Door for the bath and sauna do it yourself

The one who builds a bath is always faced with a problem, which doors to choose. Of course, you can buy the door to the bath and buy, but it is quite realistic to make it and with your own hands, there would be necessary materials and desire.

Types of doors

Bath and sauna consist of several rooms, and to isolate each other, you need a door. At least they need two: the entrance and the one that separates the steam room from the rest room. Ideally, the doors still need to put in the pre-banker and in the washing. There are several types of doors:

1. The door is deaf from the tree - it consists of a canvas, which is made of headboards with a clapboard. These doors are most often single-one. The two-frame doors make it harder, to make them only by professionals, but they are wonderful to keep warm.
2. Doors for a bath of glass - they are most often installed in the saunas, but sometimes they are found in the baths. Yet experts believe that they are not suitable for baths. Yes, and buy wooden is much cheaper than glass doors for the sauna, which are made of not simple, and from refractory glass. This door will not completely independently work. Of the advantages - this door fits greatly into the interior.
3. The door is combined - it is suitable for those who like both glass doors, and from wood, because it combines two of these material. From the tree consists of the bottom of the door and frame, and from the glass - the top.

Manufacturing door strapping

Starting work on the construction of a bath door, you need to take into account that it will stand in very unfavorable for wood conditions - at high temperature and humidity. And to save heat, doors sizes must be reduced. Good is the door with dimensions 550x1650 mm. For the construction of the door you will need:

• pine board 0.36x12 cm - for the canvas;
• bar 6.5x8 cm - for strapping;
• lining 1.2x9.6 cm - for trim.

To make a strapping, you need to perform such actions:

1. Using a manual milling machine, you need to make grooves in the brushes in the size of the profile. First make a draft version and give tolerance by 2 mm to the side, it will be needed for milling on the chisty dimensions.
2. The length should be cut off with hacksaw horizontal profiles and to dock them with vertical profiles at two ends, you need to make seats.
3. Cut the vertical strapping profile.
4. Collect the frame, modify the markup and make the grooves by the mill in the final version.
5. Collect once again, looking at the corners to be 90 degrees, and measure the size of the seats in the landing places with the door web.

Production of door web

To make a canvas of the door from the tree to the sauna or bath you need to perform a number of such actions:

1. Using the ruble, remove the spike from the extreme plate.
2. Put the board on a flat plane, such as a workbench or table and collect the cloth together. The canvas will consist of boards and they are going on the principle of "spike in the groove", starting with the first prepared. In the finished form, the collected canvas need to be in width more doors about one board.
3. Pencil on the door canvase make markers from the starting board to the width that is in the end is needed. Leave a small tolerance for finishing processing. The size of the canvas must coincide with the size of the strapping frame.
4. Last board cut the saw along. And you can begin the final assembly of the canvas: fix on the table the bar exactly, and it will collect the canvas for it so that the spike fall into the groove. Before it, spikes and grooves are treated with PVA glue.
5. After installing the last board, you need to fix the support bars to the table. And wooden wedges to pull your board to each other. That the plane remains flat, you need to put it on a flat sheet of particle board and preload clamps.
6. When the glue dries, you need to check the build quality. If the gaps can be seen, they need to gently close the sawdust, mixed with glue. Using the plane and sandpaper, remove all irregularities from the canvas.
7. Now you need to draw the necessary dimensions on the canvas, it is necessary to repel from the outer edge of the extreme boards and the ends that are connected to the support plate.
8. Circular saw cut the cloth on the markup, and edges pollute the skin.
9. Make a symmetrical veneer around the perimeter. With the help of a milling and basic planks, fasten the processed side of the door. The planks are installed so that they were lying in the vertical plane. And the upper brinks must be in one parallel with the web and serve as a support for the mill.
10. After processing one side, all the same manipulations need to be carried out on the other hand. Only the width of the spike should be slightly larger, so that when landing in the strapping it could be modified.

Cleaning linen

The sheath of the canvas can be made by different options. Sometimes during the installation of the strapping, and sometimes in this way:

1. The blank of the lining should be taken longer than the line that passes at an angle of 45 degrees from one side of the canvas to the other. The billet is attached to the canvas with self-draws. Gradually cover everything with a canvas of lining boards.
2. On the trim, outlines the contour so that the cropped ends were hidden, and the strapping and lining did not interfere with each other.
3. From top to bottom to numbered each lining, then disassemble and trim through the planned lines of hacksaw. Repeat technology and on the back of the canvas.
4. Cropped blanks put in place, each element is attached to the cloth with three screws at an angle of 45 degrees.
5. Extreme boards secure from above using self-tapping screws so that the heads are not visible under the strapping. And a crack appears in the groove, it needs to be sewed on a half a million more than the diameter of the self-drawing itself.

Build door assembly

Build wooden doors for a bath consists of mounting the strapping around the canvas:

1. From all sides you need to insert the blanks in the spikes of the canvas, it is necessary to do this without a gap and with a small tension. If necessary, you need to mill or thorns, or the groove. The main thing is that there is no lumen between them.
2. Check the quality of the assembly and start the last step: to process all the docking places with PVA glue and secure the strapping with self-drawing. Self-tapping screws should not interfere with the installation of door loops, so they need to be tightly embedded in the canvas and withstand a step of 20 cm. Next you need to make all the elements of the corners.
3. To make it possible to disassemble the door to repair, the bottom profile does not need to glue.

For the finish processing, the door will need an abrasive skin, the grain of it must be medium and small. You need to walk especially thoroughly in the corners, remove all irregularities on the plane, and sharp areas roundate. As a result, the door should turn out to be smooth and feel pleasant. The edges can be treated with special milling mills on hand milling. Now the door can be decorated to taste or planks to your taste. When the door is installed in the doorway, then the handle can be attached.

Useful advice

1. To cover the door with lining there are many variations, it all depends on the design of your bath. It can be positioned by a horizontally or christmas tree, or a combined way. Based on how the door to sow the door may, you will need to install a few more decorative slats on the end parts of the lining.
2. In the assembled form, genital boards usually have small longitudinal gaps located on the back side. Thanks to them, it is possible to firmly fit the boards so that there is no gap on the face surface. To eliminate these weaknesses, you need to pour sawdust with glue into the gaps.
3. For the manufacture of the door, take the wood of one tree of wood. Well suited for this linden or black alder. It is necessary in order for when heating or a sharp temperature difference occurs, the door is not deformed. Because different wood species react differently to such adverse circumstances. If, for example, the door leaf consists of pine, and all other elements from the linden, but at the same time it is closed with a trim, and the pair does not cause damage to it directly, then the differences can not pay attention to such a difference.
4. The quality of the material should be treated with all seriousness if you take lumber, then they should not have any explicit defects or through bitch. You can allow their presence in the doorway for the bath and that, only because it is closed with a trim.
5. If you have nowhere to buy headboards or not possible, you can connect them to a quiet sample, it is possible to do this with a manual millingrer.
6. If you do not have such tools such as a disk saw or a mill, you can successfully replace the chisels and hacksaw. True, it will be true longer tinted with materials. Therefore, if you have already decided to build such a design like a steam room and make the door to a bath with your own hands, it is better to still buy good electrical tools so that in vain does not waste your effort and time.
7. So that the door served as long as possible, you need to process it with a olphoi or another good antiseptic. Special attention should be paid to the lower part of the door, because the door, as a rule, begins to collapse below.