Hi all
Just wondering if there's any reason why you couldn't have the entrance to the cellar off a downstairs loo? At the moment, the cellar door is off the hallway. I'm looking at where I can relocate our downstairs loo which is currently in the back part of the house which is lower than the front (and therefore has to have a Saniflo loo which I hate) but also it wastes a huge part of our potential kitchen space. It's prompted by the fact that when my old Dad comes to visit he struggles with all the stairs and different levels, etc. If I could move the downstairs loo to the hallway by the cellar door then he could also sleep in the 2nd living room next to it rather than having me to get up our steep staircase to the bedroom - win win all round in that he can stay on one level the whole time other than when he comes into the kitchen for meals (3 steps down) and we get a much larger more streamlined kitchen and it's back to its 'original' layout. We would have to borrow a bit of space from this living room to accommodate the loo (I'm thinking soundproofing the walls would be a good idea...) which is not ideal but the much bigger kitchen is a plus point. It's a stud wall here - originally this room would have been open to the staircase and I think the previous owner put the wall in as it makes it a much more usable room.
Of course we may not get LBC but we're only moving stud walls put in by the previous owner and putting in some new ones (all the floorboards, skirting boards, doors etc are modern) and I still need to work out water, drainage and ventilation! There is a window in the cellar so I'm wondering if that could be used somehow ie with a vent in the cellar door? It would be difficult to put an extractor fan in there because of the original panelling around the cellar door - not messing with that obviously! The drainage from our bathrooms is a bit strange - there is pipework internally which must somehow go into a pipe in the cellar which I think must be how it exits the house (plus the neighbours' drainage too I think as I've heard loos flush and water go through the pipe when I've been the only one in the house!). Anyway, it may not be technically possible because of drainage etc but I think it would be worth exploring?
Juju
Just wondering if there's any reason why you couldn't have the entrance to the cellar off a downstairs loo? At the moment, the cellar door is off the hallway. I'm looking at where I can relocate our downstairs loo which is currently in the back part of the house which is lower than the front (and therefore has to have a Saniflo loo which I hate) but also it wastes a huge part of our potential kitchen space. It's prompted by the fact that when my old Dad comes to visit he struggles with all the stairs and different levels, etc. If I could move the downstairs loo to the hallway by the cellar door then he could also sleep in the 2nd living room next to it rather than having me to get up our steep staircase to the bedroom - win win all round in that he can stay on one level the whole time other than when he comes into the kitchen for meals (3 steps down) and we get a much larger more streamlined kitchen and it's back to its 'original' layout. We would have to borrow a bit of space from this living room to accommodate the loo (I'm thinking soundproofing the walls would be a good idea...) which is not ideal but the much bigger kitchen is a plus point. It's a stud wall here - originally this room would have been open to the staircase and I think the previous owner put the wall in as it makes it a much more usable room.
Of course we may not get LBC but we're only moving stud walls put in by the previous owner and putting in some new ones (all the floorboards, skirting boards, doors etc are modern) and I still need to work out water, drainage and ventilation! There is a window in the cellar so I'm wondering if that could be used somehow ie with a vent in the cellar door? It would be difficult to put an extractor fan in there because of the original panelling around the cellar door - not messing with that obviously! The drainage from our bathrooms is a bit strange - there is pipework internally which must somehow go into a pipe in the cellar which I think must be how it exits the house (plus the neighbours' drainage too I think as I've heard loos flush and water go through the pipe when I've been the only one in the house!). Anyway, it may not be technically possible because of drainage etc but I think it would be worth exploring?
Juju