How to make a shower corner with your own hands - a detailed

Shower corner - a simple thing, but very useful. Especially attractive is the fact that its cost is several times less than the shower stall. In addition, to establish a shower corner with your own hands is quite simple, it will allow to further reduce the burden on the family budget.

What you need to know about installing a shower angle

The main difference between the angle from the full shower stall is that the angle is just a fenced-off part of the bathroom. The shower stall is much more complicated, it is a kind of capsule, in which many manufacturers provide such pleasant additions as hydromassage of the back, feet, equip them with a telephone, a steam generator, etc.

Note! If in the case of a shower angle, additional lighting is not needed, then in the cabin, most likely, there will not be enough light, so it is equipped with a backlight. That is, it is more difficult to connect the cabin, in addition to running water and sewage, you will also need an outlet.

Do-it-yourself shower installation requires several tasks:

• you will need to organize a reliable water flow;
• you will also need to connect hot and cold water;
• the final stage can be considered the installation of the walls.

In this case, the same problem can be solved in different ways.

For example, when organizing a drain you can go 2 ways:

• just buy a shower tray, lift it above the floor and disguise all the pipes under the tray itself;

Note! From the point of view of convenience of repair, installation of a shower corner in this way can be considered optimal. And so that the gap between the tray and the floor does not spoil the interior of the bathroom, it can always be covered with a decorative panel.

• Do not use a pallet at all - in this case, even at the stage of the device, you will have to install a shower drain in the floor and ensure the required slope

• compromise option - using the most flat pallet. In this case, the usual siphon will not work, you will have to look for special flat models. Sometimes a recess is made in the floor so that after installation the edges of the pallet do not rise above the floor in the bathroom.

Even at the stage of choosing a pallet you need to think about the shape of the future angle. If, for example, the installation of a shower corner of a 5-coal shape is planned, then the shape of the pallet should be appropriate.

As for the material of the walls, the choice in this matter is not very large.

If we reject absolutely budget options, when the corner is just fenced off by curtains, then you can select:

• glass walls - only tempered glass with a thickness of 8-10 mm is used, the color can be chosen by anyone, and only the price can scare off the purchase. The cost of glass sheets will go far beyond 10 thousand rubles;

• plastic - it is possible to note their lower weight, lower resistance to mechanical stress and low weight, which somewhat simplifies installation. Otherwise, a nice pattern can also be applied to plastic and the shower angle will look quite stylish.

Installation Guide

The main installation steps are already listed. It remains to consider them in more detail and pay special attention to small but important details.

Installation of the pallet, connection to the sewerage

To install the shower corners with your own hands you need to start with the installation and connection of the drain pan to the sewer pipe. We will consider the best option in terms of labor costs - when the pallet is raised above the floor and pipes are placed in the resulting gap.

Instructions for the execution of work will be as follows:

• the sump itself is first tried on, the position of the drain hole is marked;
• further the sewer corrugation joins a sewer pipe, its other end by means of a cap nut fastens to a siphon;
• after that, the siphon is attached to the very pallet installed in the corner. The level of the horizontal position of the pallet is checked and, if necessary, its position is adjusted with the help of threaded feet;

Note! Particular attention should be paid to the joint of the sides of the pallet and the walls, these places should be carefully greased with sealant. If this is not done, then dampness, mold and fungus under the tray are guaranteed.

• after that, it remains only to fix the panels hiding the gap near the floor.

At this stage, the main problems often arise with how to seal the shower enclosure. An ordinary silicone sealant is suitable for this, you should not try to find a miracle compound, the main thing you need to ensure is the rigidity of the pallet, it should not bend a millimeter.

This is most often the cause of damping of the space under it. Even if the deflection is 1-2 mm, the edge of the pallet is easily peeled off from the layer of hardened sealant, and water easily leaks into the gap formed.

If the rigidity of the factory frame is not enough, then you can always put a regular brick under the tray (put a piece of rubber on top so as not to scratch the sanitary equipment).

If, despite all efforts to seal the shower angle in the bathroom, dampness is still felt, the stuffiness and fungus cannot be removed at all, then the reason should be sought in poor ventilation. Of course, you should first check the tightness of the joints.

Wall installation

This stage can be considered the final decision on how to install a shower corner.

Much depends on the design of the area:

• if the bathroom is tiled, the walls of the bathroom itself can act as the back wall. In this case, the installation is very simple - just fasten the metal profiles and insert glass or plastic into them;
• But the shower corner with the back wall will require a little more effort, you will need to install more and rear opaque walls.

Note! Shower corners with a back wall can be installed in wooden houses. They can also be placed not only in the corner of the room, but also a bit away from the walls of the room.

As for how to properly install the shower enclosure, the installation procedure remains the same, in case of placement at the wall you need:

• install metal profiles on the wall and on the floor. Naturally, the vertical positioning is checked before installation, then the holes are simply drilled and the profile on the dowels is attached to the wall;

Note! For the tightness of the shower angle, the joint of the profile and the wall must be missed with sealant.

• then the glass walls are simply inserted into the profiles. Formally, rubber gaskets should provide sufficient tightness, but it will not be superfluous to insure and additionally lubricate them with silicone. In this case, the water does not exactly fall into the gap between the glass and the gasket;

• You can also advise on top of a sheet of glass to additionally fix a metal jumper to the opposite wall, which will increase the rigidity of the structure. On this question, how to assemble a shower corner can be considered closed.

For shower corners that are not adjacent to the walls of the bathroom, the procedure remains the same, except that the profiles do not need to be fixed to the wall. Just going to the frame, and then mounted the wall.

In conclusion

Independent assembly of the shower angle is an extremely simple task. All that needs to be done is to install the pallet, connect it to the sewage system and fix it along the perimeter of the wall. Any novice builder can handle it.

The video in this article can be considered a detailed guide to installing a shower angle.