The bare minimum for me should 1.5 one family bathroom one guest toilet. Ideal is 2.5 and best 3.5. Family bathroom, parental ensuite, guest ensuite/ shower room and guest toilet.
Hi Niall, always great to watch your new content, keep up with them! You mentioned English Building Regs but no Building Control. Do they still apply for new toilets or it's an individual case scenario? Cheers
good point about upholding minimum standards. something i feel is generally underappreciated these days under neoliberalism. Would be interesting to see a N.Ireland video as my mum is trying to convince my da to put an en-suite in and change the downstairs bathroom to a utility room, while keeping the upstairs main bathroom.
Hi Niall, great video as always. A question if you don't mind - I live in a house in England with a loft room which was created with planning permission in the early 1970s. If I wanted to add a bathroom (either WC, basin, shower or just a toilet and basin) to that room, does that mean I'd need to bring the whole room and access up to it, to the spec in modern buildings regs? Or as long as the bathroom itself is to regs, the rest can stay as is as it met the regs (whatever they were) at the time?
Where do I stand if I wanted to build a new home from scratch and have a separate shower room so that all toilets remain accessible while I'm in the shower?
Most houses built over the last 30 years will have a broom closet toilet room downstairs. My house was built in 1911 so no downstairs toilet for us. But also I don't have friends and minimise the family turning up where I can. So it's never been an issue for the 22 years we have owned this house. And we only have one bathroom upstairs. Less for my wife to clean. It was a bit busy when all the kids were at home, but we are down to one child now so one bathroom is plenty.
This part of the Scottish building regulations seems completely wrong headed. The most important thing should be ensuring that the principal bathroom is on the floor with the bedrooms! Is it the case that the English regulations you showed seemed to allow for this? The text you showed seemed to be saying that a ground floor WC is acceptable. I currently live in a house with the bathroom on the gound floor with the bedrooms above and I will never again by choice live like this. Houses are getting smaller and smaller and these regulations sem to be designed for large houses with ample space to have two family sized bathrooms on each story. Where there is only room for one bathroom it makes absolutely no sense to me that this bathroom should not be as close as possible to the bedrooms.
I think in the UK every bedroom should have an en-suite as far as is possible. We have a 5 bedroom house and there are 4 en-suites and a family shower room with toilet. That's the way it should be IMHO.
The bare minimum for me should 1.5 one family bathroom one guest toilet. Ideal is 2.5 and best 3.5. Family bathroom, parental ensuite, guest ensuite/ shower room and guest toilet.
Hi Niall, always great to watch your new content, keep up with them!
You mentioned English Building Regs but no Building Control. Do they still apply for new toilets or it's an individual case scenario?
Cheers
good point about upholding minimum standards. something i feel is generally underappreciated these days under neoliberalism. Would be interesting to see a N.Ireland video as my mum is trying to convince my da to put an en-suite in and change the downstairs bathroom to a utility room, while keeping the upstairs main bathroom.
Hi Niall, great video as always. A question if you don't mind - I live in a house in England with a loft room which was created with planning permission in the early 1970s. If I wanted to add a bathroom (either WC, basin, shower or just a toilet and basin) to that room, does that mean I'd need to bring the whole room and access up to it, to the spec in modern buildings regs? Or as long as the bathroom itself is to regs, the rest can stay as is as it met the regs (whatever they were) at the time?
Can you tell me if i can change my 1 bed to 2 bed flat its 50m2
Where do I stand if I wanted to build a new home from scratch and have a separate shower room so that all toilets remain accessible while I'm in the shower?
Should you have a toilet accessible for visitors (not staying over), should you factor in a toilet away from the personal bedroom area?
Most houses built over the last 30 years will have a broom closet toilet room downstairs.
My house was built in 1911 so no downstairs toilet for us. But also I don't have friends and minimise the family turning up where I can. So it's never been an issue for the 22 years we have owned this house.
And we only have one bathroom upstairs. Less for my wife to clean. It was a bit busy when all the kids were at home, but we are down to one child now so one bathroom is plenty.
At least one id say.
This part of the Scottish building regulations seems completely wrong headed. The most important thing should be ensuring that the principal bathroom is on the floor with the bedrooms! Is it the case that the English regulations you showed seemed to allow for this? The text you showed seemed to be saying that a ground floor WC is acceptable. I currently live in a house with the bathroom on the gound floor with the bedrooms above and I will never again by choice live like this. Houses are getting smaller and smaller and these regulations sem to be designed for large houses with ample space to have two family sized bathrooms on each story. Where there is only room for one bathroom it makes absolutely no sense to me that this bathroom should not be as close as possible to the bedrooms.
The people who make these regulations are the people who live in big houses.
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I think in the UK every bedroom should have an en-suite as far as is possible. We have a 5 bedroom house and there are 4 en-suites and a family shower room with toilet. That's the way it should be IMHO.