Bathroom refit- Ideas?

JGB1955

Would changing the door make more room? We swapped out internal-facing door for an outward-facing door, then swapped the 'tap end' on the bath, away from the window, allowing a shower bath. We also changed the toilet by 90 degrees - it still goes into the original waste pipe. The washbasin was the easiest of the three to move.

GDB2222

Of course, nobody has mentioned the truly cheap-skate option. Put a wall over the window. You don't really need natural light in a bathroom, and this then gives you somewhere to hang your shower screen from.

KBNewby

JGB1955 wrote: »

Would changing the door make more room? We swapped out internal-facing door for an outward-facing door, then swapped the 'tap end' on the bath, away from the window, allowing a shower bath. We also changed the toilet by 90 degrees - it still goes into the original waste pipe. The washbasin was the easiest of the three to move.

Thank you. Yes this is a good consideration! Did you have a little bathroom too?

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I used to have a little bathroom, I always wanted to get a shower in there but I never could. In the end we had to settle for a wall mounted mixer shower. It was far from ideal but we were only fixing it up to move. We are more shower people too but was difficult to have a shower curtain in there without feeling like it didnt divide up the room. Someone said above you dont have to have a window -every other house in the street didnt have one, we were end terrace - their bathrooms looked awful without one, so I would keep the window. We had a shelf which made a shower problematic too, so we took that out - if we were staying we would have looked at having some kind of fold-away glass screen up I think, with shower in the corner. Thankfully now our bathroom is 3x the size of this!

This was when we bought it:


When we moved out:

VfM4meplse

GDB2222 wrote: »

You could put a shower cubicle in the bedroom next to the bathroom. That would make it en suite, sorta, and it would be a cheap solution.

I would caution against this. My master bedroom has this scenario, along with a sink and it just doesn't work for me as I can't use the super-duper shower without worrying about damp (I hear duvets are notorious sponges, and nor do I want mould in my wardrobes) so don't risk it unless its high summer. Not using the plumbing means that unless I run water and disinfectant through it regularly, it starts to whiff and the solution I found was to actually use the second bedroom for myself. Its seems I am serving this "bathroom" rather than the other way round because right now its nothing more than a glorified dressing room.

I have decided to bite the bullet this year and add a toilet and a wall to make it a full and private en-suite - I am fortunate the the bedroom will remain a reasonable size. The position of the soil stack means that this won't be too much of a hassle for my builder, who will be refitting my main bathroom at the same time so if he has to knock through walls, so be it.

sew_what

GDB2222 wrote: »

1. It's a really big deal to move a toilet more than a few cms. That's because of the waste.

2. You could put a shower cubicle in the bedroom next to the bathroom. That would make it en suite, sorta, and it would be a cheap solution.
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Could you work this this the other way and put the cubicle in the bedroom but opening into the bathroom?
It all depends on the space int he bedroom I guess?