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You can't live without a toilet in your dacha. The shower is a similarly no less important structure that ensures the comfort of a country stay. Typically, owners install separate booths, but they take up scarce space in a small area. If buildings are reduced in size, then the comfort of use decreases, but a changing room must also be located inside the shower. The way out of the situation is a wooden shower for a summer residence, combined with toilet.
What is a 2 in 1 country house, its advantages and design
The photo shows a classic scheme of a combined toilet and shower. In simple words, it is a large wooden cabin, divided into two compartments by an internal partition. Building such a structure for a summer cottage out of wood is no more difficult than a regular shower or toilet stall.
In the next photo you can see the finished structure and diagram of a country house building containing a shower, toilet and utility room.It doesn’t matter how many compartments the garden house will be made of, but it is built from homogeneous material and decorated in the same style. For the construction of such dacha structures with your own hands, wood is best suited, and the roof is covered with corrugated sheeting.
The main advantage of a combined toilet with a wooden summer shower for a summer house is the saving of space and materials. Individual cabins of country buildings are not scattered chaotically throughout the entire territory, and by combining the walls and roof, construction materials are significantly saved.
So, we need to design a shower and toilet for the country house. The photo shows a finished wooden house with two compartments, as well as its drawing. The dimensions of each room should ensure a comfortable stay for a person. Let's immediately focus on the height of the country house, which is a minimum of 2 m and a maximum of 2.5 m. The optimal width and depth of each cabin depends on the physique of the owners. The fatter the person, the more spacious the compartment needs to be. The approximate dimensions of one cabin are 2 x 1.3 m. Here it is time to remember that at the dacha we need a shower with a dressing room, so an additional space of about 0.6 m is provided for it.
When a wooden shower and toilet in one building are being designed for a dacha, you immediately need to think about the sewage system. The simplest option is a cesspool, which will collect sewage from both structures. However, such a sewer will emit a bad odor and penetrate into the shower stall.
There are two ways to make a hygienic toilet and abandon the cesspool at your dacha:
- Install a powder closet. This type of toilet involves collecting waste in a storage container installed under the toilet seat.After each visit, the waste is covered with peat, where it is eventually processed into compost.
- Install a dry closet. A similar solution to the problem involves installing a separate tank where waste is processed using reagents.
And the last important issue when drawing up a project is the supply of water and electricity. For a country shower, you will need to install a container on the roof into which water will be pumped. It is advisable to install lights inside the booths so that you can use the establishments after dark. It is optimal to make a shower for a summer house heated by electricity. This will make it possible to take water procedures during the cold season.
Choosing a place to install a country shower and toilet
The choice of location for an outdoor bathroom is stipulated by the rules of SNiP. If wastewater from a toilet and shower in a dacha will be collected in a cesspool, then it must be removed from water sources at least 20 m, and from a residential building - at least 5 m. The photo shows a diagram with the specified parameters, in accordance with the requirements of SNiP. If instead of a cesspool at the dacha, a powder-closet system or a dry closet is used, then these requirements may not be adhered to due to the lack of contact of sewage with the ground.
Then the building is installed on the highest part of the yard, and a hole is dug in the lowland. This will allow the pipeline to slope to allow sewage to move by gravity.
Instructions for constructing a country shower and toilet
So, the project and materials are ready, the place has been chosen, it’s time to build a dacha structure with your own hands. We have already decided that Summer shower In the dacha, the toilet will also be made of wood. There are no problems with installing a dry closet or powder closet. All you have to do is buy a factory-made bathroom, place it inside the cabin, and you can use it. However, we do everything with our own hands, which means we’ll consider a country house option with a cesspool.
After choosing a location on the site, we begin construction work:
- First thing for country toilet with shower install a cesspool. The pit is dug deep from 1.5 to 2 m. The dimensions of the side walls are usually 1x1 m, 1.5x1 m or 1.5x1.5 m. If a toilet for a summer house is built over a cesspool, then it is better to make the pit rectangular with the sides of the walls 1x1.5 m. This will make it possible to organize a hatch behind the house for pumping out sewage.
- Inside a red brick pit dug with your own hands, the walls are laid with cement mortar. If it is a sealed container, then the bottom is concreted, and the brick walls inside and outside are treated with bitumen. For the drainage pit, the brickwork is made with windows to absorb water into the ground. The bottom is covered with a drainage layer of sand and crushed stone. The total thickness of the filter pad is 500 mm.
- Now it's time to make a columnar foundation. It should be taken into account that we are building a country toilet and a wooden shower in one house, so we place the holes for the foundation according to the diagram shown in the photo. This ensures the greatest strength of the above-ground structure.
- To install the pillars, dig holes with a diameter of 200 mm and a depth of at least 800 mm.A layer of sand 100 mm thick is first poured into the bottom of the pits, and then the same layer of crushed stone. Formwork is made from tin or plywood inside each hole, four reinforcement bars are inserted vertically inside, and then filled with concrete. In height, each pillar should protrude 300 mm from the ground.
- After the concrete has completely hardened, the formwork is removed, and the gaps between the pillars and the walls of the holes are filled with soil. Now all the pillars need to be given the same level so that the country house with toilet and shower stands level. The level is taken from the lowest pillar. A mark is placed on high concrete supports, after which the excess part is cut off with a grinder and a diamond wheel.
- At the next stage, you make a drain from the country shower with your own hands. A plastic pipe with an elbow with a diameter of 50 mm is laid on the floor and taken outside the cabin into a cesspool.
- The construction of the frame of a country house for a shower and toilet begins with the lower frame. The frame is made with your own hands from timber with a cross-section of 100x100 mm, then it is laid on a columnar foundation. If the cesspool is located under the toilet, then it is better to weld the frame from a metal channel.
- The frame of the lower frame of the country shower and toilet is leveled in the same plane. Pieces of roofing felt are laid between the wooden elements and concrete pillars for waterproofing. To prevent the shower and toilet from moving off the foundation, the frame is fixed to the pillars with anchor bolts.
- To erect the walls of a country house, it is necessary to install frame posts. They are made from timber with a cross section of 50x100 mm. The racks are installed strictly vertically at the corners of the frame every 400 mm. Additional racks are placed on door and window openings. They are attached to the bottom trim using metal corners and bolts.If the lower frame of the shower with toilet is made of channel, one side of the mounting angle can be welded to it. The distance between the pillars of the doorway is maintained at least 700 mm.
- After installing all the racks, make the top trim of the frame from timber with a section of 100x100 mm. To strengthen the frame, the vertical posts can be reinforced with bevels.
- The roof of a country house with a toilet and shower can be made single-pitch or gable. The first option is easier to manufacture, and the water tank for the shower is easier to install.
- The gable roof of a country shower with toilet looks aesthetically pleasing, accumulates less precipitation, but is more difficult to manufacture. When attaching the shower tank, things are more complicated due to the construction of additional supports.
- In any case, for the roof of a dacha building you will have to make rafters from boards with a section of 100x40 mm. In length, each foot of the foot should protrude beyond the house by 200 mm. The finished rafters are attached to the beam of the upper frame in increments of 600 mm. They are fastened together with sheathing boards at intervals of 300 mm.
- The roof for the country shower and toilet is made cold. A layer of roofing felt is laid on top of the sheathing and corrugated sheeting is laid. The sheets are secured with galvanized self-tapping screws with an O-ring. In the case of covering the gable roof of a country shower with a toilet with corrugated sheets, a ridge strip is installed on the upper ridge.
- When the roof is ready, the dacha building is not in danger of rain, and you can gradually move on to arranging the floor in the toilet. First, the logs are laid and secured to the bottom frame frame. Racks and horizontal lintels are attached to logs made of timber with a cross-section of 50x50 mm, forming a toilet seat. The entire structure and floor are sheathed with 25 mm thick boards.
- The next stage involves covering the entire country house with boards 20 mm thick.If the shower and toilet are insulated, then foam boards are inserted from the inside between the vertical posts. You can sew up the insulation from the inside of the toilet with the same board, but in the shower it is better to use PVC lining. It is resistant to moisture and does not rot. The same cladding is done on the ceiling.
- After finishing the outer and inner cladding of the country house, they move on to arranging the floor in the shower. The sewer pipe has already been installed during the construction of the foundation; now it is time to organize the drainage. The soil inside the shower stall is covered with black film. Only the plastic outlet from the sewer pipe should stick out of it, where a drain funnel will be formed.
- The film in the shower is covered with a layer of sand on top, then crushed stone and concreted. Moreover, the screed is aligned so that there is a drain towards the funnel.
- After the concrete screed has hardened, the shower floor is treated with waterproofing mastic. A tray with large slits is made from slats so that water penetrates through them to the drain hole. The grated tray is installed on the floor of the shower stall.
Finally, all that remains is to fence off the space for clothes inside the shower stall with a polyethylene curtain. This will be the locker room.
Water supply to the shower stall
The final step in the construction of a country shower combined with a toilet is the installation of a water tank. On a flat roof, under the container, you can knock down a stand from a timber and bolt it through the corrugated sheet to the rafters.
It is difficult to install a tank on a gable roof, so it is better to weld a high stand from the profile near the country shower. For stability, it will have to be concreted in the ground.
Plumbing and electricity are connected to the tank to heat the water during the cold season.The heating element and the metal stand itself near the shower are grounded for safety.
In the video you can see an example of a country shower and toilet:
You can build a country shower and toilet with your own hands. Even if it takes more than one day, the main thing is that the construction is comfortable and reliable.
