Bathroom query. Sizes/ratios etc.

Canucklehead

aliasojo wrote: »

I'll be buying the materials and putting in the units etc. A plumber friend of my son will be doing the actual plumbing. The room is getting ripped out completely, new plasterboard, new floor etc so almost anything is possible at this stage.

Hi...have you picked the plumber's brains about possible constraints/options as he/she would be best placed to advise (I would hope;)).

HTH

Canucklehead

aliasojo

Plumber says I can do pretty much anything. There are no constraints because he can access all existing plumbing easily and can put anything anywhere. The soil pipe is getting replaced (but not moved) anyway so he can add whatever connections he wants. His only advice was to preferably keep the toilet close to the soil pipe. (On window wall or basin wall.)

Doozergirl

Back to the original question and it looks fine. The extra space gained from having a 700 bath would be lost simply being either side of the loo!

Carry on as you were, but do think about using the wall for storage too, it seems a shame to use so much floor space on cabinets without using the walls too.

aliasojo

Thanks again guys. There is tallish thin s/s towel rail/radiator on the bit of wall above the 250 unit to the left of the wc. Sounds weird but in reality looks ok and gives out enough heat. Bath towels will go on a hanger on the bit of wall between door and bath edge and I can probably scrounge a bit of space at each side of the basin unit to put in pull out rails. (If you get reduced depth versions of these, will have to check that.)

I'm also thinking of getting a bath panel which incorporates a towel rail but they are fairly pricey so not sure about that yet.

The toilet roll was going to be going inside one of the 250 units, or even in the double unit top left. I intended buying an ordinary plain chrome one and screwing it to the inside of the door or the top of the unit inside. Dedicated toilet roll units are slightly narrower and stupidly expensive for what they are so I figured an ordinary unit could easily be adapted.

I've been searching for ages for a short projection btw wc and I've found a few that are less (in total including the 200 unit depth) than the shortest close coupled versions I've found. I also think that as the room is so small, it would look more streamlined with a unit and a btw pan.

Good idea about the way the doors open on the 500 unit top left. Will consider that. I dont think I can have deeper units because of the doorway. A basin would project into the room too much on a deeper unit and would interfere more with the door opening I think. It would also cut down the space between basin edge and bath edge to around 700mm ish depending on what unit range we went for. I'm thinking the proportions would maybe look a little out of place because the room is so small?

Originally it was my intention to have wall units on the basin wall too. I still might but I wondered whether a huge wall size mirror would be better to give the impression of more space? Admittedly we could really use any extra storage we can get though and that wall is the only place units could go.

bluenose1

I think you have made very good use of the space available, it's amazing how difficult these decisons are.
My bathroom has a similar width to yours but is slightly wider and I managed to squeeze in a walk in shower. Although this has left very little floor space I think it is more important to have what you want in the bathroom rather than floor space (though I did get a shock when I first saw it fitted.) I also have a large, narrow glass wall unit that is useful storage space as well as reflecting light into the room.

We also put floating white shelves over the narrow end of the bath. I store towels and wicker baskets on this with toiletries in (sounds naff but looks rather nice.)

Good luck and if you are anytjing like me you will spend ages deliberating.

aliasojo

Thanks bluenose. At one point I tried to fit in a smaller bath so I could get a small walk in shower in too but soon realised I hadn't got a hope. :rotfl:

The basin and wc are both on the same wall at the moment. The basin overhangs the bath slightly and there is no space for storage at all since the loo is up against the side wall practically. Hence the need to shift things around. You're right though, we've spent months thinking this over as I'm sick to death of making quick decisions that turn out bad. :rolleyes: Tis not fun.

macman

Have you tried either making a scale plan and cutting the units/fittings out to size to see how they will work together? Alternatively, since it's quite a small area, just cut templates s/s out of newspaper and put them down in position. This should give you a good idea of how it will work 'on the ground'.

aliasojo

Lol...I downloaded the Google Sketchup thing that Andy suggested but I can't make head nor tail of it.

I also (probably far too cheekily I admit) phoned a couple of bathroom places to ask if they would put my plan on one of their cad programs and print it out for me but they basically politely told me to get lost. :rotfl:They would only do that if they were planning the bathroom with a view to me buying from them. Oh well, dont ask, dont get.

My next option was to get one of those bathroom brochure books that sometimes have the push out pieces in the back that you take out and place on graph paper. That would give me an idea but I'm quite bad at visualising without a proper picture.

TomsMom

aliasojo wrote: »

I also (probably far too cheekily I admit) phoned a couple of bathroom places to ask if they would put my plan on one of their cad programs and print it out for me but they basically politely told me to get lost. :rotfl:They would only do that if they were planning the bathroom with a view to me buying from them. Oh well, dont ask, dont get.

Go into Bathstore, or somewhere else you haven't asked, and get them to plan your bathroom. You don't have to buy from them just because you've asked then to plan it. We had it done at Bathstore, took the drawing away and when they phoned to see if we were interested we just said that we wouldn't be going ahead thank you.

We also asked a local shop to plan it. It was total rubbish, he seemed to think that the height of luxury was a corner bath which everyone should aspire to. I don't know anyone that has used a corner bath that actually likes it. I do know someone who bought one, used it and is now taking it out and having a normal bath. Again, we didn't buy from this shop .

aliasojo

Thanks Andy.

Thanks too for including the screen shots. I thought the example of the btw wc unit with measurements was especially useful and I think that level of detail would help so I'll give it another go. I'll need to have some quiet time to digest the tutorials though. I couldn't get rid of the man in the pic the first time I tried it. :rotfl: