The door to the bath and sauna with their hands

Whoever builds the bath, in the end always faces a problem which doors to choose from.Of course, you can bath in the door and buy, but it is quite possible to do it, and with his own hands, would have the necessary materials and the desire.

Types of doors

Bathsauna and consist of several rooms, and to insulate each from each other, the door needs.At least they should be two: the front and the one that separates the steam room of the lounges.Ideally, the doors still need to put in the dressing room and wash.There are several types of doors:

1. deaf door made of wood - it consists of a fabric, which is made of grooved boards with clapboard.These doors are often odnoramnye.Two sash doors make more difficult to make them only by professionals, but they are great to keep warm.
2. for sauna glass doors - they are often installed in saunas, but sometimes they are found in the baths.Still, experts believe that they are not suitable for baths.Yes, and buy the wood is much cheaper than glass doors for saunas, which are made of is not easy, and from heat-resistant glass.Such doors are made entirely on his own will not work.Of the advantages - this door is remarkably fit into the interior.
3. Door combined - it is suitable for those who like and glass doors, and wood, because it combines two of these materials.Because wood is the bottom of the door and the frame, and glass - top.

Manufacturing Door frame

Starting work on the construction of the bathhouse door, keep in mind that it will be in a very unfavorable conditions for the tree - high temperature and humidity.And in order to keep warm the door dimensions to be reduced.The good is considered to door sizes 550h1650 mm.For the construction of the door you will need:

• pine board 0,36h12 see - for the web;
• 6,5h8 cant see - for the binding;
• lining 1,2h9,6 see - for the skin.

To make the piping, it is necessary to perform such actions:

1. Using manual mill, it is necessary to make the grooves in the bars on the profile size.First make a draft and give admission to 2 mm to the side, he will need for milling on finished size.
2. In length with a hacksaw to cut the horizontal profiles and to match them with vertical profiles at the two ends, it is necessary to make the seats.
3. Cut the vertical strapping profile.
4. Assemble the frame to finalize the layout and make the slots a router already in the final version.
5. Assemble the frame again, looking to the corners are 90 degrees, and measure at the dock dimensions in the seats to the door leaf.

Making leaf

To make a door leaf from a tree in a sauna or a bath to complete a series of actions:

1. Using planer to remove the thorn from the very planks.
2. Put the board on a flat surface such as a workbench or table cloth and collect together.The web will consist of boards and they are going on a "thorn in the groove", starting with the first prepared.The ready-assembled web to be more than the width of the door about the same level.
3. pencil on the door leaf to make a mark on the initial width of the board to which the result is needed.Leave a small allowance for finishing.canvas size should match the size of the strapping frame.
4. last board cut along the saw.And you can start the final assembly of the web: on the table to fix the bar smoothly and to collect cloth over it to spike hit the groove.Before this tongue and a groove is processed with white glue.
5. After installing the last board to the table have to fix the support bars.And wooden wedges to pull your board to each other.To the plane remained flat, you need to put it on a flat sheet of chipboard and preload clamps.
6. When the glue is dry, you need to check the build quality.If the gaps are seen, they must be carefully repaired sawdust mixed with glue.With the help of the planer and sandpaper to remove all irregularities with a cloth.
7. Now you need to draw a leaf on the required size, you need to push off from the outer face of the board and at the ends of which are connected to the support bar.
8. cut circular saw blade for marking and edges sanded sandpaper.
9. Make a symmetrical veneer on the perimeter.By means of the router and base brackets, to fix the door to be treated.Rods are installed so that their faces lie in the vertical plane.And the upper bounds must be in the same parallel with the cloth and serve as a support for the router.
10. After processing the one hand, the same manipulation is necessary to carry out and on the other hand.Only the width of the spike should be a little more to landing in piping it can be finalized.

Sheathing lining fabric

Sheathing fabric can make different choices.Sometimes during the installation piping, and sometimes this way:

1. preform lining should take longer than the line which extends at an angle of 45 degrees from one side of the web to the other.The workpiece is fixed with screws to the web.Gradually cover all fabric lining boards.On
2. trim outline contour to thus cut ends were hidden, and piping and lining do not interfere with each other.
3. numbered top to bottom every bunk, then disassemble and cut along the planned lines with a hacksaw.Repeat technology and on the reverse side of the web.
4. Cropped blank put in place, each element is attached to the canvas three screws at an angle of 45 degrees.
5. last board to fix the top with screws to the head could not be seen under a harness.And that in the groove is not a crack, it should Drill half a millimeter larger than the diameter of the screw.

Assembling the door for a bath

assembly of wooden doors for bath consists of installation of piping around the web:

1. on all sides to be inserted in the leaf spines already prepared blanks, it should be done without any gap and with thelow tension.If necessary, you need to be milled or thorn, or a groove.The main thing is that there is no clearance between them.
2. Check build quality and proceed to the final step: process all docking place with white glue and screws fasten the harness.Screws should not interfere with the installation of the door hinge, so they need to be firmly embedded in the canvas and survive a step of 20 cm. Next you need to hold together all the elements of the corners of the trim.
3. To be able to make out the door for the repair, lower profile at the binding glue is needed.

for finishing doors need abrasive cloth, grain, she should be mean and petty.We need to walk carefully in the corners, to remove all the irregularities in the plane and sharp areas round.As a result, it should get the door smooth and pleasant to the touch.The edges can be treated with special cutters on hand router.Now the door can be decorated to your liking already slats or bars.When the door is installed in a doorway, then already in place can be attached and a pen.

Useful tips

1. For door trim lining has many variations, it all depends on your bath design.You can place it horizontally or Christmas tree, or in a combined way.Based on what way to sheathe the door may need to install a few more decorative strips on the end parts of the lining.
2. The assembled floorboards are usually small longitudinal gap arranged on the rear side.Thanks to them can fit tightly boards that there is no gap in the front surface.To address these weaknesses, you need to fill the gaps in the sawdust with glue.
3. for doors take one timber wood.Well suited for this linden or alder.This is to ensure that when there will be heat or extreme temperature changes, the door is not deformed.Because different wood species react differently to such adverse circumstances.If, for example, the door leaf is made of pine, and all the other elements of the lime, but it is closed casing and the steam does not cause damage to it directly, such a difference in the rocks can be ignored.
4. The quality of the material should be treated with the utmost seriousness, if you take a timber, then they should not have any obvious defects or through knots.Their presence can prevent the door leaf for a bath and then only due to the fact that the casing is closed.
5. If you have nowhere to buy stable planks or you can not, you can connect them to sample a quarter, it can be done using a hand router.
6. If you are not in the presence of tools such as a circular saw or router, they can be successfully replaced by a chisel and a hacksaw.It is necessary, however, for longer tinker with the materials.Therefore, if you have already decided to build such a structure, as a steam room and a door to the bath to make your own hands, it is better to buy a good electric tools, to not to waste their time and effort.
7. to the door lasts as long as possible, you need to treat it with linseed oil or other good antiseptic.Particular attention should be paid to the lower part of the door, because the door usually begins to break down at the bottom.