Downstairs toilet nightmare - please help!

kwmlondon

Why does a house need two toilets? Desirable, sure, but essential? Surely a 1 bed property for two people would not need a second loo...

27col

plumb1 wrote: »

You wanna come up north, and walk down our backyard in the middle of the night for a Poo:D

Well plumb, whatever turns you on!

27col

kwmlondon wrote: »

Why does a house need two toilets? Desirable, sure, but essential? Surely a 1 bed property for two people would not need a second loo...

You would not be saying that if you had ever been crossing your legs in a one toilet home.

Prothet_of_Doom

27col wrote: »

I, for one, would never buy a house with only one toilet. Unless I was going to add another one myself.

Lucky that you can afford the luxury. I bet you use soft toliet roll too? :rotfl:

I bought the only house I could afford, in the area my wife wanted to live in. It only had one bog and I'm not sure we could fit one downstairs - Perhaps we could put it in the Lounge. :rotfl:

Sometimes it would be great to have an extra facility, with 4 of us in the house. But hey, sometimes you have to wait for good things to happen. :rotfl:

Prothet_of_Doom

I_have_spoken wrote: »

SOunds like No.2 is a jobsworth who doesn't know the rules.

Why not just place a WC pan and macerater in the middle of the new kitchen, get your certificate, then remove it?

I think that a toilet is not allowed in the kitchen. :eek:

I_have_spoken

You would not be saying that if you had ever been crossing your legs in a one toilet home.

Easy solution...

Silvester

teneighty wrote: »

From the information you have given I think the Building Control Officer is wrong.

Go over his head and ask his chief to confirm in writing which Building Regulation prohibits the removal of your ground floor WC.

The regulation M4 you quoted before only applies to new build houses built after 2004.

Thanks for the suggestion. As we have bought the toilet & have builders in now, think I will get it installed & then question it. Hopefully get a free bath room from the council for my troubles!

kwmlondon

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Easy solution...

What does it say about me that I thought of the pot plant first!!!

Abbafan1972

We have coped very well with one toilet for the last 18 years, thank you very much!

martinsurrey

The second BC offer is correct.

Although an old building does not need to meet current standards, any building work CANNOT make it less compliant than it currently is (with regard to section M of the building regs).

From part M

Section 0, part 0.2 to 0.4

Boils down to, any work cannot make the house less compliant than it was before the work.

A WC downstairs is a requirement of the regulations, so removing one makes the dwelling less compliant, so is not allowed.


It’s a massive pain in the rear, but it is the rules.

edit for

read example 1 in section 0, it is EXACTLY what the OP is doing, and is not allowed.