Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

I quite liked the look of this bath which is 1800x820 but I would want to put it touching walls on 3 sides. (I don't know what that tap is all about though?!)



I do want a bath and DW wants a shower so may be we will have to just go for a nice bath with a screen and shower over. If you go for an L (or P) shaped bath don't you end up with a much higher volume bath which in the end must cost in terms of hot water? If you have a link to an L bath I would be interested to see one.

Edit: This one has a capacity of 190l (normal 1700x750 bath seems to be about 140-150l) and weighs in at a cool 150kg - dread to think what it would weigh full of water and 2 people...

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I do want a bath and DW wants a shower so may be we will have to just go for a nice bath with a screen and shower over. If you go for an L (or P) shaped bath don't you end up with a much higher volume bath which in the end must cost in terms of hot water? If you have a llink to an L bath I would be interested to see one.

Problem is by the time you've filled that bath there will be no hot water left for DW's shower. In fact by the time that bath is filled DW will have gone to bed and given up waiting. Not only to big baths take a lot of hot water so cost more, but they take an age to fill.

GDB2222

We had an ideal Standard bath that was double-ended but not much bigger than a normal one. It's all showers now. Can't remember when I was last in a bath.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

I am sorry to be obtuse. I can see that you can enjoy a bit of gardening/growing things as a hobby, but that's possible in a large garden, and you don't need a farm for that. I guess, my question comes down to this: Why don't you share nearly all your land with the local farmer?

I'm wondering why people would go out and do this sort of thing in all weathers as a hobby?

What lir said.

Yes, we do let the farmer rent the majority of the land, because he pays us in useful stuff. However, we still need to do a bit of the maintenance, and there's an acre or two left which isn't accessible to machinery, or has our chooks on it.

The reason I've chosen an active, outdoor life, is that it's more likely to keep me fit and free from the nasties that befall people of my age who become sedentary. I'm not the type who finds it 'fun' visiting a gym, so I wouldn't.

I agree that a [STRIKE]large[/STRIKE] very large garden is enough for most people who want to be self-sufficientish, so I think it likely that we'll eventually downsize when I'm 65, or thereabouts. My DW has more physical difficulties than I do, despite being considerably younger, so we'll just see how it goes. For now, this is what we dreamed of doing, and we've not been disappointed.

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

:wave:
I can't remember saying 'letting go'' or what it was about ......what was I talking about last night?

I think you were telling that B Blank bloke to stop dwelling on things in his past, and to get on with enjoying the present instead. He seems very fixated on injustice.

Anyway, good advice, but we can't look back at now it, 'cos Miss K or someone has closed the thread.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

This is the bathroom I was trying to describe. If you look in the mirror in the picture you can see what is on the near wall.

http://img228.imageshack.us/i/rise12.jpg/

I like that. My first requirment for a bath room is ''easy to clean''. Lots of nooks and crannies add time on to a clean, but that looks good.

For me, a freestanding bath, as opposed to normal bath with taps in the middle, is for a bigger uncluttered bathroom. There is no point squeezing a bath like that in michaels...it will be hard to clean around and every second day one of you will be on your knees reaching round with a cleaning cloth, or in the bath leaning over, not able to get to the annoying bit in the middle at the back. For putting wher you are putting a bath IMO a built in bath/unit is going to be a better solution. Gaps left by any free standing bath will look wrong and cluttered and be hard to maintain.

misskool

I prefer lots of space in my bathroom so would have just skipped the bath, and put a large shower along the bit of the three corners and the toilet where the wet room will be and a double basin with workspace. That would put the makeup and stuff in the bathroom and remove some stuff from the bedroom. But then I've only had one bath in the last ....err....3.5 years.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I quite liked the look of this bath which is 1800x820 but I would want to put it touching walls on 3 sides. (I don't know what that tap is all about though?!)

That is not a tap. It is a faux petrol pump. :rotfl:

I like the clean lines of the stuff you are choosing, michaels, but I agree with the others that squeezing a free standing bath into a small space so it touches three walls is going to be a nightmare to clean and will therefore never look as good as it does when you first install it.

ETA Also, people with children should never install a bath without an overflow. :eek:

lostinrates

I like a bath, after a long day in the garden, and a shared bath even more so. A shared shower is nice, but less relaxed. And water gets in the glasses of wine.

I personally don't get the double sink thing. If I'm sharing a bathroom in an ensuite with someone we're close enough I don't mind using the same sink as them to brush my teeth. And its twice the taps and plug holes to clean!

I do like the bath michaels has show, but I think there is a reason its shown with no taps in the advertising: and that's because its beautiful simplicity is going to be cluttered with any tap. The free standing tap I also like, but in a small bathroom....its an added complication.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

We're not entering the scarecrow competiton because we couldn't agree what to make them wear and do for the appointed theme.

Ours made it onto the front page of the local paper one year.

Spiderman. We stuffed DS's costume and attached him to the wall.