En-suite and cloakroom installation in Barking. Small spaces planned properly, drainage worked out first, fitted to feel bigger than they are.
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Small rooms are harder than big ones, not easier. Every millimetre is visible, the drainage is usually the constraint rather than the layout, and the difference between a cramped en-suite and a good one is almost always in the planning rather than the budget.
In Barking a new en-suite is most often fitted into the box room of a Becontree house or carved off a larger bedroom, and a ground-floor cloakroom usually goes under the stairs. Both depend on where the waste can run to the existing soil stack, which in these houses is normally at the back.
Where the waste can run decides where the WC goes. Everything else follows that, and pretending otherwise is how en-suites end up with a pump nobody wanted.
Door swings, radiator position, where you actually stand. In a small room these are the whole design.
Wall-hung units, large tiles, a single continuous floor. Small changes that make a small room read as a considered one.
A small room with a shower in it needs proper extraction or you get mould in a year, whatever you clean it with.
A WC and small basin fitted into the space under a Barking staircase, with the waste run planned to reach the drain without a pump wherever possible.
A shower, WC and basin planned into a small room so the bedroom it serves keeps a usable size.
Usually, and the drainage is the deciding factor rather than the space. If the waste can reach an existing stack by gravity it is straightforward; if not, a macerator is an option but it is noisier and it is a maintenance item.
Smaller than people think - a WC and a basin fit in a space under a metre wide if it is planned properly. What kills it is a door swinging the wrong way.
In any room with a shower, yes, and it should vent outside rather than into a loft. It is Building Regulations and it is also the difference between a fresh room and a mouldy one.
Often, yes. The headroom under the stairs and the route for the waste pipe decide it. In many Barking and Becontree houses the soil stack is at the back, so an under-stairs WC near the back of the house is the easiest to drain.
The drainage and the extractor fan both have to meet Building Regulations, and new electrics near water have to be done and certified by a qualified electrician. It is part of doing the job, not an extra.