Bathroom is one of the most difficult objects for repair work. Various communications are concentrated on a small area: water supply, sewage, electricity, ventilation. The bathroom is a zone of high humidity, which also imposes certain requirements for the complexity of the finishing work. And the constant need for the everyday life of this premises obliges to carry out repair work in the shortest possible time. Therefore, starting the repair in the bathroom, it is necessary to carefully consider the repair course in order to be able to complete it quickly and do everything right.
As a rule, the bath requires major repairs with the replacement of water supply and sewage pipes. You need to start work by drawing up a project. This does not mean that you need to contact a designer of interiors. Visit building materials and plumbing stores in order to study the range. Choose a bath that will approach the size of the bathroom, sink, mixer. Select tiles for flooring and walls.
By choosing finishing materials and equipment, determine where the lamps will be located. After all design work is over, you can start repairing in the bathroom.
The first stage of repair – dismantling.
Repair begins with the removal of the entire old finish. It is necessary to dismantle the old bath, sink. Remove the old tile. After the end of the dismantling work, you need to check the verticality of the walls. Most often, the walls are far from vertical. In order to make no problems with the joint of the seams in the corners when laying tiles, and the bath adjusted to the wall exactly, it will be necessary to level the walls. To do this, use plastering on the beacons. To install plaster beacons, you need to use the level and the rules to find the most protruding point on the wall. It will be a zero mark.
Lighthouses are installed regarding this point to create a single wall plane located strictly vertically. At this stage, it is necessary to determine the location of the lamps and the mixer. To perform hidden wiring of electric wires and pipes, they must be put in strobes. Shtrobes can be done in advance, after dismantling, but sometimes a layer of plaster when leveling is so thick that it is not necessary to do extra work on the device. If the wires and pipes are not hidden in the plaster layer, then it is necessary. We carry out wiring pipes, electric wiring.
Alignment of the walls.
After that, lightaks are installed with a distance of about 500 mm between them. It is better to install beacons on a quick -drying mixture. The use of gypsum mixtures for wet rooms is not desirable, so select the mixtures on a cement basis, but quickly drying out. Do not forget to primer the wall: the primer will provide better sticking. After installing the lighthouses, we are plastering walls. For wet rooms, it is better to use plaster mixtures on a cement basis.
Preparation of the floor.
While the plaster dries, we will prepare the floors. Just as with walls, we determine how much the existing floor is horizontal. If the difference is small, the floor can be leveled with self -leveling mixtures. If the layer in some places exceeds three centimeters, it is advisable to cast a cement-sand screed. To do this, you also need to put lighthouses.
Bathroom – a room in which water is constantly present. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully perform waterproofing. To do this, you can use bituminous mastic or bulk water -soluble waterproofing mixtures. When waterproofing the floor, a waterproofing solution should be applied to the bottom of the walls, ensuring the insulation of the joint of the wall and floor.
Very often the ceiling in the bathroom is also not horizontally. This will definitely be seen when the walls are faced with tiles. The easiest way is to solve this problem by making a suspended ceiling. For example, from special ceiling panels.
Tiles are laid on the prepared walls and floor. After the tile glue dries, you need to wipe the seams and you can install a bath, sink, mount the mixer, put lamps and hang a mirror. Bathroom repair can be considered complete.
