Wall hung toilet too high!

[PlateSpinnerJuggler]

Well - like the title says - I'm renovating my whole
home and one of the toilets is too high! It's in my cloakroom downstairs - so a loo that should get a lot of use and will be used by all my guests...
It's already hung and tiled - why would it be like this? The way the cistern was hung or the toilet itself?
I am short at around 5ft but my feet don't touch the ground - it's not right....

And any creative ways to fix without haveinf to retile that whole wall?

Small step around the base of the loo?

It sounds like you need to build a step around it. Who fitted it?

We have a wall hanging toilet and I'm pretty sure to move it you would have to move the cistern and everything. We measured it to make sure all of us, including the kids, would be able to get up on it OK.

I presume you are not living at the house that is being renovated and just turned up on site to see it done. I think a step is probably the best thing now.

Toilets can be higher now than they used to be to make them more accessible and easier to use for people who find it hard to get back up from a lower one.

Perhaps this is the case especially as yours is the downstairs toilet.

I wonder if it's put higher to make it accessible? I know a friend who recently had an extention including a cloakroom and it had to meet certain accessibility rules.

Well plumber /sub contractor of the builder has stated "It could be when we installed wasn’t no concrete on the floor and I got wrong measurements"

£80 psqm tiles not on top of it!!!!

Ps thanks for the suggestions - but I'm not building a step!

I've spent a fortune on renovating and extending the house - the builder is going to have to work with his subcontractors to remove tiles and reposition / plaster and relay the tiles....

The builders positioned our wall hung loo wrong when we renovated our last house. It always annoyed me - I hated the way my feet dangled like a small child. Now we are renovating a different house I have deliberately avoided wall hung for exactly this reason. Once they are hung you are stuck with it.

@VenusClapTrap I honestly feel I'm paying them around £250k plus obviously the £10s of thousands on the kitchen, tiles, wardrobes , carpets etc and that the builder must have built in contingency in his pricing for when he has to fork out for mistakes and I feel this is one of them and he should take tiles off move it replaster board and retile at his cost.... am I wrong to suggest they fix their subcontractors mistakes???

Perfectly reasonable to get them to do it again. We had run out of tiles, so it would have meant trying to source more (natural stone so batches always different) and just wanted the builders to bugger off by that point because we’d all fallen out and it was all well behind schedule. But under different circs I’d get them to redo it!

@VenusClapTrap oh I know this feeling - so ready for them to bugger off and for me to get back home!

Fact the plumber said

"It could be when we installed wasn’t no concrete on the floor and I got wrong measurements"

Shows it was their fault!

It's if I can be bothered for the fight...
If it were an upstairs loo I may have left but as it's the guest loo...

I'm sure I can get the tiles - but obv worth checking before the fight lol!

Absolutely get it lowered, low toilets are far better healthwise than high ones, a slight squat makes a big difference to how efficiently you empty your bowels, if the process is inefficient as on high toilets it can lead to constipation, piles, prolapse etc. Although if its a guest cloakroom perhaps it won't get used much for that.

@EverythingDelegated
My main builder is actually quite a short guy so I'm gonna use that to prove my point!
My office is downstairs too - doubt I'll go up every time I need the bathroom and 3 kids playing downstairs - it's gonna get lots of use!
I think I'm gonna push to get it amended - although the thought of more delays is grrrrr

I wanted to be in a month ago!!!!

If it's their error & they've admitted this, I would request them to fix it. @EverythingDelegated is right - a low seat loo is better, position wise, it helps you open your bowels more easily.

Our builders put all our basins in too low, really annoyed me so I totally understand how you feel! Our basins were at the lowest end of standard height but they were instructed to put them back as they originally were, so by putting them in lower they were in the wrong. They redid them. Can you google standard toilet height? If they’re out of the range then that’s good cause to complain and get moved.

Sorry, not helpful, but made me think of; Write the feem toon...