Design features, installation technology, models of Russian and foreign manufacturers, prices.
A- Aluminum Bako Panels for Saniform Plus Bath (Kaldewei, Germany);
B- Trevi from IDO (Finland)
A- plastic screen from Ecroline;
B- "Light baths side";
V- "Class Block Side" from "Karavann"
Screens for bathrooms are simultaneously functional and decorative. They mask the inner space under the bathroom with all technical communications and harmoniously combined with the surrounding furniture and wall facing.
So repairs in the bathroom ended, you think. Now I'll come to wash your hands, and there ... a new font, in which you can lie and dream of hours, the radiator shines and sparkles, as another light bulb, the mixers do not have modern and comfortable ... Tale! Banal hand washing suddenly begins to deliver pleasure. But every time in the middle of this charm, the look stumbles and wanders inappropriate: something is wrong. Ivdrugs understand what annoys you. Yes, all these pipes, all these "insides" under the bathroom, such wild and incomplete in an updated room that destroy the slender harmony of its planes. Kschastina, there is an easy way to solve this problem, install the screen under the bath. Simple and convenient device.
Design
The design of this simple device is really very simple. Typically, the bath screen consists of a frame (frame or two guides) and the panels attached to it (one or several). Panels, as a rule, mobile and either slide on the guides (which is very similar to the doors of the wardrobe), or open, ensuring access to space under the bathroom. The extended legs allow you to adjust the height of the screen and install it under the aircraft. The most popular models encountered in the assortment of any manufacturer have a length of 1.5 and 1.7 m, they are designed to decorate the facade of the bath. But there are screens and for the ends, as well as for semicircular fonts.More perfect and comfortable screens-cabinets. Behind their doors there are shelves for storing the necessary small detergents, gloves, brushes IT.P.
Screens can be performed from different materials (plastics, MDF, chipboard, metal). Homemade structures are found, for example from plexiglas. It is important that the material corresponds to several basic requirements: it must serve for a long time and not deform, it is easy to clean, be resistant to household chemicals, as well as to moisture, including direct water from the surface.
Alternative to the installation screen - the construction of the wall "on the century", for example, from a brick, lined with tiles or mosaic. However, the leakage or breaking of the pipes, this wall will have to break, because with a serious accident, even competently arranged hatches for revisions will no longer help. So mobile screens have their advantages over a few minutes. And harder the bath, the more equipment is located under it (pumps, filters IT.P.), the more justified the use of screens.
Installation
The installation of the finished screen can be made in just a few minutes. It is necessary to get it out of the packaging, attach to the panels of the handle, and to the lower part of the framework legs. Then the screen should be installed vertically under the side of the bathroom and, unscrew the supporting legs, fix it further. If the installation is hampered by plinths or plumbing pipes, the extra part of the panel is scorn.
Alternative solutions
Alternative to mobile screen- Capital construction, lined, as a rule, tiles or mosaic. This can be a rigidly fixed frame made of metallic galvanized profile with drywall or dry-fiber, but unsolved moisture-resistant panels, or a wall of brick or foam concrete blocks. For access to communications under the bathroom, several hatches are made. Another decision was suggested by the Czech company Ravak. Incility to its acrylic baths, at the request of the customer, supplies frames with a thickness of 10-12 cm (the manufacturer of the German company ILLBRUK, cost, from $ 40). Frames are made of high density foam and are intended for baths of different configurations, rectangular, oval or angular. Structurally, they are able to close everything available from the plumbing device open side, one, two or even four. You can cut holes with a knife or hacksaw in the frame to access the installation places of fittings. The tile or mosaic is placed on ordinary tile glue (not containing acetone).
Manufacturers
Our market provides products for both Russian and foreign manufacturers. Moreover, foreign bath providers (Albatros and Jacussi, Italy, IDO, Kaldewei IDR), as a rule, offer a screen bundled with a specific bathroom (naturally, it is fitted to it in size and is suitable for color). Universal models produce Russian firms "Karavann" (brand "Bath Block"), Aquamate, Ecroline, "Remstroyplast", "Siara" IDR. Their products are combined with the majority of Russian-made baths and with many foreign models.
Plastic Standard Size Screens (15052cm, 17052cm) offers Ecroline. Cost - 700-800 rub. Colorist gamma includes 30 colors options: white, green and blue malachite, gray-blue marble, "acorn", "cloud", "ice" IT.P. If the screen sizes do not match your bath, the product of the necessary dimensions can be ordered (cost- 1300rub.)
A little more variety of sizes and models is represented in the Caravannan catalog. The front panels have a length of 118, 138, 148, 158, 168, 178cm, end-70, 75, 80, 85cm. The design of the soft screen "SOFT" resembles a conventional shower curtain: "Apron" is fixed from a nonwoven material with a flexible plumbing on the aluminum profile frame. The framework of the rest of the models ("Classic", Light and Others, costs - from 300 to 1000 rubles) is made of aluminum profiles coated with corrosion-resistant paint (like in refrigerators), and the sliding panels are made of glossy shockproof polystyrene. Mass design - 3.5-5kg.
The company "Neebor" represents three models of screens that differ only in the material of panels - laminated, made from conventional plastic or from plastic "lining". Cost - from 235 rubles.
The framework of Aquamate products is made of moisture-proof chipboard, and the facade is from MDF, covered with several layers of paints and varnishes. The screen under the bath has four sprinkling doors. Two basic models are offered: "Ring 150" (size 1480525130mm, cost- 3920rub.) And "Ring 170" (1670525130mm, 4250 rub.)
Yes, the screen is comfortable, you will agree you, but is it perfect enough? Unfortunately no. Someone complains that he is constantly rattling. Others make sure that when washing it is impossible to approach the bath, the socks are resting in the screen. Uncomfortable. But maybe it's not too high fee for the decorative perfection of the bathroom? You decide.
The editors thanks the company "Karavann", "WORLD BAT", "NEBOD", "old man hottabych", Kaldewei and Ravak for help in the preparation of material.