Original lavatory in conversion.

[lostagain]

Has anyone kept the original lav./bathroom in the rear right in their conversion? The one in MCI 102D for example is all stainless steel and easy to clean. All you would need to do would be some kind of bowl with valve so you would not be looking down and smelling the contents. And install a shower somewhere else. The difficulty is figuring out a floor plan that does not involve walking through the bedroom to get to it... Smaller bedroom with seperate single beds? Bunk beds? I am thinking of a side isle right back to the lav. Or, if the bus is for a couple only, does it matter if the toilet is in the back?

[ChuckMC9]

I kept the _location_, but none of the original components. It's working splendidly, but it is definitely a singles or couples only setup. There's really nothing you can reuse without extreme hacking. Believe me, I considered trying to make something out of all that, but I just couldn't figure out a way.

Plus once you start removing some of that stainless, you will find that a gallon of bleach will be a very good thing to swab it all down with to remove the, ummm, "aroma." Once you pull a few sections off you'll see what I mean!

[Tony LEE]

Thought about it for a long time and decided that it was just too commercial (although I was going to overlay some of it with timber panelling to soften the effect) and technically impractical  to be bothered keeping it. Yes, it probably cost MCI $10k to build it in the first place but it really is a heap of junk in our situation.

Then regretted my decision as soon as it became apparent that they built that little room first and then built the bus around it.

Much better to separate living and sleeping quarters with the bathroom. Provides isolation when one awake and one sleeping and much easier to put all water and black and grey tanks in the rear bay.