seperate shower room or seperate WC?

missjy

The house that I have just purchased has a bathroom with just a bath and sink in it. Next to it is a smaller room with the toilet in it but no sink. I was wondering whether to keep it like it (adding a sink to the seperate WC) or moving the toilet into the bigger room and changing the small room into a shower room only? The first option is cheaper - but was wondering which would people prefer when it came to selling the property? Ideally I would like to knock the wall through and make it into one big bathroom but that is considerable unneccessary expense - and some people have told me that a seperate WC is useful for when you have teenage kids who take over the bathroom!

BitterAndTwisted

I think a separate WC is always better than a lav in the bathroom if there's no downstairs cloaks.

The_Palmist

Knock the wall and make it a big bathroom.

A lot depends on your personal habits as well. If washing hands after using the lav is not an issue then you can leave it as it is.

Racky_Roo

knock the wall down, no-one wants a tiny bathroom and tiny loo. I knocked my wall down and it was a great selling point. It really doesn't cost that much and is an easy job, even with moving 2 radiators and boarding up the old door

Mrs_Arcanum

Always keep a separate loo unless it is a single persons flat. You can guarantee if you share there will be someone needing the loo when you are in the bath.

It is the bane of my life not having a separate loo with a family of 4.

googler

Consult a plumber on the practicality of moving the WC first. Remember the soil pipe from a WC has to find its way to the soil stack, and you'll be lengthening the route it will take by moving the WC. Unless you want a 5 inch pipe running along the internal wall....? Or a hole drilled in the outside wall to route it externally?

Look at your piping - do you have an external soil stack, with the WC closest to it, and the shower/basin feeding into that by a smaller pipe?

It's easier to move a shower or basin, because they have smaller drainage piping, but a WC requires the large bore piping......

anotherginger

having grown up in a house with the a separate loo and bathroom, i would say keep it as it is. it would have been chaos on the morning if there was just one 'room' with two people getting ready for work and two getting ready for school. at least if someone was in the shower you could get in for a pee!

Callie22

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Always keep a separate loo unless it is a single persons flat. You can guarantee if you share there will be someone needing the loo when you are in the bath.

It is the bane of my life not having a separate loo with a family of 4.

I agree - my OH likes really, really long baths and there have been so many times when I've wished for a separate loo!!