Can I move this toilet? (With diagram!)

[HMArsey]

The black outline is where things currently are, and the red is where I’d like them to be. The soil pipe is boxed in within the room, rather than built into a wall, IYSWIM.

How complicated is it to move a toilet by 90 degrees?

Is there a reason you can't have a shower over the bath? You can defo get small baths, I had one in a flat with a tiny bathroom.

No, no reason why we can’t have a shower over bath, but I’m thinking if we can for a cubicle in it probably makes sense from a resale perspective. Not that we’re planning on selling for a few years.

Our current shower in our en-suite which we redid this year is built in with 3 tiled walls, the shower tray is 800 x 1200 and the size is good, never have any problems with elbows banging off walls or anything. The bifold door is 760 I think, I'm very quite big and have no problems with the size.

Your plumber should be able to tell you if there is enough space in the length of the room to fit a 1600 bath, wall and 800 wide built in shower. You can probably try out the shower tray size/space at a bathroom showroom.

I've added photos of what it might look like with a concealed cistern, plan view and from the front.

As for reliability - we have two concealed ones. All the workings are accessible either behind the flush plate, or by lifting the shelf. We haven't had any issues so far.

Thanks for the diagrams, I'm particularly appreciative of the effort you went to to include both front and top views.

A shower cube will feel roomier if it is well-lit and light colours inside, and preferably rectangular rather than square. Swing your arms around or towel our hair.

Sad to see you are thinking of imprisoning your cistern behind a wall with a shelf on top.

Free The Lavatory One!

There would be room for it to be rectangular if it came out towards the door, but that wouldn't really work with the stud wall. A rectangular one with the long side on the same wall as the bath would feel much more spacious.

Here’s a question, if I went the route of a walled in shower rather than a glass cubicle, could the wall where it meets the bath stop short of the ceiling to let in more light?

In all honesty, I think you'd be better off discussing this with a bathroom installer or supplier as they will know the rules and guidelines. Take your full measurements of the room, including doors and window sizes and locations and most important the soil pipe location to your nearest showroom/plumbing shop etc and ask for proper guidance.

The wall can stop at any height you want, plumber would advise best height, probably matching in with tiles if you are using large tiles.

We had a flat with very tall ceilings and put a wall at the end for an over bath shower and it stopped just at the height needed, a couple of inches above the top of the shower rail fitting. You need to work out which wall the shower head will go on, ours is on one of the longer walls and it is better for leaning in and switching on shower to warm up and for elbows out washing hair.

A short wall is a handy shelf for putting shampoo bottles on (but they did fall outside the shower if you weren't careful!), or for ornaments but it also creates a ledge to gather dust.