The doorway and an adjacent panel temporarily placed in position to work out just how this would all go together in practice.
and taken out again to start creating the ducting for the air conditioning.
I didn't realise when I arranged the position of the air conditioner that "orientation" was all important!!!
The air intake is at the back of the unit on the right hand side (RHS) (when viewed from the back) and the outlet consists of three 60mm diam. circular ducts in the middle of the RH end.
On the side that I have it mounted the outlets point forward into the corner - you'd end up with a freezing loo but that's about it !
It also appears that this thing is specifically designed to be mounted at floor level to facilitate the return air inlet.
Altogether a not very convenient arrangement where I have it mounted - so here has been a lot of head scratching to make it all work.
The return air is on the wrong side of the bathroom wall so a large section has been cut out to create a duct opening.
This opening is then boxed in and a grill will be set into the front of it provide for the return air.
At the same time the outlet air is boxed in and directed into the space between the shelf above the air conditioner and the air conditioner box itself which forms a duct.
A slot was then cut up through the shelf into the hollow wall which has been left short on this side. A further duct will be built along the ceiling level to accommodate several directional outlets.
And the remainder of the wall can then be closed in.
This portion of the wall will be used to mount several gauges and switches for monitoring fresh water, grey water and black water tank storage levels and turning on and off hot water and air conditioning units.
The space above the air conditioner will also be turned into a deep narrow cupboard opening to the RHS.
On the other side the inlet ducting is cut off at an angle to provide a little more room for the toilet seat (currently out of the way to make it easier to work).
Then the back wall of the bathroom is paneled in leaving quite a large space for cupboards above the hot water system.
The cut out below that is for quite an ingenious arrangement that I saw somewhere else which is a pull out hand basin. It is out of the way while using the toilet but can then be pulled out to wash your hands.
Below that a doorway has yet to be cut to allow maintenance access to the hot water system.
All the wires for gauges and controls are currently hanging out the wrong side of the wall until all the correct openings can be cut on the opposite side.
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