With the improvement of living standards, many families now choose to install shower rooms in the bathroom. For families with small bathroom space, simple shower rooms are a very good choice. But after the shower room is purchased, we don’t know much about the installation of the shower room. In order to help you use the shower room as soon as possible, let’s give you a detailed introduction to the installation process of the shower room, and you can also come to understand it.
What is the shower room installation process
1. Preparation and installation of the bottom basin: regular shower room manufacturers will send professionals to install at the door, and bring all the tools with you, which is faster and more convenient. The bottom basin of the shower room must be installed carefully, and water testing is an essential part. If the shower room body is installed well, it will be more difficult to make major changes.
2. Preparation before installation: Check whether the packaging of the shower room is complete, and check whether the configuration is complete after opening. Prepare the necessary tools for shower installation and keep them together for easy access.
3. Install the bottom basin: Assemble the bottom basin parts, adjust the level of the bottom basin, and ensure that there is no water in the basin and on the bottom of the basin. The hose can expand and contract with the distance, firmly connecting the basin bottom with the floor drain.
4. Test and protection (important links): After the bottom basin of the shower room is installed, a water test is required to ensure that the water is unimpeded. Before the shower room body is installed, the installed bottom basin should also be protected in time.
5. Installation of the shower room body: Whether the shower room is safe or not has an important relationship with whether the shower room body installation is normal. Whether the positioning and drilling are accurate, whether the fittings are installed properly, and whether the waterproof seal is done well all affect the normal use of the product. The strength and angle during installation are also difficult for ordinary people to grasp.
6. Locating and punching holes: clarify the layout of bathroom water pipes to prevent hidden pipelines from being blown up when punching holes. Use a pencil and a level ruler to determine the drilling position of the aluminum material against the wall, and use a percussion drill to drill holes.
7. Install the aluminum material (important link): Knock in the rubber particles at the drilled hole, and lock the aluminum strip to the wall with screws. Note that it needs to be adjusted continuously while installing to maintain the verticality of the aluminum.
8. Fix the glass (important link): Clamp and lock the glass of the shower room to the drilled hole of the bottom basin, drop the bottom of the flat glass or curved glass into the glass clamp groove, and slowly push it into the wall-mounted aluminum material. Then fix it with screws.
9. Install the jacking pipe: find the corresponding position above the fixed glass and drill a hole, install the (straight/oblique) fixing seat and connect the jacking pipe. Secure it to the top of the glass with an elbow sleeve.
10. Install the rack: measure the position and install the rack, tighten the laminate nuts, fix the laminate glass, and keep it vertical and horizontal. Pay attention to waterproofing under the aluminum material that fixes the glass.
11. Install the movable door (important link): install the hardware of the movable door, and install the hinge in the reserved hole of the fixed door. After installation, adjust the position of the axis of the lotus leaf until the feeling of closing the door is the best.
12. Do a good job of waterproofing (important link): Install suction strips or water-retaining rubber strips on the side or bottom of the glass as required. Use silica gel to seal the joints between the aluminum material and the wall, the glass and the bottom basin.
13. Debugging and fastening (important link): Check whether each part is comfortable and smooth to use, and adjust it in time if any problem is found. After adjusting, tighten the corresponding screws to make the whole shower room more firm.
14. Finishing work: snap the decorative aluminum strip into the wall-mounted aluminum material to ensure the clean and elegant appearance of the shower room. Finally, the entire shower room needs to be wiped clean with a rag.
How much is the shower room installation cost
In general, the shower room installation is provided by merchants for free installation. If you need someone to install it, the installation fee is about 100 to 200 yuan per shower room. Generally speaking, there are different varieties and different prices.
Buying skills, look at the glass, see if the glass is transparent, whether there are defects such as miscellaneous spots, bubbles, etc. The impurity of the glass material or the defect of the process will cause the glass to have defects such as specks and bubbles, which will reduce the hardness and strength of the glass. See if there is a 3c mark certification on the original glass. 3c certification is the abbreviation of China Compulsory Product Certification, and shower room products cannot be sold without this mark. Look at the sample of fully tempered glass fragments. According to the national standard, the safe amount of tempered glass fragments per 50*50mm area should reach more than 40 pieces. See Aluminum. Looking at the hardness of the aluminum material, the shower room aluminum material often needs to support the weight of tens of kilograms or even hundreds of kilograms of glass. If the hardness and thickness are not enough, the service life of the shower will be very short. The hardness and thickness of all aluminum materials are important assessment indicators. The thickness of the qualified shower room aluminum material is above 1.2mm, and the thickness of the glass aluminum material on the upper rail must be above 1.5mm. The hardness of aluminum can be tested by pressing the aluminum frame by hand. For aluminum with a hardness above 13 degrees, it is difficult for adults to deform it by hand pressing. Check whether the surface of the aluminum material is smooth, whether there is color difference and trachoma, and the smoothness of the section.
Simple shower room purchase method
1. Selection of simple shower room brands
Because the shower room is a non-standard manufacturing service product, if there is no brand awareness, it will not pay attention to the material selection and manufacturing quality of the shower room, and it will not pay attention to after-sales service. When buying, you can’t be greedy for cheap prices, and you must buy products marked with the detailed manufacturer’s name, factory address and commodity certificate.
2. Selection of glass for simple shower room
The choice of shower room glass is related to the safety of users, so it must be strictly tempered glass, and its production and testing must be strictly tested in accordance with the requirements of GB15763.2-200X and GB/T9963-1998 standards.
Low-end shower rooms generally use architectural incompletely tempered glass, so the glass has low purity, small pinhole-like black spots, bubbles and other defects on the surface, and the permeability is not high. In addition, the tempering coefficient of the glass is also very low. Uneven, even with sharp corners, less than 40 grains per 50×50 area, thus leaving a safety hazard, so wipe the glass with newspaper when distinguishing, and carefully observe with the naked eye, you will find that the above defects remain on the low-end shower room .
3. Selection of aluminum profiles for simple shower rooms
Some low-end shower room manufacturers use construction aluminum to make simple shower rooms in order to reduce costs. This kind of aluminum is mostly processed with low-priced aluminum ingots, and even recycled waste aluminum is used for the second processing. Copy aluminum, widely used in door and window frames.
4. Selection of hardware accessories for simple shower room
High-end shower room hardware is mostly made of stainless steel, among which 304 stainless steel fittings are best hand-polished. Some high-end shower rooms pay great attention to the design of waterproof design and adjustment function in structure. For example, it has the function of adjusting the lock wall position from the horizontal direction, which can correct the deviation caused by cement workers and installers.
5. Glue magnetic strip and sealing of simple shower room
The quality of shower room rubber strips lies in the quality of raw materials and the control of processing technology. At present, the best-quality rubber strips for domestic shower rooms are PVC rubber strips. This kind of rubber strips is suitable for both cold winters and hot summers. Add soft-edged rubber strips to the aluminum frame, so as to reduce the large glass glue and at the same time achieve a good seal. The rubber strips in low-end shower rooms have poor craftsmanship, poor permeability, many impurities, and are easy to age. breakage, short lifespan.
