Converting downstairs shower cubicle to house washing machine

Astraios

I'm due to move into a property with a downstairs shower room inc. toilet/basin.

I have no use for the shower [its built into the wall, rather than standalone].

I would like to decommision the shower and place a washing machine in its place, so the room with be a downstairs toilet-!!!-utility room.

Is this doable/legal?

Thanks! Any help appreciated.

markin

Anything is possible with enough money, the biggest problem may be moving the drain if its in the floor and if its concrete.

getmore4less

Layout with current plumbing and electric points would help
(best power maybe other side of the walls)

It may be possible to keep the shower and create a plinth/enclosure for the washer.

Cold feed, power and drain will be needed.

ka7e

It may be possible to keep the shower and create a plinth/enclosure for the washer.

I looked into having a combined utility/shower room and I think you need the washing machine to be wired to a source outside the room. It seemed a bit daft as I always had my washing machine adjacent to a sink!

getmore4less

ka7e wrote: »

I looked into having a combined utility/shower room and I think you need the washing machine to be wired to a source outside the room. It seemed a bit daft as I always had my washing machine adjacent to a sink!

The idea would be to utilise the space without destroying the shower facility so you could restore to shower use later.

Depending on the type of tray and door this may be impractical anyway.

troffasky

Not much detail in your post so this is all vague advice. Don't see why not. I would be tempted to do it in such a way that you could revert to it being a shower room, as easily as possible if you think that would make it more marketable.

Toilets and washbasins don't even get a mention in terms of bathroom zoning [but obviously common sense should prevail] so it won't be a bathroom any more once the shower is gone.

https://www.rm-electrical.com/technical-resource/bathroom-zones-explained/

Disjoint

I looked at doing that, legislation has changed making it a tiny bit easier but still because of the wiring it's not straightforward - you'd have to have it wired outside of the bathroom. Idea is that you don't want wet feet coming out of the shower and then you touching electrical sources - something daft like that.
I ended up finding another spot in the house for it (next to our bedroom so that we can just lay the clothes the bed out of the dryer and put everything directly in the cupboards). Saved the downstairs bathroom, will be putting an extension to the house with another bathroom and will have 4 bathrooms then for a 5 bedroom house! LUXURY! Joke - but idea is that it cost money to put a shower in, so silly to decomission them. As my builder who is also an absolute brilliant man told me: if you can build another bathroom do it - it adds value.

So to answer your question - it's doable just do it right as you can easily run fool of building regulations.