Can Split One Bathroom Into Two?

[josg 0]

Hey,

I have purchased a small unit private freehold apartment on 5th floor. Total areas 570 sqft. Two bed room and one bathroom. The bathroom is located in between the bedrooms with access door from both rooms.

Now is it allowed and possible to split the existing bathroom into two - ie; dividing it with a wall, add in extra toilet, basin, and shower area???

Thank you!

[casa 0]

Hey,

I have purchased a small unit private freehold apartment on 5th floor. Total areas 570 sqft. Two bed room and one bathroom. The bathroom is located in between the bedrooms with access door from both rooms.

Now is it allowed and possible to split the existing bathroom into two - ie; dividing it with a wall, add in extra toilet, basin, and shower area???

Thank you!

I don't think so as it involved of piping and waterproofing

just my tot maybe u can go check it out

happy reno

[Kopicio 0]

I don't think it's possible. For my current unit I tried to only shift the position of the toilet bowl and was advised that this would mean having to re-run the sewerage pipes.

[Andreja 0]

Hey,

I have purchased a small unit private freehold apartment on 5th floor. Total areas 570 sqft. Two bed room and one bathroom. The bathroom is located in between the bedrooms with access door from both rooms.

Now is it allowed and possible to split the existing bathroom into two - ie; dividing it with a wall, add in extra toilet, basin, and shower area???

Thank you!

Possible - probably yes, depends of your floor plan and if you have enough space in existing bathroom.

Allowed - probably not, like other forumers already said, cause of piping and waterproofing.

We have a condo unit with huge master bathroom (bathtub, separate shower area, double basin, toilet) and, since already there are enough space, we wanted to add bidet and connected it to bathtub drainage canal. MA didn't allowed us to do it cause below every item in the bathroom are certificated waterproofing by developer and they (MA) cannot be sure if our contractor will do everything right. Meaning, in future possible leaking of pipes/drainage of that bidet and by that maybe damage of unit below us, owner of that unit will ask for repair MA which they cannot cover cause this will not be original work from developer. Actually, we bought the unit from first owner and enter in before final TOP, so MA (who was by developer) didn't want to allowed us to do such things cause of TOP when everything should be original by developer.

In that case, since we do not use bath at all and shower is quite enough for us, we decided to take bathtub out and at this place instal bidet. That work our MA allowed, but we needed do open Insurance policy of S$ 1,000,000 (yes, one milion dollars) to cover any problems to unit below us during our renovation (like leakage, or wall/ceiling structure cracks, or whatever else).......we just opened that policy and paid one month of instalment (which 3 years ago was S$ 600) and after work was done we closed the policy.

Since water pipes and drainage canal of our bidet are the same which were for previous bathtub and that area is waterproofed, there is no worry that in the future will be some leakage to unit below us.

Maybe now MA will allowed us to do whatever we want during the renovation, but for now we do not need it any more.

So, for any renovation of unit, the application must be approved by MA and usually they are not willing to allow any renovation like removing walls or other hard structure, and they are specially sensitive for renovation of bathrooms......

Anyway, you will need to ask your MA for work permit and give them the list of renovations, but be prepared not to expect to much of that your idea....... I think the big issue will be drainage canal of your new bathroom cause (I think) that it is going vertical thru all floors and bathrooms and possible problem will be how to connect your new toilet and other things to it.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Andreja