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Needing a new bathroom suite

TheCatWoman

Mum and I have decided to renovate our shower room and toilet, you'd think this would be easy, we've picked the tiles for the shower enclosure, new flooring now for the basin and toilet, what a faff! I'm just about getting my head around everything being in millimetres instead of the centimetres I measured, I can just about convert cm's to mm's, but the thing thats causing the most problems is the toilet, most of them celebrate being low, my knees aren't getting any younger and I don't want to feel that I've accidently wandered into a childrens bathroom and have my knees up round my ears! And the cistern/flush too, they're all tiny, we have one upstairs and it's useless it's supposed to save water but you need to flush it twice to make everything go away.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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  • For cistern capacities, the standards now are 6 litres (for the eco model) up to 9 litres for the heavy flush. This is about half of what it used to be but when you are shopping for a toiler look for 9l or larger capacities and make sure the plumber installing it sets it to the max flush setting.

    For heating would you consider underfloor heating? I've installed this many times in the UK and it goes between the underfloor and the tiles - it will cost about the same as a nice radiator typically but has the effect of warming everything up from the floor level. I used to love having warm feet in the winter when going into the bathroom.

    It can be as simple as a heated electric wire which is stapeled onto the wooden subfloor then has the tile adhesive put on top and tiles stuck onto it - it takes a few hours of labout extra to normal tiling of a floor only.

    The downside for you is that is comes will a wall mounted control unit which are typically digital but you can try to get some old dial controllers where you set the sliding pins for the start and finish times on a 24 hour dial.

    For toilet seat height, look on sites like https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/toilets/comfort-height-toilets

    There is an option on the left to select the height and each item has a dimensions link so you can see exactly the hight of the pan. Measure what is comfortable for you and this will help narrow down the options that work.

    I've installed more bathrooms than I care to mention so let me know if there is anything specific you want to know about.

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  • For cistern capacities, the standards now are 6 litres (for the eco model) up to 9 litres for the heavy flush. This is about half of what it used to be but when you are shopping for a toiler look for 9l or larger capacities and make sure the plumber installing it sets it to the max flush setting.

    For heating would you consider underfloor heating? I've installed this many times in the UK and it goes between the underfloor and the tiles - it will cost about the same as a nice radiator typically but has the effect of warming everything up from the floor level. I used to love having warm feet in the winter when going into the bathroom.

    It can be as simple as a heated electric wire which is stapeled onto the wooden subfloor then has the tile adhesive put on top and tiles stuck onto it - it takes a few hours of labout extra to normal tiling of a floor only.

    The downside for you is that is comes will a wall mounted control unit which are typically digital but you can try to get some old dial controllers where you set the sliding pins for the start and finish times on a 24 hour dial.

    For toilet seat height, look on sites like https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/toilets/comfort-height-toilets

    There is an option on the left to select the height and each item has a dimensions link so you can see exactly the hight of the pan. Measure what is comfortable for you and this will help narrow down the options that work.

    I've installed more bathrooms than I care to mention so let me know if there is anything specific you want to know about.

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