When I'm house-hunting and looking at the bathroom, I want to see...

frivolous_fay

It's the hot water tank, sadly it takes up about a square metre out of the room.

seven-day-weekend

For most of the 30+ years we have owned it, our house in the UK has only had a bath. It only has one bathroom. We put an over-the-bath shower in when we left to live in Spain for our son and the lodgers to use.

Our house in Spain has only a shower, although it has two bathrooms. There is no space for a bath. I don't particularly mind this, but my husband misses his bath, as he says you can't read in the shower (although our son says he's managed it :eek: ).

So for me, although it wouldn't put me off buying the house either way, ideally I'd like a bath AND a shower (not necessarily in the same room, if you have more than one bathroom).

And a bath is far more practical with children, so I think anyone with children will want a house with a bath.

frivolous_fay

roswell wrote:

space .. sorry its not an option at the top, Really if its only your bathroom you are worried about most new purchasers will get a new one in that fits there tastes / needs. If you dont have space to swing a cat thsi will probably put them off more.

It's not so much the lack of space as the awkward shape... ie. stupid sloping wall I'd say the room's 2m square, with another metre sq between the door and the airing cupboard.

I saw a tiny bathroom at the weekend in the renovation property I looked at, and that was far, far worse.

lynzpower

I never have baths, but we use ours for washing the dog, net curtains, etc, I would definately want a bath

I cant fathom your layout - bit early for me, but I would say, dont spend a fortune, basic of the basic WHITE suite, and clean white tiles. Have some "accent" colour tiles & mat. If needed buy some new taps. Most important thing is that is sparkling clean.

I have to say when I sold my flat every one oooohed and aaaahed over my shower. It was one of these numbers ran off the taps. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8321444.htm it was only 40 quid!! Incidentally they have some for £15 ATM off robert dyas and they are a piece of cake to fit if you have taps with a mixer tube running off ( sorry not technical you know what I mean!)
bathstore.com have some good prices as well

Dont forget your quidco cashback!

RHemmings

frivolous_fay wrote:

We're preparing our flat for sale and we can't deny that the bathroom MUST be done (hopefully on a budget)

We're short on space, and not having a bath would make planning things much easier. Any comments appreciated! :T

For what my opinion is worth, I would rather see a bathroom that needs doing because it's old, than a bathroom which has been revamped in a way that I don't like. So if you think it must be done, then it should be done properly.

JennyW_2

frivolous_fay wrote:

We're preparing our flat for sale and we can't deny that the bathroom MUST be done (hopefully on a budget)

We're short on space, and not having a bath would make planning things much easier. Any comments appreciated! :T

I would want to see a bath too. IF space is that tricky, why not purchase a showerbath?

Can never understand why people rip baths out and only have showers

Generali

Personally I'd rather have a good shower than a rubbish bath. Think I'm in a minority though.

susieb

I would like a bath, but the most important thing to me would be that the room was sparkling clean

frivolous_fay

Thanks for the thoughts... chatted to my friend today. I'm going to bring in some dimensions, she'll do a plan and we'll sketch out the various ideas, then run them past her tame plumber to see which he thinks is best. I fear moving the toilet may be prohibitively expensive (we suspect it's positioned directly over the soil stack) so we may just go with putting a bath slightly further from the wall with a shower above, then just moving the sink to the opposite wall to avoid cramming it aall in along one side.

The problem with putting a shower over the bath in the existing position is that at head height, the wall will lean nigh on halfway across the shower area.

We'll definitely go white and shiny, frankly I don't think we can make things any worse (light avocado, dingy, discoloured bath with fag burns on it - not ours! - and window putty instead of sealant along one edge... tiles falling off) I've taken everyone's comments on board! :T

Gorgeous_George

Doozergirl wrote:

(too much Baileys, giggle)

Do you make your own Baileys? I have a good recipe!



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