How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

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Out of stock but these are similar too

Good info.

YouTube is your friend, here

Does anyone know anything about wet rooms?

We need to get a little shower room and toilet on the first floor so we can rip out the downstairs bathroom and turn it into a dining room. Now that we've finished the loft I've finally started to think about it and realised my initial design was rubbish and would have left us with 2 pretty compromised spaces.

I think I've found the best solution for the amount of room we have (not much) but as it's such a small area I'm wondering how you keep the door watertight? I had a quick look online and some people say you need more space and others say it's fine (without explaining how).

99% of the time it will only be used as a toilet, it'll only be used by guest, I just need ot not to flood the house. I could push it back and have the shower on the cupboard but then there'd be a load of dead space. The way I've done it keeps my office/studio as a prper functioning space so I'm hoping it can be done?

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Make sure you have a good strong fall in the floor to the drain and you should be fine. I suspect there is a nifty waterproof paint that would serve well on the door though...

Would you have the width in the room to turn the toilet the other way and then budge the shower in from the door a wee bit further?

Saw that one - but I was thinking of using the the 3-layer non-rigid approach like this (figure 8 onwards) but hopefully with slightly cheaper spec materials

Interesting approach, the builder we use rip all the wood out as he wanted to keep the long timber intact than cut them up, to keep it looking visually nice and original.

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Ahh I see if that's the case Ali Dymock has done the method you mentioned

https://youtu.be/UCGpRpKKGV8

You can put a seal on the bottom of the door and have a small threshold lip on the entrance. I'd guess a sliding door would have less wear and could save space.

As has been said, make sure there is a good fall. You could also have a channel/threshold(?) drain (not this particular one, but you get what I mean)

That way you get a greater volume of water in a safe place before it drains away.

99% of the time it will only be used as a toilet

That makes things easier as you don't need to get into water softeners, UFH, and strong extractors - which in our climate and size/age of buildings you probably want to make a wet room work as a main bathroom.

Thanks, this is all really helpful.

I'd guess a sliding door would have less wear and could save space.

I think I'm going to go with a pocket door on the office rather than the wet room, a sliding door on the wet room means the door for the office has to be at the other side and will just be awkward. We've got one on the old master bedroom to compensate for the bit that was lost for the new stairs up to the loft, they are great and the amount of space they free up is amazing but if anything goes wrong you have to pull the whole frame out to fix it, I can see this being a problem in a wet room. A 610mm door should be fine for that space (hopefully).

That makes things easier as you don't need to get into water softeners, UFH, and strong extractors

Hadn't thought about a softener but will definitely get ufh, its such a small space the cost won't be that bad and a towel rad just doesn't make sense to me.

@Nahguavkire I think there is room to have the toilet the other way, but I think I'd rather have the toilet as less awkward as possible as that'll be the primary use. I'll have a play any to see what works. Cheers.

UFH can be done pretty cheaply if you’re prepared to do the work yourself.

I did all the labour on ours. Check your joists can carry the weight of a 25mm screed.

Don’t forget that the manifold will need to have its own dedicated flow (but a common return) and you’ll have to get plumbing to it and hide it behind something.

The manifold, stats and controls are where the real cost is.

Selling an Airflow Icon 30 extractor fan - couldn't get a hole in the wall big enough as there was a gas pipe in the way.
Went for the smaller Icon 15 instead.
Fitted and tested but otherwise as new.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/372646/#comment16384485

Fab, thank you! Links to the materials in the description super helpful too :)

First spin with the design tool;
What do we think to the new layout? White block in the original is a chimney.
And the cupboard in the corner houses water tank boiler washing machine and dryer.

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I should also add currently there is a slope on the ceiling the bath side is at the lowest point.
Being 6ft plus the plan is to square off the ceiling

Thats a pretty big bathroom, I wonder if you could fit a walk in shower in (if you wanted).
Smaller sink cabinet, toilet moved to the right wall from its OG spot to hide it from the door and a walk in shower where you've put the toilet.

where's the washing machine

+1.
They have no place in kitchens.

Washing Machine is in top left cupboard, with dryer stacked above.
The next closer to window, cupboard is tank and boiler.

For context the door goes straight down the stairs and hall to front door ie straight line of view from street to current toilet location lolz

@chrisbmx116 it is large for London and the house size. I'd like a walk in shower but we have one in the loft and I think I'd like to maximise storage.

Fair does. Have you considered taking a slice off the room for the washout machine etc? We did that and it’s a game changer.

have you considered how you will route the waste pipe - particularly the toilet

Left wall and top wall from door are exterior walls.

@chrisbmx116 not sure how viable that would be.

Anyone got a recommendation for a ready mixed concrete supplier that can deliver in South London? For a shed base so about 0.5m^3

There’s only one answer…

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Slice off a narrow room/cupboard where you have the bath is, oh let me draw it will be easier...

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