When deciding to make the bathroom more beautiful and tidy, many owners hide their water and sewer pipes in several ways. There are three most common ways to hide pipes:
- Make a false wall.
- Make a box (mainly from gypsum plasterboard).
- Hide the pipes in the grooves under the tiles.
Many do not want to make a false wall due to the fact that it takes up a lot of usable space, and our bathrooms are not at all particularly spacious. In addition, as with hidden pipes under the tile, in case of leakage or damage, you will have to break the tile, and if the tile was still from the old collection, then a serious problem arises - if such tiles are no longer produced, then you will have to buy and install a new one tiles. You yourself understand that this repair is not for two thousand ...
Most people concentrate all pipes compactly along the wall near the floor, I also did this:
Of course, in this case, it is advisable to make a neat box of gypsum plasterboard. As many do ...
When we lived in the apartment, I also made a box on which there were always air fresheners, washing powders and a roll of toilet paper. Once, a neighbor from below knocked on my door and announced the N-th amount for the fact that water ran down his wall, it turned out that the sewer pipe at the junction leaked and, as luck would have it, in the box. I had to break it and eliminate the cause, but I could not do it again, because, as I said above, I could not find the same tile. In this state, he sold the apartment ...
In the new house, I acted a little differently... I took a regular polymer skirting board with a height of 10 cm. and hid the pipes under it:
It cost me 1,800 rubles per 4 running meters. Yes, not cheap, but not more expensive than a GKL box. I applied sealant to the top of the skirting board:
... and stuck it to the wall, hiding the pipes.
It turned out like this:
Of course, you need to know in advance how you are going to close the pipes. I knew for a long time that it would be a plinth, so I prepared myself. In the process of laying pipes, I buried them a little into the wall:
Then I laid a layer of plaster on the wall, and then the tiles. As a result, my pipes protruded only 2.5 cm beyond the wall, so my baseboard easily blocked them.
You can say that many of the pipes protrude beyond the plane of the wall more than I did. I do not argue! In this case, if the wall material allows and the wall is not load-bearing, I advise you to slightly alter the system and bury the pipe a little into the wall and still cover it with a baseboard. Below I illustrate how my brother did, burying the 110th sewer pipe only 5 cm into the brick wall. Next came 2 cm plaster and 1.2 cm tiles with glue. As a result, the pipe, which protrudes 2.8 cm behind the wall, was easily covered with such a plinth.
In extreme cases, if the pipe protrudes strongly, then there are polymer skirting boards that can be beautifully positioned at an angle. The types and configurations of the sea, it will not be difficult to find on the Internet.
This solution looks very nice, especially since these skirting boards are made for painting and it will not be difficult to choose a color for the tile.
You can always cut through the sealant with a knife and move the skirting board, no need to break anything - access to the pipes will be easily provided. I am sure that such a solution is many times more convenient than the GKL-box.
Hope someone will find this solution helpful! Thanks!
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