Worried New Home Owner
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I need some help from a really creative mind. We just bought a new house, and I can't believe that we did not notice this: The powder room door hits the toilet bowl. If that isn't bad enough, it prevents the door from opening enough to admit my mothers wheelchair. The house was built in 2009 and has some special concrete slab foundation that I'm told prevents any foundation alteration, so I don't think we can move the toilet. the door is 27-1/4" wide. We have a Vortens toilet, but I don't know the model. As near as I can measure it, the bowl is very close to 16" wide. The narrowest toilets I have found is the Toto Promenade (14" bowl, but the tank is 15 1/2") and the Kohler K-3753 1.0 or 1.6 GPF Persuade Circ (14-3/16" wide all the way from the wall to the widest part of the bowl.) The Kohler would give me only 7/8" more, and it is beyond me to be able to figure out if this would give enough room to solve either problem. (I think the door will still wind up hitting these fixtures near the tank, but the door probably won't be opened that wide unless you're in a wheelchair.) I just can't measure accurately enough, or get my mind around the arc of the door, or the position of the door near the hinge. I'm just about frantic and don't know how to go about figuring this out. Do you have any ideas? All I can come up with is making the door an out swing (that is so unappealing to me), or pulling the toilet and getting templates of narrow toilets to test them out.
Kohler Persuade
Kohler Persuade
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