Convert Toilet to Urinal

[felixgogo]

In my garage I have a old victorian toilet which works better than the recently installed modern fittings elsewhere in the house.

However, this toilet is only used by the chaps, and only for standing up duties.

The toilet traps through the floor, and has a high mounted tank above.

What would be involved in converting this to a urinal? The main issue I can't see a solution for is converting the waste on the urinal to the 6" drain.

What do I need to look for?

Thanks

[Scrump]

Maybe something like this?
https://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine-drain-connecto...

[Andrew_S]

Don't your chaps ever do a number two?

[Aluminati]

Look for soil pipe adaptor, which should be 4”/110mm . Soil from house should be this size, not 6” ?

[BaldOldMan]

I can see me trying to sell that one to them wife - don’t worry dear, we’ll still come into the house for a dump.......

[littlebasher]

Andrew_S said:

Don't your chaps ever do a number two?

At my local Sainsburys, the urinal serves both functions

[hyphen]

Loos are better than urinals.

Leave one imo. This is a 1st world dilemma that doesn't been addressing.

[Andrew_S]

littlebasher said:

Andrew_S said:

Don't your chaps ever do a number two?

At my local Sainsburys, the urinal serves both functions

I thought that was the purpose of a bidet. Perhaps you should shop at Waitrose instead.

[dickymint]

[guindilias]

dickymint said:

I like your style, Dickymint. Very minimalist and space saving. I'm tempted to put one in the dining room. Some galvanised steel cladding on the walls in that corner, maybe bare wood floorboards or light grey slate slabs.
It's about time people stopped complaining about "Cultural appropriation", and realise that we are all the same inside. Taking a dump in the corner in the middle of a dinner party or cocktail do should NOT be a taboo. we need to break down these barriers that exist purely in our minds.

Now I need to buy one of those and set it into the kitchen floor or something.

[AndyAudi]

I’d never give up an old powerful flushing toilet, sometimes modern ones just ain’t up to the jobby.

The thought of having a quiet place of refuge too is mighty appealing

[dickymint]

Some of the decorated ones are worth a few bob.

[PositronicRay]

guindilias said:

dickymint said:

I like your style, Dickymint. Very minimalist and space saving. I'm tempted to put one in the dining room. Some galvanised steel cladding on the walls in that corner, maybe bare wood floorboards or light grey slate slabs.
It's about time people stopped complaining about "Cultural appropriation", and realise that we are all the same inside. Taking a dump in the corner in the middle of a dinner party or cocktail do should NOT be a taboo. we need to break down these barriers that exist purely in our minds.

Now I need to buy one of those and set it into the kitchen floor or something.

I stayed in a Greek holiday villa, a normal pan was plumbed in next to one of these. You could witness your excrement floating passed when flushed.

Best of both worlds.

[guindilias]

I was at an architectural salvage place a month or two ago and they had all sorts of toilets, just sitting outside in the yard - some of them looked very cool, some were awful (or just not my taste - old floral designs painted in blue all the way up the bowl, inside and out).
I was after an Edwardian style cut corner basin - he must have had 200 old basins there, I found exactly the one I wanted after about half an hour of looking.
Quite expensive and sought after going by Ebay and other architectural salvage places , I was expecting to pay £100 or so.
Picked it up and took it to the owner's "office" which was a battered old shed, and asked how much. "All the basins are £40, toilets are £60, high cisterns are £45 for cast iron, £35 for porcelain".
The fella is sitting on a gold mine, and he doesn't know it. Huge big manor house in a state of partial disrepair - he said he had just finished the large dining room, restoring it to exactly the way it was when it was built - cost him £20k JUST for the big dining room. Having coving made to order, ceiling décor, the lot.
Cast iron radiators just scattered around the yards, happily rusting away. I can rebuild them, to the way they were originally - I might take a trip down and see what he wants for a couple of the really nasty looking ones.

[LordLoveLength]

dickymint said:

Some of the decorated ones are worth a few bob.

I often decorate mine. Never knew I was adding value.

[cmvtec]

My flat has a proper full flusher and I am currently considering ways of replacing the bathroom suite without having to replace it.

Do not give up a good crapper.

One of my mates does have a urinal in his downstairs netty. It's in the location one would perhaps expect a shower cubicle to be in. Open the door, left for the standard latrine, basin directly in front of you and the urinal to the right. He did fit it when his missus was away with work. I happened to be visiting when she got home...

Edited by cmvtec on Thursday 18th July 08:40

[bristolbaron]

PositronicRay said:

I stayed in a Greek holiday villa, a normal pan was plumbed in next to one of these. You could witness your excrement floating passed when flushed.

Best of both worlds.

Austria and other places on the continent have toilets with inspection trays, so you can have a proper look around your recently baked loaf before it goes into the water. Building a little toilet paper boat for it to enter the water in isn’t essential, but definitely worthwhile!

[RC1807]

bristolbaron said:

Austria and other places on the continent have toilets with inspection trays, so you can have a proper look around your recently baked loaf before it goes into the water. Building a little toilet paper boat for it to enter the water in isn’t essential, but definitely worthwhile!

Yep, we had a rental house in Lux with the 'inspection shelves' on the stters .... meant you spent less time sat on the stter when your jobbies were on the 'shelf' and above water for the duration! The smell.... Oof!

[TwistingMyMelon]

Id worry about the smell, also how would you flush it, you dont want to waste water when you only use it twice a week, most urinals are designed for decent/high usage

I could be wrong

[Philplop]

It needn’t be such a big job. One of my favourite bars in Bangkok recently converted their toilet into a urinal: