Anyone ever relocated a toilet before?

We are renovating a 3rd story, top-floor apartment with a horribly configured bathroom. When you walk in the bathroom door, the room is long and narrow with the sink to the right inside the entry doorway, the bathtub beside the sink running the long way adjacent to this far-right wall connected on the right wall and back right corner, and a toilet in the far-left corner right beside the oddly-placed tub. There is nothing on the left-most wall. The bathtub and toilet placements make no sense, and the makeshift shower inside the bathtub is even less-desirable (it literally throws water at the toilet and forces you to stand right against the sink at the head of the tub, which seems dangerous).

We would like to relocate the toilet to the right-most wall beside the sink, and replace the bathtub with a walk-in shower that would take up the entire back wall where the tub and toilet used to be. This back wall is an outside wall with a window. This house was built in 192 0. With waste lines, is this a hefty undertaking? Has anyone else done this before? What did it cost and does this sound doable? Open to suggestions.

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resident2 | 7 years and 2 months ago

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It is best to keep the toilet as close to the main sewer stack as possible.
I always think to have a shower right in front of a window can create a difficult tiling water sealing issue.

Guest User | 7 years and 2 months ago

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We moved the commode in our last home, when we remodeled several years ago.
We swapped out the sink and commode locations (we needed double sink with [shower](https://cozzy.org/best-high-pressure-shower-head/)), and turned the right opening door to left opening door ( door stayed in same place).
If I recall the plumber charged around $1,000 for all the plumbing, which included pulling up the floor (2nd floor bath).
The plumber was concerned that there should be enough drop for the new commode waste pipe.

daveinbedstuy | 7 years and 3 months ago

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The ease of doing so will depend upon where you move the toilet with respect to the vent stack. That said, since fixtures are already on each side of the room it doesn’t seem like a big undertaking. First go to your roof and determine what wall the vent stack is in. Plus, if you can, figure out which way the floor joists run. Hopefully they weren’t butchered too much during the instal. But, generally, this is not a big deal to do. Technically, it requires permits.