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agaffey
I live in a 1 bed 1st floor flat and we are looking to carry out some refurbishment and create a new bedroom for our baby. As part of this I want to swap the positioning of the kitchen and bathroom.
We are lease holders in the building, and the landlords of the building own the bathroom shop below. I wanted to know if I need to get permission for relocating a bathroom and toilet? Are there any building regs or authorities I need to goto?
I found out that a flat above us in the same building had some work done in 1997 and it looks like the bathroom was relocated, I checked our local council web site and found some kind of planning was granted, but think this was because they were creating 2 1 bed flats out of 1 larger flat, so in effect creating a new property. The only thing I could see regarding plumbing was that no extra pipe work could be added to the outside of the building, so I will have to use what is already there.
Currently the toilet os located very close to a out side wall and I can see the toilet waste actually goes almost stright out through the wall (its boxed in behind the toilet) to the main stack running down the outside of the building.
I have also noticed a 4" wast pipe coming under the floor boards in the bathroom and out through the wall to the main stack, but this is serving the bath, so my plan is to try and use this pipe as its a 4" one to server the toilet in its new position.
I was to relocate the bathroom further into the flat, about 5 meters.
Ideally id like to run the waste up the hall way a little under the floor boards, but have been told i will be very lucky if the joists are running the correct way, as you cant run a 4" pipe through them. I will pull the boards up at the weekend to take a look at this and update once I know.
My other option I was thinking was to run the waste around the side of the living room but box it in and create a nice window seat of bench... which would hide the pipe and also look quite good in the room as we have lovely big windows and great views outside.
The total run of the waste would now be about 8 or 9 meters as it would go around the room. Would this be ok as long as we can get the drop of 18mm per meter, and how many turns would we get away with do this.
Any help or advice would be great.
Many thanks
Andy
We are lease holders in the building, and the landlords of the building own the bathroom shop below. I wanted to know if I need to get permission for relocating a bathroom and toilet? Are there any building regs or authorities I need to goto?
I found out that a flat above us in the same building had some work done in 1997 and it looks like the bathroom was relocated, I checked our local council web site and found some kind of planning was granted, but think this was because they were creating 2 1 bed flats out of 1 larger flat, so in effect creating a new property. The only thing I could see regarding plumbing was that no extra pipe work could be added to the outside of the building, so I will have to use what is already there.
Currently the toilet os located very close to a out side wall and I can see the toilet waste actually goes almost stright out through the wall (its boxed in behind the toilet) to the main stack running down the outside of the building.
I have also noticed a 4" wast pipe coming under the floor boards in the bathroom and out through the wall to the main stack, but this is serving the bath, so my plan is to try and use this pipe as its a 4" one to server the toilet in its new position.
I was to relocate the bathroom further into the flat, about 5 meters.
Ideally id like to run the waste up the hall way a little under the floor boards, but have been told i will be very lucky if the joists are running the correct way, as you cant run a 4" pipe through them. I will pull the boards up at the weekend to take a look at this and update once I know.
My other option I was thinking was to run the waste around the side of the living room but box it in and create a nice window seat of bench... which would hide the pipe and also look quite good in the room as we have lovely big windows and great views outside.
The total run of the waste would now be about 8 or 9 meters as it would go around the room. Would this be ok as long as we can get the drop of 18mm per meter, and how many turns would we get away with do this.
Any help or advice would be great.
Many thanks
Andy
