I'm planning a gut and redo of our downstairs bathroom. The room is small - 6'8" deep and 6' wide - and I'm planning on taking it down to the studs and starting over.
We'd like to put in a toilet, sink, and shower; a tub is not necessary. I've got two rough layouts that I'd like comments on; pictures below. In these, the brown rectangle is the door (currently swings out, could replace with an in-swing), the blue is a window (will replace with glass block/vinyl window combination), and the gray is (I think) a pass-through for the chimney. While the chimney is not strictly necessary, tearing out out would be... extensive.
This is on the first floor of a two-story building, with full basement access. The vent currently runs up the right wall, but since I'm taking things down to the studs I could run additional lines along the walls, under the floor, or along the ceiling. Floor and ceiling joists run right to left. In the current bathroom, _nothing_ is vented; everything just ties straight in to the drain stack. So maybe it's a wet vent... yeah right. Current drain stack is cast iron, 4" diameter.
The first option, which puts tight spacing of toilet/sink for a full-width shower stall. This is in the hopes that my wife and I would get to shower together I've gone with a 32" deep stall, which I would be tiling.
The second option, which drops back to a 32x32 shower stall and has more room for an inswing door. We'd probably put a cabinet behind the chimney.
Thoughts, please!
We'd like to put in a toilet, sink, and shower; a tub is not necessary. I've got two rough layouts that I'd like comments on; pictures below. In these, the brown rectangle is the door (currently swings out, could replace with an in-swing), the blue is a window (will replace with glass block/vinyl window combination), and the gray is (I think) a pass-through for the chimney. While the chimney is not strictly necessary, tearing out out would be... extensive.
This is on the first floor of a two-story building, with full basement access. The vent currently runs up the right wall, but since I'm taking things down to the studs I could run additional lines along the walls, under the floor, or along the ceiling. Floor and ceiling joists run right to left. In the current bathroom, _nothing_ is vented; everything just ties straight in to the drain stack. So maybe it's a wet vent... yeah right. Current drain stack is cast iron, 4" diameter.
The first option, which puts tight spacing of toilet/sink for a full-width shower stall. This is in the hopes that my wife and I would get to shower together I've gone with a 32" deep stall, which I would be tiling.
The second option, which drops back to a 32x32 shower stall and has more room for an inswing door. We'd probably put a cabinet behind the chimney.
Thoughts, please!