Building a bathroom?

Question

We turned the garage into a bedroom..theres just alittle garage left to store stuff in..theres a wall between the space for the room and the space for the garage..im tryin to draw the picture for ya..lol..i was wanting to build a full bathroom on half of the other side.Nothing big or fancy.About how much would that cost?I dont have anything done out there it was just a plain garage..no plumbing or anything..Thanks

Answer 1

I understand what your saying but, the price of plumbing now days just may not warrant it for you.

      I've put in more then a few bathrooms in my time. In this case I don't know what the reasons for the bath, if it's going to stay private then, maybe a half bath or a dry bath would be cheaper and serve the purpose.

       Do you really need a tub or, a shower ? ask yourself this. If you can get by with just the toilet, a small sink and that's it. you could save a lot of expenses.

       A full bath, using standard furnishings, I would guess will run between $3000.00 to $6000.00 a lot of that is running plumbing through the floors, that's why I asked if a half bath would work for you.

Answer 2

I'm assuming the garage is on a slab so to put the plumbing in you either have to bust up the concrete or put the room on a platform.  Both will cost.  I think it would be cheaper to use the rest of the garage for living space and convert some of the rest of the house to a larger bathroom.

Answer 3

Coloured glass bricks make fantastic windows for barthrooms.I have seen them in green and they are great.They let alot of light in but you cannot see though them much at all.If you doing a green barthroom theses is what you need.The glass bricks may come in different colours.They would great in blue or purple.

Answer 4

I agree in part, with answer 1, but it might help you get more clear answers if we knew the general construction of the house, and any access you might already have to waste/vent plumbing.

   In a usual sense a bathroom could cost $3000 plus, even to rough in.