Could you put a shower room in this house?

pete_v

kunekune wrote: »

Silvercar, I'd agree with you about washers. I am not into the UK thing of putting them next to food - a bit yucky really. But installing plumbing is a lot more tricky than just plugging in a dryer

True, of course, but a washing-machine drain is a lot easier to deal with than a toilet, both because the pipe is smaller and because the gradient of the run is a lot less critical. (Turns out there's only a fairly narrow range in which toilet waste will flow properly - too flat and it goes nowhere, too steep and the liquids run away and leave the solids behind.) Washing machines also pump out their waste, so you can start anywhere up to about four feet above floor level and so go quite a long distance along a wall even with a good steep gradient. I used this in moving my washing machine and tumble-drier under my stairs and still connecting them to the drainage stack in the kitchen. Running the water supply is even easier as it can go in any direction; often a single length of flexible plastic supply pipe is all you need.

Of course, it will depend exactly where your plumbing is, but I would have thought that if Bedroom 2 is your box room (it's the smallest) then anywhere along the left or bottom walls would be easy to plumb. If by boxroom you meant the landing cupboard then you might be able to get down to the toilet below, though this is complicated both by the arrangement of the stairs and possibly by the toilet's drainage arrangement since I'm guessing it's a later addition to the house.

Cheers,

Pete

kunekune

Yes, the landing cupboard is what I mean by the boxroom, it isn't a 'bedroom' as such. We need the bedrooms. That's really helpful, thanks.

DH likes this house too, but unless the vendor gets real, of course, it won't happen anyway!!!