Sauna Room Floor Drain

3 4 around perimeter down to about 1 4 at the drain.

Sauna room floor drain.

View profile view forum posts private message visit homepage member join date mar 2007. Ipe wood sauna floor tile diamond. Firing strips to pitch floor to drain. Many of the saunas installed today do not have a floor drain.

Couple points to keep in mind. Cut and install a shower drain in center of hot room. Ipe floor tile corner. There are a couple of options for surface coverings.

It s basically the same thing as a shower floor sloped to a drain at the center. Nordic spruce sauna rooms. I found the best location where i could make all the water run to and marked the spot. Hardwood sauna floor.

Ipe floor tile transition edge. The ben square sleeper method is a better way to slope a hot room floor. 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. Floor drain in sauna installing a floor drain in the sauna can be complicated and expensive.

Because i intend to use the sauna to the fullest i needed the floor to have a drain. 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. Sauna mats are cost effective easy to install and available in a range of colors. 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.

Because there is so much moisture inside the sauna we like to construct a fully tiled pan at the floor. You should treat it like a shower in a bathroom. Mix that in a wheelbarrow. Trowel it down in the hot room floor.

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. It s a real slick system. 09 01 2010 07 57 am 5. Get a couple bags of vinyl cement patch 40 i believe.

Prep for durarock and skim coat. A good sauna room has the door heater and vent locations to agree with one another and at the same time allows maximum bench or platform area and minimum floor area.