How to make a warm floor in the bath

Since ancient times people went to the baths for health and pleasure, which brings cleansing the body with water and hot steam. In Russia, for baths the attitude was always very reverent. In the villages not even the most wealthy family, and now has its own bathhouse. There are certain rules and secrets of the construction of baths. A very important point – is laying the floor in the bath. Some make the floor cold, but for comfort and save energy it is recommended to do warm floors, although this is more complex and expensive process.

You will need

• Sand, roofing material, cement, foam, reinforcement mesh with ячейками100×100 mm wooden Board for a flooring or tile, depending on the wishes.

Instruction

1. Getting to the arrangement of a warm floor in the steam room, it is necessary to dig to a depth of about half a meter. Earth clean the walls and bottom of the pit tamp, evenly spread on it a layer of sand about 5 cm.
2. On the sand lay, tight fitting, sheets of foam. The thickness of the sheets shall be not less than 200mm. Trim and pieces of foam do not discard, they will be useful for the preparation of cement fill.
3. On top of the foam, apply a layer of mortar of cement and sand. It is mixed in the ratio of one to one. The solution should be to add foam chips.
4. Now the top layer should lay a roofing felt or its equivalent, in two layers for waterproofing the floor in the bath. On top of the roofing material pour another layer of cement mortar thickness of five centimeters. This time the solution add vermiculite.
5. Lay reinforcing mesh, pour a layer of concrete or mortar, mixed with small gravel. You can then put the top layer of floor floor.