What is a "roughed in" bathroom. The listing for our house mentioned a roughed in bathroom on our bottom floor (3 story town house). In the "bathroom," there is a large round drain pipe sticking up from where I assume the toilet would go. The bathroom is only big enough for 1/2 bath (toilet/sink). How can I tell if there are pipes for the toilet and sink?

[QUOTE=danimal]What is a "roughed in" bathroom. The listing for our house mentioned a roughed in bathroom on our bottom floor (3 story town house). In the "bathroom," there is a large round drain pipe sticking up from where I assume the toilet would go. The bathroom is only big enough for 1/2 bath (toilet/sink). How can I tell if there are pipes for the toilet and sink?[/QUOTE

A roughed in bath simply means that the plumber did the under ground drainage and left you to water pipe and finish it up. The big pipe picks up the toilet. There should be a smaller pipe either coming out of the floor where a wall will go or run up a wall and stubbed out. If you have a pipe coming out of the floor the pipe will have to be extended up 17 1/2" to the center of a 2 X 2 X1 1/2" sanitary tee and stubbed out to pick up a lavatory/vanity.
In addition there will have to be a vent run from the top of the tee out through the roof or run to the attic and revented back to a existing roof vent.
Good luck, Tom