ᐅ Planning a Guest Bathroom in a New Build – What Is the Minimum Size? (Building Standards?)
Created on: 11 Dec 2022 12:59
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Hello house building forum,
we are currently planning a semi-detached house. The building plot is very small, and the footprint is accordingly limited. To achieve a reasonably usable living area, we want to keep non-living spaces small and allocate the saved space to the living rooms.
On the ground floor, we are planning a guest toilet without a shower—that is, only a toilet and a washbasin. Recently, I have been carrying a laser measuring device when visiting friends and have measured several guest toilets. Conclusion: 1 meter (3.3 feet) in width and 2 meters (6.6 feet) in length are more than sufficient. In our case, the door would be on the short wall, the toilet opposite the door, and the washbasin on the long wall.
We are currently looking for a builder and have roughly presented our plans. One potential builder mentioned that according to the DIN standard, a guest toilet must be at least 1.24 meters (4 feet) wide.
My online research so far hasn’t been enough to find the relevant regulation or DIN. The DIN 18022 on bathroom planning appears to have been withdrawn without replacement.
Is anyone familiar with this requirement? Is it not allowed to plan a 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide guest toilet in a new build?
we are currently planning a semi-detached house. The building plot is very small, and the footprint is accordingly limited. To achieve a reasonably usable living area, we want to keep non-living spaces small and allocate the saved space to the living rooms.
On the ground floor, we are planning a guest toilet without a shower—that is, only a toilet and a washbasin. Recently, I have been carrying a laser measuring device when visiting friends and have measured several guest toilets. Conclusion: 1 meter (3.3 feet) in width and 2 meters (6.6 feet) in length are more than sufficient. In our case, the door would be on the short wall, the toilet opposite the door, and the washbasin on the long wall.
We are currently looking for a builder and have roughly presented our plans. One potential builder mentioned that according to the DIN standard, a guest toilet must be at least 1.24 meters (4 feet) wide.
My online research so far hasn’t been enough to find the relevant regulation or DIN. The DIN 18022 on bathroom planning appears to have been withdrawn without replacement.
Is anyone familiar with this requirement? Is it not allowed to plan a 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide guest toilet in a new build?
motorradsilke schrieb:
You actually built the doors like that? Didn’t that cause any problems in everyday use?We didn’t build it ourselves; this is the semi-detached house we bought as an existing property and moved out of in the summer to our new home 🙂
But we lived there for a good 7 years and I think the only time the front door and the bathroom door bumped was once when our little one was in the bathroom and came out just as Dad was unlocking the front door after coming home from work 😀 otherwise, it always worked fine and we really liked the house..
11ant schrieb:
@Yaso2.0 if it was really built exactly as shown in post #42 – with seamless insulation and brick cladding continuing over the dividing line – then your joint between the two houses in the so-called “party wall” should be a mess, and there would still be effective sound bridges (?)See above, not our house that was built 😉
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
See above, not our built houseYaso2.0 schrieb:
But we lived there for a good 7 yearsSeven years should have been plenty of time to verify my suspicion about the thermal bridges—regarding sound bridging, the original poster definitely should not build as shown in the drawing (we have quite a few threads here about party wall sound bridging in semi-detached and terraced houses, although I no longer provide my comprehensive linking service for them).https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Gelbwoschdd12 Dec 2022 22:03Without having read everything, here is our experience. At 1.13 meters (44.5 inches) width, there is even enough space to include a urinal comfortably. So 1 meter (39.4 inches) width without a urinal should also work. However, an outward-opening door is definitely better in case of an emergency.
Gelbwoschdd schrieb:
... But a door opening outwards is definitely better in case something happens.But no door at all like yours is probably even safer – right? 😀 Okay, admitted. There isn’t much privacy, though.P.S. Very nice! Small but well-designed 😉
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xMisterDx12 Dec 2022 22:40ypg schrieb:
Once in a lifetime... then it just is what it is.
Don’t get me wrong. There are things that are nice and things that just are the way they are when they don’t come true. (...) If you can’t get the door open quickly, that “once in a lifetime” moment could be the very last second of your life...
Emergency services usually take about 5–7 minutes. It takes another 2–3 minutes to break down the door.
By then, there’s nothing left inside but wilted vegetables between your ears...
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Gelbwoschdd12 Dec 2022 22:56i_b_n_a_n schrieb:
but without a door like yours is probably even safer - right? 😀 Okay, admitted. There’s not much privacy then.
P.S. Very nice! Small but elegant 😉Haha... after all, since it wasn’t great odor-wise without a door and all the plants in the living room died, we’ve now installed one
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