When planning to build a bathhouse on the site, the owners consider various options and ask the question: “How to save money on the project?” There is such an opportunity, will tell you how you can build a bathhouse on a small budget.
Starting to build a bathhouse without a project is the wrong approach. A plan for the location of the rooms and the dimensions of each of them is required in order to make calculations and make an estimate. You can save on the project – there are many standard solutions on the Internet that you can adapt to your needs if you wish. The layout of a bathhouse is simpler than that of a residential building, so ordering an individual project on a modest budget is not practical.
The first point of savings is the size of the bathhouse. A spacious bath complex with a swimming pool will, of course, be significantly more expensive than a one-story bathhouse with a steam room and a wash room. The portal Rmnt.ru talked in detail about the optimal sizes of the bathhouse and each room inside. The most popular options among self-builders are 4×4, 3×5, 4×5 and 4×6 meters. This is enough to accommodate a dressing room, a relaxation room and a steam room – the heart of the entire bathhouse.
Significant savings will be achieved if the bathhouse is used only in the warm season, during the summer season. No additional heating is required, a stove in the steam room is enough. You can refuse to lay communications – extend a hose from a street tap and get water for bath procedures. Or he brought several buckets to steam and wash. The drainage along the ladder is simply into the ground, if it is sandy or rocky, or into a septic tank. Refusal to lay communications reduces the cost of building a bathhouse by 10–20%.
Baths are built on pile, columnar or shallow strip foundations. The cost of the project largely depends on the choice of material for the walls; the most budget-friendly and therefore popular options are:
- Log.
- Bruce.
- Wooden frame with OSB sheathing, SIP panels, plywood, boards.
- Cinder block.
- Foam blocks – aerated concrete, foam concrete.
- Arbolit.
Wooden baths look authentic, they have a good microclimate, you can refuse external and internal decoration, protecting the log or timber with stain, varnish, and wax. Stone baths are non-flammable, safer, more durable, but there is a risk of condensation and finishing is required.
The roof in the baths is built flat – it retains heat better and you can save on the length of the chimney. Popular and inexpensive roofing materials are ondulin, corrugated sheets and metal tiles.
You can save on the interior decoration of a bathhouse if you abandon valuable, expensive types of wood. Inexpensive shelves in the steam room are made from aspen, linden, maple, and birch boards, pre-treated with antiseptics on both sides. To cover the steam room, it is advisable to use affordable lining.
A stone stove with a metal firebox is the best option. It provides a good microclimate, retains heat longer and is safer. You can buy inexpensive furniture for the rest room, install ordinary garden benches, or make them yourself from boards.
Important! You cannot skimp on the fire safety of a bathhouse. High-quality sockets and wiring, a properly equipped chimney, non-combustible materials around the stove and pipes passing through the roof are a necessity.
The most budget option is frame summer baths, which do not require additional insulation. Their cost (if you build it yourself, without hiring workers) will be no more than 200–250 thousand. Modular buildings, which are assembled on site or delivered ready-made, will cost from 280 to 500 thousand, depending on the size and interior decoration.
