Converting part of living room to a toilet - who to hire for this job?

[FunkyPigeon35]

Hello! I plan to convert part of our living room into a toilet, with the door in the hall. This would obviously mean planning, structural changes, putting in extra walls, plumbing, etc. I have no idea what kind of workperson to hire for this job! Can anyone advise?

General builder to talk through options first. Biggest key thing is location of soil pipe.

Thank you!

Wheres the soil pipe, if its nowhere near you may need a macerator toilet and they aren't great.

We are having a downstairs toilet built and just using a handy man. People assume handy men are just people that do DIY for you but actually they are multi-contractors. A builder/plumber/sparky/carpenter etc... is a 'specialist' in one area where as handy men do across the board work (ours does carpentry, electrics and plumbing). Builder may do multiple things or have a team to do multiple things but they usually only do big projects where as handy men will do anything from just fixing a light to fitting full kitchens or making new bathrooms etc...

You might still need a specialist for some specific jobs like a gas safe engineer or jobs your handy man does not do (mine won't do plastering which is quite common etc...).

That's interesting I wouldn't have considered a handyman! No idea where the soil pipe is I will try to find out😅

Your soil pipe will usually run directly downwards from where your current toilet is, more or less. If your living room is nowhere near your bathroom, it’s going to be a job of its own to try and join the new toilet to it. If you can’t, and will have to have a macerator, I’d abandon plans tbh, they’re awful.