How To Put A Bathroom In The Basement
Adding a basement bathroom adds value to the home but installing toilets and sinks in a belowgrade environment takes more than a basic knowledge of drainpipes and sewer lines.
How to put a bathroom in the basement. But adding a full function basement bathroom is no easy project. Few diyers are really able to tackle all the tasks involved and more often than not this is a project best left to professionals. On average you can expect to pay anywhere between 90 and 150 dollars an hour for your basement bathroom with some exceptions and if you can cut corners you can save more also.
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. This fall we took a closet and made it into a basement bathroom without breaking concrete. The most efficient and least expensive method of installing a basement shower without the need to break concrete is to install it over existing plumbing stub outs.
This limits your ability to change the basement layout but if the stub outs are in place using them will save money and labor. The overall cost for adding a bathroom in a basement will range somewhere between 3 000 and 25 000. 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.
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. Plumbers labor rates vary a lot by region but a basement bathroom cost would run between 1 200 to 2 000 for a pro job similar to the one shown here. Better homes and gardens magazine agrees they featured our project in their february 2019 issue we installed a sanicompact macerating toilet from saniflo canada in our basement bathroom we talked about all the great reasons for choosing it here.
The basics of basement bathroom designs. And it turned out beautifully. In this video this old house plumbing and heating expert richard trethewey shows how to rough in the drainpipes for a basement bathroom.
A basement bathroom improves the function of your home and it adds real estate value like few other home improvements. 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.