Do-it-yourself wooden shower-toilet for a summer residence

You can’t do without a toilet in the country. The shower is similarly an equally important structure that provides the comfort of a country stay. Usually, the owners install separate booths, but they occupy a scarce area in a small area. If the buildings are reduced in size, then the comfort of use decreases, and after all, a locker room must also be located inside the shower. The way out of the situation is a wooden shower for giving, combined with a toilet.

What is a 2 in 1 country house, its advantage and design

The photo shows a classic scheme of a combined toilet with a shower. In simple words, this is a large wooden cabin, divided into two compartments by an internal partition. To build such a building for a summer residence from wood is no more difficult than an ordinary shower or toilet cubicle.

In the next photo you can see the finished structure and the scheme of the country house, containing a shower, toilet and utility room. It does not matter how many compartments a garden house will be made of, but it is built from a homogeneous material and decorated in the same style. For the construction of such summer cottages with your own hands, a tree is best suited, and the roof is covered with corrugated board.

The main advantage of a combined toilet with a wooden summer shower for a summer residence is saving space and materials. Separate cabins of summer cottages are not randomly scattered throughout the territory, and building materials are significantly saved by combining walls and roofs.

So, we need to design a shower with a toilet in the country. The photo shows a finished wooden house in two compartments, as well as its drawing. The dimensions of each room should ensure a comfortable stay of a person. Let’s immediately stop at the height of the country house, which is at least 2 m, and the maximum is 2,5 m. The optimal width and depth of each booth depends on the physique of the owners. The fuller the person, the more spacious the compartment must be made. The approximate dimensions of one cabin are 2×1,3 m. Here it is time to remember that we need a shower with a dressing room in the country, so an additional space of about 0,6 m is provided for it.

When a wooden shower with a toilet is designed for a summer residence in one building, you should immediately think about sewage. The simplest option is a cesspool, which will collect sewage from both structures. However, a bad smell will come from such a sewer and penetrate into the shower stall.

There are two ways to make a hygienic toilet and refuse a cesspool in the country:

• Install powder closet. This type of toilet provides for the collection of waste in a storage container installed under the toilet seat. After each visit, sewage is sprinkled with peat, where they are eventually processed into compost.
• Install a dry closet. A similar solution to the problem involves the installation of a separate tank, where the waste is processed using reagents.

And the last important issue in the preparation of the project is the supply of water and electricity. For a country shower, you will need to install a container on the roof into which water will be pumped. It is desirable to install lights inside the booths so that you can use the establishments after dark. It is optimal to make a shower for giving with heating from electricity. This will enable the adoption of water procedures in the cold season.

Choosing a place to install a country shower and toilet

The choice of a place for a street bathroom is stipulated by the rules of SNiP. If the drains from the toilet and shower in the country house are collected in a cesspool, then it must be removed from water sources by at least 20 m, and from a residential building by at least 5 m. The photo shows a diagram with the indicated parameters, in accordance with the requirements of SNiP. If instead of a cesspool in the country a powder-closet system or a dry closet is used, then these requirements can not be adhered to due to the lack of contact of sewage with the soil.

Then the building is installed on the highest part of the yard, and a hole is dug in the lowland. This will provide a slope for the pipeline to move sewage by gravity.

Instructions for the construction of a country shower and toilet

So, the project and materials are ready, the place has been chosen, it is time to build a summer cottage with your own hands. We have already decided that the summer shower in the country house and the toilet will be made of wood. There are no problems with the installation of a dry closet or powder closet. It is enough to buy a factory bathroom, place it inside the cabin, and you can use it. However, we do everything with our own hands, which means that we will consider a country option with a cesspool.

After choosing a place on the site, we proceed to construction work:

• First of all, for a country toilet with a shower, a cesspool is equipped. The pit is dug with a depth of 1,5 to 2 m. The dimensions of the side walls are usually taken 1×1 m, 1,5×1 m or 1,5×1,5 m. 1 m. This will make it possible to organize a hatch behind the house for pumping sewage.

  

• Inside a red brick pit dug with their own hands, walls are laid out on cement mortar. If it is a sealed container, then the bottom is concreted, and the brick walls inside and outside are treated with bitumen. For a drainage pit, brickwork is made with windows to absorb water into the ground. The bottom is covered with a drainage layer of sand and gravel. The total thickness of the filter pad is 500 mm.

  

• Now it’s time to make a columnar foundation. It should be noted that we are building a country toilet and a wooden shower in the same house, so we place the holes for the foundation according to the scheme shown in the photo. Thus, the greatest strength of the above-ground structure is ensured.

  

• To install the pillars, they dig holes with a diameter of 200 mm and a depth of at least 800 mm. At the bottom of the pits, a layer of sand 100 mm thick is first poured, and then the same layer of crushed stone. From tin or plywood, formwork is arranged inside each hole, four reinforcing bars are vertically inserted inside, and then poured with concrete. In height, each post should protrude from the ground by 300 mm.
• After the concrete has completely hardened, the formwork is removed, the gaps between the pillars and the walls of the holes are covered with soil. Now all the pillars must be given the same level so that the country house of the toilet with a shower stands exactly. The level is beaten off from the lowest pillar. A mark is placed on high concrete supports, after which the excess part is cut off with a grinder with a diamond wheel.

  

• At the next stage, a drain is made from a country shower with their own hands. A plastic pipe with an elbow with a diameter of 50 mm is laid on the floor and taken out of the cabin into a cesspool.

  

• The construction of the frame of a country house for a shower and a toilet begins with a lower harness. The frame is made by hand from a bar with a section of 100×100 mm, then it is laid on a columnar foundation. If the cesspool is under the toilet, then it is better to weld the frame from a metal channel.

  

• The frame of the lower harness of a country shower with a toilet is leveled in one plane. Pieces of roofing material are laid between wooden elements and concrete pillars for waterproofing. To prevent the shower and toilet from moving off the foundation, the frame is fixed to the pillars with anchor bolts.
• To erect the walls of a country house, it is necessary to install frame racks. They are made from a bar with a section of 50×100 mm. Racks are installed strictly vertically at the corners of the frame every 400 mm. Additional racks are placed on door and window openings. They are attached to the bottom harness with metal corners and bolts. If the bottom frame of the shower/toilet is made of channel, one side of the fixing bracket can be welded to it. The distance between the uprights of the doorway is maintained at least 700 mm.
• After installing all the racks, they make the upper trim of the frame from a bar with a section of 100×100 mm. For frame rigidity, vertical racks can be reinforced with slopes.

  

• The roof on a country house with a toilet and a shower can be made single or gable. The first option is easier to manufacture, and the shower water tank is easier to mount.

  

• The gable roof of a country shower with a toilet looks aesthetically pleasing, accumulates less precipitation, but is more difficult to manufacture. With the attachment of the shower tank, things are more complicated due to the construction of additional supports.

  

• In any case, for the roof of a summer cottage, you will have to make rafters from a board with a section of 100×40 mm. In length, each leg of the stop should protrude 200 mm beyond the house. The finished rafters are attached to the upper strapping beam with a step of 600 mm. Between themselves they are fastened with boards of battens with a step of 300 mm.

  

• The roof for a country shower with a toilet is made cold. A layer of roofing material is laid on top of the crate and corrugated board is laid. Sheets are fastened with galvanized self-tapping screws with a sealing ring. In the case of sheltering a gable roof of a country shower with a toilet with a corrugated board, a ridge bar is installed on the upper ridge.
• When the roof is already ready, the summer house is not in danger of rain, and you can gradually move on to arranging the floor in the toilet. First, the logs are laid and attached to the lower frame trim. Racks and horizontal lintels forming a toilet seat are attached to the logs from a bar with a section of 50×50 mm. The entire structure and the floor are sheathed with a board 25 mm thick.

  

• The next stage involves sheathing the entire country house with a board 20 mm thick. If the shower with the toilet is insulated, then foam plates are inserted between the vertical posts from the inside. You can sew up the insulation from the inside of the toilet with the same board, but in the shower it is better to use PVC lining. It is resistant to moisture and does not rot. The same trim is done on the ceiling.

  

• At the end of the outer and inner lining of the country house, they proceed to the arrangement of the floor in the shower. The sewer pipe has already been installed at the stage of foundation construction, now it is time to organize the drain. The soil inside the shower stall is covered with a black film. Only a plastic outlet from the sewer pipe should stick out of it, where a drain funnel will be formed.
• From above, the film in the shower is covered with a layer of sand, then crushed stone and concreted. Moreover, the screed is leveled so that a drain is obtained towards the funnel.

  

• After the concrete screed has hardened, the shower floor is treated with waterproofing mastic. A pallet with large slots is knocked down from the rails so that water penetrates through them to the drain hole. The slatted tray is installed on the floor of the shower stall.

In the final, it remains to fence off a place for clothes inside the shower stall with a polyethylene curtain. This will be the dressing room.

Water supply to the shower

The end of the construction of a country shower combined with a toilet is the installation of a water tank. On a flat roof, under the container, you can knock down a stand from a bar, and fix it through the bolts through the corrugated board to the rafters.

It is difficult to install a tank on a gable roof, so it is better to weld a high stand from a profile near a country shower. For stability, it will have to be concreted in the ground.

Water supply and electricity are connected to the tank to heat water in the cold season. The heating element and the metal stand itself near the shower are grounded for safety.

In the video you can see an example of a country shower and toilet:

You can build a country shower with a toilet with your own hands. Let it take more than one day, the main thing is that the building is comfortable and reliable.