Due to some drainage issues (clay pipes ruined by large roots) my downstair bathroom has needed stripping bare. It’s currently 4 walls and a window, bare earth on the floor. Previous was a concrete floor, 700 x 700mm shower, toilet, corner basin and small radiator, as per the left-hand drawing:
It’s a blank canvas now, and it was always quite a squeeze, so I’m thinking of doing what’s in the right-hand drawing. Can anyone see any problems with this? It’s going to be concrete floor again, and I’m not convinced that hiding the shower waste in concrete is such a good idea (as happened in the previous bathroom) so I guess I need to raise the shower a bit. I’m also thinking of binning the s-trap toilet for one that goes through the wall, for the same aversion to setting pipes in concrete.
The other thing is the water main stopcock for that half of the house is currently situated between the external wall and where the old toilet used to be, about 1″ above floor level – not ideal if I’m building a wall to hide the new shower water supply behind. Water supply comes up in the bathroom and then heads through the wall to the room to left, I was thinking of adding a second, accessible stopcock in this room and just leaving the original one wide open – am I asking for trouble?