If your bathhouse does not yet have a shower stall, then you should seriously think about organizing this necessary accessory.

What is a shower in a bathhouse, and what types they are - let's figure it out. A shower room is a specially designated place in a bathhouse, fenced on all sides and occupying a minimum of space. Moreover, there are open and closed cabins. Open cabins are partially fenced. The interior of this design is tiled.

The closed-type cabin has a roof and is closed completely along the entire perimeter. This type of shower cabin, as a rule, has a more complex design and allows the entire device to be equipped with a mass additional functions and accessories: from the hydromassage option to a variety of pleasant little things, accessible to modern progress.

Shower in the bath: a wide choice for any “whim”

An open shower is the simplest design possible. It can be installed simply between two walls, equipped with doors of any type convenient for you. In some countries you can often find a type of shower with a drain of water onto the floor, then it goes directly into the sewer. As for our country, this option is quite rare in our country.

A pallet is used much more often; it is much more convenient and much more reliable. However, it must also meet many requirements: small size and convenience, a necessarily rough surface to prevent slipping, a rigid profile and a reliable drainage system.

There are five main types of pallet for cabins:

• Enameled steel pallets
• Ceramic or earthenware trays
• Marble pallets
• Enameled cast iron
• Acrylic pallets

Pallets made of enameled metal are comfortable and strong, but tend to rattle a lot and are susceptible to rust over time. Marble and ceramic are resistant to moisture and very durable. However, they can break from a strong blow. As for acrylic ones, they are the most popular; the surface tends to immediately heat up under running warm water. They are hygienic and are not exposed to moisture and harmful influence temperature difference.

One of the disadvantages of such a pallet is excessive flexibility, so when installing it, it must be additionally reinforced from below with an aluminum frame.

If your shower cabin for a bath is located in the country, it can be mounted without a tray, but in this case you need to think carefully about and drain the water.

Of course, it is necessary to pay Special attention on the design and convenience of the door that closes the open-type booth. The frame for the fence itself is best mounted from aluminum. It is light and not afraid of moisture. The curtains themselves are most often made of plexiglass or plastic.

But there is another one - more expensive, but also more reliable option– curtains made of specially tempered glass. The strength of such glass is not inferior to car windshields.

It does not become cloudy, washes well and is not subject to any external influences. Moreover, there are such glasses for curtains different types and for every taste - from transparent to matte, tinted and patterned.

As for the opening principle, the doors can be hinged or sliding. Moreover, the former are divided into double-leaf and single-leaf. The latter have more varieties. Options from two to six doors, held on a special magnetic tape in the closed state. They move using rollers hidden inside the frame itself.

For lovers of exotic types of baths, there is such an interesting option as a Turkish bath shower. This kind of pleasant pastime is very suitable for hamam lovers. It differs significantly from traditional Russian, but everything, as they say, is for an amateur and a connoisseur.

Ah, this divine hammam! Shower cabin with Turkish bath

If you have the desire and space allows, if you are the owner of a Turkish bath, then an excellent solution would be to install it at home. The principle of operation of such a cabin is as follows: there is a steam generator behind the shower, it emits steam from boiling water through a special nozzle into the cabin.

In this case, the level of temperature and humidity is controlled using a thermometer and hygrometer. The cabin has a roof to prevent steam from escaping beyond it. Sliding doors are safer and more convenient in such booths, as they maintain maximum tightness inside.

Additionally, the shower cabin with Turkish bath has a hydromassage system. The pipes in this system are made of durable plastic and are located higher than the side nozzles. Thanks to this, water is easily drained from the system after use. Hydromassage is provided by special nozzles or jets located on the walls. The quality of the massage depends on their quantity.

It is worth noting that shower boxes with Turkish baths are also equipped with a durable seat. This provides additional convenience, because while sitting you can relax better and enjoy the hydromassage.

If you are the owner of a regular bathhouse, then such a cabin for it will bring great benefits to your health. Do you need to cure a cold, do inhalation, get rid of viruses? Or do you have problems with the musculoskeletal system?

Then you just need to have such a shower box at hand. You can improve your health, relax and have fun at any time. After all, they come out later harmful substances, facilitating the work of all organs, establishing natural processes in the functioning of your body.

For aromatherapy lovers, these booths provide a special collection tank. medicinal herbs And essential oils. It is unlikely that you will deny yourself the pleasure of relaxing and healing at the same time in such a shower stall.

You are your own master! Making a shower stall with your own hands

If you have skillful hands, and you feel the strength to make a shower stall in a bathhouse at the dacha, then with simple skills, this is very possible.

First you need to decide what flooring will be in the shower. You can choose the option with a pallet, but you can also make it simpler - an inclined floor. If you follow all the rules and do the work carefully, such a floor will be reliable and will last a long time.

Before making a shower in the bathhouse, decide on its location.

Now you need to make a recess in the floor for future drainage of water (drain). Then, before laying the tiles, be sure to insulate and seal the floor to prevent water leakage. Moreover, the insulation under tiles is a system of several layers. First comes the concrete base. A foam thermal insulation layer is placed on top of it. Then a two-layer concrete “pie” with a waterproofing layer between the layers.

And only the tiles are laid on it, with a slight slope towards the drain hole. Therefore, before you start making the floor, you need to take into account its height reserve of about 15 centimeters.

Sequence of installation work

• A sewerage system is installed in the corner of the room where the cabin will be located. Then, on the already prepared concrete base, markings are made for the pallet and the location of the siphon is determined.
• Now a siphon is installed and tightly connected to the pipe going into the sewer. Another pipe is connected to a deaeration channel, which removes excess air when draining water.
• Next, foam plastic 5-centimeter thermal insulation is laid and adjusted to the siphon
• A 4-5 centimeter layer of concrete is placed on top and carefully leveled
• After letting the concrete layer dry, we lay the waterproofing layer, bending it onto the walls 15 cm above the concrete layer
• Two pieces are cut out of roofing felt. One is the size of a pallet, the second is half the size. A hole is made in the center of the small piece, where the siphon will then be inserted. This piece is placed on the drain and the siphon is tightly attached to it with screws.
• In the second, larger piece of roofing felt, a hole is cut with a sharp knife. The diameter of the hole should be slightly larger than the diameter of the siphon.
• Using a welding machine, it is necessary to heat both pieces of roofing material and connect them to each other and to the pallet, observing safety precautions

• Pre-cut pieces of roofing felt in the form of strips are laid with a reserve on the walls, they are also heated and pressed tightly against the walls and floor
• After laying the insulating layer, a drain grid is inserted into the siphon
• We form an inclined floor for the pallet. To do this, we install formwork from boards, and the floor level near the walls should be several centimeters higher than the place where the drain is located.
• We lay concrete into the formwork prepared in this way and carefully level it, first closing the siphon to prevent it from becoming clogged with mortar.
• For additional insulation, we attach a special self-adhesive insulating tape along the edges of the pallet, after moistening the surface for better adhesion.
• Now that everything is ready, you can lay the tiles. It is mounted starting from the drain in all directions to the walls.

If you decide to make a floor option in your booth with a ready-made pallet, then when purchasing it, pay special attention to ensure that it is equipped with all the parts necessary for installation.

1. Special legs are attached to the bottom of the pallet. It is better to place a piece of cardboard under each leg.
2. Before installing the tray into the floor, carefully smooth all surfaces with a chisel, removing all sharp edges
3. Don't forget to check the angle of the room. It should be 90°. This is easy to do using ceramic tiles. An indirect angle needs to be leveled.
4. Sewage pipes are installed until the socket opening coincides with the drain
5. Now all that remains is to carefully install the tray horizontally and adjust the legs

Assembling doors and curtains

After the floor in the booth is made, you can begin installing the doors. Moreover, after making the floor, you can purchase everything else already finished form, or you can assemble everything yourself from purchased components. It all depends on your financial capabilities, desires and creative abilities.

Plumbing stores have a huge assortment of both ready-made shower stalls and various parts and fragments for them. Therefore, you can buy ready-made curtains, or you can assemble them yourself.

First you need to decide which type of door is most suitable and convenient for you. As mentioned above, they differ in type, design and materials. If your space allows, you can make hinged doors. The number of sashes can be chosen according to your taste and discretion. You can also choose any material - plastic, glass or plastic. Sliding doors are also easy to assemble from components or buy ready-made ones.

If you have skillful hands and are at least a little creative, then you can easily design a shower in a bathhouse yourself. Do not forget that you will need tools - a hammer, screwdriver, drill, screws and bolts with nuts, as well as materials - cement and sand.

When drawing up a project for a bathhouse with a shower, it is very important to choose the right place for the washing area. The shower cabin can be installed anywhere in the bathhouse, of course, except for the steam room. But there is one important nuance - for technical convenience, it is recommended to install it as close as possible to the main water distribution points. Otherwise, you will have to carry out additional work to install pipelines, the maintenance of which may become more complicated.

If the room has a concrete floor, you can install any booth you like or make a pallet yourself. If the floor is wooden, it is recommended to install exclusively purchased models. You, of course, can make a pallet yourself, but the concrete base on such a floor will not have rigid support, so it will probably crack over time.

If you don't plan to shower hot water, you can simply install a “waterfall bucket” made of wood. The only thing that needs to be done is to provide a special tap so that the bucket is filled with water.

Water supply for shower in bathhouse

If you decide to heat your bathhouse only with a stove, it is recommended to install a water storage tank. This can be done on the roof or under the ceiling. The shower is usually placed next to the firebox.

If you plan to use well water, it is important to take care of a pump to create pressure. It is also necessary to increase weak pressure in the water supply system.

• Superficial. They supply water to a height of up to seven meters. But they can be used in existing system water supply to ensure constant pressure.
• Submersible. They are used to supply water from wells, streams, reservoirs, rivers, lakes and other shallow sources.
• Deep. They can supply water from very great depths. These options are great for wells with small hole diameters.

Methods for heating water in a shower bath

If the bathhouse is located in the house, you can use a hot water boiler from the heating system of the entire house to supply warm water. But there are other options. Let's look at three types of heating water for washing. Regardless of the heating method chosen, water is supplied to the mixer tap and mixed there with cold water.

Stove heating of water for shower

Gas heating for shower water

Electric heating of water for a bath

Storage heaters are especially relevant in areas where frequent power outages occur. This is due to the fact that the storage tank operates on the principle of a thermos and can maintain the designated water temperature for a long time. The disadvantage of this type of heaters is the high price and bulky dimensions. When considering the shower options in the bathhouse in the photo, you are unlikely to see a storage tank in the same room as a shower stall. The device itself is mounted in the utility room or attic.

Flow-through electric water heaters belong to the group of devices with increased danger. If any errors are made during their installation, the risk of a short circuit during operation will greatly increase, which can lead to dire consequences for health.

Features of installing a shower in a bath

For the drainage system, it is necessary to provide a concrete pit through which used water will flow through a hole in the floor and then be discharged into the pit. To do this, it is necessary to install a special ladder in the floor and attach a pipe with a storage pit to it.

1. It is important to know that drainage is carried out at the stage of creating the floor screed. In this case, all water drainage pipes will be securely hidden inside the floor.
2. Install a shower drain and drain pipes onto the subfloor. It is important to accurately calculate the depth of the future pallet, the thickness of the floor screed and the height of the drain grate. Otherwise, it may turn out that the grate will be too high above the floor level or, on the contrary, will drown in the screed.
3. Lay roofing felt in two layers on the walls in a vertical direction. Then make a floor screed. Don't forget to calculate the angle of its inclination so that water can easily penetrate into the drain. When the screed is ready, finish the walls. Install formwork at the intended location of the shower. To do this, it is recommended to use boards 4 cm thick. Make sure that the formwork is securely fastened between itself and the wall.
4. Concrete should be poured taking into account the creation of the enclosing wall of the pallet and the slope of the bottom towards the ladder. After a short period of time (when the concrete has not yet fully set), install additional formwork to fill the enclosing walls.
5. Install the upper sealing sleeve into the drain and fill the walls with concrete. After a day, remove the formwork and perform the final screed. Make an approximate slope towards the ladder - while laying the tiles, the slope will be adjusted with tile adhesive. Wait until the concrete is completely dry and apply good waterproofing. Trim off the remaining roofing material along the edges.
6. Place the tiles in the created tray. To do this, it is recommended to use moisture-resistant glue and moisture-resistant elastic grout for the joints. Then you can begin finishing the remaining surfaces.

Those who like to take a steam bath know how important and beneficial it is to cool down after a steam room. To do this, you can use a font, which is a mini-pool. To arrange it, use an ordinary barrel of water, installed at the exit from the steam room. Or they use dousing from a waterfall bucket suspended behind the door - a person opens the door and falls under a refreshing stream of cold water. But today's ideas about the comfortable use of a bathhouse involve equipping it with a shower.

The question of arranging a shower in a bathhouse will require solving some additional problems: the supply of hot and cold water, which would be supplied under appropriate pressure. However, this is where the problems end - if there is water, all that remains is to connect the pipes and install the mixer.

Of course, provision cold water much easier to organize. Usually Vacation home or country cottage area connected to a centralized water supply system or equipped with their own well or borehole.

To get hot water for showering, you will need to use water heaters. Typically used for such purposes electrical devices high power.

How to choose a water heater

Electric water heating devices are divided into two types: storage and flow-through. The latter are small in size, their installation does not cause any particular difficulties, and their cost is not high. A significant disadvantage of instantaneous water heaters is their high electricity consumption, from 2 to 12 kW. Installing them in a suburban area is unlikely to be a rational option: operation will require constant power in the electrical network and increased pressure in the water supply system.

If you can install a pump to ensure water pressure, then there is no way to deal with voltage fluctuations in the network. You should choose instantaneous water heater in the event that the power supply in the area has stable parameters.

When considering the option of installing a storage water heater, we will immediately mention its disadvantage - the solid dimensions of the tank in which the heated water accumulates. The problem can be solved by removing the tank to the dressing room, hallway or attic. Looking at the shower in the bathhouse in the photo, it is almost impossible to come across the option of placing a storage tank in the same room as the shower stall or shower.

A storage type unit has a higher cost, but it provides hot water supply even in the absence of electricity when using the bathhouse - the temperature of the water in the tank is maintained for a long time.

Install electric water heater to the bathhouse with shower

Since the water heater will be powered by electricity, it will need to be connected to the bathhouse. If it is already connected, then it should be installed on conductive automatic line that will protect against short circuits. It must be taken into account that a water heater located in a bathhouse and in constant contact with water, despite its tightness, still poses some danger in terms of a short circuit.

The water heated by the flow-through heater is sufficient to supply only one water point. Therefore, to connect it, you will need to install one pipeline branch. In order to prevent rust on pipes, a mechanical filter must be included in the system. To be able to turn the water on and off, you will need to install a valve.

Installation of a water supply system for a storage unit will be more complicated: the water in it is heated to +75 degrees, so the system will require a mixer. At the same time, with the installation of a storage water heater, it becomes possible to supply hot water to several water points, which further complicates the pipeline layout.

Which pump to use

When deciding how to make a shower in a bathhouse, you should not miss important point: For normal operation of the water heater, a water supply at the appropriate pressure will be required. For this reason, equipping a bathhouse with a shower involves installing a pump. Depending on the source of water, the following can be used:

• a deep pump, with which water is supplied from a well;
• a submersible pump designed to extract water from shallow wells or reservoirs;
• surface, which serves to raise water from a depth not exceeding 7 m; such a unit can be used to increase pressure in pipes connected to a centralized water supply.

How to choose pipes

To ensure that the plumbing system does not create problems during operation, you should select high-quality pipes for its installation. A rational option would be to use metal-plastic or plastic pipes, they differ:

• long service life;
• strength;
• corrosion resistance;
• ease of installation;
• affordable price.

Shower water sources

The simplest option is to use water from a centralized water supply, well or borehole. If the system for providing the house with cold water is already functioning, then the question will be how to properly connect the pipes to the bathhouse.

Pipes can be laid directly on the surface of the soil. This method is the cheapest and allows the use of pipes of any quality, including rubber. But to operate such a water supply system in winter time will be impossible.

If the bathhouse is intended to be used year-round, then you will need to lay the pipes in a trench; its depth should exceed the freezing depth of the soil in the given area. This will lead to a significant increase in costs:

• you will need to purchase quality pipes;
• digging a trench;
• purchase of thermal insulation materials, possibly electrical heating cables, which will eliminate the possibility of pipeline freezing at low temperatures.

If there is no cold water supply system and its source on the site, and you really want to have a bathhouse with a shower, then you will have to spend money on installing a well or borehole. This will lead to considerable costs for arranging a water source, purchasing a pump, filters, and carrying out insulation measures.

Purifying shower water with filters

It should be noted that the autonomous water supply system must be provided with sufficiently high-quality water filters. Water purification will help extend the life of the pump and water heater.

It is recommended to install two filters in the system: for coarse and for fine impurities. The mesh filter is installed first, followed by a filter with holes from 5 to 10 microns, capable of removing suspended particles.

Other options for getting hot water for showers

Depending on the location of the bath and the method of heating it, they can be used different variants providing shower with hot water. The simplest is heating the water in the tank using fuel burned in the stove. In this case, a metal container, built-in or remote, is installed; on its surface there is a separate connection for pipes going to the shower mixer. The water temperature is regulated using a tap. Looking at the bathhouses with showers in the photo, you can see that the operating principle of such a hot water supply system is practically no different from the one installed in a residential building.

Sometimes a heating boiler circuit is used to obtain hot water, but this option is rational to use if the bathhouse is located under the same roof as a residential building.

If natural gas is supplied to the site, then a gas water heater can be used to heat the water, but its installation must be done by specialists; naturally, this will lead to increased costs for installing a hot water supply system.

After selecting and combining all the necessary elements into one system, it will be enough to connect it to the mixer and hand shower.

Water disposal

Since water consumption in the bathhouse will increase, it will be necessary to organize a system for its disposal. Usually, if the bathhouse does not provide for the installation of a shower stall, then drainage is carried out through a hole in the floor.

Through the drain pipe, water enters a pit with concrete walls. Next, the wastewater flows through another pipe built into the wall into a pit outside the bathhouse.

Diverting wastewater from the shower into the sewer system will speed up its filling and increase the cost of sewerage services.

Hi all. For many steam room fans, this is quite a common occurrence. After taking a light steam, you can soak yourself under the streams of cool water, washing away the remnants of sweat and fatigue. But does everyone have such a bathhouse properly equipped? Let's find out.

A bathhouse is not just a place to wash off dirt and sweat. This is also a place where you can relax well and comfortably. But what kind of comfort can we talk about if there is no shower in it and we have to rinse ourselves straight from the basin the old fashioned way.

Before you start installing a shower in the bathhouse, you should decide:

• location of the shower in the bathhouse;
• purpose of shower;
• source of water supply;
• location of the toilet;
• sewer drainage;
• materials for installing water supply and sewerage systems;
• choosing the type - shower tray or shower stall;
• method of heating water for shower;
• interior decoration of the washing compartment in the bathhouse.

Where to install a shower in a bathhouse?

The most ideal shower place in the bathhouse There will, of course, be a room adjacent to the steam room. And this is due to the fact that the shower, as they say, will always be “at hand.” Immediately at the exit from the steam room you can take a shower.

But on the other hand, it is not always possible to arrange the optimal location of the shower. Everything can depend on the communications supply - and sewerage. In addition, if there is a toilet in the bathhouse, then the shower room should be located next to this room, or rather, near the adjacent wall that separates these rooms.

If you are just planning a future bathhouse, then you can think about its layout in advance. You should not place the shower far from water intake points. This will ultimately lead to unnecessary costs for purchasing more pipes. In addition, the remote location of the shower will only complicate the maintenance of the entire system.

Shower stall or tray?

The solution to this issue primarily depends on the material on which the main bath systems are built - ceiling, walls, floor. It is also necessary to take into account personal desires and preferences when decorating a bath. If the washroom has a wooden floor (as is most often the case in Russian baths), then it is preferable to install purchased shower stalls or trays. But if you have a concrete floor, then there are plenty of opportunities for arranging a shower room.

You can, for example, easily assemble a tray or install a shower stall made by yourself. Therefore, during this time, if you focus on this criterion, it is better to opt for a concrete floor covered with.

Meanwhile, the arrangement of showers should always start from water heating method For shower. And this depends on whether electricity is supplied to the bathhouse or not. Or gas, if used geyser for heating water. And it is possible - which in our conditions is very important due to the constant rise in prices of non-energy resources.

In fact, you can heat the water for the shower using the same water that is used as the main element of the bath in the steam room.

Hot water for a bath without electricity

Without an electricity supply, get hot water in the bath You can use a stove-heater, placing a tank on it to heat water. There are also stoves with a heat exchanger for heating the passing water. Unlike stoves with a tank installed on them, heaters with a heat exchanger provide the use of hot water to supply it to all kinds of water-folding appliances - shower, bathtub, washbasin, kitchen sink.

Here let me finish the article on the topic of shower equipment in the bathhouse. In the next article, I propose to consider the types of stoves and stones for them. Do you have any questions? We'll discuss. And that’s all for now, until new articles, and all the best to you.

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Shower device in the bathhouse

If the question of how to make a shower in a bathhouse arises during the initial construction of a house, then for this purpose the project can provide a separate room with a dressing room for relaxation.

An electric water heater is designed on the principle of a thermos, which allows you to maintain the desired water temperature for a long time.

If you need to install a shower in a bathhouse that has already been built, then you can make an extension with your own hands or select a part of the bathhouse measuring 1.5 x 1.2 m.

One of the options is to install a shower cabin of any design, even the most complex one, in the bathhouse. You can place it in any corner except the steam room, covering it with a decorative wall, so as not to disturb the harmony of the patriarchal appearance of the interior of a Russian bathhouse.

But, no matter what kind of shower you plan to make, its operation requires hot and cold water, which is supplied under pressure. The easiest way to get hot water is to connect the shower to a pipe leading to a special built-in or remote tank. The water in such a tank is heated by the heat generated by the wood burned in the stove.

Installation of a wastewater system for showers

Each bathhouse is usually equipped with a wastewater drainage system, which you can make yourself.

Used water in a private home is collected in a multi-chamber container or a special well, the so-called septic tank. An asbestos-cement pipe is laid to it, into which drain pipes coming from the washing compartment with a shower are connected.

Wastewater enters the pipes through special drain holes equipped in the floor of the shower and steam room. Water flows into the pipes by gravity due to the slight slope for water drainage. Under finishing coat The floor (tile) is screeded with a waterproofing layer. The drain pipe is covered with a grill, protecting it from large mechanical particles.

For standard shower tray it is necessary to make a separate concrete formwork to prevent sagging under the weight of a person. The bottom of the pan should be raised above the drain pipe to a height of 10-15 cm. It is necessary to provide in advance the possibility of approaches to the drain pipes, since during operation it may be necessary to clean them, repair connecting elements: the outlet elbow of the drain hole, the connecting tee on the pipe that leads to the septic tank.

Additional waterproofing is required at the junction lines between the walls and the pallet.

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Materials for shower installation

To build a shower in a bathhouse, you need to install a pipeline. The most popular in the plumbing market are metal-plastic and plastic pipes, which are resistant to corrosion, mechanical strength, durability and comparatively low price. In addition, they are easy to install yourself.

It is also necessary to purchase fittings with which the pipes are connected.

To connect a storage tank or meter, they usually use detachable connections. The hoses are better connected with a one-piece thread.

In addition, you need to purchase couplings that are used to connect straight sections of pipes. Thanks to couplings, it is possible to switch from a larger diameter to a smaller one by replacing the internal thread with an external one.

Scheme of a shower in a bathhouse.

To turn the pipes 45° to 90°, use angles.

3 sections of water supply can be assembled using tees. They are also used when creating branches in the pipeline.

Installation of shower pipes is carried out in compliance with the following rules:

• all elements of the system must not be damaged;
• assembly of structures is carried out at temperatures above +5⁰ C;
• pipes, like fittings, should be protected from physical and mechanical damage and open fire;
• It is forbidden to apply threads on polypropylene products yourself.

You should also purchase water purification filters, which can extend the life of the pump and heater. Filters trap algae, sand impurities and foreign mechanical inclusions.

It is necessary to purchase a hand shower with a hose extending from it and a mixer.

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Metal-plastic pipes in the arrangement of a shower in a bath

The characteristics of the pipes allow them to be used in the house, in the bathhouse and when arranging an external pipeline.

Installation of water supply for a shower is possible with your own hands and does not require expensive and complex tools.

To install a system of metal-plastic pipes, a variety of fittings are used.

Pipeline sections are connected with couplings. If it is necessary to switch to an inch diameter, adapter couplings are used. Angle couplings are used for angular connections of pipes.

Tees ensure the formation of branches and the connection of 3 sections of the pipeline.

Mixers are mounted using brackets with fastening

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Characteristics of electric heaters

The use of electric water heaters for home baths and showers is due to ease of use.

Based on the method of heating water, instantaneous and storage water heaters are distinguished.

Electric storage heater circuit diagram.

Instantaneous electric water heaters installed to use a hot shower are characterized by the absence of a storage tank. Heaters are mounted next to the mixer. Since the devices are compact and uncomplicated, you can install them yourself. The operating principle of the device is to heat a stream of water passing through a system of heating elements. The disadvantage of instantaneous electric water heaters is considered to be significant energy consumption: from 2 to 12 kW when heating the water temperature to 70°C. Its work is possible provided high blood pressure water and constant power of the electrical network in the house.

In addition, flow heaters are classified as high-risk electrical appliances. Grounding and insulation errors in humid conditions can cause serious injury or death.

Storage electric water heaters have a storage tank designed like a thermos, which allows you to maintain the desired water temperature for a long time.

But due to its bulky dimensions, such a device may not fit into a small bathhouse, so it is installed in the attic or other room of the house.