When carrying out repair work in the bathroom, you should take care of the aesthetics of the room. A large amount of communications must be hidden from the eyes of households and guests. To hide a sewer pipe in a bathroom, you need to know the basic camouflage techniques. Each of them has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
Why hide sewer pipes in the bathroom
The issue of decorating and masking communications in the bathroom is an opportunity to solve several problems at the same time:
- Improving the appearance of the room. Pipes hidden from prying eyes do not overload the room. The bathtub looks aesthetically pleasing.
- Visual expansion of space. Communications do not visually “cut” the floor, ceiling and walls.
- Additional soundproofing. Plastic, due to its relative rigidity, conducts sounds well. The media transported through the sewers create characteristic noises in the room.
Before carrying out repair work, you need to take into account a number of basic rules to avoid gross errors and violations.
Pipe masking rules
In order not to subsequently face the need to carry out complex emergency work, the sewer pipes must be closed in accordance with the following recommendations:
- When constructing a sewer line, complex connections, straight and sharp corners must be avoided.
- You can hide behind the casing and other decorations only those pipes that are joined by the soldering method. It is forbidden to cover a pipeline with threaded connections, filters, water meters, meters, revisions in disguise.
- Only polypropylene communications can be laid in the screed.
- When installing a sewage system, it is recommended to use shut-off valves and fittings made of the same material as the pipes.
- Before covering up the communication with disguise, you need to protect it from condensation. It is better to use waterproofing materials here.
If the listed recommendations are followed, the hidden trunk will work without failures.
Basic decorating methods
You can use one of the popular methods to close up the sewer pipes in the bathroom. The choice is made based on the available area of the premises, the availability or ability to buy certain building materials.
Installation of communication into the wall
Suitable for craftsmen who have limited bathroom space and low ceilings and still use copper / polypropylene pipes. Soldering of such lines ensures a durable sealing of the joints. The work is performed in several stages:
- draw up a drawing (diagram) of the location of pipes in the room;
- in accordance with the plan, markings are applied to the walls;
- they prepare channels for laying pipes - it is forbidden to groove the panel walls horizontally, for multi-apartment "panels" this method of masking is not suitable;
- collect the collector, first placing the pipes in a protective casing;
- lay the line in the grooves;
- rub all channels with plaster;
- carry out decorative finishing of the bathroom.
Inspection hatches must be left for all adapters and revisions. The water supply system (especially hot water supply) is not turned on until the plaster is completely dry. Otherwise, it will crack from temperature extremes.
False walls (plasterboard or plastic sheathing)
This method involves creating an additional wall in the room. It is mounted on a specially created frame made of profiles and completely repeats the area of the partitions available in the bathroom. For the installation of false walls, sheets of moisture-resistant drywall or plastic are used. On drywall in the future, you can carry out any decorative finish from ceramic tiles to simple painting / plastering.
When installing drywall sheets on the frame, you need to carefully wipe the seams between them. For this, a moisture-resistant putty is also used.
Boxes and podiums
Any communications can be easily hidden under decorative convex niches. Using standard type-setting frames and drywall sheets, you can create various decorative designs.
- Bath podiums. The elevation can be single-level and two-level.
- Protruding boxes in the area of the toilet bowl, sink.
- Special disguises along the wall of the bathroom to hide sewer and water pipes.
The advantage of this method is the ease of installation. It is enough to assemble a frame from guides around the laid communications and fix sheets of drywall to it. In the future, the box or podium is trimmed with tiles.
The disadvantage of this method is that the created structures take away the useful area of the room.
Inspection hatches must be left in the boxes for access to valves and a water meter. When installing a hot water system in a decorative structure, it is necessary to provide for special grilles or openings for the release of warm air to the outside.
Furniture
Another way to hide piping from prying eyes is to use bathroom furniture. Sinks with a curbstone, hanging cabinets on a riser, tables for storing linen, towels, household chemicals look good. This method is good in cases where the area of the bathroom allows you to roam the design imagination. Here you can create an interesting interior and neatly disguise the pipeline.
When installing furniture, it is important to securely fix it and observe the exact parameters of the rear selection.
Plastic screens and roller shutters
With the help of a plastic screen, you can hide the sewer and plumbing systems located under the bathroom. The work is performed in the following sequence:
- mark the desired areas;
- fasten metal guides along the perimeter of the wall near the bath;
- cut plastic sheets in accordance with the specified parameters;
- initial panels are screwed to the profiles with locking parts and then the screen is assembled using latches;
- the last sheet is fixed with a screw.
If you need to hide a public riser with vertical water pipes, it is better to use a special plumbing roller shutter. The method is good and easy to use. The master can always open access to the pipes along their entire vertical length.
Possible masking errors
If the master takes up work without familiarizing himself with the installation rules, the following errors are possible:
- Lack of inspection hatches for repair and diagnostic work.
- Masking threaded connections in a screed, which can subsequently leak. In this case, you will have to dismantle all complex structures.
- Neglecting waterproofing materials. Condensation in the box can trigger the development of mold and mildew.
Errors can provoke serious accidents. As a result, you will have to suffer with repairs and compensate for damage to neighbors in case of flooding.
