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MillardFillmore t1_ja8st41 wrote

Reply to comment by pixel_of_moral_decay in Midtown Owners Hedge on Costly Office-to-Home Conversions by psychothumbs

> It’s not a difficult engineering task.

No, it very much is difficult and expensive. Consider how many toilets and sinks are on a floor and where they are located in an office building. There's probably a sink in the break room and a row or two of toilets, separated by gender. Now split up the floor plan into 6 apartments. Where do you set up (at least) 5 extra bathrooms and kitchens without completely ripping up the floors, which are probably concrete? Can the building handle that much water and and sewage out?

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_ja8tfxi wrote

This is done all the time. You just use the walls so you don’t violate the floor plate.

Wall mounted toilets are common in retrofits. They’re so common most Home Depot’s have them in stock. It’s not even a special order kinda thing. I can walk out with one in an hour.

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