Fun poll: If you had to settle for ONLY a bath or ONLY a shower

Kaz2904

I voted shower. We redid our bathroom nearly 8 years ago which involved moving a wall to make the bathroom big enough to get an adult in to wash the children. We took the opportunity to move the doorway and I planned out a fab layout with a space to put a shower 100 x 80cm. MiL and BiL got involved and said the room was not big enou for a shower. We ended up with a lovely roll top bath, a nice bathroom and no shower. DH refused to entertain ways of getting a shower over the bath.
After a 2 week holiday last year with a shower in our villa, DH decided to get the bathroom redone. He realised that all 4 of us could be washed dressed and in the car quicker than we could run a bath.
We do now have a shower (in the space which was created for it) and DH has agreed to listen to me when it comes to designing layouts for rooms!
The upshot is that I now have to dust the bath because no one ever uses it.

redskyatnight_2

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Shower. Neither OH nor I have had a bath in over 15 years, always have shower.

We always had both A shower is really quick and convenient though isn't it?

MrsE_2

LondonDreamer wrote: »

I'm female too, but would definitely choose a shower. But can't stand the tiny standalone units, a big walk-in shower about the size of a full bath would be nice.

I tend to use baths more on holiday, since I'm not paying for the hot water to fill it up. And I have the time spare to have a good ol' soak. :money:

We are twins seperated at birth!!!!
I could have wrote this word for word :-)

Lou67

propertyman wrote: »

If you have a bath, stick a rubber shower attachment on the taps.

Men should ensure there are baths, as the lady of the house will like to use it giving us much needed peace and quiet

No that wasn't an option!!! The poll was a bath ONLY or a shower ONLY. And putting a shower attachment was not allowed.

Thanks so much everyone. Almost 225 people voted ... And a shower was overwhelmingly the winner!!!

pinteresque

Shower over a bath. For a sit-down shower. Aka a bower.

Rain_Shadow

Shower!!!!

There are four of us, we all shower at least once a day. I doubt the bath is used ten times in a year.

Lou67

ZOWEE! What a lot of responses, You are all too kind! I am amazed that the percentages have stayed almost constant throughout... about two thirds for shower and one third for bath. Ta muchly folks.

jamie11

I have to vote for a shower as well, reason being that I find it difficult to haul myself out of a bath now, aging means losing upper body strength coupled with leg problems makes bathing difficult.

Having said that my Mrs never showers, only a bath is good enough for her,

Cissi

Like most people I ideally want both for the occasional luxury of a relaxing soak (we have 2 showers and a bath), but if I have to choose then it's no contest - shower, definitely! No way would I want to faff around with a bath every single day, and as someone else said I also always shower off after having a bath, to get rid of all the soap, sweat, dead skin etc, as I wouldn't feel clean otherwise! Only our youngest, 6, still prefers the bath, but he enjoys a good, hot rain forest shower too - and I don't think our parents would come to stay if they had to climb into a bath at their ages!

ultrarunner

I always have a shower each morning for convenience, but after a long day of gardening or a marathon I do appreciate a bath...