Hi guys,
I am going to start ripping out my downstairs toilet. It’s a very narrow space and the wife wants a close coupled back to the wall toilet. This was ok until I realised the soil pipe that comes out the floor is offset. So offset that from what I can work out the toilet as a back to the wall unit would only go over the pipe if this was also offset. But it would be too close to one wall then.
This leads to me to thinking about a wall hung toilet. I’ve done one before in my en suite but that was on an external wall. This one would be an internal wall so just plasterboard.
The issue may well be that I don’t believe it is even a stud wall. If it’s the same as my en suite it was something called a laminate system. Basically a sheet of 12.5mm either side and a sheet of 18mm up the centre.
is there a safe way to attach this frame? Obviously the feet take a lot of the load but I’m unsure how much load the top brackets take as it’s sat on.
I did consider a sheet of ply behind the frame fixed with something like those gripits to distribute any load then the frame fixed to that and into the wall.
Anyone any experience of these on walls such as this?
thanks in advance
I am going to start ripping out my downstairs toilet. It’s a very narrow space and the wife wants a close coupled back to the wall toilet. This was ok until I realised the soil pipe that comes out the floor is offset. So offset that from what I can work out the toilet as a back to the wall unit would only go over the pipe if this was also offset. But it would be too close to one wall then.
This leads to me to thinking about a wall hung toilet. I’ve done one before in my en suite but that was on an external wall. This one would be an internal wall so just plasterboard.
The issue may well be that I don’t believe it is even a stud wall. If it’s the same as my en suite it was something called a laminate system. Basically a sheet of 12.5mm either side and a sheet of 18mm up the centre.
is there a safe way to attach this frame? Obviously the feet take a lot of the load but I’m unsure how much load the top brackets take as it’s sat on.
I did consider a sheet of ply behind the frame fixed with something like those gripits to distribute any load then the frame fixed to that and into the wall.
Anyone any experience of these on walls such as this?
thanks in advance