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Having a bathhouse at your dacha, you don’t always want to build an additional shower. It seems that there is already one building for bathing, but the bathhouse needs to be heated, and I don’t want to wait long. After gardening, you want to quickly wash yourself, and it’s easier to do it in the shower. The solution to the problem is a two-in-one structure. A built bathhouse with a shower at the dacha will allow you to take quick water procedures and take a long steam bath on cold evenings.
Tips for arranging a shower inside a bathhouse
There are many options for arranging a shower inside a bathhouse. There are no special requirements here, however, important factors are taken into account, such as: the purpose of the shower, the method of supplying and heating water. Let's say a shower is needed only for a cooling procedure after visiting the steam room. Then it’s easier to attach a wooden bucket to the wall and organize a waterfall. You can add water manually or connect a water pipe with a tap. Heating for the waterfall is not required, because this is what the contrast shower is designed for.
Those who love comfort in the bathhouse install a shower with hydromassage jets. For such a system, you will have to take care of heating the water and creating pressure using a pump.
The simplest solution is a traditional shower with a tank and a watering can. It can always be used, even when the sauna is not heated.
Regardless of the design of the shower, you need to find a place to install it. Usually this is designed before the construction of the bathhouse begins. A shower does not require much space. It can be organized in the dressing room, allocating an area measuring 1.2x1.5 m. If the bathhouse has already been built, the shower is installed in the washing compartment. In general, every corner of the building is suitable for arranging a shower compartment. Another thing is that the interior may suffer and some inconvenience will be created, but this issue is up to the owner to decide.
Summer shower inside the bathhouse
Arriving at the dacha, a person first goes to the garden to work, and in the evening he needs to immediately wash himself. It takes a long time and is unreasonable to heat a bathhouse after each excavation work. A quick wash is organized in the summer shower. In order not to install a separate cabin, the bathing compartment is installed inside the bathhouse. For water, a plastic tank is installed on the roof. A pipe is removed from it, passed through a hole in the roof of the bathhouse, a faucet with a watering can is screwed on and Summer shower ready.
The tank is filled with water from a well using a pump or buckets. To fill water in any way, you will have to provide a ladder near the bathhouse.
Comfort of a mobile sauna
Nowadays, on large summer cottages, it has become fashionable to acquire a mobile bathhouse. It is especially convenient if there is a large pond and beautiful nature nearby. In terms of its functionality, a mobile bathhouse is no different from a traditional building, only it is not built on a foundation, but, for example, on a car trailer. A simple example: a block container is used for a bathhouse. A steam room, shower, locker room and other amenities are installed inside.
With a mobile sauna it is convenient to go on vacation to the river at any time of the year.If desired, the house can be installed permanently and used in the country.
The video talks about the construction of a mobile sauna:
You can buy a factory-made mobile bathhouse that is easy to transport. They call her Mobiba. The structure consists of a tent, a collapsible frame and a stainless steel wood stove. The bathhouse is quickly assembled and disassembled. It is easy to transport in the trunk of a car. The tent is made of polyester. The awning is able to retain heat inside the bathhouse in temperatures down to -20OWITH.
The video provides an overview of the Mobib MB-12 model:
Year-round use of the shower inside the bathhouse
If the dacha plot is not rarely visited, but residential, then the bathhouse and shower are used all year round. They approach the arrangement of the washing area thoroughly. Everything is clear with the bathhouse. The water is heated on the stove, and the steam room works. Here's how to wash yourself in the shower if you don't want to heat up the whole bathhouse too much. Here you will have to worry about separate heating and water supply, as well as organizing a full-fledged drainage system. Each of these points should be considered separately.
Shower water supply
With the onset of cold weather, water for showers cannot be supplied from the summer version of the tank installed on the roof of the bathhouse. With the first frosts, the liquid will simply freeze inside the container and pipe. For year-round use of the shower, the tank is installed in the bathhouse under the ceiling near the stove. You can fill it with water manually using buckets.
If there is no room for a tank inside the bathhouse, organize a running water supply. Not every summer resident can boast of having running water, so most often they use their own well. To create pressure in the shower, you will need to install a pump.
To create pressure in the water supply system to supply water to the shower in the country, one of three types of pumps is used:
- deep well pump capable of lifting a high column of water from a deep well with a small casing diameter;
- a submersible pump is used to draw water from small reservoirs;
- a surface-type pump is installed on the ground near the well, and it is capable of creating a water column with a maximum height of 7 m.
The supplied water for showers from ponds and other storage facilities is purified using coarse and fine filters.
Heating water for shower
With the onset of cold weather, you can’t take a bath without hot water in the shower. There are several options for heating it:
- A storage tank with water is installed inside the bathhouse above the stove, and a metal smoke pipe is passed through it. When burning wood, the water will heat up, and it will be warm inside the bathhouse. A more complex diagram is shown in the photo. The stove has a built-in heater tank. The heated water from the combustion of wood rises through the pipe into the upper storage tank. The system works on the principle of home heating.
- If there is a gas main near the dacha, water for shower can be heated using a gas water heater. The appropriate option here is to bathe directly under running hot water or pump it into a tank for further analysis. The first option is more convenient due to the absence of the need to install a storage device inside the bath.
- Heating water for showers with electricity is organized using an electric boiler. The water is heated inside the storage tank from the heating element. Temperature regulation is controlled automatically.Another way to heat water for a shower can be organized using an instantaneous water heater. It does not require storage capacity. The water is heated by passing through a powerful heater.
Using electric shower heaters can be dangerous due to the possibility of electric shock. It is important to ensure reliable grounding and connect devices correctly.
Shower drainage
To drain water from the bathhouse, a pit is provided under the floor. It is usually concreted or an airtight container is installed. Dirty water enters the pit through the cracks of the ladder, and from it is sent through a pipeline to the sewer or drainage pit.
The water from the shower should be sent to the same pit. The best option is to pour a concrete floor in the shower compartment and lay out tiles. At the lowest point of the floor, install a funnel with a pipe leading to the pit. The top of the funnel is covered with a decorative mesh. In the shower, anything can fall on the floor, such as soap or a washcloth. The mesh on the drain hole will prevent the drain from clogging.
In the video there is a shower organized inside the bathhouse:
Conclusion
A shower installed inside a bathhouse is not a luxury item. This is what many household summer residents do, saving money and space on a small plot to install a separate shower stall.
