How To Build Bathroom In Basement
In this video this old house plumbing and heating expert richard trethewey shows how to rough in the drainpipes for a basement bathroom.
How to build bathroom in basement. Plumbing a basement bath connect the basement bathroom plumbing to the existing drain and vent lines in the floor and ceiling to complete the rough in plumbing. The overall cost for adding a bathroom in a basement will range somewhere between 3 000 and 25 000. Wiring a basement bathroom is usually best left to professionals since these below ground locations have special needs for ground fault protection.
The variance in this cost comes from whether you build in an existing space or whether the bathroom is an extension to your existing basement. A basement bathroom can pay you back up to 70 oi making it one of the better investments that you can make for your home s equity. The right lighting can make your basement bathroom as luxurious as your upstairs lavatories.
Measure off the wall plates to locate the center of the shower drain and toilet flange. For the whole project you re looking at anywhere between 9000 and 20 000 from start to finish depending on of course the materials you buy who you hire to do the job etc. Ample lighting can be even more important in basement bathrooms since natural lighting may be quite limited.
The reason installing a bathroom in the basement can be so challenging is that unless you re trying to figure out how to finish a roughed in basement bathroom you re going to have to make a plan for new plumbing. This is where a basement bathroom design can quickly get expensive.