How to make a door into a bath with your own hands?

Many people like to visit the bathhouse regularly. It is a place where you can relax, enjoy the hot steam and distract yourself from unnecessary problems. However, a cozy bath becomes only after a high-quality and reliable door, which does not allow heat losses, appears in the construction. In this article, we will learn how you can make it with your own hands.

Before starting to make the door leaf independently, the home craftsman must prepare the necessary tools. In carrying out the work under consideration, such devices will be useful:

• milling machine (if you do not have such a tool in stock, you can do with a simple chisel and hammer);
• hammer;
• mallet;
• clamps or a workbench with stop elements (you will need them to fix the door leaf well);
• Electric saw or jig saw (a regular wood saw will also work if you don't have an electric tool at home);
• screwdriver;
• planer and planer (it is recommended to use electric tools);
• tape measure and a caliper;
• plummet or spirit level.

If you have decided with your own hands to make a good door to the bath, for example, from a log, it is advisable to start from the detailed instructions on the manufacture, especially if you are confronted with such works for the first time.

Most home craftsmen decide to make a quality sauna door from boards. This is the most popular material that is used for such purposes. Let's consider step by step how to make a wooden door for the bath with their own hands.

In addition to tools, the following materials will be useful here:

• tongue and groove boards with a length of 1200 mm and a width of 25-30 mm;
• timber - 20x30 mm;
• glue for joinery works;
• 2 or 3 pieces of hinges;
• a handle with a lock.

Now let's look at the process of making the door.

• First, it is necessary to cut the prepared boards so that each of them has the necessary length parameters (+/- 2 cm). The exact alignment can be done after the door leaf has been glued together. Then it will be necessary to assemble the leaf carefully, joining the boards one by one. You will have to do so until the width of the future bathing door will be 0.8 m, or slightly exceed this figure.

• If during the test, you saw that one of the corners of the design is raised or there was a "hump", it is better to look for the manufacture of more even boards. When all is done correctly, number the boards with a pencil and disassemble the door leaf. Reassemble the sauna door again. Very carefully and thoroughly glue each groove, using good quality carpentry glue. Join the boards one by one, referring to the pencil marks. To make the joints more sweaty, you can resort to light blows with a mallet, but only through the bar to avoid damage.

• Secure the resulting cloth by means of clamps, so that all joints become compressed. Usually the bonding time is indicated on the original packaging with the adhesive itself. As a rule, it is not less than 1-5 days.

• The thickness of the resulting cloth, if necessary, can be adjusted with a planer and a sheet of sandpaper. Next, it is necessary to cut out a blank from the whole plate, corresponding to the dimensional values of the door - you will need to cut off only unnecessary fragments in width and length.

• Further you will need to choose slots for dowels in the monolithic plate. They should be at a height of 1/3 from the height of the door. If you do not have the opportunity to prepare this type of connection, you can not sink the dowel. Then its fixing should be realized by drilling through holes in the door leaf and hammering wooden dowels with a slightly larger diameter. If it seemed to you that the door leaf was not rigid enough, it is acceptable to fix a strut between the dowels.

Then you can proceed to the installation of the door frame, in which later will be installed homemade canvas. At all stages, the master is recommended to make detailed drawings with all the dimensions and parameters of future structures.

Beautiful and reliable doors are obtained from battens. In most cases, this material is used for exterior paneling. Due to this, they become stronger, more durable and attractive. Let's consider step by step how you can build a door using batten.

• Felling can be attached directly to the finished door leaf. This should be done before it is installed. There is no need for purlins.
• First, the master must choose what will be the location of the battens on the base. Most often it is installed either along or across, but you can also fix it diagonally and even in a combined scheme. It is necessary to cut the required number of panels to size. If you intend to intricate pattern on the door, first it is laid out on it visually, without resorting to fixing.
• Fixing cladding on the finished base is carried out by means of stainless steel self-tapping screws. It is necessary to fix the batten starting from the edge. Before you screw in a self-tapping screw, you must drill a hole specifically for it, using a drill. This is to prevent the linings from cracking.
• Each subsequent lath is inserted into the groove of the previous one.
• Along the contour of the canvas is allowed to complement the wood fittings.
• After completing all the work, it is necessary to treat the battens with suitable protective solutions.

Making a door to the bath, especially if it is the entrance and leads to the anteroom, it is necessary not to forget that it must be sufficiently insulated. If this is neglected, the canvas will not protect the room from the cold, and there will not remain a comfortable microclimate for the bath. Insulation of the sauna door - a serious task, and it should not be neglected. Let's find out what methods of sealing canvases there are.

• Thermal curtain. The simplest, most affordable and popular method of insulating the door leaf. To implement it in front of the entrance bathing door hang a canopy of sod, a simple dense fabric and other similar materials. The size of such a curtain must necessarily be 10-15 cm more than the width of the aisle. Overcoming a solid curtain is not very convenient. Some people hang it on a tube with rings (on the type of curtain with eyelets in the bathroom). However, guests and household members, leaving the sauna, often forget to close it behind them, which inevitably provokes heat loss. The best option - cutting the canopy into strips of 15-20 cm and fixing them firmly on top. Strips should be fixed overlapping, so that they more tightly close the opening.

• Energoflex. It is a very effective material for insulating sauna doors. It can cover the canvas, so that the heat does not go out of the bath. This material is made of polyethylene foam type. It does not absorb moisture, does not suffer from temperature fluctuations and does not give great stress on the door.

• Insulated frame. Another option for insulating a sauna door. Such a design makes it possible to seal the gap between the door leaf itself and the frame. The technique is considered very useful and important, because the doors in the bath are extremely difficult to fit with perfect accuracy. As a result, they swell, and it becomes difficult to open them.

To avoid having to resort to constant adjustments, the outer part of the door leaf should be supplemented with a frame made up of slats. They are placed at a distance of a few centimeters, and under them lay a strip of insulating material, folded in half. The latter should protrude beyond by 15-20 cm, so that when the door is closed, the entire perimeter is closed by the insulating layer. The space between the frame and the door leaf is closed, all draughts disappear, the escape of heat is prevented.

Installation of the homemade door leaf should be carried out correctly, so that the construction turns out to be reliable and wear-resistant. It is possible to cope with all the work yourself. Consider step by step how you can put a wooden door in the bath.

• Fit all the necessary surfaces, verify the verticality, using a hydro-level. Fix the construction by means of self-tapping screws.
• Next, you will need to fill the upper gap with hemp. Tuck it around the entire perimeter of the door leaf if necessary. Next, mount the trim on both sides of the door.
• Fix the handles and the locking part on the inside of the homemade leaf. To prevent the door from warping later, it is recommended that you expose 2 locks at once - both at the bottom and at the top. Handles, locking parts, any inserts, of course, should be made of wood, so people are not burned when touching them.

If you have planned to make your own sauna door and want it to last as long as possible, it is worth taking care of its competent processing. Let's understand this issue in more detail.

• Without treatment, you can not leave the hardwood from which the door is made. They must be impregnated with special antiseptic solutions. If you do not do this, the wooden cloth in the conditions of the bath just a long time will not last. Today on sale you can find many high-quality compositions that are suitable for such purposes. The composition must be chosen, paying attention to the components in its content. Under the influence of high temperatures impregnation must not emit harmful chemicals.
• All wooden elements must be thoroughly sanded. You can do this by hand, or you can use a special machine.

Let's get acquainted with some tips on repairing the sauna door.

• It happens that the leaf sags because of badly worn hinges. Here, only their replacement will help.
• Over time, the wood can get very old, and the door will sag. In this case, the repair will involve replacing the screws for new and longer, pre-shot into the holes must score stakes.
• The leaf can hang because of poorly fixed hinges. You just need to tighten the screws, but try not to twist them accidentally.
• If the door jams, it is necessary to plan the edge with a planer. The fresh edge is painted after adjusting and installing the leaf in its place.

Let's consider a few useful recommendations concerning new homemade doors made specifically for installation in the bath.

• Before you begin work, you must not forget that the sash must swing outward. This is a safety requirement that should not be neglected.
• Given the difficult conditions in the bath, the elements of fasteners must be selected exclusively from steel with anti-corrosion coating. Otherwise, soon begins the inevitable process of rusting. Around the heads of fasteners will appear noticeable dark spots. And the screws themselves can not last long - will have to repair the box, and the door itself.
• Making his own hands a door to the steam room, is not recommended to use hardware from metal (as an exception are only hinges). It is necessary to take into account the high temperature in such rooms. Because of this, the metal parts will be very hot, and it will be impossible to touch them - a person can get burned. This applies not only to the hardware, but also to the decorative components of the door leaf. On the inside, the door should not be decorated at all.
• Despite the fact that wood has a lot of positive qualities, it is prone to splintering. As for the manufacture of the door is taken originally dried natural material, it is better not to use ordinary nails for fixing. The best solution - special self-tapping screws for wood.
• Bath doors are usually characterized by massive and solid construction. Because of this, for fixing such webs is recommended to use at least 3 hinges. Then the product will be securely held in place.
• To make your own wooden sauna door, you need to choose only high-quality materials. The wood must not have any damage or knots. Otherwise, the construction will be less aesthetic and practical.
• Before you start the work on the creation of the sauna door, it is advisable to make a detailed scheme of the future construction. Here the master must specify all the dimensions and parameters of the product. Without a schematic sketch, it will be much more difficult to make a door in the bathhouse, and the risk of making serious mistakes increases.
• If we are talking about a homemade door of solid wood, then the box for it should be built accordingly. The latter should be designed for the large mass of the door leaf. It is also recommended to choose a stronger and more solid canopy.
• If you can not find high-quality material without knots, they will need to be carefully drilled out of the wood before starting the work. Self-made plugs are inserted into the resulting holes and fixed with glue. Such elements will last in the canvas much longer than knots. The latter in the conditions of the bath quickly detach from the surface of the base.

How to make a door in the bath with their own hands, see in the video.