Is a 760x760 shower too small? Design advice needed please

[trish1400]

can you not put the sink on the wall beside the shower then you can have as large a shower as you wish without loosing any space around the toilet which will also give you more elbow room over the bath

Thanks big-all, nice idea but I not sure I'll be able to do that.

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• trish1400
• 8 Apr 2014
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This is the front of the house - that's a cast iron soil pipe (so I'd have to replace the whole thing) and I'm in a conservation area. You can see the sink waste pipe there too. It matches the other semi so I'm not sure conservation would be keen on changing the outward appearance. Prior to buying the house I'd assumed that the planning department wouldn't be bothered about these post-war semis (it's just the one pair) as they aren't really of any architectural merit, however the actual policy is that they have a negative impact on the conservation area and nothing can be done which may increase that negative impact.

I might be able to do something inside the house to reroute the drains but I'm not sure how easy that would be. I've also got some reservations about having the door open to face the toilet - is it just me, or does that feel wrong?

Actually I'd completely forgotten but one of my original ideas was a corner toilet but I'd discarded it when I realised I could possibly get away with a quadrant shower.

Anyway, thanks for your input - definitely an option to investigate further.

 

[big-all]

space saving combined sink and toilet ??
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...2f7Ab0_oGQCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1047&bih=478

 

[trish1400]

space saving combined sink and toilet ??
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...GQCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1047&bih=478[/QUOTE]

haha - brilliant. I'd give it a week before I dropped my toothbrush in the loo.

 

[trish1400]

Right, I went to a proper bathroom showroom today with proper bathroom design consultants and everything (not just a spotty kid like in B&Q). They still didn't have many different sized showers for me to stand in but I did have a long chat with one of the guys. He confirmed that pretty much all the 800 x 800 square trays do have shower enclosures that are smaller and that a 900x900 quadrant wouldn't feel much different to a 760x760 square (with a door on just one side). I showed him my drawings and he immediately said the first option (760x760 square) is the only viable one - as the others all require custom glass for the quadrant enclosures. He didn't think the toilet knee clearance (for the protruding wall) would be a problem.

I went by the house on the way back from work and measured the hot water cupboard again. The width I'll gain from the cupboard is actually bigger than I thought it was (it's 66cm rather than 56cm) so the shower will only need to protrude 10cm into the room. The current toilet is larger than the one I've drawn though - the shortest protrusion I can get is 60cm. I drew some pencil marks on the wall and even a protrusion of 10cm does feel very close to the toilet. I had a look to see if I can move the toilet slightly to the left (nearer the sink) and found this connector which offsets the soil pipe might work.... I'd prefer to avoid it though.

This showroom (and therefore the salesman) was a very "buy it out of the catalogue" type place though. I think I'll try the more upmarket place next (where they do wetrooms etc) - if I can get the bit that sticks into the room to be glass I think it'd be better still.

 

[big-all]

also if its a glass side rather than a solid you will have another25-50mm clearance as the screen is set back from the front edge

 

[trish1400]

The guy in the more upmarket bathroom showroom said just a straight 760x760 square shower (no part glass side panel). He didn't come across as a particularly creative thinker though.

I've sent it to my architectural technician anyway and I'll see what he reckons.

Thanks for your help everyone