Advice on short term fix for bathroom

annamayjones1991

Hooray it worked!
Thanks Henrymore!

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As you can see the litle extra bit in bedroom 3 is where we're thinking of adding the stud wall to create a small upstairs toilet.
And you can see from the floorplan in the bathroom how small it is. I also must add that the scaling on the bathroom is not true, it looks as though there would be room for a toilet next to the bath but this isn't the case, nor will the bath fit if it were pushed down to the other end where the sink is, it's not a very true likeness of the actual bathroom.

Sevenhills and Getmoreforless I agree, this could well be a good temporary fix!
Many Thanks All

getmore4less

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if you pinch that corner out of bed 3 plumbing the soil pipe may be an issue.

I think I would look at making a bigger bathroom into bed 2, move the wall to the left.

change the access to bed 1 of the slightly bigger landing.

square off bed3 to make it bigger re claiming the area with doors into bed 1&3.

annamayjones1991

getmore4less wrote: »

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if you pinch that corner out of bed 3 plumbing the soil pipe may be an issue.

I think I would look at making a bigger bathroom into bed 2, move the wall to the left.

change the access to bed 1 of the slightly bigger landing.

square off bed3 to make it bigger re claiming the area with doors into bed 1&3.

I don't think i'm quite understanding, how would we change the access to bedroom 1 if we moved the bathroom wall? Wouldn't the door to bed 1 still be in the same place?

And squaring off bed 3 how would that help?
Sorry for being ignorant i'm just struggling to vision it.

Directly below bed 3 is the kitchen, and there is an old waste pipe on this wall, i'm wondeing if perhaps bed 3 used to be a bathroom at some point?
Would this change things at all knowing that the kithchen pipework is below?

Many Thanks

annamayjones1991

Actually I think I can see it now. The only issue I have with stealing some of bed 2 is its the biggest of all the rooms and has an inredible unspoilt view over the castle that is at the back of the house, we are also on a hill, so this view is not going to disappear in the future.

So in short, i'd be really sad if we weren't able to have this as our master bedroom, I have a future plan of putting in a larger window or Juliet balcony also.

Carrot007

Surely the bathroom window is frosted anyway. I thought it was a requrement. Not that it stops bodgers.

Sounds a bit like my bathroom when I moved in. Had no toilet. I went for remving bath so I could have a big shower cubile there though. Yes I like a long soak. But the shower does it better! If not cheaper once you heat more water than a bath!

getmore4less

Is the downstairs bigger or the stairs really steep?

I was thinking the bathroom wall and door to bed 2 go 1 doors width to the left.

door to bed one rotates 90deg to be on the wall that was between the bedrooms which is extended towards the stairs for the door to bed 3 making that bigger

you could move that wall and door down to make 2 bigger again ready for the window to be replaced.

without the sizes it is not easy to see what room you have for the bed and furniture

do you want to retain 3 bedrooms.

Slinky

Is there enough headroom going up the stairs to pinch any of the space over the stairs to rotate the bath through 90 degrees?

chappers

have you also got a ground floor plan with the location of the existing toilet not necessarily definitive but the position of the soil stack my influence possible layout upstairs.
I agree with you that having the only toilet in the house downstairs, when the bathroom is upstairs is just plain weird.
Is having 3 bedrooms essential for you. turning the existing bathroom into a shower room en-suite to bed 2 and fitting a nice upstairs bathroom into bedroom 3 may actually be advantageous over trying to sell a house with a very poor layout. You say the house has a nice location. Is that what is driving you on this one as even as a builder I wouldn't even consider a house with such tight dimensions and poor layout

annamayjones1991

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have you also got a ground floor plan with the location of the existing toilet not necessarily definitive but the position of the soil stack my influence possible layout upstairs.
I agree with you that having the only toilet in the house downstairs, when the bathroom is upstairs is just plain weird.
Is having 3 bedrooms essential for you. turning the existing bathroom into a shower room en-suite to bed 2 and fitting a nice upstairs bathroom into bedroom 3 may actually be advantageous over trying to sell a house with a very poor layout. You say the house has a nice location. Is that what is driving you on this one as even as a builder I wouldn't even consider a house with such tight dimensions and poor layout

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I hope this works, this is the ground floor.

The location of the house is what drove us to purchase, it's a really stunning and sought after area with unspoilt views of the neighbouring castle and downs.
There are only 3 other semis along the lane, and the other houses are all huge detatched properties, some reaching over the million pound mark. Hopefully this gives you a bit more of an idea as to why we went for it. We're also first time buyers and saved a lot longer than was necessary so we could afford something a bit bigger and in a nicer area which we could renovate a little and eventually get more equity.

Plus we never shy away from a challenge!