Bathroom Design

[iloveglee]

Has anyone fitted a double ended bath, the ones with the taps in the middle, and also a fixed head shower. I am having a new bathroom and wanted these but it seems to me that the fixed head doesn't stand far enough away from the wall to be able to stand under the shower head, due to the slope of the shower end of the bath. I want to have taps and a movable shower hose as well and don't believe I can have these in the same place as the shower - i.e. on the short side of the bath. Don't know why this should be though.

[The Builder]

A fixed head for a shower can be anywhere you like. You could have it fixed to the ceiling right over where you want to stand. It's only a spray thingy on the end of some chrome tube :o)
The tube could be as long as you like. The advantage of hanging it off the ceiling is that it doesn't need support along its length.
If the taps come out of the wall, you could use extender pieces of tube .......... but not too far over the bath or they'll get in the way.
Also, it's going to have to look right.

[iloveglee]

Thanks for the response. The whole thing is causing some problems and I wonder if you also have an answer for this one. What is the minimum, functional amount of space required to fit a toilet. We are remodelling the bathroom and with the new vanity unit, and a bath which appears to be a bit wider than the one we have, it leaves us a bit of short of space for the toilet. Do corner toilets take up less space and how practical are they for changing where the waste outlet goes into the soil stack

[The Builder]

Corner WCs are fine, just a bit more expensive usually. Soil stack connection is a lot easier these days with "bendy" pan connectors as well. Impossible to say accurately without looking at it though.
For a conventional WC (cistern& pan), make sure there's a MINIMUM of 700mm in front of the pan ........... and some elbow room. That really is a minimum though.
e.g. ....... if the toilet was going into its own room, with nothing else in there ........ roomsize should be minimum 800 x 1400mm ........ that's tight enough though.