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

tealady

Shower for me. Water a constant temp, no sitting in my own dirt, easy to clean and easy to get in and out of.
Oh and great for those on water meters, very MSE

fionajbanana

I say shower.

My ex and I rented a place which had a bath and no shower and it took about 15 mins to heat the water up and then a further 15 mins to fill it to a reasonable level. So much so, I had a bath one day, and he the next! On the days where I didn't have a bath, I had a quick wash. 30 mins to wait to get into a bath was a joke. It was a good job the flat had water rates, not a water meter.

We did complain to the LA about the time it takes to run a bath and perhaps installing a shower and it was just like talking to a brick wall.

Now my criteria when I looked for places after that that the bathroom must contain a shower!

MoaningMyrtle

Bath please.

AlexMac

I once lost a sale as I'd fitted a shower only in the small single bathroom in the little house up the road which I bought as a family BTL (for the stepson and his cousin, the initial tenants, who preferred showers.) But of course they moved on, so when I came to sell, the strongest prospect, who happened to be Japanese, couldn't face the hassle of replacing it, so bought the identical house next door, for a £fewk more, despite that one being in much worse condition than my fully and recently renovated one (new roof, wiring,c/h, kitchen, carpets...). Grrr

Lou67

fionajbanana wrote: »

I say shower.

My ex and I rented a place which had a bath and no shower and it took about 15 mins to heat the water up and then a further 15 mins to fill it to a reasonable level. So much so, I had a bath one day, and he the next! On the days where I didn't have a bath, I had a quick wash. 30 mins to wait to get into a bath was a joke. It was a good job the flat had water rates, not a water meter.

We did complain to the LA about the time it takes to run a bath and perhaps installing a shower and it was just like talking to a brick wall.

Now my criteria when I looked for places after that that the bathroom must contain a shower!

I know what you mean. We have had a house with only a shower for nearly 3 years now, and I totally do not miss the bath! Our first flat together had only a bath, and it was a nuisance!!! Our next 2 homes had shower over bath, and we did like a bath occasionally, but like only once a week.

I really would hate to have only a bath, as it does take sometimes half an hour to heat up the water, and 15 minutes to fill the bath, and also, within five minutes, it starts to cool off, and can feel rather uncomfortable: I used to turn the shower to hot and run it into the bath to keep the water hot, as the hot water tank only held so much water!

I have felt like a bath about three times only in the three years we have not had one, but my hubby moans sometimes about not having one. It would be nice to have a choice to be fair, but he has said he would turn down social housing if there was no bath! And yet many of the social landlords do put just showers in these days. When I worked in social housing many years ago, we had a few people refusing offers for social housing because there was no bath! Cheap rent, long secure tenancy, new windows and doors and new kitchen and bathroom, and they turn it down because there is no bath!!! Only a shower...

I have told hubby that if we are offered social housing, and he says no because there's no bath, he can stay in the £650 a month private let we are in, with poor energy rating and high energy bills and no security, and I will move into the social housing home with half the rent and security for life (more or less.)