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October 27, 2009
Creating a Second Bathroom?
The great majority of brownstone listings that I'm finding in Park Slope (especially the rail-road type of apartments available in 6 or 8 unit brownstones that have 2 identical L/R units per floor) have only 1 bathroom, even the ones that are rather big and can accommodate 3 bedrooms. So I guess it may be rather difficult (or impossible) to create a second bathroom or half-bath, unless you own a duplex unit and you can put it directly below an existing bath. Is that so? What about buying a 1st Floor unit, with a non-occupied basement underneath, so that you have easy access to the pipes and you're not bothering/endangering anybody with the construction. Would that make it possible? Is there any specific type of brownstone/townhouse that would make it less difficult? How much would it cost, ballpark? Thanks a lot.
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you can easily construct a 2nd bathroom if you can share a wet wall with the existing bathroom..hire an architect or contractor or plumber as a consultant
Posted by: eman1234 at October 27, 2009 6:22 PM
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Posted by: johnchristine at October 28, 2009 6:01 AM
I found that the biggest consideration was trying to tie in to a main waste line. If you can do that, the rest is relatively easy - again if you can tap into the wet wall.
Posted by: Arkady at October 28, 2009 9:41 AM
Most coops and condos will not approve wet over dry (e.g. a bathroom over a bedroom), so make sure you find out what a particular board's view is before you buy.
Posted by: bohuma at October 28, 2009 12:53 PM
Thanks, guys.
Yeah, I think this may be an issue of wet-over-dry rather than of whether it is technically doable or not. You could literally install the second toilet rear-to-rear with the first, just at the other side of a wall, creating only 15 square feet of new wet floor (inc. sink) and the board would probably still reject it. Bummer!
Posted by: Mario M at October 28, 2009 1:42 PM
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