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Best Flooring for downstairs toilet

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.40 PM

Good afternoon Looking to convert our outside porch into a toilet. One of the burning questions I have is the best way to raise the floor approximately 18 cm. The porch is a single skin brick, so i'm assuming a suspended floor is a poor choice. Seems simple to have a floating floor by using DMP/ kingspan / Ply to make up the 18 cm, though I'm a little weirded out by having a toilet bolted down into a floating floor! Any suggestions? - Sadly because there's a 6" gas pipe running along one end of the room, filling it with concrete seems a bad idea. Alternatively do I just block and beam it? Much appreciated.

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2 Answers

Elmcon Ltd.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Wanstead, London

Obviously, it depends on the circumstances. You may consider the wood floor with vinyl or vinyl tiles or Kingspan + screed covered by vinyl, tiles, laminate floor. The toilet, if there is a proper concrete floor then you may use the wall-mounted toilet with metal brackets- floor mounted type as a solution (i.e. from www.plumbworld, etc.)

Answered5 May 2021

Wigglesworth Limited

Rating: 5 out of 5

Southampton

Karndean or other Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) is a great option. And use silicone around the toilet to fix it to the floor. With a good seal all around, it will be fixed much firmer (all around the base) instead of just two bolts...

Answered26 May 2021