Tiny bath! Should we move toilet or wall to fit bigger?

70Su

We have just moved into a sweet little bungalow and after all the box halling and unpacking I decided to take a well earned relaxing bath which wasn't as chilled as I had hoped because my knee caps were almost under my chin and I couldn't lay down into the water!

When measured our bath length is 60" (152cm). Our actual bathroom is not all that big. There is no gap or shelf to enable putting a longer bath in where this bath already fits. The suite is quite old, possibly late 50's early 60's. We do like it but it's blue and quite tired so we aim to at some point in the future get a new one, BUT we'd like to bigger bath when we do!!

To do this we have (I think) 2 options:-

1:- Knock down and re-build the wall just behind the bath giving an extra 12" so bath can stay in same place, although I'm not sure if it's a supporting wall - do bungalows have supporting walls as such as there is no upstairs?? or

2:- Move our toilet and sink over to the opposite wall and turn the bath around to run along the wall they came from.

The toilet waste goes into floorboards, not out of the wall and we are on raised flooring.

Were not capable of doing either job ourselves, but wondered out of the 2 choices which would be the least expensive and least disruptive?

Any ideas or guidelines before we start calling to get quotes would be very much appreciated as we have no idea where to begin?

Thank you

jimexbox

If you're going to replace the entire bathroom suit its no big deal (usually) moving the various elements of your bathroom around. Just make doubly sure that the new layout is going to work before you start moving waste and water pipes around.

rachbc

generally easier to move a suite around than knock down and rebuild an entire wall

ormus

if the floor is a solid one, then move the wall. otherwise move the toilet pan.

70Su

Were on floorboards so looks like the easiest option then is to get quotes to move around.

Many thanks all - cheers!:beer:

macman

70Su wrote: »

We have just moved into a sweet little bungalow and after all the box halling and unpacking I decided to take a well earned relaxing bath which wasn't as chilled as I had hoped because my knee caps were almost under my chin and I couldn't lay down into the water!

When measured our bath length is 60" (152cm). Our actual bathroom is not all that big. There is no gap or shelf to enable putting a longer bath in where this bath already fits. The suite is quite old, possibly late 50's early 60's. We do like it but it's blue and quite tired so we aim to at some point in the future get a new one, BUT we'd like to bigger bath when we do!!

To do this we have (I think) 2 options:-

1:- Knock down and re-build the wall just behind the bath giving an extra 12" so bath can stay in same place, although I'm not sure if it's a supporting wall - do bungalows have supporting walls as such as there is no upstairs?? or

2:- Move our toilet and sink over to the opposite wall and turn the bath around to run along the wall they came from.

The toilet waste goes into floorboards, not out of the wall and we are on raised flooring.

Were not capable of doing either job ourselves, but wondered out of the 2 choices which would be the least expensive and least disruptive?

Any ideas or guidelines before we start calling to get quotes would be very much appreciated as we have no idea where to begin?

Thank you

No supporting walls in a bungalow-so what do you imagine is holding the roof and ceiling joists up then?
If you place the bath along the full length of the wall where the toilet was, and that is the external wall, then you will need to be able to run the soil pipe below floorboard level, or at one end of the bath to reach the stack. Not impossible, but not straightforward either. Moving the soil pipe is the hardest job, the other supplies can be easily rerouted. So if possible you want to keep your toilet on the same wall.

never_enough

Toilet always the most expensive thing to move because it's a pain to do (apparently).