Freestanding bath, plumbing in the waste from underneath

ashe

GDB2222 said:

The waste on your new bath is off centre, and you can have the waste on the side nearest the centre of the room. Have you allowed for that?

Will the taps be wall mounted?

Yea that's how I measured it - with the waste closest to the middle of the room to have shortest route to the soil stack. 

Tap will be Floor mounted in the far right corner, but hoping that isn't too problematic as the pipes already go into the wall but he didn't seem concerned about that element 

GDB2222

You really need to know exactly where the waste will go in relation to the kitchen wall and exactly where the joists are. The waste does need to be the hall side of the wall. 

Chickereeeee

We have a similar situation to OP, and I have ours on a platform. No steps needed. Looks very good.  In fact, with the shape of the room, (fairly long rectangle, high ceilings, platform at the far end opposite the door) it looks better than an installation without a platform would.

ashe

Just a quick update to what ended up happening in this situation. The builder originally said that he would go down through the floor into the hall and along to the enclosed waste stack and box it in. In the end he avoided this by going into the floor, towards the outside wall, going along the outside wall and back into the bathroom where the waste stack is. That wall is the front of our house so we didn't want any pipes on show, but he was able to tuck the pipe in under our front door canopy as seen in image below (only photo I could find of it!) so its completely unseen unless you are under the canopy and look up. great solution as meant no unsightly pipes on front of the house and no additional boxing up in the hallway, and no raised plinth!

Also the bath is huge and is a bit like a small pool so a massive upgrade over the old one!

 

Doozergirl

My fixed rate tarriff ends today. I've just worked out that on 1st April our bills will have precisely doubled.  

It's a clever visual solution that you have there, but knocking another hole into the building fabric that can't be insulated may not be top of mind right now, but every little helps. I suggest you get under that pipe and insulate it as much as you possibly can.  

ashe

Doozergirl said:

My fixed rate tarriff ends today. I've just worked out that on 1st April our bills will have precisely doubled.  

It's a clever visual solution that you have there, but knocking another hole into the building fabric that can't be insulated may not be top of mind right now, but every little helps. I suggest you get under that pipe and insulate it as much as you possibly can.  

There was already one hole there effectively literally a hole straight from outdoors into where the soil stack goes, as the previous occupant had obviously taken an old suite out and there was a disused overflow pipe hole, sans overflow pipe, so he slightly enlarged that. There was also an old extractor fan vent, but no extractor fan, and when he took the PVC panel off the wall it just had the vent space behind it so no attempt made to block it up. 

Mind, the bathroom was a little insulated from 2 layers of tiles under that!

we've got loft and cavity wall insulation next on our to do lists.