Adding a toilet to a 2bed terrace?

Sanoffo

Does anyone have experience on whether adding a downstairs toilet to a 2 bed Victorian terrace is worth it? (cost vs added value to house)

We are having a full-width kitchen extension and are not sure whether to ask the architect to put a downstairs toilet in the design plans. Example of where we might/might not have the toilet:


Does it matter on the architect drawings if we have it in there but change our mind and decide not to put a toilet in?

Thanks for any advice in advance

Dan-Dan

What is the highest price paid for a property similar to yours , in your area , look at that , then your projected costs of work

phill99

If every body based home improvement decisions based on whether they add value or not, B&Q would go bust in a week.

If you want it, do it!

Although I'm not sure about the door opening into the lounge! You're sat there watching XFactor and someone goes in the thunder box to clear out a Chicken Vindaloo and 4 pints of Guiness. Lovely.

PasturesNew

I think a lot of people wouldn't fancy that as they'd not want to use it while there was a gathering going on in the room outside of it. Useful for some people, who don't expect visitors - but others would be horrified to think of using it while they had visitors - and visitors might be horrified to use it.

daveyjp

If you can watch The House That £100,000 built from last week. It was the same situation, possible extension to a two bed terrace. they put a loo into the main room and to me it looked wrong. Under stairs into a hall would be better.

The person on that wanted a kitchen extension, architect advised against it as they would have ended up with a very dark reception room. The solution resulted in a vast improvement.

missbiggles1

Sanoffo wrote: »

Does anyone have experience on whether adding a downstairs toilet to a 2 bed Victorian terrace is worth it? (cost vs added value to house)

We are having a full-width kitchen extension and are not sure whether to ask the architect to put a downstairs toilet in the design plans. Example of where we might/might not have the toilet:


Does it matter on the architect drawings if we have it in there but change our mind and decide not to put a toilet in?

Thanks for any advice in advance

How are all your rooms 25 ft wide when the front room has the hall alongside it?

ETA
Also, the measurements in metres aren't the same as the measurement in feet so which are correct?

dotdash79

That Reception room is going to be very dark, and will end up a total waste of space.

But I wouldn't put another loo in.

Sanoffo

The measurements are all wrong as I've stuck together plans from similar-esque houses on rightmove and left the text in place.

@dotdash, we are struggling with the reception room to be honest. We have thought about opening the whole downstairs space but will require another RSJ, more money etc. To overcome the light problem, we are looking to have rooflights on the side return like so:



I will try and find that show from last week daveyp, thankyou! When you say "Under stairs into a hall would be better" do you mean like it is in the plan I posted originally?

I actually don't think an extra toilet is necessary for some of the reasons mentioned + we value the extra space, but I want to make sure we are exploring all options. Thanks everyone for your input! I think I need to share ideas with more people as this is already useful!

Doozergirl

If the house is not an end terrace, the position of the loo means having a macerating toilet. Macerating toilets are awful.

Having humoured others, we have lived with a Saniflo for three years now. Never again. My company will never fit a saniflo for a client, they are that unpredictable.

Whether something is worth a price in terms of resale is entirely down to value. In London, that extension could be matched upstairs with a loft conversion. Outside the SouthEast, the downstairs extension
would often be overdevelopment in itself.

Sanoffo

We are in East London. We may do the loft in years to come if that's what you mean by matching? We value having a large kitchen/diner and garden space more than a loft at the moment for lifestyle reasons (it's only me and my partner).

Macerating toilet! Eeek, no.

I think it's leaning towards no toilet. This has me thinking more about the reception rooms though so thank you all!

stef73

We had almost the same extension added nearly 9 years ago the only difference is the toilet is the other side of the wall, cuts into kitchen not reception room. Our toilet door is into the reception doesnt bother us there is a extractor for smells.
The reception room door between kitchen we have a glass panel above the door to allow more light in and the door is always open this room we use for kids playroom and has 2 clothes dryers.
Do you have children? thinking of children? put in the downstairs toilet i know someone who has the same extension and has cildren who didnt put in the toilet and they regret it.