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From Interpod’s experience, clients find having minimal number of floor penetrations makes a big difference to ease of install, once the bathrooms get to site.
Two separate floor wastes can be eliminated by using a single linear drain to take surface water from both inside and outside the shower area. Toilet suites should be designed as P-trap types through the bathroom wall into a service riser, and vanity wastes should also drain through the wall.
CHOOSE QUALITY FINISHES Matching the building specification is almost always achievable, however a standard range of fixtures will also be part of any good manufacturers package. At Interpod Offsite there is a full range to choose from, and plenty of options and advice to help you choose your own. For example: Interpod recommends steel door jambs due to a superior strength, quality and finish.
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Prefinished ceilings, such as Laminex Aquapanel are usually recommended for projects such as student accommodation as they are maintenance free for the end user, and they reduce rework on site (often experienced with plastering and painting.)
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GENERAL LAYOUT RECOMMENDATIONS
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LOW STUD WIDTH FOR MAXIMUM SPACE The wider the studs in the walls, the more room you take up out of the bathroom. And with a high density of bathrooms in the building, the more room you lose in the overall building. At Interpod, the team recommends a 64mm stud width as it maintains strength in the structure without taking up space in the room, and ultimately the building.
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For functional and aesthetic reasons, Interpod recommends designs to include cabinets, as opposed to exposed pipes and plumbing in the interior.
Bathroom pods need to be wheeled into position on a skid so allowing a clear access path for this in design stage is critical. The final clearance required can vary from design to design and should be discussed with your bathroom pod manufacturer.
THE BENEFITS OF STRIP DRAINS
While the team at Interpod Offsite will build bathrooms directly to the architect’s specifications, there “This information are a few things the team has SET-DOWNS OR THRESHOLDS is made up of excerpts learnt over the last few thousand In the past poorly engineered from Interpod’s bathrooms they’ve built. One prefabricated bathrooms meant “Designing for Bathroom is the benefits of using a strip that you had to take a big step up Pods” Manual. Contact drain as opposed to having into pod from the floor of the Interpod and request a number of floor wastes. room. Bathroom manufacturing your copy of the If the bathroom uses a has come a long way since full document. strip drain, you can often then. When bathrooms are have all the falls on a single designed and installed correctly plane. This means it eliminates with a quality supplier, the end result the process of screeding falls is that there is no visible difference and cutting tiles around floor wastes. between a bathroom built off or on site. It also means that can have the falls designed within the floor substrate, which eliminates ponding There are a couple of ways this is and pooling above the waterproofing, adding achieved. Builders can design a longevity to the service life of the bathroom. set-down into concrete slab for the Interpod offers proprietary strip drain bathroom base, or pods can be engioptions to provide a more functional neered to have a thin floor, meaning and aesthetically pleasing finish. you have a small threshold.
THE BUILDING DESIGN
With thresholds, designing the bathroom to have the doorway close to the drain will mean lower floor height near the door, which equates to smaller threshold height. It also allows easy access to shower and toilet for the bathroom’s end user. Depending on the sector, Interpod can offer a range of threshold options from stainless steel for projects such as student accommodation, to luxury stone for hotel or residential projects.
DESIGN FOR SIMPLE SITE WORKS Design for “side-load” It is best to design & program construction to include loading decks to unload bathroom pods as opposed to installing bathrooms as the floors go up.
Plan Sequencing Various works will need to be completed prior to the installation of bathroom pods. These include, but are not limited to: plastering, plumbing and fire services. Project and site managers need to ensure that the sequencing of works are planned to ease execution of works around pods prior to and after pod installation.
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SLAB FINISHES When positioning and installing bathroom pods, you will need some tolerance around penetration in the building’s slab. This eases positioning and location of the bathroom within the room. There is also the consideration of the slab itself. The less variation in the slab, the less preparation for floor finish outside the bathroom.
SERVICE RISERS With regards to the position of the building’s service risers, it is best to design the toilet and basin close to these. This will ease connection & reduce cost to onsite plumbing trades.
Following simple work instructions provided by Interpod will ensure zero damage to bathroom pods while unloading/craning, manoeuvring to respective rooms and installing. The work instructions are provided by Interpod along with the pod installation document package. Interpod’s friendly team will work along with the trades to formulate the most efficient pod installation methodology. Training will be provided to installers as part of the Interpod package.
Connections Pods will need to have hydraulic, sewer and electrical terminating points to ease connection to services in building.
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