Outside toilet that I need to remove

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Looking to remove the outside loo in our garden so that we can use the "room" (for want of a better word) that it is in for garden storage (mower, strimmer, hose blaa blaa) therefore freeing up valuable man shed space.

I was planning on just putting a slab over the hole in the floor and cementing it in place. Thoughts and suggestions.

And no, we're not keeping it just in case.
 
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mglover070588 said:
Won't removing a toilet from a house devalue it?
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Any indoor one i'd say yeah it would, but even if we had 5 ids, none of them would want to nip outside for a pee.

The wife did ask if we should keep it for when we have parties and stuff and my argument was simple "Would you or anyone we are going to invite over ever use the outside loo when there are still people in the garden at said party". The answer was an unequivocal no.
 
Handy tho if someones using the toilet and u need to go. So keep it id say unless its too far gone i.e never cleaned and is in a state.
 
I would have thought it quite useful for outside entertaining such as B.B.Q's where people, [especially the Male sex] just want a quick leak. Saves your guest from going inside with possibly dirty shoes to use upstairs loo and if done right could be made into quite a decent feature that people would actually want to use. :D

If you do decide to remove the W.C. Bowl just make sure that nothing drops down the pipe that could cause a blockage then cover with a paving slab set in a little sand/cement mortar mix. 3-1 is about right. [3 of sand 1 of cement].
 
djohn said:
I would have thought it quite useful for outside entertaining such as B.B.Q's where people, [especially the Male sex] just want a quick leak. Saves your guest from going inside with possibly dirty shoes to use upstairs loo and if done right could be made into quite a decent feature that people would actually want to use. :D
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Great when gardening but thats about it, by modern standards outside toilets really are grim
 
I personally would plug the pipe as it will be connected to your waste system, with no toilet in place there will be nothing to block the smell. You can then slab/concrete it over.
 
building regs constantly change n so i dont know the propper way to block the hole yet, (im studying at college plumbing -im 17...)i know from research some people just fill a bag with newspaper n block the hole that way, not sure how that would go, but i can probs tell u the smell will be foul for obvious reasons, so my advice would be get a plumber out to properly plug it, so no foul smeels get in l8r then n only then i would say to decorate the inside id keep note on what the plumber does tho, so u can share the info on how he did it with the rest of us :) gl hope he dont charge u an arm n a leg if u go for a plumber ;)
 
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