A good reason why is ground floor toilet is on a step ?

[chaletstyle]

Hi

Edwardian terraced houses with loo on ground floor in a "lean to" at back of house; the toilets are all on one step up from the usual floor level of the ground floor.

I would prefer to get rid of the step; but might there be a good reason why they have been constructed that way, or was it just the fashion at the time ?

Any red flags spring to your mind about doing this?

Is there any regs that the loo should be a certain distance of height above the trap before the sewer ?

 

[big-all]

no way off telling
but may be to allow a fall to the soil stack without major digging or alterations
or many other reasons no way off telling but internal and external picture including soil pipe may help

 

[JohnD]

please post a photo of the trap or bend on the WC, and of the connection to the soil pipe.

 

[Ian H]

There could be something under it like a tippler, intercepted/buchan trap or drop shaft.

 

[chaletstyle]

Thanks for the replies

Can't get a photo right now of it, but from memory the WC outlet does not go into a soil pipe in the bathroom; the twyfords pan porcelain outlet at the back goes directly into the floor. There is no venting soil stack close to the loo, but there is a soil stack near the upstairs loo which is further away from the sewer . That soil pipe goes vertically underground before it turns towards the sewer, so i don't really see why a loo could not be fitted at ground level within the house, all be it with a bit of rejigging the soil pipe run

In the yard outside, the patio is raised where the lean-to is, ( somewhere there is a manhole in this area under the gravel,) then there are steps up to the garden and a retaining wall a couple of feet away from the back of the lean-to.)

 

[JohnD]

from memory the WC outlet does not go into a soil pipe in the bathroom; the twyfords pan porcelain outlet at the back goes directly into the floor.

then the pan might have been raised to make it fit the height of the socket.

the photos will help, when available