Bath or Shower??

[anonymous-user]

Let's say you are viewing a new house, and it has a shower over the bath. Would it put you off, if it only had a shower enclosure and no bath in a four bed house??

[Timmy35]

Yes, because having no bath will make it harder to sell on afterwards, unless you factor in the cost of putting in a bath. Besides why would anyone build a 4 bed ( family ) home and not put a bath in it?

[vixen1700]

snowy slopes said:

Would it put you off, if it only had a shower enclosure and no bath in a four bed house??

Absolutely, you need to have the choice and you'd soon miss having a bath if you didn't actually have a bath, only a shower.


Does that make sense?

[marctwo]

Yes. Where would I bathe the kids?

[Penny-lope]

I'd love a bathroom with no bath...a decent size shower would do me just fine

[soad]

Depends if you have kids/missus.

Would expect to have both bath and shower as standard.
Even if I only use one of them.

Would be harder to sell too?

[Timmy35]

vixen1700 said:

Absolutely, you need to have the choice and you'd soon miss having a bath if you didn't actually have a bath, only a shower.


Does that make sense?

How would Ted Bundy have managed with only a shower in his house, answer me that.

[anonymous-user]

We do have a bath, but it needs replacing, and as we are on a water meter, and mrs slopes and her folks are fanatical about not using much water, my suggestion was to replace it with a walk in shower. This got shot down in flames for the reasons stated above, but as we dont have kids, and wont be having any, then a bath isnt essential, but i take the point about selling it on being difficult without a bath

Edited by snowy slopes on Thursday 28th July 13:55

[oOTomOo]

Timmy35 said:

Yes, because having no bath will make it harder to sell on afterwards, unless you factor in the cost of putting in a bath. Besides why would anyone build a 4 bed ( family ) home and not put a bath in it?

I never understand this, If you feel you need a bath and it doesn't have one, factor re-doing the bathroom in the cost of the house.

The real question is; is the bathroom a good size? could you put a bath in there if you wanted?
Is the house in the area you want. Is the house falling down.

A Bath, should in no way be a deal breaker.

Would you base your house buying decision on the fitted wardrobes that you dont like in the bedroom, or worse still, if the people who will potentially buy your house after you will like the fitted wadrobes?

[Timmy35]

snowy slopes said:

We do have a bath, but it needs replacing, and as we are on a water meter, and mrs slopes and her folks are fanatical about not using much water, my suggestion was to replace it with a walk in shower. This got shot down in flames for the resons stated above, but as we dont have kids, and wont be having any, then a bath isnt essential, but i take the point about selling it on being difficult without a bath

Basically that's it, when you sell chances are pretty high that people looking to buy a 4 bed house will be doing so as a family home, and they'll want a bath to wash the kids in.

You could get one of those p baths.

[The Nur]

Timmy35 said:

How would Ted Bundy have managed with only a shower in his house, answer me that.

You may have inadvertently devised a new angle with which to go about the banning of baths. They facilitate murderers!

[anonymous-user]

Timmy35 said:

snowy slopes said:

We do have a bath, but it needs replacing, and as we are on a water meter, and mrs slopes and her folks are fanatical about not using much water, my suggestion was to replace it with a walk in shower. This got shot down in flames for the resons stated above, but as we dont have kids, and wont be having any, then a bath isnt essential, but i take the point about selling it on being difficult without a bath

Basically that's it, when you sell chances are pretty high that people looking to buy a 4 bed house will be doing so as a family home, and they'll want a bath to wash the kids in.

You could get one of those p baths.

We could do, bu my reasoning behind the idea of replacing it with a shower, was mrs slopes griping about having to clean it, and the white colour being all marked in places, however, i do occasionally enjoy a soak in the bath, but my preference is usually second to their ideas. At least it solves that problem, just wonder if they'd go for a whirlpool bath??

[Timmy35]

snowy slopes said:

We could do, bu my reasoning behind the idea of replacing it with a shower, was mrs slopes griping about having to clean it, and the white colour being all marked in places, however, i do occasionally enjoy a soak in the bath, but my preference is usually second to their ideas. At least it solves that problem, just wonder if they'd go for a whirlpool bath??

Strikes me that rather than mucking about with the bathroom you need to wallop Mrs slopes across the behind for complaining about doing the house work and tell her to get on with it.

[anonymous-user]

Timmy35 said:

snowy slopes said:

We could do, bu my reasoning behind the idea of replacing it with a shower, was mrs slopes griping about having to clean it, and the white colour being all marked in places, however, i do occasionally enjoy a soak in the bath, but my preference is usually second to their ideas. At least it solves that problem, just wonder if they'd go for a whirlpool bath??

Strikes me that rather than mucking about with the bathroom you need to wallop Mrs slopes across the behind for complaining about doing the house work and tell her to get on with it.

I have suggested a different course of action when conversing with Mr C.Baby, away from ph, however, i suspect if i tried this particular course of action, it would result in a swift smack in the mouth, one of which my good friend Biker's Nemesis would be proud


So, i shall be perusing whirlpool baths this weekend then

[maxrider]

oOTomOo said:

I never understand this, If you feel you need a bath and it doesn't have one, factor re-doing the bathroom in the cost of the house.

Have you ever bought/sold a house or watched any of the many 'A Place in the Country Sun Makeover' type programmes?

A lot of people are so fking lazy they whinge about something as easily changable as decor, it would give them a seizure to think of having to refit a bathroom. Some seem to want to move in, plug the telly in and that's it!

So, bath and shower

[Timmy35]

snowy slopes said:

So, i shall be perusing whirlpool baths this weekend then

To be fair you could just proceed with the shower idea but just be aware that when it comes time to sell you'll need to price the house £3-4k cheaper than equivalent ones.

One final thougt, a decent power shower actually gets through ALOT of water, the figures touted about by water companies about how much water you save by showering rather than bathing are for a 5 min rinse down in a piss dribble shower, if your Missus is like most of them she'll be in there for half an hour on full blast and you'll have gone for a power shower with one of those great big bell end heads....in which case you might be dissapointed by how little ( if any ) water you save.

[Marf]

No bath, no buy.

Shower in the summer, bath in the winter.

[oOTomOo]

Timmy35 said:

just be aware that when it comes time to sell you'll need to price the house £3-4k cheaper than equivalent ones.

Does it not equate that when buying the house yourself it should be 3-4K cheaper than equivalent ones?

3-4k will put in a pretty reasonable bathroom.

I have bought a house, (not sold it yet) we've gutted everything, including putting a new bathroom and kitchen in. I just see it all as removable furniture.

You wanna focus more on the things you can't change, make sure they are right.

[J-Tuner]

Not having a bath is not an issue for me as i love showers. But as a family man now its vital for bathing the baby. The compromise is i have an electric shower over the bath. I guess if the property is deemed to be geared towards familes then a lack of bath it might be a sticking point.

In my old flat i had the same setup however i installed a top notch triton power shower. The unit at full flow emptied my immersion cylinder in 5/10 minutes. Cost me a fortune in immersion heating

[Timmy35]

J-Tuner said:

i installed a top notch triton power shower. The unit at full flow emptied my immersion cylinder in 5/10 minutes. Cost me a fortune in immersion heating

exactly my point in terms of 'water saving'.