How to close the pipes in the bathroom with your own hands?

Many owners of modern apartments often have the question of how to hide the pipes in the bathroom with their own hands. After all, furniture and sanitary equipment create comfort in this room. There can be no question of beauty if at the same time beautiful tile is visible and plain rusty pipes against its background. How to hide pipes in the bathroom under the tiles? Let's consider several options for solving this issue.

How to hide pipes

In a renovated apartment, hiding the pipes in the bathroom and not littering it is impossible. How to hide pipes in the bathroom? It is better to do this work at the stage of repair. You can hide them in the wall. How to remove pipes in the wall? It will not be possible to do this with products with a diameter of 110 mm. Cutouts up to a depth of 50 mm can be made in the wall. But not everything can be hidden there. Piping systems are:

• welded;
• fitting.

Welded ones are suitable for hiding in the wall. And the fittings may begin to ooze over time. In this case, the walls will get wet. Fungus and other harmful microorganisms will start in the strobes (grooves in the wall). Strobes must be sealed with cement mortar. You can remove the pipes into the wall and fix them with special fasteners. Grooves for them are made with a puncher and a circular saw.

How to close the pipes in the bathroom in another way? You can do this with a drywall or plastic box. This method can be an excellent solution in cases where you need to hide risers or sunbeds that have a large diameter. Even a large number of thin pipes can be hidden in a box. It is made of drywall or plastic.

The plastic box is easy to assemble and disassemble. It is suitable for sheathing old pipelines, the strength and quality of which are in doubt. Drywall is recommended to cover new pipes. This is due to the fact that tiles are usually glued onto drywall. To make a box you need:

• profile UD - 4 pcs.;
• profile CD - 1-2 pieces;
• drywall or plastic panels;
• dowels and screws;
• drill;
• hammer;
• screwdriver or screwdriver;
• building level.

Guides are attached to the walls. Their position is regulated by the level. The finished frame is sheathed with plastic panels or drywall sheets. Installation of a plastic box is best done after the completion of the rest of the finishing work. A drywall box is made before they are carried out. The framework for them is the same. In drywall, you need to think over and build an inspection hatch for quick access to pipelines. Then the hidden and disguised pipeline can always be inspected and the casing not damaged.

Other ways to disguise

How else to hide pipes in bathrooms:

When developing any method, you need to consider the placement of all pipes, appliances, joints and turns. It is advisable to mark all this on the wall and on the floor. This will make it possible to spend less time on practical work, because some of the products will fall on the floor. You don't need to cut walls underneath.

Under the fill, you can place a heating circuit, water supply. If the pipes in the bathroom will be hidden in a box, you need to additionally insulate them with a layer of foam, mineral wool, and then close them with drywall or plastic panels. Drywall is better to use moisture resistant.

More ways to hide the pipe in the bathroom:

• A good way is to close the pipes in the bathroom with cabinet furniture that you can make yourself. Shelves are closed with doors. There is also a storage facility for household chemicals.
• It can be masked with foam stucco, colored mosaics, artificial flowers and lianas, just paint with paint in a color suitable for the interior. Roller blinds (roll-type metal shutters) are also used. They provide full access to the hidden and allow you to equip shelves for household chemicals. Installation is not difficult, any color is selected.

Disguise methods

You can mask the pipes in the bathroom:

• stucco;
• mosaic;
• roller shutters;
• metal gratings;
• false walls.

Stucco is a material for which you do not need to have special skills. It is very practical in design, easy to remove and stick, easy to process.

Mosaic is an exclusive solution. You can simply paste over the product to match the color of the furnishings or tiles. But you can use the mosaic on rather large things and on pipes of large diameter.

Roller shutters or plumbing shutters are another option to hide pipes. At the same time, they are a decorative element. Roller shutters are very practical in operation, they allow easy access to any hidden section of the pipeline. They can be equipped with a drive - manual or mechanical. Roller blinds are durable and comfortable. Their disadvantages include their high cost.

Metal gratings are mounted on an installed frame. They bring variety to the design of the room. False walls are able to hide several plastic or steel products at the same time. But they take up part of the usable area of ​​the bathroom. They are made of drywall and hide everything that is there.

Conclusion

We have already figured out how to hide your plumbing and other pipes in the bathroom. This can be done in different ways. The main thing is to leave an inspection channel for checking and repairing threaded connections, meters, valves and fittings. Valves must always be accessible.

It is desirable to wrap all products with a layer of waterproofing material. This is done so that they do not sweat. It is best to use polypropylene products for hidden communications. They will go under the filling of the floor. All connections are best boiled well. Before laying on the floor, the products should be placed in a corrugated hose. From above, everything laid is covered with a layer of cement or concrete pouring. The layer thickness is at least 2-3 cm above the pipes. Tiles, linoleum, laminated panels are laid on the screed.

Pipes in the bathroom can be located in a niche or in a wall. For laying strobes, they usually use a grinder with a diamond disc and a puncher or chisel. Polypropylene or steel products are hidden in the grooves, and the strobes are smeared with cement. The most common way is hiding in a drywall or plastic box. These systems must necessarily have inspection hatches.

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