Most agrees that the bath near the wall has a normal view, the detached bath with its elegant bends looks beautiful, but the built-in bath looks gorgeous. Visually bath in the podium increases the bathroom space. And the bath embedded in the floor resembles a small pool. Such a bathroom is incredibly convenient to use, as you are getting rid of stepping through the side.
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Built-in bath: installation options
Before you take a bold solution to set home the built-in bath, you need to clearly determine which installation option you will prefer. It is worth watching ready-made incarnations and choose a project that suits your family and realize to implement in your home. Since it is not possible to mount the built-in bath in all homes, you should familiarize yourself with possible difficulties that you can impede. We will try to help you with this by providing information and photographic materials.
So, the built-in baths differ in the method and installation site. There are three installation methods:
- Full embedding in the floor when it is on the same level with the top edging bath. This method of installation is taken into account in advance when planning at home. Otherwise, you have to break or disassemble the base of the floor.
- Embedding in the podium. For this method of installation, it is desirable to choose a bath with a frame included. Variation of installation in the podium is to embed in a niche.
- The bottom of the bath is embedded in the floor, and the podium is erected to hide the top of the bath.
The installation site of the built-in bath usually depends on its shape:
- rectangular, square or oval baths are embedded in the middle of the room or near the wall;
- round baths are beautifully looking, if built into the middle of the bathroom; Although option is possible and near the wall (windows);
- corner baths, as seen from the title should be built only in the corner of the room.
Of course, all this is just the general rules. So to speak, the classic of the genre. Nothing prevents you from choosing your, non-standard alternative to the installation of an embedded bath. Perhaps it is your development that will become a new design discovery. In any case, we advise you to create a detailed plan for the location of the bath and all furniture in the bathroom. Better, if this plan is in 3D projections and in color execution.
You decided to buy an embedded bath: what kind of choose?
The material from which the bath is made will determine the method of its installation. Not all materials allow you to use a bath for embedding. We present to your attention a brief analysis, which material is most suitable for embedded baths.
- Classic bath - cast iron. The advantage of such baths is their strength and resistance of enamel to abrasive detergents. The disadvantage is a big weight. Since the podium for the bath also has a lot weighs, the combination of cast iron and the podium will be irrational.
- Steel bath. Dignity - quickly heats up. The disadvantage - if the bath is poorly fixed in the podium frame, it can deform a little. This will not affect the integrity of the bath, but the enamel will give cracks quickly.
- Acrylic baths are known for their bizarre forms. The plasticity of this material allows you to create various design variations. Light weight acrylic bath perfectly compensates for the severity of the podium. The disadvantage of acrylic bath is its weak resistance to abrasives and scratches.
- Kvaril is a new material, an improved variation of acrylic with the addition of quartz sand. The kvaril combines the strength of cast iron and the ease of acrylic. Such a bath is somewhat heavier acrylic, but more resistant to external mechanical impacts.
- Artificial or natural stone. The view of this bath is too chic to embed such beauty in the podium. Yes, and the weight of natural stone is not small. But if you still decide to embed such a bath, know that the advantages of such a bath is much more than flaws. The disadvantages other than the weight can be attributed only to the high cost.
- Copper bath. Plus such a bath is the antiseptic properties of copper. Minus - for embedding such a bath is too beautiful.
- Wooden. Creates a unique flavor in the bathroom. It is considered that the tree is very useful, but the same cannot be said about glue, which are used for the manufacture of baths from a tree. Anyway, wooden baths quickly fail, and the recess in the podium or in the floor is designed for a certain shape of the bath. Given that wooden baths are manufactured only manually, calculate in advance whether it is possible to order a bath of the same size and a replacement form.
There are baths that are specifically designed to embed. But in principle, you can build almost any model. The exceptions are the so-called separate baths having a great decor that is illogical to hide. All of the above makes it possible to conclude that acrylic and congenial products have ideal for the embedded bath. But, of course, you decide.
Accessories and devices
The built-in bath is designed primarily for recreation and recovery, but in no case for washing. That is why such baths are often equipped with all sorts of rows that can create a full relaxation atmosphere and turn your holiday in true pleasure. Briefly tell about some.
- Health devices. In such a bath, a hydromassage or aero massage device can be provided, tools for the back massage. The ozonation feature will help get rid of harmful bacteria. The water heater will provide a constant temperature. The backlight function, many consider the design accessory, but it is not. Experimentally confirmed the effective effect of chromotherapy or multicolor water backlight in the bath.
- Accessories for convenience. In the bath can be provided handles for the convenience of descent and raising. Many baths are equipped with armrests and soft head restraints. Anti-slip coating is not just a fashion accessory, but to prevent accidents. In such a coating, both the bathroom itself also requires the steps of the podium. Do not neglect these devices when buying a bath. An annals from inconvenience can spoil rest, and injuries for falling - not only rest, but also a lifetime.
- Fixtures for entertainment. These include electronic control, television or radio. The sizes of the bath can be calculated both per person and in several, so your rest will be family or in a circle of friends.
- Accessories for relaxation. To a greater extent, these accessories belong to the arrangement of the bathroom, rather than the bath. Candles, aquarium, falsymin, flowers - create a relaxation atmosphere. Near the bath on the table, in the podium niches or in the special recesses of the bath itself, you can keep various water supplements: bath foam, sea salt, sachets with herbs.
- Bathroom care devices. These include built-in systems of plum-overflow and disinfection.
When buying a bath, pay attention to what systems are equipped with various models and select the one that bestows your preferences.
Device Podium
The lack of embedded baths is that they are unrealistic to establish in an urban apartment, because it is impossible in such an apartment to create a recess under the bath. And the weight of the podium along with the bathroom and the water in it does not allow you to arrange a podium in a multi-storey house due to the danger of creating a destructive load on the supporting structures. Therefore, housing service organizations do not issue permission to the device of the built-in bath in the apartment of a storey house.
In a private house, a device of concrete podium is possible. The best solution will use a basement or an extension to the house in order not to create a load on the dwelling system. But in this case, you will have to additionally foresee the heating and insulation of such a bathroom.
The framework of the frame podium is more common. Especially since many baths are equipped with a frame frame with rigidity ribs, which allows you to create the basis for embedding. In any case, it is necessary to provide an increased load on the overlap.
If the frame is not supplied with the bathroom, it can be mounted independently. The frame is made on the basis of wooden bars or plasterboard structures.
When developing design and drawing, the podium should take into account not only the dimensions, but also the possibility of arrangement of steps, shelves, niches or decorative elements: columns, fireplace. It is necessary to preserve removable parts for the revision of the drain plum (if it is not built into the bath). Built into the podium bath obliges to carefully elaborate the project of installation and installation.
Outside, the podium is decorated with mosaic, facing stone, waterproof tree or ceramic tiles.
It looks implicitly a multistage podium, with wide and low steps. In addition, this design is very convenient: low steps do not represent difficulties for moving along them.
Design and arrangement of built-in baths: useful tips
Like other types of baths, embedded baths have their pros and cons. In this regard, some nuances can be provided.
- In the built-in bath you will not be able to take a shower. Therefore, take care of the presence of a shower, if your family has amateurs stand under the shower. Currently, it is actually acquired a combined bath with a shower.
- Cleaning built into the floor bath is a time consuming. If health does not allow you to clean up, you may have to use the services of service workers.
- Built in the floor bath implies the appropriate temperature for the floor. Take care of the floor with heating in advance.
- Whatever the shape of the bath, the most convenient to repair the one that is not located in the corner, but in the center of the room. When embedded, be sure to provide technical hatch with access to various bathing devices: hydromassage, water and others.
- Any bath is suitable for embedding, but preference is worth sending large sizes. If you still decided to build a small bath, think over the design to the smallest detail so that the bath does not seem like a puddle.
- Installation embedded in the floor bath is a matter of professionals. Self may be arranged a podium for a bath, which is not accumulated in the floor. For such a bath, it is enough to build wide steps that repeat the roundness of the bilge. The easiest to self-install is a bath, embedded in a niche. Designer's task: make a bath screen in a single whole with a niche walls.
The embedded bath is the main element of the interior of the bathroom, everything else is equipped around it. In general, it can be noted that the design of the bathroom for the built-in bath will be costly. But the non-standard interior you will result in what is worth it.
Most design councils regarding the bathroom arrangement are associated with the water resistance of the ceiling, walls, floors and more relate to the repair work when installing the bath. The bathtub, the sides of which at one level with the floor requires the device of the waterproof coating for the floor and additional drain in the floor.
General rules, how to make the interior of the room for the built-in bath does not exist. Each designer solution will be individual. Watch photo of built-in baths, fantasize. Let your ideas embody.
