Is it possible to get a second toilet in here?

[claire697]

We live in a 4 bedroom Victorian mid terrace house which only has one combined bathroom toilet, which is typical of the neighbouring houses. We'd ideally like to sell it once something suitable comes on the market.

Obviously, families looking at 4 bed houses are going to prefer having at least a second toilet, and I'm wondering if I've missed an easy way we could get one in? I've attached the layout the estate agent created when we bought the house. The soil stack is at the back of the kitchen, and the under stairs area has a door to the basement (which is both a little damp and about 3 ft high). Finally, not shown on the kitchen plans there's units/washing machine/fridge on the left hand wall.

Am I missing any obvious ways to fit in an extra toilet to make it more appealing to potential buyers?

TIA

The soil stack is on the outside wall, I suppose? Is it iron or plastic? Can you take a photo where it goes into the ground, and the concrete and wall about a metre around it?

Do you consider the kitchen to be so roomy that you could build a cloakroom in it?

You could possibly build an extra floor onto the bathroom addition,

I suspect you would do better to leave the cost, disruption and inconvenience to a future buyer, who may be blinded by optimism.

Don't get a poo-mincer.

If the basement is only three foot high and damp I’d block it off and put a loo in under the starts (see if you can deal with damp first).

Stairs even 🙄

Under the stairs and lower the floor a little so you step down (into the toilet room).

Worth considering, would involve moving the electric consumer unit. Any ideas how to vent the room though as I think it's part of building regs? It might become a big expensive job and not worth doing?

Partition down the middle of bedroom 3, have a smaller single room with a window (to the right hand side of the plan) and give bedroom 4 an ensuite?

Or Partition down the middle of bedroom 3, have the bathroom on the right hand side (door at the top of the stairs on right). Knock out the wall between what remains of bedroom 3 left side and bedroom 4. You will end up losing a bedroom with this layout though

Jack and Jill bathroom between bedrooms three and four.
On the ground floor I'm not clear how you enter the kitchen. Is the door under the stairs your route into the kitchen or is that the door from the kitchen to the understairs basement?
Either way there is room in that area for a compact toilet or even a cloakroom across the end of the hall.
Or, build an small utility toilet extension out the back where the left hand window is.
Do your drains go under your house from back to front or wander off somewhere along the back of the terrace?

@funkysnidge our drains wander off the back of the terrace, so currently no provision for drainage at the front. Kitchen is mostly accessed from sliding doors from the lounge/diner.

We are moving due to the garden being too small, so an extension is out of the question, but perhaps the next owners might be happier at the idea. Otherwise I think the only option might be at the end of the hallway if we could satisfy building regs.

I guess it's not the end of the world if we only have one bathroom, but the house will be priced accordingly.