Kitchen in the middle of house

TCB1

Hi,
We are thinking about moving our kitchen to the middle of the house where our dining room currently is so that we can put a small garden room at the back and use some of the current kitchen for a downstairs shower room.

The problem (or not!) is that the kitchen will then be in a room that has no exterior walls.

Is this a massive problem for plumbing and waste? the floor in the room that will hopefully have the kitchen in it is wooden but the old kitchen that currently has the plumbing is concrete.

Thanks.

Doozergirl

Yes it will be a bit if an issue. You will have to dig through to an outside wall to wherever the drainage chambers are, ensuring that the appropriate % drop between the kitchen and the chamber is maintained. It's expensive.

A house with a kitchen that has no windows sounds a wee bit odd.

jennifernil

I don't think a kitchen without windows is that odd, but you will need good ventilation/extraction to satisfy building regs.

Is the present kitchen in its original position in the house?

andrew-b

Not necessarily expensive if you dig up the floor yourself...but from my metre of concrete floor excavation for waste pipework by hammer and chisel it is most definitely messy, hard work and getting pipework past the external wall is the trickiest bit of the whole operation when working below the floor level! Also hard work filling in again! The waste pipework is the main problem..the rest of the plumbing can go over the top and down the walls and boxed in. Will all depend on whether you can maintain the required fall on the waste to outside the property - think it's something like 2cm fall every metre.. If you can't get the required fall you can actually get waste water pumps to take the water up and over the top...definitely not ideal though.
For ventilation requirements you may need to pass the vent pipe below ceiling level depending on the direction of the ceiling joists above (if your lucky a rectangular duct can be passed under the floor above parallel to the joist to the outside of the property).

Still it's not impossible ...just not very straightforward! Oh and we used to have a kitchen without window in the kitchen area ...though it was in a flat and opened out into the living area .

Canucklehead

Good evening: see the Planning Portal for kitchen requirements (Building Regs.) As DG said, it can be v. expensive and also a time consuming process. As always, it does help if appropriate equipment, materials and skills are used for the tasks at hand, otherwise the works drag on for years.;)

HTH

Canucklehead