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[Chad Fabry]

This winter I'm finally going to update my master bathroom. In the past, while my wife and I were in the bathroom at the same time, using the commode was less than private. I'd like to install the reading chair in a "cubby" but it'll be only 32 inches wide. I thought I remembered a code saying that the walls had to be 18 inches from the center of the toilet, making the minimum width 36 inches.

Is that true? There'll be no door on the toilet area.

[hausdok]

Hi Chad,

I think you're okay. New York adopted the IRC last year, right? I'm looking at my Code Check and seeing: Bathroom, Toilet & Bidet, 30in. wide clearance, 21 in. at front IRC 2705.1.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[kurt]

Code sez what it sez. What you want is >30". The average toilet needs 28", you build to 30" and you got the space, but no elbow room. If you can find 36", go 36".

Install FanTech fan system to ventilate same.

[Chad Fabry]

Thanks guys,

I'm torn between having the aisle between the shower and toilet 4 inches narrower making it 36" or the cubby @ 32 inches.

I may just make the cubby walls two inches thick..that'd solve the problem. Glue up some plywood or use some solid surfacing material.

Already decided on the fan tech. There'll be two bathrooms back to back and it's the perfect solution.

[crusty]

There is a clearance issue between the separation wall and the tub/shower if I am reading this right.

[Chad Fabry]

With a 30' wide stall the aisle between the wall and the sgower will be 40 inches.. I'd like to keep it that wide.

I'll see if I can post a plan from my cheap cad program.

[Steven Hockstein]

Sounds like you need an architect [:-bouncy]

[Chad Fabry]

Careful Steven,

I may email YOU the cheap cad drawing and ask your advice.

We're all buddies here...right?

[hausdok]

Hmmm,

In the Army we had a saying - "Buddy is only half a word." [:-censore

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Brian G]

The plan we bought (and revised) for our house had a WC already in the master bath. I don't think it would have even occured to me, since I had never co-habitated. I love it, one of the few places in the house where one can be alone (no one comes in range when I'm in there). [:-crazy]

Brian G.

Underestimate My Range at Your Own Risk [:-sick]

[Bill Kibbel]

I believe it is a minimum 16" of clear floor space on either side of the centerline of a toilet to walls or other fixtures. I think the 18" from centerline is for a lavatory.

If it is in the original old part of your home, I wouldn't worry about it anyway. Since most homes I see weren't built with indoor plumbing, bathrooms are often created in spaces smaller than most modern closets.

[Steven Hockstein]

Originally posted by Chad Fabry

Careful Steven,

I may email YOU the cheap cad drawing and ask your advice.

We're all buddies here...right?

No problem. You can't scare me. I love to critique other people's work.

[Chad Fabry]

Make the corrections in red so I can understand them.

Be brutal, show me how inferior I really am.. make yours so good that I'll consider suicide. Boy, that'll show me. (Don't forget a materials list just to rub it in)

[Chad Fabry]

Here Steven,

make me feel humble.

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Either bathroom door can be moved on the wall they're installed on.

The door to the master bath is a doorway, not a door.

The funky little rectangle is a chimney.

There are no interior walls in the room yet.

[hausdok]

Chad,

Submit your consult fee to The Inspectors Journal aka. Kenmore Residential Services LLC., Kenmore, WA and payable to M. O'Handley. I'll see to it that Steven gets his cut.[:-dev3]

ONE TEAM - ONE BITE!!!

M.