Does no bath affect value

Marmaduke123

Marvel1 wrote: »

Personally if you don't want a bath there just take it out, you are living there. I took mine out, and replaced with a shower, i got fed up climbing into the bath for a shower and taking up the space.

We are planning to do this too. A walk in shower will go exactly where the bath is now. We are not planning to move ever again so we are arranging the house to suit ourselves.

When the house is eventually sold it will be a really simple job to reinstate a bath in the same place. The bathroom probably will need another refurb by then anyway.

Slinky

We bought a 4 bed with only a single shower room. We plan to put a bath back in when we move in there ourselves. We've had to rent it out for a while prior to moving, it was definitely more difficult to find a tenant with it only having a shower, and we ended up accepting a tenant who we would rather not have had.


Depends on how long you intend to stay there but families who want 4 bedrooms will generally want a bath for the kids.

Alan2020

Well if you were selling say a 4 bed house and I was buying,
I would knock £10k off to rebuild the bathroom with a shower over bath and factor in another 5K for disruption and damages ( such as to carpet) by builders and another £5k for the hassle. So £20k off.

If this was a £1m + house I would knock off £40k off as bathroom rebuild will cost £20k.

For a £4m house I will knock off £150k off.

That’s what I will do if I was buying as having a shower only house is like having a kitchen with the double oven replaced with a double microwave. Most of the young single people and older people I know only use microwave meals so makes a lot of sense but not to others.

robatwork

Having done some house hunting lately and found lots of "improved" homes, I really noticed a huge increase in the number of downstairs shower rooms. Probably to give the shower you want (with the power of a bit more gravity) without losing the bathroom.

Otherwise the advice you need was complete by post #3

Skippy13

For me it would be a selling point as it's would save me having to get the bath taken out and replaced with a shower. We recently took our bath out and I'm much happier with a shower, I hated the bloody bath with its stupid taps on the side where I climbed in! I do appreciate I'm in a minority though and ours isn't a family home so slightly different.

If you're not planning on selling any time soon I would go ahead and do what you want - you're living with it.

Gilly665

Thank you for all your comments. On reflection and with the benefit of the answers, I will just leave the bath and put in a really good shower over the bath......hopefully the best of both worlds. Thanks everyone.

boliston

a bath (with decent shower over it) definitely makes sense if there is space - the main reason for shower only is in smaller properties where a bath would simply not fit in, such as small new build flats - the main reason to ditch a bath when one exists would be a person with limited mobility who has difficulty stepping into a bath

woofdonkey

We refurbed our first 2 bed terrace and replaced the shower cubicle with an extremely small bath and a shower over. It was a compromise that worked well since many people only really want baths for young children anyway.

Slinky

robatwork wrote: »

Having done some house hunting lately and found lots of "improved" homes, I really noticed a huge increase in the number of downstairs shower rooms. Probably to give the shower you want (with the power of a bit more gravity) without losing the bathroom.

Otherwise the advice you need was complete by post #3

We plan on putting a bath back in our upstairs shower room and creating a shower room downstairs. We don't intend moving again and are planning this in case we have mobility issues as we get older and can't get up the stairs. We could live on the ground floor with the space available.

MEM62

In my opinion, you would struggle to sell a four bed house with no bath. A buyer spending that much will want all the facilities.