Greetings. This forum looks great.
Looking for advice on the _beginning_ of an idea.
I have a large master bedroom, so I am considering
taking a corner and making a "master bathroom".
The main stack is on the wall where this would go.
Ideally, it would really be just a corner. It's 48"
from the wall with the stack to the edge of the window,
and I would like the window to stay in the BR.
(a new one would be added for the bath).
(Later, after an addition, we might get fancy and make
the bathroom along the whole wall, 12', including that window,
and connected to a walk-in closet in the addition. That's
another discussion, and years?)
My question here is, I have a toilet in existing bath, flange is
about 8" from the wall that has the stack. It occured to me
to try to move that wall, so a new wall would surround the
existing flange, and use that for a soil stack, with a wall-mount
toilet in the existing Bath, and then use the old stack for the
flange for the new toilet, i.e., the new toilet would be in an alcove
under the wall that had the stack ( vent stack shifted to the side?).
Or, have the new toilet also wall-mount, feeding into that same
flange, and the old soil stack would be capped - (and under the
new bathroom floor).
The goals would be, to minimize space taken from the master bath,
and not have to re-tile the original bathroom.
My questions, Is that an excessive amount of labor for
the space it would save? would it work/meet code/etc?
Or would the weirdness factor just make it not worthwhile?
If the homeowner is considering doing this himself,
does any of this cause it to become too hard for the
fearless/foolish amateur? Perhaps the Wall-mount toilet
in the new bath would by itself be enough, and would
save the construction of moving the old toilet.
BTW, is there a spec for space on 3 sides/front of a toilet?
Hopefully there would be room for toilet, shower, sink.
Maybe that would help figure out if there's room....
BTW, I already know from this forum that the toilet will be a Toto...
Thanks
Seth
Looking for advice on the _beginning_ of an idea.
I have a large master bedroom, so I am considering
taking a corner and making a "master bathroom".
The main stack is on the wall where this would go.
Ideally, it would really be just a corner. It's 48"
from the wall with the stack to the edge of the window,
and I would like the window to stay in the BR.
(a new one would be added for the bath).
(Later, after an addition, we might get fancy and make
the bathroom along the whole wall, 12', including that window,
and connected to a walk-in closet in the addition. That's
another discussion, and years?)
My question here is, I have a toilet in existing bath, flange is
about 8" from the wall that has the stack. It occured to me
to try to move that wall, so a new wall would surround the
existing flange, and use that for a soil stack, with a wall-mount
toilet in the existing Bath, and then use the old stack for the
flange for the new toilet, i.e., the new toilet would be in an alcove
under the wall that had the stack ( vent stack shifted to the side?).
Or, have the new toilet also wall-mount, feeding into that same
flange, and the old soil stack would be capped - (and under the
new bathroom floor).
The goals would be, to minimize space taken from the master bath,
and not have to re-tile the original bathroom.
My questions, Is that an excessive amount of labor for
the space it would save? would it work/meet code/etc?
Or would the weirdness factor just make it not worthwhile?
If the homeowner is considering doing this himself,
does any of this cause it to become too hard for the
fearless/foolish amateur? Perhaps the Wall-mount toilet
in the new bath would by itself be enough, and would
save the construction of moving the old toilet.
BTW, is there a spec for space on 3 sides/front of a toilet?
Hopefully there would be room for toilet, shower, sink.
Maybe that would help figure out if there's room....
BTW, I already know from this forum that the toilet will be a Toto...
Thanks
Seth