Home DIY

Nope.

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I know that's sturdy enough and I've used those heavy duty plasterboard anchors for a shower glass but it's still not reassuring for me :D

Looks very nice tho, good job.

Builder reckons it won't fit. Also I guess there'd still need to be another door between the kitchen for building regs?

I really can't decide whether to do it. Literally everyone says we'd be mad not to, but I feel like it will noticeably compromise the space.

I'm a little confused by that picture. Does your toilet have a spare chair in there or is it in the cellar (or is that actually just a precarious long drop toilet on the left)?

Just a spare chair. The toilet is to the left, parked over the stairwell. I don't think indoor plumbing was originally installed in this house (early 1900s) and so things were kind of wedged in.

Anything with a toilet in the kitchen is discounted to take into account you really don't want a toilet in the kitchen.

Completing the full circle from eating to defecating in the same room. Nifty.

I'd love to see a photo of a toilet equipped kitchen btw

Are macerator toilets with small bore pipes still ferociously loud?

(Thinking about ideas for how to make a small en suit and ideal location would be away from the external walls)

Have you seen vice London rental opportunity of the week?

Why can I only find one stud in a wall?
Wall is 85 cm
(Or 33 inches)
Stud is 24 inches from door frame.

I think I can answer this.
From wall to doo frame is 36 inches.
First stud is 12 inches from wall. Second will be covered up by door frame right?

Vertical fray line is first stud.
Holes are fucked plasterboard

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I've seen a whole variety of stuff whilst looking at houses. My favourite is the toilet that is part of the house and takes space from the kitchen but the only way to access it is via an outside door. I've seen a few of those.

Beyond the pale, that.

Are macerator toilets with small bore pipes still ferociously loud?

Yes unfortunately. I have one in my flat.

Thanks.

I guess a more general question to the hive is, how would you view a small en suite with no WC?

My bathroom is currently lit by three 12V MR16 halogen downlights, each with its own transformer. Two of these keep blowing bulbs. I've checked that all the connections are screwed down properly and replaced the lampholders (because I understand that the heat from the lamps can weaken the springiness of the contacts leading to a dodgy connection to the bulb), but it's not improved things. I may have also replaced some of the transformers before (although I cant remember for sure).

What do?! Replace the transformers again or switch to mains-voltage, IP65-rated LED lamps. If the latter, is there anything I need to check before doing so and does anyone have a recommendation for a particular LED lamp?

As in a shower and sink?
I had this set up for quite a while. Good but not as good as having a loo in there too...
Not very helpful that, was it?

For me it would all depend on the setup. If you have another bog on the 1st floor (or whatever floor the bedroom is on) then its a bit unusual but nothing major. If on the other hand you only have a downstairs lav and find yourself getting up in the night to schlep downstairs then it would get old quickly.

If it's a question of space then I would expect it would be self explanatory when you come to sell on. Also I'm personally not a fan of overly cramped bathrooms.

Are you sure that a macerator is your only option for running waste?

What are using to find the studs?

As a rule they should be laid out at 16" or 400mm centre to centre.

There are some very effective plasterboard fixings available these days. These are particularly good and are available from the usual suspects.

A bit weird. I'd say a toilet in there that's rarely used would still be a better option.

I have a toilet (in a loft conversion) which isn't on an external wall. The waste pipe runs under the floor with enough of a drop to not require it. It means that a small section of pipe had to be boxed in to get sufficient drop but it isn't noticeable.

Stud finder and then a couple of rare earth magnets that have stuck to a nail in the stud.

Stud finder makes noises by the door frame but couldn't find stud with drill.

Shelves above the fucked holes clearly aren't in a stud. Barely any mass in them though.

Basically I'm looking at loft conversions at some point in the medium term. But want to start really thinking through the best use of work. Especially after seeing how shit our neighbours extension is.

The loft would involve two knock-on events:

1. removing an awkward chimney stack, which runs through bedroom 1.
   
2. inserting a staircase, most likely where bedroom 3 is.
   
   

We only have one bathroom with W/C (altho there is an outdoor w/c). The loft conversion would have another bathroom, but I was wondering about an en suite for bedroom 1, as the wall between bed1 and bed3 may not be necessary. The diagram isn't great and irl the best place for an en suite is with the wall adjoining bed 2.

(bottom is front of house, top is back, right is external wall)

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This is my loft ensuite. Soil pipe follows this red line and doesn't need a macerator.

It's not really visible in this picture but there's a small area of boxed in pipe at the edge of the room (circled) which gives enough drop

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Thanks.

All Victorian/Edwardian terrace with pretty much the same footprint.

Most have a downstairs bog, generally under the stairs, occasionally in the kitchen. Anything with a toilet in the kitchen is discounted to take into account you really don't want a toilet in the kitchen.

Under the stairs is the place for bicycle parking nothing else, except a pram or pushchair.

I took 700mm from kitchen/diner to have space for toilet, small shower with door to corridor and a storage cupboard opening into kitchen/diner. Roughly like this

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^ where the toilet is used to be a back door into the garden area so there was an existing stud wall between there and the kitchen. If I was doing it again I would make the shower a bit longer and the kitchen cupboard a bit smaller. Shower is 700x700 so quite cosy.