Toilet room size, help please..

dydigital

Work on my layout again for my renault master self build.

Going to be using a portable Toliet, but don't know how much leg room to give the toilet room.
I don't want to much, as it will be wasted space most of the time.
Any help well come. Toilet is about 450x450, was think of going 500x900???
 

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dydigital said:
Work on my layout again for my renault master self build.

Going to be using a portable Toliet, but don't know how much leg room to give the toilet room.
I don't want to much, as it will be wasted space most of the time.
Any help well come. Toilet is about 450x450, was think of going 500x900???
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Try building a mock up with some sheets. Then try it for size!
 
rugbyken

rugbyken

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As rob said or just put the loo facing towards a corner enter from room side then slide forward on loo till your sorted.
 

Elaine Hunt

dydigital said:
Work on my layout again for my renault master self build.

Going to be using a portable Toliet, but don't know how much leg room to give the toilet room.
I don't want to much, as it will be wasted space most of the time.
Any help well come. Toilet is about 450x450, was think of going 500x900???
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We've got a Renault Tempest which has a cassette toilet & basin. Just been outside to measure it & our cubicle measures 800 x 850, if that's any help? Our toilet is wider than yours, but same depth.
 
oldish hippy

oldish hippy

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well if it just for you then put it in cupbaord with the door opening on to walkway so the door block the walkway whilst using the loo save the space
 

GRWXJR

Hi.

I just redid the loo area in the LDV. I'll take a pic and measure it if you think it'll help, but what I was actually going to say is that the height of the loo off the floor level is a factor - if its raised you can get away with a bit less floor area. (I kind of stumbled across this by accident and necessity, not through being clever like nbrown though :)!)

Now I've moved the walls about a big portion of the 'floor' of the loo space is now taken up with the whole rear wheelarch (Sully is twin wheel axle too, so bigger than your Boxer wheelarch). But.... this turned out to be an asset if anything.

I boxed in the wheelarch and made it so it was wide enough to take the Porta-loo thing facing across the van, with a baton-type lip on the front edge to prevent it sliding out of place. There's enough real floor left for your feet between the boxed-in bit and the partition wall. Because the loo is now more sort of house-loo-height, then you actually need less space than if the loo is placed straight onto the floor, cos your legs don't have to bend as much as if it was lower when you sit on the thing (before the loo sat straight onto the floor level in our van cos the whole cloakroom area was further forward).

Also - a wheelarch area is dead space anyway that gets lost in a cupboard or similar anyway cos you cant stand on it - so a loo support seemed as good a use for the space as any to me.

I've also used rolls of the stuff they stick behind radiators (600mm x 10M bubble-wrap/foil sandwich rolls they flog in B&Q, Wickes etc. - same sort of stuff I used to make my 'silver screens' glued under under the boxing-in and on the walls so the hab area has extra insulation from the storage/utilities area in the back of the van.

Also my door/wall between the cloakroom & hab area is angled to maximise access/space in the hab & minimise the space the loo area takes up - so in transit I can slide the loo into the front 'corner' where it's snug and secure, then slide it back into the centre when parked up.

Its not fully road-tested yet cos I'm still faffing - but I haven't used much space and its got room enough - I'm not a big bloke but I'm 5' 10" & not small build at 13-ish stone.
 
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Sharon the Cat

Ours is the usual very cramped affair. Phill has very long legs and the only way he can cope with sitting down is to put his feet in the shower. In fact it's more practical for me too. Worth considering if you are going to have a shower as well.
 

Rodeo

oldish hippy said:
well if it just for you then put it in cupbaord with the door opening on to walkway so the door block the walkway whilst using the loo save the space
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this is what I have done.Basically.......The cupboard door, (if we had a door on the space) would actually touch the front of the loo when closed.our portaloo is sitting on a plinth about 5 inches high, as we felt it was too low without it.The cubicle width is about8 inches wider than the portaloo.The plinth depth can be used for storage if you leave one side open.
 

Firefox

I'd go for 600x800 or 600x850 or maybe 550x850.

I have a Movano (Renault Master) self build. Mine is 600x850. You can even squeeze in a small corner sink (250 quadrant).

500 is probably too narrow. You are short of arm room and if you set out 500 on the floor plan, by the time the side panel has curved in 100-150 towards the top, as they do, you'll only be left with 350 near the head space. Best to start out with 600 and that will go down to 450 at the top which is more acceptable.
 
n brown

n brown

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the usual measurement is 700mm from the wall,this is the size needed for a cassette toilet,and these toilets have been designed by people who have worked out how much elbow room you need to wipe your bum. the length can be variable but I'd say,having built loads of them,that 850mm is about the minimum.
 

dydigital

Will try for 600 wide, with a large kitchen unit on opposite site of the van I'm running short on space. My vans base on a lwb renault master close to the movano.
 

martyncc

van lay out

getting it to all fit in is harder than the build . I found as you start to fit things in you sometimes find more space (HAPPY DAYS)..then a bit later you remember what that space was for :mad2: but you get there it the end .
 
n brown

n brown

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well the appliances do dictate the size of the cabinets. if you're using a portapotti,it'll be tight but you'll manage because it sounds like there's no choice !
 

dydigital

that true,
just looking for a hob that doesn't have grill, that way I can raise the fridge and remove the grill
 

Rodeo

Probably not much use to your ideas,as you probably want modern stuff, but I bought a s/s hob/sink and drainer combined,very cheap,couldnt fit it in in one piece, so chopped off the drainer and sink and sited that elsewhere.Sited it so that one raw cut edge is against a panel, and the other piece, I edged with an aly hockey stick section.You havent got to mount either part along the length of the van, they could be acrossways taking up less space?.....
 
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