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Move bathroom from back to front of semi detached

5 years ago

Hello, we live in a 3 bed semi. I have an idea of moving the bathroom from the back to the front box room - making the current bathroom and toilet as one to have a bigger third bedroom? The existing soil stack is at the side of the house. Is it worth doing and would it be expensive? Thanks.

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5 years ago
It seems like moving the existing bathroom into the front bedroom will not be that easy, since you are going to have to connect your new bathroom's soil pipe to the main soil pipe on the side of the house by a series of connections through the house and down the side of the house. And probably use a macerator toilet like Saniflo, just to make sure things will run smoothly. But these toilets can be a bit noisy. It will add around £1000 to do this on top of your bathroom renovation.But anything is possible :) Good luck!
Jonathan
5 years ago
It might well be the case that your drain runs front to back down the side of the house. This means that you may not need to join the soil pipe up to the back of the house but instead it could go straight down the bottom right hand corner of the house. It would mean digging up a bit of whatever is at the side- presumably this is the drive.

Of course all of your hot and cold pipe work is currently at the back of the house and this would need to be moved which is where the additional installation cost comes from. I think an additional £1000 mentioned previously seems about right but the additional macerator may not be necessary.

You have a further option of moving the bathroom to between your two big bedrooms. This is more complex as a soil pipe would then have to go through the house. Under the hall floor and out to the drains which are presumably under the drive. Additional work means additional cost but you might consider it if you need 4 bedrooms, or if 4 beds will increase the value, or if you were considering a loft conversion and the relocated bathroom was going to be in the way of stairs to the loft.
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Breda Hancock
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks for your replies. No need for 4th bedroom. I just thought swapping bathroom with bedroom would allow for a bigger third bedroom. It’s a shared access drive to the side. Not sure what direction the drains run but I’m sure I can find out from our neighbour.

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