What's the minimum space to fit a toilet and hand basin in a downstairs cloakroom?

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We're knocking some rooms together to make our kitchen bigger and want to put a cloakroom and utility room where a section of hall currently exists.
It's approx 2.8 metres long by 1.03 metres wide.
What's the minimum space that we could put a toilet and hand basin in to enable us to keep as much space as possible for the utility room?

The internet seems to suggest you need to allow 60cm between door and toilet and by fitting a toilet 60cm deep that would be 120cm in total, ie 120cm deep and 103cm wide.

Is that do-able or has anybody fitted one less than 120cm?

You'll need one of these

www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/metro-combined-two-in-one-wash-basin-toilet-500mm-wide-x-300mm?campaign=googlebase&pagetype=shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2KK7nfeu5wIVybHtCh0HYQuEEAQYASABEgLdCfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

We have one of the above toilet sink combinations. It's amazing!

We've just done something similar. It's 74cm wide and 188cm long. There's a toilet at one end, and a small, corner sink at the other end like this

I don't think fitting a toilet and hand basin alongside each other is a problem for us as we have 103 cm width.
It's really the minimum space between the toilet and door I'm interested in.
Is there any rules saying what this is?

I’ll be honest, that whole thing sounds really tight and unless your house is tiny overall you’d be better with either a utility or a toilet in that space, whatever you’d use more.

I was told by an old plumber that you should never make a toilet smaller than you would need if you had a broken leg in a cast.

I'd not put a door between the utility and toilet. Can you not just have a large toilet that also houses the washing machine?

The width is fine, our downstairs toilet is much narrower and we have a small rectangular basin unit as well as the toilet.

If you do want a door, think of a cubicle in a public toilet, you need room to be able to stand and open the door, or have the door open out into the utility area and then you just need enough room for your knees when sitting plus a few inches.

Ideally the utility room would have the washing machine, tumble dryer, combi-boiler and also be a store for tinned foods etc.

We have a small downstairs toilet, less than a metre wide I would say, not sure on length maybe just over a metre? You could just touch the sink opposite from sitting on the toilet. The door opens outwards so no issue with door space and toilet.

Just measured ours - it's 80x120 with a wall hung shirt projection toilet and corner sink. It works fine and I think would be ok 10cm smaller but I don't think it would work at less than that without feeling very hemmed in...

You could put the loo and sink in the utility room. Just have one sink for laundry and washing your hands. Much easier. You could screen off the loo.

I don't need a sink in the utility room.

You could stack the appliances and then put a set of eye level thin cabinets for storage with the boiler boxed in at the wall where it can be vented. I think if you can keep it fairly sleek, there should be room for everything, more room if you avoid splitting it up with a door/wall. You'd want the boiler over by the loo as that's dead space anyway as you'll want your cabinets or shelves more accessible.

Instead of having a door opening inwards, could you fit a pocket door, so it slides into the wall? That would save you some space. like this

If you are in Scotland, there are minimum distances in the Building Regs. If you are in England, there are not.

We have just had a cloakroom put in. It is 75cm x 130cm internally. It would be still manageable if it was 5cm smaller each way. The door is smaller than a normal one and does open outwards though. The toilet projects by 60cm and the sink is 20x40.

We have a small space at the end of the kitchen which is split into a small storage room and then through a narrow sliding door into a toilet and small sink. we store a tall shoe rack, broom holder, the laundry basket and recycling and a small towel cupboard in the storage room, its not big enough for a proper utility room. storage room is about 1.8 x 1,5 and toilet 80cm x 1.5m.

Thank you