Opinons on bathroom layout

[nfk]

I am looking for ideas for how to finish out my garage bathroom. All the plumbing is roughed in the floor. I have added a picture to make it easier to explain. right now my toilet drain is 12" from the center of the drain to the stem wall of the garage. I was originally planning to build a 2x4 wall around the inside of the stem wall so my bathroom wall would be sheet rock all the way to the floor and have all my plumbing in that wall. With the toilet drain 12" from the wall I wont have room for this. Should I just leave the stem wall as my interior of the bathroom and sheet rock up from there and leave all the plumbing exposed? I am also concerned that if I were to put my plumbing inside the wall it could possibly freeze next to the concrete stem wall. If the plumbing were exposed on the interior of the bathroom this might not be an issue. Another option I though about was extending my sheet rock down to the floor and just gluing it to the stem wall. What are you thought and ideas? Thanks.

 

[Clik]

Toilets come in different offsets called "rough". There are also offset flanges. But I wouldn't stud it out with 2X4"s and sheet rock. I did that in my basement and it really shrunk the room. If that's a floor drain I see, why not tile the wall and be able to hose the bathroom down?

 

[nfk]

The drain in the floor you see is for the toilet.

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[nfk]

I also had the idea of using Styrofoam insulation on the stem wall and attaching the sheet rock to that to provide a little insulation value.

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[Chaz]

Get a toilet with a 10 inch offset. then fir out your wall with 2x2's...... Cut out the back of the rock where it passes the 2" drain

 

[nfk]

Chaz, are you thinking I should then leave the water line in the wall or bring it to the inside of the bathroom?


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[larry4406]

Use a 1.5 inch offset flange and a 10" offset toilet. This will net your 3.5" additional space behind toilet tank compared to current situation. Then cheat your wall slightly and your done.

Or bust up the slab, move the ground works, patch the concrete, hide the patch under a finished floor. Happens all the time in new construction.

 

[W_A_Watson_II]

If you add the additional wall from the stem wall up. Using either sheet rock or wood panel to keep the wall flush with the concrete. Then line the wall, ceiling to floor with the Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) panels and use the plastic wood as a base board and caulk to make the room easier to wash down and keep clean. It will also provide the ability to add additional insulation and help keep everything from freezing while letting you put the water lines in the wall.

 

[1SlowFormula]

I like the idea of just tiling the floor and wall, at least up as high as the stem wall, as was mentioned by somone earlier. My garage bathroom isn't in a section with a stem wall but I am planning on tiling it just for the ease of cleaning, greasy or messy marks on painted drywall is much harder to clean than tile...