I’m considering tackling the project of replacing the downstairs toilet one of these weekends. I’ve done some basic plumbing before (including toilets), so I more-or-less know what I’m doing, and I have a car I can use to go buy it.
Is there anyone who would be interested in helping/collaborating on this?
Heya – I’m down to help if you’d like to still tackle this.
I have a bit of past experience with toilet repair and toilet swaps.
While I don’t hold any special desire to get into gross sewage plumbing, I also have a vested interest in a quality pooping experience at Noisebridge. 
With a bit of collaboration and coordination, I’m down to setup a plan to tackle this with 'ya.
How about we shoot for next Saturday? I’ll dm you on Slack.
We’ll work on this on April 2nd.
My rough TODO list for this project:
Pre-planning
Pre-swap shopping/tool gathering
Swap day
Post-swap
I had a look through the downstairs bathroom today and it seems it is in pretty good shape. There are already some grab bars and room to turn around.
The rough-in from wall looks like 16 inches, which gives us plenty of space.
The current floor-seat height looks to be 19 inches.
There is an existing GFCI outlet in the bathroom. In a pinch, we could potentially just run an extension to a future washlet without having to bust holes in the wall for more outlets.
More shelving would be good (and a replacement sink maybe!) And some signage to remind people not to store things in the bathroom or put extra things on the floor (I need all the room for the turning radius of my powerchair)
For hauling we can use Trash Warrior (usually sub-100 bucks for a small load of junk) And add more stuff to the pile. We could save recology Big Item Removal for a really big load of stuff.
@lizzard these are great suggestions for improvements.
I can’t speak for @jonah, but since we’re already planning some hardware store trips, it would make sense to me that we get some other gear at the same time.
I’m a bit new to Noisebridge again after a multi-year hiatus… what’s the right way to go about buying some hardware for improvements with Noisebridge monies?
Should we bring a project proposal to the Tuesday meeting?
The toilet replacement is complete! Thanks to Jof for the assist. The new ADA compliant toilet is new and nice, enjoy!
Thanks for proposing this project and being a good teammate @jonah!
It was really nice to have a specific project and plan, and a friend to stay accountable to showing up for. It feels great to finish a concrete thing.
Next step ideas that came up:
