Would having a nice shower and no bath put you off?

[GT03ROB]

No bath here either. When we bought the house a couple of years ago it didn't even register.

I actually can't remember the last time I had a bath.

We are in the process of refurbing an outbuilding & it will only have a shower, no bath.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

We want to do our bathroom at some point in the near future. I don't want a bath in it, just a big walk in shower but my wife seems pretty adamant that we need one. I've never been keen on baths and don't seem to have the time for them anyway, a shower is much quicker and more refreshing for me. I get the point about children, we have two young ones but they both don't mind showering and the new bathroom will last much longer than their early childhood.

Given the layout and size of our bathroom a potential compromise might be a Japanese style soaking tub.

[so called]

Our daughter developed Epilepsy at 16 years old.
My wife had the the bath in our daughters bathroom removed and a large shower unit fitted.
My wife had to explain to stupid me why!!!

2 years ago a colleague didn't turn up for work Monday morning, nor Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thursday morning the Manager called for our attention to tell us that Steve's parents had gone to check on him.
They found him drowned in the bath due to having a seizure.

I was gutted as he was a really great guy. Still feel sad today.
It certainly hit home as my daughter keeps pestering to have a bath refitted.

Edited by so called on Friday 25th June 09:45

[blueg33]

I would have said a decent shower is fine - except recently I have injured my calf and a hot bath makes the difference between being able to walk rather than hobble.

You also have a higher risk of mould from a shower, even if you have decent extractors and squeegees

The ladies in my life all like a bath

[smithyithy]

I like a bath now and then but it wouldn't put me off buying, especially now for a first home / buying for myself.

[Gompo]

While I see it as being house and lifestyle dependent, if I was considering buying a house without a bath; one of my priorities would be getting one fitted. I know many don't do/'get' baths but I'm pretty much the same with showers, growing up with a bath and no shower is perhaps the reason.

Are you close to making an offer PhilV? I hope you've managed to narrow things down a bit, I remember a few of your property threads over the last year or so.

[nikaiyo2]

A few years ago I refurbished 3 flats.

Took the baths out and replaced with shower trays in the baths place mainly because I think its a far more contemporary look especially in a small flat bathroom.

The feedback I got from my letting agents was blokes love it, no problem but almost all the women shown round said it was a hard no because of it! Seems likely from this thread!

I replaced my bath at home with a shower after this, mainly because I dont intend to move any time soon, and by the time I do the bathroom will likely be tired and in need of a re-fresh then in any case. If it was a flipper then I would think long and hard, or make sure the design I went for allowed for easy re-installation of a bath.

[Mr_Megalomaniac]

so called said:

Our daughter developed Epilepsy at 16 years old.
My wife had the the bath in our daughters bathroom removed and a large shower unit fitted.
My wife had to explain to stupid me why!!!

2 years ago a colleague didn't turn up for work Monday morning, nor Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thursday morning the Manager called for our attention to tell us that Steve's parents had gone to check on him.
They found him drowned in the bath due to having a seizure.

I was gutted as he was a really great guy. Still feel sad today.
It certainly hit home as my daughter keeps pestering to have a bath refitted.

Very sad to hear that.
I had a friend pass away at 19 for the same reason. Her boyfriend found her and has never been the same since.

[blueg33]

so called said:

Our daughter developed Epilepsy at 16 years old.
My wife had the the bath in our daughters bathroom removed and a large shower unit fitted.
My wife had to explain to stupid me why!!!

2 years ago a colleague didn't turn up for work Monday morning, nor Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thursday morning the Manager called for our attention to tell us that Steve's parents had gone to check on him.
They found him drowned in the bath due to having a seizure.

I was gutted as he was a really great guy. Still feel sad today.
It certainly hit home as my daughter keeps pestering to have a bath refitted.

Edited by so called on Friday 25th June 09:45

We build homes for people with disabilities, we had someone fall in the shower and die as a consequence, had he been in the bath he would have been fine.

Whilst these stories are sad, they are only reasons for or against in very specific circumstances.

[servantleader]

OP I've just moved into a Victorian maisonette and I'm removing the bath and replacing with a large shower. So for me, it wouldn't put me off!

[so called]

blueg33 said:

so called said:

Our daughter developed Epilepsy at 16 years old.
My wife had the the bath in our daughters bathroom removed and a large shower unit fitted.
My wife had to explain to stupid me why!!!

2 years ago a colleague didn't turn up for work Monday morning, nor Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thursday morning the Manager called for our attention to tell us that Steve's parents had gone to check on him.
They found him drowned in the bath due to having a seizure.

I was gutted as he was a really great guy. Still feel sad today.
It certainly hit home as my daughter keeps pestering to have a bath refitted.

Edited by so called on Friday 25th June 09:45

We build homes for people with disabilities, we had someone fall in the shower and die as a consequence, had he been in the bath he would have been fine.

Whilst these stories are sad, they are only reasons for or against in very specific circumstances.

Absolutely agree, we removed ours for a specific reason.
I did enjoy a bath occasionally to ease the old aches and pains but otherwise no issue.
I certainly wouldn't walk away from a nice house if there were no baths.

[PurpleTurtle]

Four pages in and nobody has mentioned a bath as being the most appropriate place to clean old motorcycle parts when the wife is out?!

This forum is going downhill!!

[Crumpet]

PurpleTurtle said:

Four pages in and nobody has mentioned a bath as being the most appropriate place to clean old motorcycle parts when the wife is out?!

This forum is going downhill!!

That’s because the best place is actually the dishwasher!

Anyway, I always hate checking into a hotel room and finding the shower is in the bath, just not pleasant at all. So I’m another who would happily take a house with just a shower.

[ambuletz]

from spring to autumn i pretty much have a cold bath every morning & evening. yes a cold shower works, but sometimes being fully submerged is better

[aeropilot]

Red9zero said:

It would put me off personally, mainly for resale reasons. However, my Mother and step Father recently sold their 3 bed house that they had removed the bath from and installed a huge big walk in shower. Apparently the lack of bath wasn't mentioned by the estate agents or anyone that went to view. It sold within a couple of weeks too.

Same when I sold my Mum's house after she passed away, some 6 years ago.
I's only had the bath taken out and a walk in shower fitted for her 3 months before, and likewise it wasn't even mentioned, during viewing and house sold within 4 days to a couple with a young family as well.

[LosingGrip]

Origin Unknown said:

Wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, would be for my wife.

Same here. I can count on one hand the amount of baths I’ve had in the last 15 years.

Girlfriend has three or four a week. I will lose that battle I think.

[Radec]

Went from wet room to installing a bath with overhead shower.
With little ones it makes it a lot easier to bath them and even shower them as water isn't going everywhere and they aren't running away.
Mrs likes taking baths as well.

As long as a potential house had space to put a bath in then it probably wouldn't deter me.

[Chrisgr31]

I suspect it is very property/person dependent. It was certainly a requirement of my wife to have a bath when we moved and her and daughter will have a bath several times a week. I enjoy a bath occasionally and have one probably every other month.

The hot water tank was removed by the previous owner and a shower cubicle fitted in its place, so we have a stand alone shower and a bath in the same room. The lack of a hot water cylinder means a combi boiler which causes other issues!

Not having a bath in a house would be a minus point, having one is a plus point - probably not a deal breaker but the price offered would reflect the lack of a bath.

The housing market is of course extremely complex, and you never know if you got the maximum possible for your house! I think it depends on your plans for the house, keeping it long term do you want, doing up and selling consider the target market.

[chris1roll]

It's your house and you ought to do what you want to it without worrying about it (within reason - dont remove all load bearing interior walls ) the next owners are likely to make their own changes at some point.

When we bought ours there was no bath, just a shower cubicle and a seat.
We ripped all that out and fitted a corner bath with a rainfall shower head over.
If we ever sold, people might not like our choice of tiles, have some weird aversion to a shower over a bath or whatever. I'm not going to worry about that, if they dont like it they can change it themselves, at the moment we're living here, it's our home, and it's what we want.

If you are flipping it, I'd stick a bath in personally.

[s p a c e m a n]

LosingGrip said:

Origin Unknown said:

Wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, would be for my wife.

Same here. I can count on one hand the amount of baths I’ve had in the last 15 years.

Girlfriend has three or four a week. I will lose that battle I think.

Doing this right now, discounted a place that was good in every other way because there wasn't room to fit a bath. They added a bedroom but made the bathroom a little smaller and turned it into a sort of wet room with a massive shower cubical, but the shape means a bath won't work in there.