Removing "ensuite" bathroom – what needs to be done to make it safe?

So, we’re moving house and the place we’re buying has an unusual feature – an “ensuite” bathroom in the main bedroom accessed through sliding wardrobe doors….

Picture here: http://www.reganandhallworth.com/resize/21319292/5/700

Planning permission/building regs approval hasn’t been obtained, so the sellers are prepared to do us a favour and remove it for us (we’re going to remove it anyway).

What should I expect to be done so that the bathroom removal is “safe” (i.e. I’m not exposed to an open soil pipe etc)?

Cheers

OMITN (actually, soon to be ourmanfarthernorth)

caps on all the pipes?

yeah cap the waste pipe or cut the internal stuff out.

FWIW en-suites can be pretty handy esp if you have a kid…I’m about to do one but more because I have a lodger.

Just don’t forget that it has been removed! The last thing you want to wake up to after a heavy night is an angry wife with a poo in her shoes.

Having lived in houses with en-suites for over 10 years now I find them to be almost an essential, particularly with 3 young children and a wife.

Erm…. An ensuite bathroom you say?

in Wigan?

You’re building its part up a bit aren’t you Tom?

😉

The last thing you want to wake up to after a heavy night is an angry wife with a poo in her shoes.

Or worse, a wife with an angry poo in her shoes.

Planning permission wouldn’t be needed anyhow and to be honest I doubt very much if building regs would be an issue (assuming there were no structural alterations and the electrical work was signed off correctly etc). I’d leave it as is.

En suites never bothered me.

That waderobe (see what I did there?) is genius crappo DIY though 🙂

Yes, more of a toilet in a cupboard than an en-suite.

I really don’t want an ensuitre behind sliding mirrored doors. How weird is that?

OK, so it’s a sinmple enoyugh task, and just means a slightly smaller job for when we move in (and remove the hideous built-in wardrobe on the opposite wall.

Binners you’re just jealous because very soon I shall soon have access to all the pies I can eat:

I quite like it, in an incredibly random kind of way. Presumably the lack of storage space it leads to is the reason for the hideous set of cupboards at the end of the bed?

If you don’t want it and they’re prepared to remove it then let them, they can get rid of the rubbish that way rather than you taking to the tip or paying for a skip. Just make sure any open ends are capped off and you’re good to go.

people have to see the OP pic
it’s so funny, they even had an extractor fan as well

Yep, storage is robbed. And wall opposite end of bed has a radiator on, hence the weird bed placement.

Waderobe (c. molgrips) and built in cupboards are going. Room will then be 15×12 feet of usuable space.

colande -I’ve just spotted that. FFS, another thing to deal with.

It was installed by sellers, who are a recently retired couple as he’s had a rapid onset of dementia (only in his late 60s). So I don’t begrudge them having done it – sad really to work hard all you life and then, within 3 years of retiring, not know who your wife is…. 🙁

We’ll expect the first pie-related night ride fella once you’ve familiarised yourself with your new surroundings

Never forget the golden rule of moving into a new house. Its a law of nature: How hideously ugly a ‘feature’ is, is inversely proportional to how well constructed it will be.

So something that looks like it had been specifically commissioned for a naff comedy sketch in the 70’s will actually have been built to withstand the full force of a 50 megatonne nuclear blast!

You have been warned

Wigan is also home to Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball Emporium. I had a pasty, pie and Tango in a parking bay with Terrahawk and HarryTheSpider in Wigan.

Rivi will be the nearest decent riding. Ashamed to say, I’ve never ridden there before, so you lot can show me. But, like the first day at public school or in prison, go easy on me, eh?

Yes, the built in cupbroads look particularly flimsy. Accordingly, I have decided that approapriate tools will be needed for their safe removal. I’ve ordered one of these:

I had a pasty, pie and Tango in a parking bay with Terrahawk and HarryTheSpider in Wigan.

Is that sort of euphemism entirely appropriate for a family website, Michael?

just put a stud wall in front of it and pretend it was never there.

You may joke mate but that’s exactly what i hired to take the enormous, and monumentally hideous, slate fireplace out of the last house

Everyone thought I was completely mental, and that it was completely unnecessary. That’s until I started my orgy of destruction. Then everyone wanted a go 😀

Excellent. And I’ll use it to remove the asbestos from the garage – no harm will come from that will it?

Bet you other half would be pleased when she wakes to the splash of the morning log touching down. 😆

As I said yesterday – if I sleep on the left, I’ll be able to have a pee without getting out of the bed.

if I sleep on the left, I’ll be able to have a pee without getting out of the bed.

clever dick

clever dick

I would be if I said I’d sleep on the right….

That is spectacularly crap a an ensuite

So you could be having a poo while your lovely wife’s having cup of tea in bed 4′ away…….. THAT would be a funny picture 🙂

DIY comedy gold.

classic thread. Are there mirrors on the other side of the bedroom too.

personally if you do convert it back to a wardrobe – i’d never put my clothes in it.

So you could be having a poo while your lovely wife’s having cup of tea in bed 4′ away…….. THAT would be a funny picture

It’s worse than that, you’d have to open the door to wipe your arse
She’d love that……

wish i hadnt clicked to see the picture as im in agony here laughing with broken ribs 😀

classic thread.

Wasn’t the intention…!

No mirrors on the opposing wall, just a crappy 60s built in wardrobe (which is also going).

Why not enhance it with…

and a

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Dont just cap the pipes make sure the pipe’s have been stripped back to the main line. Pipes with water not moving has the potential to freeze and can burst or become contaminated with bacteria.

and if the extract fan goes through to the outside wall make sure they fix the masonry as that is a route in for vermin and dampness

We looked at a house that had a similar “en suite” in a wardrobe – only it had louvre doors!

The people that bought that house – and who removed it – have ended up being great friends though – ride bikes and drink beer!

seahouse – a sensible voice among the pisstaking..! Cheers. 😀

HTS – it’s very kind of you to photgraph your own domestic features for me. Thanks 😉