It is believed that the dimensions of the doorway to the shower room are not something important from the point of view of the arrangement of the room. However, the bathroom is a room with difficult operating conditions. High humidity, condensation, steam, temperature drops, and other negative factors do not in the best way affect the finishing materials. The door frame is also exposed to this effect.
In addition, it protects the rest of the premises from the spread of dampness, microorganisms and other things. The dimensions of the front door directly affect the quality of the performance of its functions. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly select the interior overlap to ensure proper home care. However, in this case, there are a fairly large number of pitfalls and nuances.
Naturally, when choosing the size of the door frame, all of them, without exception, must be taken into account. By attracting a specialist with the necessary experience, you can avoid the problems that have arisen, but what to do when you need to do everything yourself? In principle, the choice of the front door to the bathroom is a fairly simple matter. To begin with, you should find out all the necessary information on the assortment, as well as the method of selecting the interior overlap of standard or non-standard sizes.
Typical products
To date, general standards have been adopted that govern the dimensions of interior openings and entrance doors to the bathroom, respectively. Modern manufacturers must comply with accepted standards, so all products differ in the same dimensions. The door frame has a height of 2 m.The standard width parameters are slightly different and can be of the following dimensions:
- 100 cm;
- 90 cm;
- 80 cm;
- 70 cm;
- 60 cm;
- 40 cm.
Housing designed from early designs, such as Soviet-era homes, have their own characteristics. So, Khrushchev-type apartments have an opening width of 60 cm, and new buildings are already 70 or 80 cm.This was partly done in order to improve the standard needs of the owners, as well as to eliminate the problem of installing household appliances, plumbing, and metal decor items. They simply could not squeeze through the narrow door frames due to their size in the bathroom and toilet.
Modern showers, jacuzzis and other elements often have non-standard dimensions. Thus, their installation seems to be a very difficult undertaking in a room where the front door does not have the proper width. A wider opening in modern houses, for example, 80 or 90 cm, makes it much easier to install plumbing.
However, a significant disadvantage of such a box in the bathroom and toilet is the loss of usable space.
A certain cosiness of the room escapes, but it becomes more accessible and comfortable for use. To minimize some losses, you can install a compact washing machine or a small washbasin in the shower room and toilet. In addition, based on the total area of the bathroom, the laundry drawer can be excluded. Such measures will slightly increase the usable area of the room.
Installation nuances
According to GOST, modern houses must have a certain height and width of the door frame. These requirements are taken into account by manufacturers of entrance doors to the bathroom and toilet. However, there are times when initially the parameters do not meet the requirements or you need to fix them yourself.
- Openings of 60 and 70 cm are considered standard parameters, and 80–90 cm is no longer a standard.
- The height of 2 m for the shower room is practically unchanged. It is changed only in exceptional cases, for example, for an original designer interior or the installation of metal structures for decor.
- In practice, it often happens that the actual width, less often the height, is several millimeters larger than the standard dimensions. Usually the reason is the use of a finishing material that enlarges the canvas. Why it is possible to expand the opening into the bathroom and toilet, otherwise the front door will not fit in width or height. However, there are times when this is not always possible, for example, tiling the walls.
- Do not destroy your own house over small things. The way out of this situation can be as follows. You can leave the cladding, and reduce the interior opening to the bathroom and toilet to standard sizes. Then the width and height will remain at the proper level, and there will be no problems with the installation of plumbing or other metal products. To do this, you will need to make certain calculations for the front door. All this must be done before acquiring the overlap, i.e. take careful measurements.