Good afternoon friends. A good friend was given an old cabin, 6x3m in size, which was divided into 2 parts, with a brick stove in the middle.
It was decided to make a bathhouse out of the trailer. The trailer was brought through the narrow winding streets of the dacha community and installed on concrete blocks.
Unfortunately, the photo of the interior was not preserved; first of all, we dismantled it, removed the siding, the stove, the ceiling and walls (chipboard), as well as the old mine. cotton wool A small bucket was collected from the trailer of nails.
After dismantling the old one was replaced slate roof, on a metal roof.
Rear view, there was a window that was removed.
Side view 
Front view, a powerful door originally from the USSR was installed, there were 2 windows, one remains with a decorative grille.
There is another window cut into the side. 
In the car itself, part of the lathing was left, part was replaced with a new one made of timber.
The trailer itself was divided into 3 parts, the most a large room, composition - vapor barrier - panels made of mineral wool 50 thick, vapor barrier, ceiling and walls - lining, floor - batten. The floor around the entire perimeter is screed. 
The wiring is hidden in a corrugation, 3 lamps are installed in 3 rooms, 3 sockets in 1 room. 
Later a small sofa and the necessary furniture will be installed 
In the washing machine there are tiles with the required slope 
The walls are clapboard treated with a protective agent. 
The tap is turned off hot water, cast iron stove, heating from the sink. 
Door to the steam room. 
The steam room is equipped with a Vesuvius stove, lining and chambers made of Alder, and there is a ventilation window. 
Tank for bitter water 60 liters, weight of stones approximately 80 kg. 
View from the steam room 
The stove is lined with brick, the walls are protected with fireproof sheets. Under the lining there is foil, 10 cm mats mineral wool
Palati from Alder. 
Tank for bitter water 
The bathhouse was made in free time, the timing took 2 months, the first test was successful, heating to 80 degrees in 1 hour. Water supply is currently solved by supplying it with a pump from the source in which the bathtub is installed. Electricity is supplied. There are plans to make a connection for cold water so as not to throw in the hose and replace the tap hot water for more bandwidth. Also equip it with the necessary bath furniture and cover the outside with insulation with 50mm mineral mats. About 180,000 rubles were spent on materials and delivery.
If desired, an old decommissioned trailer can easily be converted into a small building used as a bathhouse in a country house. summer cottage. The advantages of such a choice are quite obvious, since a bathhouse from a trailer will not require any special effort and significant costs. After installation at the place of permanent use, all you have to do is insulate the walls and improve the appearance.
In this article we will look at how to make a bathhouse from a trailer with your own hands, and also give photo and video instructions.
When arranging such a structure, you should always remember that it separate rooms(washing room, steam room and dressing room) must be reliably isolated from one another - this will ensure the required regime in the steam room.
Foundation preparation
In the event that you expect to receive for use a solid building suitable for use in winter period– you will have to worry not only about reliable insulation, but also about preparing the foundation for it. The choice of the latter is determined, as a rule, by the characteristics of the soil at the location of your future bathhouse.
Let us note that for the situation we are considering (if the soil in the place where the bathhouse is located is quite dense), it is quite acceptable to use options for lightweight strip or column foundations prepared to a shallow depth.
It is also very important to pay attention to the fact that the height of the foundation base you choose is at least 35–40 cm. Only in this case will it be possible to insulate the bottom of the building through the use of additional bedding.
Well, if you plan to make a mobile sauna trailer, you won’t have to make a special foundation for it at all, limiting yourself to simple supports made of reinforced concrete slabs.
Foundation arrangement
Before you begin installing and converting the trailer into a bathhouse, you should clearly determine its location, after which it will be necessary to carry out the following preparatory operations:
- clear the location you have chosen of stumps and debris;
- level and compact the soil at the location of the future bathhouse trailer;
- prepare a frame from 20x20 cm timber and install it on concrete blocks or brick pillars;
- sheathe the prepared frame with edged boards.
Upon completion of the preparatory operations, you can proceed directly to finishing the trailer.
Conversion procedure
Getting the trailer in order
To transform an old decommissioned trailer into a full-fledged bathhouse, it will be necessary to make maximum efforts, associated, in particular, with the arrangement of a well-insulated and thoroughly insulated steam room.
To do this, first of all, you should carefully examine the trailer for the presence of visually visible defects (cracks, potholes and holes) in its walls, floor and ceiling and try to repair them using a suitable building material.
Please note that when carrying out repair and insulation work you will have to deal with one of the following types of standard carriage buildings:
- metal welded structure;
- wooden frame covered with clapboard or chipboard.
Re-equipment and insulation
To insulate a metal trailer, you will need to modify its design. This modification will consist of preparing (welding to a metal frame) special plates with holes necessary for securing the wooden beams. By mounted this way wooden frame subsequently the building will be insulated and finished; in this case, the insulation is supposed to be laid in the space between the individual bars.
For insulation of external and internal surfaces trailer (its doors, ceiling, walls and floor), you can use such common protective materials as basalt wool, polyurethane or “Isover”.
Note! When using mineral wool, the surface to be protected is pre-closed plastic film or glassine, used as waterproofing, preventing moisture from entering the insulation.
From the outside, the insulation can be covered with edged boards or the bathhouse can be finished with siding.
Do not forget that the floor of the converted building is also subject to mandatory insulation, produced using special polyurethane sheets, on top of which a floorboard is laid. IN winter time such a floor structure will protect interior spaces trailer from severe frosts, and will also allow you to retain heat inside its premises.
As for the choice of heating equipment for the steam room of a converted trailer, in such cases standard fireplace stoves are most often used. Videos and photos of baths from construction trailer you can see at the end of the article.
Very often, after building a house, used cabins remain on the site. The owners can adapt them to store tools or building materials. But not many people realize that this structure can be used to make a small and comfortable bathhouse.
What are the benefits:
- cost savings;
- easy to sell;
- you are not required to maintain standard distances from neighboring plots, because According to the standards, a change house is a temporary structure;
- the bathhouse can be easily moved from one area to another;
1. Location on the site
First of all, it is worth remembering that the bathhouse is perhaps the most fire-hazardous building on your site. Despite the fact that conscientious owners use special impregnations to make wood fire-resistant, log saunas burn like matches. Therefore, the bathhouse building should be located away from the main residential buildings.
According to sanitary standards:
SNiP 30-02-97
6.8 The minimum distances between buildings for sanitary conditions should be, m:
- from garden house and the cellar to the restroom - 12;
- to shower, bath and sauna – 8;
- from the well to the latrine and composting device – 8;
- before construction for keeping small livestock and poultry, showers, baths, saunas - 12;
- from a cellar to a composting facility and buildings for keeping small livestock and poultry – 7.
By fire safety standards according to the same SNiP 30-02-97 a distance of 15 meters from buildings in the neighboring area should be maintained. (Clause 6.5.* Fire safety distances between buildings and structures within the same area are not standardized.) In any case, the change house is a temporary structure and the standards do not apply to it.
2. Foundation
What is the advantage of a change house over a frame or brick bath? No special foundation is required for the cabin. It is enough to place it under the support profile edged boards, timber, cinder block, in general, anything that would provide good support and allow the floor to be leveled under the right angle. If you are not going to move your building anywhere, then you can fork out for a “capital” foundation in the form of foundation blocks or, for example, very popular now screw piles. However, if there is a strong metal frame, there is no particular need for this.
3. Bathhouse layout
First of all, it is necessary to take into account that it is advisable to separate the steam room from the relaxation room so that steam does not penetrate there, creating excess humidity in room. Doors, according to standards fire safety, must necessarily open outwards.
Steam room dimensions It is not recommended to make it more than 2.2x2.5 meters, and a height of more than 2.3 m, because in a large room it is more difficult to control the microclimate. In addition, the larger the volume of the room, the more powerful and, accordingly, more expensive the stove will be. This suits us quite well, because... standard size block container 2.45 m along the outer walls, inside, depending on the “pie”, the walls are approximately 2.3 m. For the steam room, it would be best to retreat from end wall change houses - 1.5-2 m and make a partition separating the steam room and washing room.
For interior decoration steam room most often used linden lining. But you can save money and get by with pine. Or combine it: the bottom, covered with benches, is decorated with pine clapboard (the temperature in the lower part of the steam room still does not rise above 60 C°), and the top is decorated with linden.
Door to the steam room You can make it wooden or glass. Glass door more expensive, but more practical. It is guaranteed not to deform from steam and humidity. But wooden ones hold heat in the room better. There will be no loss of stove power. Optimal size opening 1.93x0.76 m, because The most common size of a sauna door is 1.9 x 0.7 m.
shelves
1. There is no point in making shelves more than two levels
The length of the shelf should be greater than the height of the person. 2.2m-2.3m is an excellent length, but 2m will do in a pinch. It is enough to make the width of the shelf 60-70cm (more is possible, but then it will not be very comfortable to sit on it. But this is not scary)
2. It should be comfortable for the steamer too. The one who soars must have direct “access to the body.” that is, in a good way, there should not be a lower shelf between the steamer and the top shelf, since if there is one, the steamer will have to bend over to reach it - this is an additional load on the steamer’s back. But the steamer receives significantly more stress (both thermal and physical) than the one being steamed. But imagine that you have to stand bending over for 10 minutes - anyone’s back will hurt.
4. Insulation and environmental safety
The main purpose of the bathhouse design is to store heat, so thermal insulation cabins - baths should be given Special attention. I do not recommend using materials such as polystyrene foam as thermal insulation for a steam room. The debate about the dangers of expanded polystyrene continues to this day. Our manufacturers do not always comply with production rules and regulations, so low-quality polystyrene foams often contain styrene itself, which is a highly toxic substance. Expanded polystyrene has a fire resistance group of G1 (flammable).
I recommend using non-flammable insulation materials as thermal insulation, for example mineral (ISOVER) or stone wool(ROCKWOOL)(flammability group G4 - non-flammable).
The bathhouse must be insulated along the contour (walls, floor, ceiling). Typically in warm southern conditions Krasnodar region Manufacturers consider floor insulation in a change house unnecessary, since this increases the cost of the structure and additional costs for protecting the floor insulation from moisture by lining the bottom with a galvanized steel sheet.
In a steam room, it is advisable to remove everything from the walls and ceiling. plastic materials– sheathing PVC panels, electrical wiring in cable ducts, switches, etc.
5. Electrical wiring
In a steam room, it is advisable to lay electrical wiring under insulation. Be sure (!) to use heat-resistant wire and lay the cable in a metal hose.
It is advisable to connect the stove through a circuit breaker with differential protection.
6. Waterproofing
For waterproofing with outside For insulation, it is best to use a windproof three-layer superdiffusion membrane Yutawek or similar. This film will reliably protect the structure of the bathhouse from wind and water, and will also be able to ensure the free exit of excess moisture from the room.
It is usually used as an under-roofing film to protect against rain and snow, but is also suitable for in this case. You need to attach it with the white side to the insulation, dark side out. It is sold in rolls of 1.5x50m.
7. Heat reflector
On top of the insulation, the walls, floor and ceiling in the steam room are finished with foil paper (foil inside the room), it is easily attached to wooden blocks stapler, and the seams are taped with metal tape.
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8. Construction of a stove-heater for a bath.
It is better to choose an oven famous manufacturers like Harvia, Ermak, etc. You can buy other analogues, but then, if the oven breaks down, finding spare parts may be a problem for you. The space behind the stove must be finished with a heat-resistant material; a galvanized steel sheet is quite suitable for these purposes. If you want to decorate the space behind the stove with tiles, then it is better to use heat-resistant plasterboard as a base for the tiles. The tile next to the stove should be heat-resistant, clinker, and not fixed in the usual way. tile adhesive, and buy glue Litokol or similar.
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This glue is diluted not with water, but with a special milk Latexcol.
A special screen made of stainless steel or galvanized steel is useful above the stove. Firstly, thanks to the screen, heat will be better transferred to the shelves, and secondly, the lining above the stove will not darken from high temperature. The screen should be installed at an angle. You will attach the bottom of the screen to the wall, and the top part to the ceiling of the cabin with long screws through small 30mm bars so that the temperature from the screen is not transferred to the wall.
In order for the heat of the stove to be used not only in the steam room, but also to warm the rest of the rooms, in the partition separating the steam room, closer to the floor at the location of the heater, you can make a hole with a diameter of 100 mm with corrugated metal pipe. WITH reverse side this hole is closed by a ventilation grille.
After the purchase land plot begin pleasant chores related to site planning, project selection, and purchase of necessary building materials. As you know, construction is not a quick task, and with limited finances it can last for many years. Well, how can you, if you have a plot of land, not relax, barbecue with friends, or spend a pleasant time on it while construction is going on? Good vacation can be organized on your site with a minimum of necessary buildings.
The first thing that appears on the site and is building number one is the toilet. You can't go anywhere without him. For a comfortable stay in warm period a regular construction shed will do. In this article, we will look at how to diversify and complement your holiday with a Russian bathhouse, which you can make with your own hands from a change house or a container. 
good wooden sauna made of logs or timber is not cheap, and the construction of such a bathhouse will take at least two years, but you want to take a steam bath with a broom and fragrant steam today.
You can buy a not very expensive change house outside the construction season, that is, in winter, or buy a used one. The change house does not need a powerful foundation. It can be installed on small concrete blocks. The quantity will depend on the size of the cabin possible rooms in the future bathhouse. In a small cabin you can only place a steam room and a relaxation room or washing room, but in a large one you can even place a toilet. When purchasing a change house that is subsequently planned to be converted into a bathhouse, you need to pay attention not only to its size, but also to the insulation of the walls, floor and ceiling. The minimum thickness of insulation in the wall should be at least ten centimeters. If the thickness of the insulation is less, then the entire frame of the cabin will have to be redone, since the timber for it is selected based on the thickness of the insulation. To retain heat in the steam room for a longer period of time, it is necessary to additionally lay foil insulation along the walls and seal the joints with foil tape. In inexpensive cabins, the inside walls are usually lined with hardboard, which is not suitable for a bathhouse. In this case, the walls of the change house will have to be redone with your own hands and sewn up wooden clapboard. This will not be very difficult to do, since there is no need to arrange the sheathing. The lining can be fixed directly to the frame of the cabin. To decorate a steam room in a bathhouse, linden lining is usually used. It does not contain resin and does not emit harmful substances when heated. 
The electrical wiring in the part of the cabin where the steam room will be located must be replaced with heat-resistant wiring. The lamp will also need to be replaced with heat-resistant ones. For greater safety and to avoid fire, it is necessary to install an electrical panel with an RCD (residual current device) and automatic circuit breakers.
Furniture for a bath can also be made with your own hands from wooden planks, which will probably remain superfluous during construction. For a couple of benches and a table you won’t need a lot of them.
You can not touch the outside of the trailer and leave everything as it is, but if you really want to give it the look of a real log bathhouse, then you can fork out for a House block. Its installation can also be done by hand. Old finish(wagoka, corrugated sheet) will need to be dismantled and the House block attached to the existing frame. 
To give a more aesthetic appearance to a bathhouse from a change house, it is better to convert the roof to a gable roof, if there was not one initially. For this old roof You don’t have to disassemble it, but just make rafters on it. Make lathing along the rafters and cover the roof roofing material(profiled sheets, metal tiles). For a more pleasant time on the site and using the bathhouse from the cabin as a gazebo, you can attach a spacious veranda to it with your own hands. To do this, we will need several concrete blocks instead of a foundation and several 100 by 100 mm bars. We make the lower trim from the bars, part of which we attach to the change house. From the same bars we make racks and top harness according to the principle of the bottom. We put up the rafters and cover it with a roof. If you make a gable roof, common with the change house, you will get a completely residential second floor. 
The only thing left to do is purchase and install the stove. The choice of stove will depend on the size of the steam room. The larger the steam room, the more powerful and expensive the stove. For a bathhouse from a change house it’s impossible would be better suited a wood-burning stove, the so-called heater. 
As you can see, it is inexpensive and useful to make a bathhouse from a change house with your own hands. And if you dream a little with external design, then you may well end up with a masterpiece that will remain on your site forever.
As practice shows, a person can do a lot, even one who has never encountered anything before. The main thing is that he has a desire, and he can always figure out how to find opportunities. The article will discuss how to make a bathhouse out of a trailer, which is often left behind by builders on the site.
They no longer need it, and a zealous owner will always be able to find a use for such a “gift.” Its purpose is temporary housing in which people can be provided with a comfortable stay. Carriages are made from wood, metal, or a combination of these materials.
Why is it interesting in the first place? this option steam room? You immediately receive a “semi-finished product” of the structure. All that remains is to insulate it and decorate the inside.
Foundation for a trailer
The design is selected based on the dimensions of the building and the quality of the soil..
There are four main types:
- tape;
- columnar;
- pile;
- slab
The sauna trailer can easily be placed on a shallow columnar base. The “power” of the structure is not that great, so you can do without reinforced concrete tape. In addition, it should be borne in mind that the building can be moved at any time to another site.
Dismantling a columnar base will then cause much less hassle than a monolithic reinforced concrete one. Please also note that the price and labor costs spent on the construction of a columnar.
The height of the base is 300-400 mm from the ground. This will make it possible to make additional bedding to insulate the lower part of the trailer.
The cheapest option is a foundation made of asbestos-cement pipes. However, its durability and strength are questionable. Pile foundation arranged in marshy and heaving areas, but its cost will be very expensive. It’s not difficult to build a base for a trailer with your own hands; the main thing is to follow the construction technology.
Preparation
Below are instructions for the preliminary stage.
- Clear the selected area of debris and bushes, and if necessary, uproot trees.
- Make markings using pegs and cord to mark the center lines. Place the columns of the future foundation at a distance of 2-3 m.
- Remove the fertile layer of soil in the areas of future foundation columns.
Advice: if installed strip foundation, remove the fertile layer around the entire perimeter.
Manufacturing
- Make a sand and gravel bedding 100-150 mm high. Tamp it thoroughly with moisture.
- Build a columnar foundation on it:
- Made of red brick or concrete blocks. Conduct masonry with bandaging of seams using cement-sand mortar.
- For monolithic columnar foundation Formwork must first be made. A reinforcement cage should be installed inside. The distance between it and the outer wall must be at least 50 mm.
- Waterproof the base by covering it with roofing felt.
- Install a frame made of wooden beams with a section of 150x150 mm on top. Secure the timber together metal corners or do corner connections“in the paw”, in “half the tree” or others.
Advice: everything wooden elements must be treated with an antiseptic before installation.
- Check the foundation with a horizontal level, if necessary, place linings under the frame.
Without foundation
Bathhouse trailers often do not have a foundation.
In this case, proceed as follows:
- Choose a place for the bathhouse trailer.
- Tamp it down.
- Make a frame from timber with a cross-section of 200x200 mm and install it on bricks or concrete blocks.
- Sheathe the frame with slabs or boards, and also cover it with roofing material.
Insulation of a bathhouse trailer
Bathhouses made from a trailer differ from ordinary trailer cabins in the level of thermal protection. This is especially true for the steam room, where it is not only necessary to create desired temperature, but keep it long enough. There are two versions of the trailer - wooden and metal.
Let's consider the last one as the most difficult.
- Weld pieces of a corner with a hole for a nail to the iron wall on the outside and inside; you can weld a plate, a strip, or weld a bolt.
- Attach to them wooden beam section 100x100 mm. In the first case, use a nail; in the second, pre-drill holes in it for the bolt and secure the material with a nut and washer.
- Set between , for example:
- basalt wool;
- isover;
- polyurethane sheets.
- When using cotton wool, it must be protected from moisture with glassine or polyethylene film, which is placed on top of the beam.
- Cover the top of the structure with boards or siding.
- Insulate the trailer in the same way from the inside with 50x50 mm timber.
- Place polyurethane sheets on the floor and cover them with floorboards. This way you can reliably insulate the floor and reduce costs for heating the room.
Functionality
Bake
The main part of any bathhouse, since without it it is impossible to create a real steam room. Most often, heater stoves are used, when stones are placed on the top of the stove to accumulate heat.
The most practical location of the stove is the firebox outside the steam room. In this case, there are all conditions for creating a safe zone around it using metal sheet. The heater should be installed on brick base, and through the roof it is necessary to insulate with asbestos and other non-flammable materials to avoid fire.
Configuration
The rooms in the bathhouse trailer are located one after another.
- An entrance that must have two doors and a vestibule between them.
- The locker room is usually not heated, but electric heating can be installed.
- A rest room or dressing room with or without a shower.
- Steam room.
Sewage and water
Hot water in the shower can come from an electric boiler, or a heating radiator can be diverted from the stove. In the first case, the shower can be used without lighting the bath. Water is discharged either into a separate pit on the site or into the central sewer system. Cold water should be submitted to a separate storage tank, located inside the trailer.
Conclusion
Do-it-yourself bathhouse from a trailer - interesting opportunity use of auxiliary facilities. In the video presented in this article you will find Additional information on this topic.
