Sauna Room Floor Drain

I found the best location where i could make all the water run to and marked the spot.

Sauna room floor drain.

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. Nordic spruce sauna rooms. Mix that in a wheelbarrow.

Prep for durarock and skim coat. Couple points to keep in mind. Many of the saunas installed today do not have a floor drain. It s a real slick system.

Floor drain in sauna installing a floor drain in the sauna can be complicated and expensive. 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. Cut and install a shower drain in center of hot room. There are a couple of options for surface coverings.

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. 3 4 around perimeter down to about 1 4 at the drain. It s basically the same thing as a shower floor sloped to a drain at the center. 09 01 2010 07 57 am 5.

Ipe wood sauna floor tile diamond. Get a couple bags of vinyl cement patch 40 i believe. 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. Ipe wood sauna floor tile.

Ipe floor tile corner. Next i needed to give the floor a slope so that any water from any sides would run down to the drain. Because i intend to use the sauna to the fullest i needed the floor to have a drain. Firing strips to pitch floor to drain.

View profile view forum posts private message visit homepage member join date mar 2007. Because there is so much moisture inside the sauna we like to construct a fully tiled pan at the floor. Trowel it down in the hot room floor. The ben square sleeper method is a better way to slope a hot room floor.

Hardwood sauna floor. Sauna mats are cost effective easy to install and available in a range of colors.