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Is it difficult or expensive to add a toilet to a house ?

  • 21-10-2016 12:02am
    #1
    Usjes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭


    Hi,

    How difficult is it to add an extra toilet to a house ? For example see the floor plan:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4QJxcxANtL2bzhmam12aDZCT0U/view?usp=sharing
    Its an old redbrick house, suppose you wanted to add an extra toilet under the stairs in the hall, what does this involve ? I guess you would have tear up the floor in the hall and kitchen and dig a trench to lay sewage pipes to meet up with the main sewage pipes which I assume would be in the yard beyond the room marked 'utility' ? Is this a big/expensive job or something that people do all the time, might it be the case that it just wouldn't be possible in some houses because of the way the floor or house foundations are constructed ?

    Thanks,

    Usjes.


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  • #2
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,896 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Usjes wrote: »
    Hi,

    How difficult is it to add an extra toilet to a house ? For example see the floor plan:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4QJxcxANtL2bzhmam12aDZCT0U/view?usp=sharing
    Its an old redbrick house, suppose you wanted to add an extra toilet under the stairs in the hall, what does this involve ? I guess you would have tear up the floor in the hall and kitchen and dig a trench to lay sewage pipes to meet up with the main sewage pipes which I assume would be in the yard beyond the room marked 'utility' ? Is this a big/expensive job or something that people do all the time, might it be the case that it just wouldn't be possible in some houses because of the way the floor or house foundations are constructed ?

    Thanks,

    Usjes.
    Is there a lane backing onto the wall or another house? Is it your lane, if it is you could go out the wall and save disrupting the rest of the house.


    Adding a saniflo type toilet is easy enough and one of the cheaper ways.


  • #3
    Usjes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Usjes


    ted1 wrote: »
    Is there a lane backing onto the wall or another house? Is it your lane, if it is you could go out the wall and save disrupting the rest of the house.


    Adding a saniflo type toilet is easy enough and one of the cheaper ways.

    Most of the houses I've seen with only one toilet would be terraced so the wall would be a party wall. if you do have to go through other rooms like the hall and kitchen in the floorplan I showed, is this very expensive and can it always be done ?
    What is a saniflo, and how much would it cost ?

    Thanks,

    Usjes.


  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Usjes wrote: »
    Most of the houses I've seen with only one toilet would be terraced so the wall would be a party wall. if you do have to go through other rooms like the hall and kitchen in the floorplan I showed, is this very expensive and can it always be done ?
    What is a saniflo, and how much would it cost ?

    Thanks,

    Usjes.

    Saniflo is a toilet with a pumping system to pump the waste out.
    Throw a google on it for illustrations, images and specifications.


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