Build your own sauna with a sloping roof - suggestions/notes/plans

  • Erstellt am 2020-11-24 10:14:29

pagoni2020

2021-02-05 10:07:06
  • #1
hm......due to my hair color, I would probably need to see pictures of it to fully understand and to give my amateur opinion on it.
 

Nida35a

2021-02-05 10:14:55
  • #2
You don't seriously want to save screws now,
pre-drill every 50cm into the batten and board, properly stable.
You don't know who else will be messing around on it, and you're lucky if you're involved.
 

matte

2021-02-05 10:15:15
  • #3
Ok, here is an illustration:

Blue are the timbers of the substructure, light brown the bench slats with 120mm width.

I am wondering whether to put one screw in the middle per squared timber (green) or two (red). I find two screws per squared timber a bit much, but I am wondering if it might warp at some point...
 

matte

2021-02-05 10:16:28
  • #4


No, of course I'm not trying to save screws, but there is no tensile or shear force acting on the battens.
Purely "statically," one screw per beam should be more than enough.
 

Nida35a

2021-02-05 10:28:00
  • #5
The dream of some couples is parents' evening in the sauna, nothing with statics, that's dynamics
 

pagoni2020

2021-02-05 10:55:02
  • #6
I would also screw twice there because that is the most stressed area; you don’t need to use such thick screws, better to use two instead. Of course, it also works with one screw and even stapling would hold, but in the end, it’s the most important area and eventually something will squeak or creak. Maybe not immediately but in a few years...... What I was still wondering is if you placed the bench across the room freely, meaning without any additional support except at the outer walls? I don’t know if that would be very visible but I would probably put a support in the middle on the floor. Maybe a bit further back, then you wouldn’t see it, right? I think a 2m bench would otherwise eventually squeak because it bends a little.
 

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