Sauna Room Floor Drain

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Sauna room floor drain.

Cut and install a shower drain in center of hot room. View profile view forum posts private message visit homepage member join date mar 2007. Get a couple bags of vinyl cement patch 40 i believe. Prep for durarock and skim coat.

09 01 2010 07 57 am 5. Hardwood sauna floor. It s basically the same thing as a shower floor sloped to a drain at the center. 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.

Only mould and moisture resistant products should be used in the entire construction of a sauna both inside the sauna and the area outside. Nordic spruce sauna rooms. There are a couple of options for surface coverings. Floor drain in sauna installing a floor drain in the sauna can be complicated and expensive.

Firing strips to pitch floor to drain. Next i needed to give the floor a slope so that any water from any sides would run down to the drain. Many of the saunas installed today do not have a floor drain. Mix that in a wheelbarrow.

It s a real slick system. 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. Trowel it down in the hot room floor. 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.

Because there is so much moisture inside the sauna we like to construct a fully tiled pan at the floor. Ipe wood sauna floor tile diamond. Ipe wood sauna floor tile. The ben square sleeper method is a better way to slope a hot room floor.

I found the best location where i could make all the water run to and marked the spot. Ipe floor tile transition edge. Couple points to keep in mind. 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.

You should treat it like a shower in a bathroom. 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.