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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Toilet drain sizes are much larger than sink drain sizes. Think 3-4" for WC versus 1.5-2" for sinks.
Toilets usually drain into a floor connection - or you can get a 'back-out' toilet that shoots to a drain in the wall but it all still have to work with gravity to remove the soiled water so the pipes still have to move downwards to the main soil stack.
I am guessing your sink doesn't have a 3-4" drain connection in the floor and is too high for the back-out toilet position.
The good news is that there is no fixture count change if you are simply swapping so no need for a permit. 
But it still sounds like a lot of plumbing work to get the proper sized piping in place so you may as well consider putting the two fixtures wherever works best.  Swapping positions isn't going to reduce the amount of plumbing labor.[/quote]

Alternatively, if you really want to save on space, consider an a wall hung WC. The toilet 'carrier' (i.e. what we think of as tank) is in the wall. I put one in my child's bathroom - it is a huge space saver and never had a problem with it. My architecture firm puts them in homes we design and we had them in our own office with never a problem. For our office, it was about 50 people for 4 bathrooms so those units got a lot of use. Wall hung is much easier to clean underfoot as it doesn't touch the floor.[/quote]

For wall hung carriers, Geberit is the best and works with many brands of toilets.[/quote]

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