Building Basement Bathroom Raised Floor

Things you ll need nails 3 4 inch osb or plywood sheets 4 x 8 silicone caulk circular saw jig saw subfloor adhesive.

Building basement bathroom raised floor.

The materials for the dwv system shown here cost about 250. Provide a thermal break i e insulation. Building basement bathroom is different from building the one you have in the ground floor. Keep moisture at bay.

Not be too high. The plumbing would be underneath the floor. Is this a viable and safe. Be able to dry out in the event of flooding.

Essential points to consider for basement bathroom. Now i ve cut up the concrete floor had a plumber run pipes re filled with bagged concrete and leveled the cutout with self leveling cement. This article will supply the know how. The raised drainage platform was a necessity because the main drain the big black one on the right in the first picture did not have a place where we could connect the bathroom drainage to the rest of the house s drainage.

Your basement bathroom is really a project within a project. You ll need help with holding the wood together as you start to secure it and you ll need someone to help lift the wall into place. If your basement floor is not level which most basement floors aren t building on the. There are some crucial points that you need to take into your consideration before building one as basement is located underneath the ground and for this reason it should be treated with extra care.

If you re building each section on the floor i highly recommend having someone with you. Plus i will tell you the 3 things. Provide a flat level surface for the finish flooring. Unlike above grade sub flooring basement sub floor has to do all of the usual things and more.

You ll be working on finishing your basement framing electrical and so on then one day you ll start on your bathroom and you won t come out for like a month and half. Plumbers labor rates vary a lot by region but a basement bathroom cost would run between 1 200 to 2 000 for a pro job similar to the one shown here. Building on the floor. So instead of breaking concrete we built the floor up to accommodate the plumbing.

There was no headroom. A contractor wants to build a raised floor for my bathroom basement that he is building for me instead of breaking the concrete.