Small spool but precious. Change of logs in the bathhouse

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1st step. Background.
“Spool is small, but dear” - this is what people say about something small, but not interchangeable. Without which, just can not do. Swat also knew about this. And therefore, when he was building a house in the garden, he found a place and means for building a small bathhouse. Well, right, quite small. But, it perfectly fulfills its functions - it makes it possible to put yourself in order, after a hard day spent in the sun among the beds. She just brings it back to life.

The constant use of the bathhouse, and a decent age of more than 20 years, have done their job. The middle lag, made up of several birch planks, has completely decayed and threatened the floor to fail. Urgent repairs were needed, which fell to my lot.

2nd step. Dismantling the floor.
Having opened the floor, which actually consisted of only three boards. I saw a sad picture.

Not only did the lag rot. The middle rack was seized with rot. It must also be replaced.

On the first lag from the wall, in the area of the lower canopy, there was also a center of decay. The place from touching the rack with the lag had to be cleaned and treated with an antiseptic, and the rack itself should be replaced.

Friends, don’t think about anything bad when you see the sewer drain in the last photo. This is a sink from the sink in the kitchen, which is not intended for washing dishes, but for washing and washing hands.
But we were distracted.
As I said, the floor must be replaced, the vertical sheathing of the first stage of the canopy remained in question.

3rd step. Repairs.
The lag for replacing the old one, I picked up from the old lag removed from the kitchen when replacing the floor there. I chose the most solid. Marked and sawed the right size. I also calculated the height difference along the foundations. He took it into account, made it for saws - shelves.

Then he treated the lag twice with an antiseptic.

Letting it dry well in the sun after each coat. Dragged into the dressing room.

And then set it in place.

Having removed the floor and the canopy skin, we remove the rotten middle rack.

Then, in the middle I sawed, the right stand, and removed it.

A docking place that I did not like. I cleaned the grinder with a petal circle.

Antiseptic treated the logs and beams remaining in the bath.

I fitted the floor boards according to the level. Installed remote racks.

Floor boards do not reach the foundation of the furnace 100 mm from each of the 3 sides. Then he laid an asbestos sheet on the floor. And he covered it with a metal sheet, as was done by the owner initially.

I close the gap between the floor board and the threshold - the baseboard.

To the replaced central rack we install a wooden bracket, instead of a rotten one. It serves for laying the floor of the lower canopy. We level it and fix it. Naturally treated with an antiseptic.

On the prepared place we lay boards treated with an antiseptic. The first two from the racks in the entire length of the bathhouse, and the rest to the stand.

We clean the frame (stand) under the tabletop from a stone plate for basins from rust. We try on how she will get up with us.

We mark and drill holes in the wall and stand. Thus, there would be a gap of 10 - 20 mm between the iron furnace and the stand. We insert 6 mm anchors into the holes in the wall. And we fix the stand to the wall.

The stand is attached to the floor on two screws.

The installed stand looks like this.

We lay the stone countertop.

In order for it to fit normally, we mark and make selections for the nuts.

Set the tabletop in place.

On the side of the canopies, opposite the stove, there was a vertical panel of galvanized metal sheet with an asbestos sheet. We replace the frame boards with new ones and install it in place.

We prepare the size of the board for sewing up the space between the floor and the lower canopy, We process it with an antiseptic and set it in place.