Built-in bath : photos , ideas , tips

Most would agree that the tub near the wall has the usual form, freestanding bath with its sweeping curves looks nice, but looks great built-in bath.Visually bath podium increases the space of a bathroom.A bath can be incorporated in the floor like a small pool.This bathroom is incredibly easy to use, since you are spared from pereshagivaniya through a side.

Built-bath: installation options

Before taking the bold decision to establish a home built in the bath, it is necessary to clearly define what kind ofinstallation option you choose.Worth a look ready incarnation and choose a project that suits your family and for real in your home.Since not all homes can be installed built-in bath, should familiarize themselves with the possible difficulties that may hinder you.We will try to help you with this by providing information and materials.

So built baths vary in method and installation location.There are three ways to install:

1. Full integration into the floor when it is flush with the upper rim bath.This method of installation in advance is taken into account when planning the house.Otherwise you have to break or disassemble the subfloor.
2. Integration into the podium.For this method of installation is desirable to select a bath with the frame attached.A variation in the podium installation is integration into the niche.
3. lower part of the baths built into the floor, and to hide the top of the bath is raised podium.

place built bath installation usually depends on its shape:

• rectangular, square or oval tubs are inserted in the middle of the room or near the wall;
• round tubs look beautiful, if built in the middle of the bathroom;Although the variant and near a wall (the window);
• corner bath, as the name should be built only in the corner of the room.

Of course, all this is only the general rules.That is to say, a classic of the genre.Nothing prevents you to choose your own, non-standard alternative to the installation of built-bath.Perhaps this is your development will be a new design discovery.In any case, we advise you to create a detailed layout plan of the bath and all the furniture in the bathroom.It is better if the plan you will make in the 3D-projection and in color.

you decide to buy an embedded bath: what to choose?

material from which made bath, will determine the method of installation.Not all the materials used allow the bath to be built.We present our brief analysis of what kind of material is best suited for embedded baths.

1. Classic bath - cast iron.The virtue of such baths - their strength and resistance to abrasive enamel detergents.Disadvantage - a lot of weight.Since podium bath and a lot of weight, a combination of iron and the podium will be irrational.
2. steel bath.Dignity - heats up quickly.Disadvantage - if the bath is not secured in the framework of the podium, it may be slightly deformed.On baths integrity will not be affected, but the enamel will quickly crack.
3. Baths of acrylic are known for their bizarre shapes.The ductility of this material allows you to create different design variations.Light weight acrylic baths perfectly offset the severity of the podium.The disadvantage of acrylic baths is considered its weak resistance to abrasion and scratching.
4. Kwara - a new material, an improved variation of acrylic with the addition of quartz sand.Kwara combines cast iron durability and ease of acrylic.This bath is somewhat heavier than acrylic, but is more resistant to external mechanical influences.
5. artificial or natural stone.The form of this bath too classy to incorporate such a beauty in the catwalk.And natural stone weight is not small.But if you decide to build in just such a bath, you know that the merits of such a bath is much greater than the disadvantages.The disadvantages of weight except you can only carry expensive.
6. copper bath.Plus a bath - antiseptic properties of copper.Minus - to embed such a bath is too beautiful.
7. Wood.It creates a unique color in the bathroom.It is believed that the tree is very useful, but the same can not be said of the adhesives that are used for the manufacture of wood baths.Anyway, wooden tubs are easily damaged, and the hole in the catwalk or in the floor designed for a specific form of the bath.Given that wooden bathtubs made by hand, calculate in advance whether the opportunity to order a bath of the same size and shape for a replacement.

There are baths, which are specially designed for integration.But in principle, you can build almost any model.The exception is the so-called free-standing bath with a great decor, which is illogical to hide.All of the above leads to the conclusion that the ideal parameters for the embedded and acrylic baths have Quaryl products.But, of course, up to you.

Accessories and adaptations

Integrated bath is intended primarily for rest and recovery, but in any case not for washing.That is why these baths are often equipped with all sorts of bells and whistles that can create an atmosphere of complete relaxation and turn your vacation into a real pleasure.Briefly outline some.

1. Health tools.In such a bath may be provided or hydromassage aeromassazhnoe fittings, arrangements for back massage.ozonation function helps you to get rid of harmful bacteria.The water heater will provide a constant temperature.Backlight function many consider a designer accessory, but it is not.Experimentally validated effective action chromotherapy lighting or multi-color water in the bath.
2. Accessories for convenience.In the bath handles may be provided for ease of launching and retrieving.Many tubs are equipped with armrests and soft headrests.Anti-skid - not just a fashion accessory, and the prevention of accidents.This coating needs a bath itself, and the steps of the podium.Do not neglect these devices when buying a bath.Annoyance from inconveniences can spoil the rest, and injury in the fall - not only recreation, but also for life.
3. tools for entertainment.These include electronic control, television or radio.Dimensions of the bath can be calculated as one person, and in a few, so that your vacation will be a family or among friends.
4. Accessories for relaxation.To a large extent, these are accessories to the arrangement of the bathroom than the bath itself.Candles, aquarium, falshkamin, flowers - will create an atmosphere of relaxation.Near the bath on the table, in the niches of the podium or in special recesses of the bath can hold a variety of additives for water: foam bath, sea salt, bags of herbs.
5. tools to care for the bathroom.These include built-in drain and overflow system and disinfection.

When buying bath note, what systems are equipped with different models and choose the one that best suits your preferences.

device podium

The lack of built-in baths is that they set unrealistic in a city apartment, because it is impossible to create a flat recess under the bath.A weight of the podium with a bath and the water contained in it does not allow to make a podium in a building because of the danger of creating a destructive load on the supporting structures.Therefore, the housing service organizations do not give permission to built the bath in the apartment unit floor house.

in a private home device a concrete podium possible.The best solution is to use the basement or the extension to the house, so as not to create a burden on the bearing housing system.But in this case it is necessary to provide additional heating and warming a bathroom.

More common is the device frame of the podium.Moreover, many are equipped with bath framing frame with stiffening ribs, which allows you to create a basis for integration.In any case it is necessary to provide an increased load on the slab.

If the frame is not supplied with bathroom, it can be mounted independently.The frame is made of wood-based boards, or drywall constructions.

With the design and drawing of the podium should take into account not only the size but also the possibility of arrangement of steps, shelves, niches or decorative elements: columns, fireplace.Necessarily the presence of removable parts for the revision drain and overflow (if it is not built into the bath).Built-in podium bath requires careful study to the assembly and installation of the project.

Outside the podium decorated with mosaics, facing stone, water-resistant wood or ceramic tiles.

looks spectacular multi podium, with wide and low steps.In addition, this design is very convenient: the low level does not pose difficulties to move on them.

Design and construction of built-in baths: tips

Like other types of baths, built-in baths have their pros and cons.In this regard, some of the nuances may be provided.

1. In the built-bath, you will not be able to take a shower.Therefore, take care of the presence of the shower stall, if there are fans standing in the shower in your family.At the present time actually purchase a combined bath with shower.
2. cleaning baths built into the floor - a laborious task.If health does not allow you to perform cleaning, you may have to use the services of the service workers.
3. Built-in floor bath includes an appropriate temperature conditions for the floor.In advance take care of the floor heating device.
4. Whatever the form of a bath, it's best to repair one that is not located in the corner, and in the center of the room.The installation of necessarily contemplate technical hatch providing access to a variety of devices baths: Hot, water heaters and other.
5. Embedded fit any bath, but the preference is to give large bath.If you do decide to build a small bath, thoughtful design to the smallest detail, to bath it did not seem puddle.
6. Installation embedded in the floor bath - business professionals.It can be arranged independently podium bath, which is not recessed in the floor.For this bath is enough to build a broad stage, repeating the roundness of the rim.The easiest for self-assembly is a bath, built-in niche.designer's task: to make a screen for the bath one with niche walls.

Built-bath is the main element of the interior bathroom, settling around the rest of the space.In general it can be noted that the design of the bathroom for a bath to be built expensive.But the custom interior, which you get as a result is worth it.

Most design advice on everything related to the bathroom waterproof ceiling, walls, floor, and more concerned with repair work when installing the bath.Bath, where ledges at the same level with a floor device requires waterproof flooring and additional drain in the floor.

General Rules how to make an interior room for a built-in baths do not exist.Every design decision will be individual.See photos of built baths, dream.Let your ideas come to life.