Sam
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As you may have guessed from the thread title, we have a downstairs toilet that is accessed via the kitchen - basically if you go into the kitchen from the living room, there is a door on the left of the kitchen, you go in there and then open another door and you're in the downstairs toilet room/box.
What we are wanting to do is use the space between the two doors by the toilet to put a fridge/freezer in, close the door opening off (where the toilet is) and create a new opening with a door that opens outwards into the kitchen (space is a bit of a issue).
Are we allowed to do this, or is there some kind of regulation that states you must have two doors from the kitchen to a toilet? Other people's houses I've been to don't seem to have this so I'm assuming not?
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Ben G
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my cousins has just 1 door.
my other cousins bathroom is accessed from the living room 
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Sam
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Ahh OK! Cheers Ben 
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John
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Not sure on answer to your question Sam but always though that's a weird setup.
Don't think I've ever seen that up here.
Toilet opening into a kitchen just doesn't compute.
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RichR
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I was always under the understanding that you need two doors between a kitchen and toilet
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mwg
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Who is going to check?
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DannyB
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When we lived in a terraced house years ago the bathroom was on the ground floor through the kitchen. Pain in the arse when you needed a piss in the night.
Kitchen>door>small room with back door>door>bathroom
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Sam
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Thing is it's quite nice having a downstairs toilet, but short of building some kind of attached external toilet room I don't know what the best suggestion would be for it apart from what I mentioned earlier about having one door opening into the kitchen rather than keeping the maze of doors we've got at the moment layout.
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NovaGTE2
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
I was always under the understanding that you need two doors between a kitchen and toilet
Yeah building regs require this; but if you are planning on staying there a while i wouldnt worry; maybe just make it so you can revert it back easily
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Colin
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Remember when it come to selling my grandfathers house the bloke buying it had trouble getting a mortgage because the toilet was off the kitchen.
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Sam
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Link to anywhere on the net about said building regs?
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chloe16v
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i lived in a brand new house 8 years ago and that had a toilet straight off the kitchen
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Ben G
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my cousins council house has one door between the toilet and kitchen, therefore your building regs are wrong
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NovaGTE2
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It does look to have changed
http://www.houseweb.co.uk/house/forum/Forum5/HTML/000032.html
This means i change my plans for out new kitchen and smash down another wall 
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