insulated, as well as the outside, with polystyrene foam or use mineral wool, which is used for thermal insulation of conventional baths. It is better to insulate metal garages from the inside in two layers: this will significantly reduce heat transfer in the cold season.
Insulation of external walls
To reliably retain heat, you should additionally insulate the garage from the outside. This rule is especially relevant for structures made of metal. In this case, special panels are used for external insulation. A brick garage can be insulated with polystyrene foam. Foam panels are mounted from bottom to top. Procedure:
- A special strip is attached to the bottom of the brick, from which further installation will be carried out, glue is applied to the brick and foam is laid.
- The foam is secured with long dowels.
- A reinforcing mesh and a layer of plaster are applied to hold the mesh in place.
- Finish plaster is applied on top, which can be painted.
If a brick garage has a solid foundation, then the building will support a steam room in the form of an additional extension on top. An externally and internally insulated building will allow you to combine a garage space with a bathhouse.
Selection of materials
Existing projects of combined building structures provide many options for the materials used. Modern bathhouses with utility departments are built from:
- Brick . This building material is considered one of the most durable. But since such a structure is quite heavy, the brick bathhouse project requires the organization of a reliable foundation.
- Breven . A classic Russian bathhouse is built from natural wood – a log frame. This sauna has the maximum beneficial effect on the human body. But in addition to the high cost of this building material, highly qualified builders are required so as not to negate all the advantages of log construction.
- Treated wooden beam . The same effect is achieved as in the previous case, but the total cost of a set of building materials in this case is much lower and the construction technology is much simpler. You may also be interested in the technology for constructing a one-story bathhouse from timber.
And finally, the construction of frame bath projects. Such buildings are erected in the shortest possible time - if you have a set of building materials, the necessary hand tools and a team of two or three people, one summer month is enough.
And although the cost of such a structure is slightly higher than the cost of a building made from processed timber, they have an undoubted advantage - high energy efficiency, which will lead to significant savings in energy resources in the winter.
Interior
After completing the preparatory work, the construction of the steam room itself begins. A beautiful and high-quality interior appearance of the bathhouse is very important. For the interior decoration of the steam room, you need to use natural environmental materials - wooden panels, masonry.
Due to the increased humidity of the room, evaporated emissions will constantly enter the body and onto the skin, so exposure to chemicals must be avoided. Spruce, pine, oak, linden, ash, and larch are suitable for wall decoration. The use of birch, linden, and alder should be avoided, since these tree species are deformed when exposed to moisture.
Drainage device
A frame garage steam room, like a full-fledged bath complex, must be equipped with a water drainage system. Garage cooperatives usually do not have centralized drainage and water supply. Therefore, you need to make a drainage hole, which will be located below the water supply (well, column).
When the pit is ready, you need to combine it with the sauna using a special ditch, through which an insulated drainage pipe perforated with small holes will pass.
Garage steam oven
The stove is the center of the steam room, its heart. It creates heat in the sauna, if positioned correctly, in the garage. Experts advise installing a natural wood-burning stove. The fireplace is installed on a concrete base, so if you decide to use a wood-burning stove, you need to fill the frame in advance.
Using an electric oven is dangerous because the fireplace is connected to electrical wiring and due to the high humidity there is a risk of electric shock. In this case, you need to use special insulating cords coated with a thermal protective layer. This rule applies to all electrical wiring.
Finishing work
The sauna in the garage is equipped only with the use of natural wood, which has not been treated with any chemical impregnations or antiseptics, since under prolonged exposure to high temperatures they begin to release various toxic substances. Based on this, protecting wood from moisture is carried out only with the use of natural antiseptics !
To build a bathhouse in a garage under a single roof, it is recommended to use durable and strong wood species. These include:
We do not recommend finishing the interior of a bathhouse using wood species such as linden, birch and alder - moisture has a strong effect on them, and over time the material will begin to warp.
Finally, the ventilation holes are improved, benches and an electric stove are placed. If you are going to use a wood-burning stove for combustion, then before starting work it is recommended to think through the location of the chimney in detail.
