How to make screens for a bath with your own hands? Making and installing a screen for a bath

The repair in the bathroom is almost finished. The walls and the floor are faced with chic tiles, good, today its assortment in stores is able to drive into a stupor, not only that of the layman, but also an experienced designer. The new faucets sparkle with nickel and gilding, the stretch ceiling shines with glare, the new bath is pleased with the unusual whiteness. But only its facade does not fit in all this magnificence: all the unsightly communications, legs are visible, and the exterior of this modern miracle of sanitary engineering does not harmonize with the interior created with such a love.

What to do?

Of course, something must be closed. Than? To put the screen for a bath. Do you make it with your own hands or buy it ready? That's the question that is almost always asked by the lucky owner of the updated according to the latest fashion trends of the bathroom. And we will try to help. We'll tell you about what these designs are like and how to make screens for a bath with your own hands, if this wise solomon solution was still made.

Short review

Why Solomon? Because it is not always possible to buy what you want, and what will suit the size and, most importantly, the configuration of a new bath, which can be quite diverse. So let's talk about what kinds of this design are in general, how to make the screen itself under the bath and, of course, from what.

And for what it is needed at all, by and large? In addition to decorative, as mentioned above, the screen under the bath can perform several more functions. First, it will protect communication from mechanical impact from outside, and secondly, it can be arranged for a warehouse for useful, but not very attractive in appearance.

The screen for the bathroom can be made stationary, or it can be made in the form of moving on special guiding flaps. But only in the second case you can already use the space under the bathroom as a small pantry. The stationary version is usually equipped with only one niche, through which access to communications is provided.

Material

What do the home-made master screens for baths do with their own hands? I must say, the options - a lot, ranging from the most budgetary and simple in execution and ending with almost real masterpieces of sanitary engineering.

As the material, you can use the most common plastic, MDF panels, gypsum board, pazogrebnevye slabs, blocks and bricks. Some masters, who are not alien to designer impulses, make screens for the bath with their own hands made of mirrors or glass with a drawing on it. That is, creativity can be realized from the heart, but with the same condition: the chosen material must fully comply with its specific characteristics for the special climate of this room: it is moisture-resistant, easy to wash, not subject to decay and deformation processes.

Now, when our short course of education is over, let's move directly to a conversation about what can be built screens for a bath with their own hands. And, most importantly, how. Take as a basis those options that do not require the presence of a skilled craftsman at home.

Simple but effective

This well, very budgetary option in the category of "screen under the bath" gets, of course, with great stretch. Nevertheless, it is fully capable of performing its basic functions, and therefore has the right to exist. To build such a design is possible even for those who not only do not have a special habit of working with their own hands, but generally saw for the first time with their own eyes what a drill looks like in reality.

This is a banal curtain for the bathroom, which we suggest not to use for its direct purpose, that is, place it not over the capacity, but under. Simply, like all ingenious. It will take only the same drill, several screws, a nickel-plated pipe, a couple of rings-fastenings and a curtain itself, which are on sale a great deal. You can easily find the color and pattern that suits your interior easily and quickly.

How to make

Yes, in ten minutes! Drill several holes on the opposite walls, fasten the fastening rings with self-tapping screws, insert a chrome-plated pipe in them with a curtain trimmed in height according to the dimensions. Unseemly insides are covered, the mission of the house master is finished. Of course, this option can not be compared with a screen made of glass with a design pattern printed on it, but after all, we agreed on a budgetary and non-laborious option. So what can be a claim?

But if you are planning to build something more monumental, read on. We will tell you about how the screen is made for a bath of PVC panels.

Plastic

This option also does not require special material costs. But you still have to work longer. Plastic bath screens are made by their own hands either from large panels, whose pattern, by the way, is also very diverse, or from individual pieces of PVC cut in height.

To make such a design, you need to buy, in addition to the main component, a profile specially designed for these purposes, nails liquid, decorative corners.

Process technology

From plastic we cut out the workpieces that are necessary in height. We measure the length of the future screen, after which we cut off excess pieces from the guides. On the floor we do the marking-we draw a line along which we will install the bottom profile. Then we directly install the screen under the bath. Right on the floor we put PVC panels in the top and bottom guides. Then we apply glue on the line of marking (in our case it is liquid nails), the upper part of the structure is installed under the side of the bath, and the lower part - directly on the glue. We wait, while the glue dries, we decorate the edges of the screen with corners (we put them on the same liquid nails). You can use! True, such a screen for a bath will only perform a decorative function. It is not recommended to use it as a place for storing any items - too much will be involved in order to constantly get and then insert at least one of the panels, not to mention a few.

If you want to still want a sliding, not a dead-end design, then the best way is to adopt the following method.

A-la cupboard

Here it will be, perhaps, the best option of all that exist. Installation of a bath screen according to the principle of a sliding door wardrobe is good in all respects. Firstly, the installation procedure itself is relatively simple, and secondly, the choice of doors for such a design is simply huge. This can be as ordinary MDF panels, as well as mirror or glass doors. The latter, by the way, can be ordered with a drawing in accordance with their own wishes, so that it will be possible to fit the screen as organically as possible into the existing interior.

What to do?

Go to the construction market, previously measured the height and width of the space under the bathroom. There we find a pavilion that offers all the components for sliding-door wardrobes and buy guides, appropriate fittings and dowels (regular and "bedbugs"). And then we select the doors. It can be ordinary MDF panels of any color, and mirror, and glass with beautiful prints. Here everything depends on the contents of your wallet and directly the design itself. Employees of the store will certainly cut out the necessary pieces for you according to the specified sizes, you will only have to pay for the purchase. After that we go with the material purchased home, where we start the installation.

Description of works

Cut out the guides in accordance with the width of the opening, then the top one is fastened to the bathroom itself with dowels - "bugs", and the bottom one - screws to the floor. Mount the accessories on the doors and insert them into the guides. Check that the wheels are well in the grooves, because it is thanks to them that the doors will part. As you can see, the installation process is quite simple. The only negative is the rather high cost of such material. But the result is worth it.

How to make a screen under a bath: other options

The rest of the methods for making a screen for a bath are already more laborious. This is the manufacture of plasterboard construction, the installation of which involves the creation of a frame of profiles, foam blocks, bricks, etc. As a rule, such screens are subsequently lined with ceramic tiles - the same as the bathroom itself, or other, contrasting colors. It really depends on the wishes of the master himself. Each of these methods is quite laborious and requires a separate detailed description. The only thing I would like to note is that making a screen from gypsum board will be the best option if you have a non-standard bathtub installed. This material is very light and easy to use, it takes a well-shaped form, so you can finish any surface with it.

So it's not that difficult to make a screen on the bath with your own hands. You just need to choose the appropriate option that will match the design of your bathroom and the functional features of the installed plumbing.