700mm shower

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We've a large cloakroom currently between the kids (teenagers) bedroom and converting it into a room with a shower. (We cant afford a wetroom) I found a quadrant 700mm shower and we can fit a corner wc and a sink in still.
I'm concerned about the size though, we could fit an 800mm shower but it would then feel cramped with the distance between the corner toilet seat and the shower just 400mm as opposed to 500mm
So questions.
Has anyone got a 700mm, can you shower comfortably?
Would you accept the 'cramped' effect to gain the bigger shower?
Would it put off a buyer if it looked cramped?

I'd find even a 800mm shower and can't imagine using a 700mm one comfortably unless you're 5ft and a size 6.

I'd find a 800mm shower too tight

I thought that JoJo but our current bathroom (also a monstrosity!) is a shower over a bath, the bath at its widest is 700mm. Width wise I've never had a problem, but of course we have the length going in our favour...maybe I need to add masking tape and attempt a hair wash without my arms going over?!
I am 4ft 11 and a size 6 :/ My teenage son however towers over me.

I think 800mm is the biggest we can go due to room layout. Let me scribble a plan of the room it may help visualise or with any luck some clever person will suggest a better layout!

Current layout

Proposed layout

Could you also position the washbasin diagonal cross the corner to give you more length on that wall? The. Shower could be 800x 1100?

It could, and I originally found a little 335mm one, although I was concerned it would be too small in a bathroom. We have a tiny one in the toilet and as soon as you wash your hands (properly!) water goes everywhere so I thought tiny sink may put people off from viewing it as a proper bathroom or impractical
Maybe this is why its a slightly large cloakroom!!!!

Why don’t you put your shower to the right of the door, while length of the room (incl where toilet is now) and move the toilet over to where you were planning to put the shower? It’ll give you added space between them (where the door is) and still ample space for a sink.

*whole length not while length

Actually, you could even add extra cupboards under the sink for storage....

Post no 4... think I got your door position wrong 🤦🏼‍♀️

I'm not clear if your door opens outwards. If not would that help?

70cm is very tight. ours is 80 and borderline ok. with 70 you would be in trouble if you dropped the soap.

look at having the shower custom built so you could have it slightly larger?

btw our shower tray is 80x80 but clever tiling (plinth) around makes it bigger. it's in an old doorway.

Mine is 7600mm (quadrant) and it's absolutely fine.

I'm not sure why you're moving the loo. Why not keep it in its current position, pointing the door and shifted as close to the wall as poss?

We have a similar layout but with the loo and door switched. I've just measured (!!). We have an 80cm square shower with a very carefully chosen door, hinged about 3/4 of the way along the shower and opening on the sink side. (We rejected quadrant options and door opening on the loo side because the door could only open to quite an acute angle.) It's 77cm from shower door to wall, which is a bit tight for getting in and out of the shower but not awful, and it's plenty for accessing the sink. Our sink is a small-but-not-tiny cloakroom basin which I'm unnaturally fond of. I can do you a plan later if that would help.

DH avoids using the 80cm shower and for us, we would definitely not want to go smaller even though our 700cm bath is fine for showering. I wonder if you could put some sticky tape across your bath to mock up a cubicle. If you go with the curved footprint you lose usable space too.

If you rehang the door to open outwards, or make it a pocket door (pricier) then you can leave loo where it is, put the sink in the space the door currently folds against, and then you have a lot more space for a shower.

Also you can get smaller loos - this for example is only 635 total projection.

Wow loads of replies thank you all. Toodeloo yeah, the doors a pain, as is the window!
The door opens inwards, it's in a tiny corridor that has 4 doors off it yet is 2 doors wide and 1 door deep. The last owners added a weird extension of 2 box rooms and the cloakroom off the living room (it's a bungalow) with the other 3 bedrooms the far side of the property.
The eventual plan is to add an external door to one bedroom and make it a very snug, snug. With the bathroom then final box room so when the kids are older one can have it as a mini apartment (less kitchen) and the other will move to a bigger room. Eventually it'll be a granny flat for whichever parent we end up with. Sorry I'm rambling.

Toilet position I guess the corner one seemed to save more room but Elstree is right, if I move it closer to the wall but still facing the door it'll likely give us more room between shower doors and anything as you get out.
Minipie is a picket door like a folding door?
It wouldn't work to open the opposite way but I did think a door that folds in half may be better, but I didn't know the name of it

No a pocket door slides into a pocket in the wall, no folding. It typically needs a stud wall adding to create a pocket. A decent modern barn door hung on the outside of the room might be an option.

Can you take any space from one of the bedrooms?

You’re thinking of a bifold door but I’m not a big fan of those, they are rattly and let noise through. For a pocket door you would need to build an extra stud wall as wowfudge says. I think it would work though - will try to draw a diagram ...

I like a normal door on a bathroom. Think about what seal you get between door and door liner - anything where you can potentially see through the crack is less insulating on noise and smells. Normal doors are pretty good at minimising that. And no one wants to wee or shower with the door open so all you need is to be able to comfortably get round the door to close it. If the door clashes with where someone would stand in front of the loo, or where they'd dry after a shower it's not a big issue.