Toilet in the kitchen, just why?!

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This is a modern designed kitchen extension of a 1920s house. Why!? The toilet door opens onto their dining table!?

That actually doesn't look quite as weird when you see the pic. Quite a convenient spot! I wonder if they had to have a support column there so it acts as this also.

Don’t assume it will be easy to remove (sorry!)

The soil pipe from the first floor loo is very likely to come down through the kitchen loo, with waste from both pipes exiting through a pipe under the extension. I assume you can simply fill this in or cap it off - but you’ll need to find another way for waste to exit your first floor loo. The second floor loo may well be affected too.

The second problem you could have is that the structure may be load bearing. Depends what is holding up the outside wall of the upper floors and whether any of that load is being carried by the walls of the downstairs loo. You could always compromise by replacing the loo with a pillar of some sort of that was the case.

It doesn't look too bad. I wouldn't feel comfortable using it when there were guests but for a pee when there's family or you're alone, seems fine.

Yep

That is one of the weirdest house layout things I've ever seen and I've seen some really odd things over the years!! It kind of makes a special feature out of going to the loo. Like you should make a grand entrance back into the room.

What really puzzles me is that from my own building work experience I know there are strict regulations about loos and kitchen and there have to be 2 doors in between so goodness know who they got planning for it....I suppose it faces away from the actual kitchen, but still....😬

Maybe the owners have a toilet fetish and someone sits 'on the throne' instead of a settee in the evening 😂

I don't think it's that bad really. It's more opening onto an open-plan living area. Probably quite handy if you have young kids!

I thought they'd done away with the two doors thing now?

Two doors between loo and kitchen used to be a requirement but isn't any more. These days only one door is needed, as long as there's somewhere to wash hands before coming through said door. If there's no washbasin in the room with the loo then I think two doors might be needed, with a place to wash in between the doors (as in public loos where basin(s) are in a lobby area outside rooms where the actual toilets are).

Also, when the two doors were required this would have been a building regulations issue and nothing to do with for planning permission. The two things are often confused!

You feel you have to exit the loo by flinging the door open and going "TA-RAH!!"

How weird

People will be watching TV whilst somebody goes for a big, stinky dump

Nice

I can say from experience the 2 doors thing is not longer required ( but we still did it when we put in a tiny loo under the front steps with a hand basin ) Ours goes out into a teeny tiny lobby with coat hooks etc - & it is tiny ) and then another door into kitchen . That one posted I would not want.

We rented a house with a loo opening into the kitchen/dining room. We never used that loo. It was such a lovely victorian house and it was for sale, but the developer had ripped all of the character out of it, all of the period features, and done weird things like put the loo in the kitchen! We didn't buy it.

I bought a house with a toilet off the kitchen years ago. Just removed the loo and used the room as a utility.

This is what you need

I viewed a house once that had a small toilet room in the middle of the large open plan living room / kitchen. It's because it was the only place they could put it for an elderly person to access. Needs must in your own home. It's just weird when you go to sell it on

My first flat back in the 80s had the only bathroom/toilet opening onto the kitchen/lounge area. I got so sick of listening to people piss whilst I served up dessert.
We ended up moving the kitchen into the (larger anyway) bedroom and having the old lounge as the bedroom.
Mind you, that was a very dodgy conversion anyway.

This is the sort of thing I have anxiety dreams about. Surely if you’ve got extension money you’ve got move-the-loo money, just why?!

It could be worse…..

Aargh, photo didn’t upload!

They’ve done it to avoid the cost of an RSJ holding the back of the house up. With those roof lanterns I don’t see where you could put one. To remove the loo you’d have to spend a lot changing the roof to accommodate an RSJ or put a pillar in the middle of the room.

At a guess that would save £1000's to leave it as the walls would be a structural support for the back of the house when extended
if drains already there why not make use of them

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There's a toilet on the 3rd floor as well so that's another one you'd have to move.

Is it under the stairs. X

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