Sauna Room Floor Drain

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Sauna room floor drain.

09 01 2010 07 57 am 5. Prep for durarock and skim coat. Trowel it down in the hot room floor. Sauna mats are cost effective easy to install and available in a range of colors.

Only mould and moisture resistant products should be used in the entire construction of a sauna both inside the sauna and the area outside. A good sauna room has the door heater and vent locations to agree with one another and at the same time allows maximum bench or platform area and minimum floor area. Ipe floor tile corner. Mix that in a wheelbarrow.

There are a couple of options for surface coverings. Ipe wood sauna floor tile. Ipe floor tile transition edge. I found the best location where i could make all the water run to and marked the spot.

Firing strips to pitch floor to drain. Although small amounts of water will evaporate quickly from a sauna floor care must be taken in saunas without a floor drain not to pour excessive amounts of water over the sauna heater. 3 4 around perimeter down to about 1 4 at the drain. Get a couple bags of vinyl cement patch 40 i believe.

You should treat it like a shower in a bathroom. It s a real slick system. With my ten or so sauna builds i have always run 2x stock through my table saw to create sleepers on an angle through my table saw sloping down to the drain like so. Many of the saunas installed today do not have a floor drain.

Because i intend to use the sauna to the fullest i needed the floor to have a drain. Next i needed to give the floor a slope so that any water from any sides would run down to the drain. Floor drain in sauna installing a floor drain in the sauna can be complicated and expensive. In a traditional sauna using either an electric or wood fired heater the room must be able to breathe and have a good heat distribution so proper ventilation is important.

Because there is so much moisture inside the sauna we like to construct a fully tiled pan at the floor. Water in the trap of a floor drain in a dry sauna would evaporate and may allow sewer gas to rise up into the sauna. Hardwood sauna floor. It s basically the same thing as a shower floor sloped to a drain at the center.

View profile view forum posts private message visit homepage member join date mar 2007. Couple points to keep in mind.