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Answers to the questions relating to the bathrooms: how to visually increase the area of ​​the bathroom, for which you need to ground the bath and mixers, etc.

There is a small joint bathroom 170135cm, where you can position only the sedent bath with a length of 120 cm. Now there is a reconstruction of the room, after which there will be a big bath (with a length of 170 cm), only the free space will not remain. I want to visually expand the space due to the correct decoration of the walls. What tile is better to choose: light, bright, large, small? Perform all surfaces with one color or combine? Do you need borders? Initially, there was an idea to arrange the bathroom in bright yellow shades, but I don't know how it will look in a small room. In general, will such a palette suitable for the bathroom in terms of human impact?

You can view the room with light facing. If plumbing devices are colored, such as blue or pink, then it is better to use ceramic tiles or to tone or white. Achto concerns the combination - in any brand store selling finishing materials, hundreds of options and samples of the design of the wall are presented and choose. By the way, a small bathroom in a typical house can be enhanced by the corridor, but such a project will require compulsory approval in the ICC. In this case, it will be possible to install the corner model of the bath, and to visually "increase the square", the specialists recommend one of the walls to lay out the mirror tile and tinted the ceiling mirror panels.

Support hot water to the heated towel rail, you want to remove into the wall. However, Plumber from Jeques says that it is impossible to fasten the pipes "on twists", only welding is needed. Adrict Plumbing, on the contrary, claims that it is better "on twists". How is it better and most importantly, how is it right?

It all depends on the location of the hot pipeline to which the heated towel rail is connected, and the design of the latter. The eyeliner, deployed in the wall or floor, should be only of one-piece pipe segments, in any case, not from the carved on the thread. These are the requirements of SNIP2.04.05-91 "Heating, ventilation and air conditioning." The csamom device is most often connected using a threaded connection. Welding is permissible if this is consistent with the construct of the heated towel rail. The work capacity of the labor-intensity of the work can be used by metal-and-dimensional pipes for which fittings are available for compounding thread or crimping.

What is needed to ground the bath and mixers in the bathroom?

Actually, for grounding such premises, both bathrooms, use the so-called potential equalization system. It is an electrical connection of all metal pipes of the water supply, gas and sewage, and in the bathroom there are also metal sanitary pribors (baths, shells, pallets) to a common tire, which, in turn, is connected to the protective tire of the apartment panel. There is nothing complicated to a diversity. On the bath there is a special place to connect the ground if it is not, the ground wire is screwed under the foot mount bolt. Mixers if the wiring is made by polymer pipes, usually no one grounds, but they can also be grounded,

Connecting a grounding wire to a metal fitting. The cross section of the grounding wire is selected at least 6mm2, and this conductor is reached to the apartment shield, where "plant" on the grounding bus. By the way, if a warm floor is laid in the bathroom, the heating cable screen should also be connected to the potential equalization system.

Please tell me how to protect the mirror in the bathroom from moisture exposure?

Before attaching a mirror canvas to tile or cement-sand plaster, it is necessary to apply a thin (about 0.5mm) layer of sealant to the perimeter of the mirror. Then, degreased by gasoline and rubbish the surface of the tile, slightly press the mirror to the wall and secure it with two galvanized or stainless screws.

What to choose a sealant? Since domestic two-component, in large packages and unstable quality, it is advisable to buy a 100-200 gram tube of the German or Finnish composition "Rabersil-1K" (only our elastosil 11-06 "alone, although one-component, but adhesion it with tiles when The long-term effects of warm water decreases sharply).

If your mirror is in a wooden frame, you should process the sealant and the edge of the mirror with a width of about 3 cm, and the entire back surface of the frame.

Bought a water heater. This kit includes a shower nozzle. It turns off it, and instead, put the usual crane and connect the device to the water supply system ...

Similar actions are completely unacceptable! Most likely, you have a non-valve water heater, and according to the instructions before turning on it, you first need to open the crane of cold water. Simply put, the function of the mixer, if you embody the planned one, will actually perform the water heater. The fact is that the tank of your device is not designed for the pressure of the water supply network. Its mixer has a special design that allows the device to operate also and a safety valve dropping excessive pressure.

If the mixer is replaced, the water heater will fail. Read the instructions carefully, it should be written in detail in it, how to connect the device so that it does not arise any problems. In any case, nothing "invent" without consulting a specialist.

Last summer put the flowing water heater, and he worked perfectly well, and now (in winter), during the accident in the heating network, the device stopped warm the water, although in the service center it is said to me that it is working. What is the problem?

Apparently, we are talking about a small flowing water heater with a capacity of 3.5 kW (with T = 25C, with a capacity of 3 l / min). In the summer, the temperature of cold water leaving the crane was about + 15 ° C. The air heater is easily "cutting out it for another 25c. That is, 15c + 25c = 40c- quite normal temperature for washing. In winter, water in the crane is colder, approximately + 5c. So: 5c + 25c = 30c- under such water, of course, do not seem. Isam The device is really nothing to do with it, it works in normal mode, it did not break anything in it, we just have a climate.

Moreover, small flow water heaters were designed for warm countries (Asia, Africa). Atam there are no such drops between the winter and summer temperature, and the temperature of the water in the crane is always about + 15c.

After laying on the walls in the bathroom, the ceramic tiles and the grouts of the seams passed two years. The attended point of the seam between the tiled facing and the border of the bath is completely tightened along the entire length and began to crumble. Now we are preparing to close it again. How to avoid re-destruction of the grout material in the joint locations?

Grout cracks, of course, from the effects of moisture, especially warm steam. Prevent this will help all sorts of protective compounds that are applied on the seam immediately after drying the grouts (for example, Atlas Delfin protects the seams from the water and the appearance of all sorts of spots). The coating formed by them is resistant to detergents and withstands the temperature from -20 to + 80c.

Advise how to protect from the moisture in the bathroom of wood objects?

From water impact, wooden items are advisable to protect one of the two compositions:

A mixture of 10 bulk parts (m.) Natural olifa and 1.5 m. h. wax;

Blend 10m. h. Natural Olifa, 1m. h. Paraffin and 2m. h. Skipidar.

In any of these compositions, heated by a pair, soop the wood in 2-3 receptions with an interval of 1 day.

Determine the naturalness of the oil simply. It is enough to apply it with a thin layer (about 0.5 mm) on a metal surface and give dry. If after 24 hours of olive dried and turn into a transparent and elastic film, it means that it is natural. If drying occurs for a couple of hours earlier or later, the film will not be transparent and elasticly known, the material is not natural.