Washbasin installation height from a clean floor

In today's market you can find many options for plumbing in various shapes and sizes. Despite all this variety of choices, plumbing fixtures can be strictly divided according to functionality and method of attachment to pipes. This article will describe how the installation height of the washbasin from a clean floor is selected so that its use is convenient and safe for all family members.

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Basic rules for installing plumbing

Installation of internal plumbing systems is necessary, observing the requirements of SNiP 3.05.01-85.

Before proceeding with the installation of indoor plumbing fixtures, the following steps must be completed:

1. Lay the pipeline.
2. Lay duct.
3. To install embedded parts in the building structures in order to fix the equipment - you need to comply with the requirements of the working documentation.
4. To enable the inclusion of electric tools and electric welding machines - the distance should be no more than 500 centimeters from each other).
5. Glaze window openings in the outer fences.
6. Thoroughly insulate them.

For the subsequent installation of children's washbasins and other plumbing, you will have to stock up on strength and patience. Plumbing, general construction and other work in the bathroom must be performed in the following order:

1. Plaster the walls.
2. Arrange lighthouses for the further installation of the stairs.
3. Install fasteners designed for piping.
4. Lay pipelines.
5. Test their properties.
6. Waterproofing floors.
7. Primed walls.
8. Arrange clean floors.
9. Install a bath.
10. Place brackets under the sinks.
11. Install mounting parts for flushing tanks.
12. Paint the walls and ceiling first.
13. Wall tiles.
14. Install the washbasin. If necessary, install a children's washbasin.
15. Install flush tanks.
16. Re-paint the walls and ceiling.
17. Install water fittings.

Important! When installing plumbing systems and other construction works, it is important that there is no damage to the works that were performed earlier:

• Earthenware devices should be installed only after the installation of pipelines before the secondary painting of surfaces.
• At the time when you install the sink and sink, you need to use siphons-revisions, and during the installation of plumbing, such as a wash basin and a bathtub, it is better to use floor and bottle ones. The described devices must be placed horizontally or plumb.
• The body of the bath bowl and steel water pipes must be connected together using special metal conductors - this is necessary in order to equalize the electric potentials.

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Sink

The following dimensions of the plumbing installation are usually applied to a standard sink 85 cm high from a clean floor.

For water outlets:

• If the manufacturer of the cabinet gives the required data or is completely unknown, the water sockets are placed at a width of 8 cm with a center along the drain axis and a height of 62 cm from the finish floor.
• If this cabinet is quite spacious, then the water sockets can be installed at a width of 10 cm with the same center along the drain axis, as described above.

To drain:

• Installation of the drain axis is carried out at a height of 55 cm.
• The drain height is calculated from the need to install a pipe or bottle siphon and install a bottom valve with a stem included in the mixer kit.

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Bath

The dimensions of the plumbing installation in the bathroom are quite different from each other. But what sizes should be if you consider the bathtub as a sanitary appliance?

• A mixer with a short spout must be installed separately for the bath itself. The mixer must be 80 cm higher than the finishing floor.
• If the faucet designed for bathtubs and sinks is combined, then the design should not be higher and not lower than 110 cm.
• The axis of the drain pipe must be located so that it is 90 mm higher than the final floor level, provided that the calculation is based on the fact that the hole in the bathroom is 13 cm high.

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Kitchen sink

The data below are designed for dimensions of a countertop, the height of which is 86 cm.

Calculation of water outlets:

• The terminals are mounted at a height of 53 cm with an error of 2 cm.
• The findings should be arranged, as a rule, horizontally in a row.
• The distance between the centers should be considered approximately 7-5 cm.

Drain:

• 38 cm is a universal outlet pipe for a pipe siphon.
• 42 cm - horizontal outlet pipe of the pipe siphon.

Important! Drain for a dishwasher is better to put at the same height as the water sockets. The same rule applies to the washing machine.

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Hygienic shower

The following dimensions of the installation of plumbing:

• The hygienic shower needs to be mounted approximately 70-75 cm above the final floor level. Here you can focus on the design of the bathroom.
• The height of the water outlet remains the same.
• If the holder was connected to the water supply, the water outlet will have to be placed 5-10 cm below the mixer. The exact figure depends on the mixer itself and the shower.
• The distance between these devices is 15 cm.
• The height of the shower faucet should be considered as 120 cm.
• The drain intended for the shower tray should be located almost at the floor (60 cm to the pipe axis).

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Toilet bowl

The following dimensions of the plumbing installation for sewerage should be observed:

• Installation - approximately 23 cm from the plane of the finishing floor.
• Floor toilet - 18 cm from the floor to the axis of the pipe.

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Washing machine:

• Self-draining, if it is in this model of the machine, should be placed at a height of 50-85 cm from the floor to the axis of the pipe.
• It is necessary that the water outlet is 77 cm above the finishing floor.
• Draining washing machines, which are separate, it is better to place at a height of 50 cm on a single vertical axis.

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From this article, you learned about the standard sizes of the plumbing installation, which very often masters of their craft turn to, and now you can make repairs without doubting the correctness of your calculations.