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  • jen49
    jen49 Posts: 194 Forumite
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    robatwork said:
    Hannimal said:
    robatwork said:
     Did you wash them in the kitchen sink?

    I did occassionally when they were small enough - saved water and my back at the time

    #40 Save £1 a day for Christmas 2020 £109/366
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  • od244051
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    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/99914645#/
    Them handbags must get dusty on shelving like that...
  • Rambosmum said:
    Dandie89 said:
    4 bedroom detached house for sale in Coburg Road, Dorchester, DT1 (rightmove.co.uk) Street view alongside the property and spot the Google car.
    Odd place, no bathroom, just 2 shower rooms plus washbasins in upstairs bedrooms, also has tiny "annex". No TV in either living or dining rooms.
    I agree the shower on it's own is a bit odd but is it odd these days not to have a bath? My 4 bedroom 1910 house had a very small (4'6" x 8'6"') bathroom (converted from a box room in the 1930's) An extension left it with out a window. We didn't use the bath in 12 years so I took out the bath and installed a shower across the end. This leaves the house with 2 en-suite shower rooms upstairs and a toilet and basin downstairs. 

    Would people find this odd when viewing?

    PS - There are many more odd reasons my house could end up on this thread
    Yes we never use our bath, always have shower. But there seems to be a consensus that houses without a bath are more difficult to sell, although there seems little logic in this as many people prefer showers to a bath.
    Whilst I have a daily shower to clean myself I love a bath. I would be unlikely to buy a house without a bath, unless the bathroom was old and needed renovating anyway. I certainly wouldn't buy a house with a newly renovated bathroom and no  bath. Plus my kids don't like showers, so bath time because a nightmare. 
    I'm the same...shower in the morning but like a soak in the bath at nights.   Our house was 4-bed with very a small bathroom and separate toilet so we converted one of the bedrooms into a large bathroom and turned the original bathroom into a shower room.  This came in very handy when I fractured my ankle a couple of year ago...it meant I could sit down in the cubicle on a shower chair and have my plastered leg hanging out the door (which was a sight to behold).
  • I viewed this one back in July when I was house hunting. It's so over priced for what it is. For this price for a flat in this are, by a VERY BUSY main road with heavy traffic, it should be immaculate. The paint work was all over the place with dripping paint all over the staircase, paint over wallpaper and so on. Just a really shoddy job and you could tell you'd have to redecorate moving in. It was off market for a while so clearly someone was almost ready to go for it, but for this price the sellers are in la-la land. For reference, I bought a 3-bedroom house I viewed 30 minutes later for 15k more a 10 minute walk from there and closer to town. 

    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/81676165#/
  • Hannimal
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    edited 11 December 2020 at 12:46PM
    robatwork said:
    Hannimal said:
    robatwork said:
    There's a very good reason backed by sound logic.
    It's awkward, difficult, bordering on impossible to shower a baby, toddler or infant.  Hence the phrase "bath time, kids".
    Lack of bath instantly puts off anyone with a young family or planning one. 
    No it does not. It may put a lot of British-born British people off buying, sure, but in majority of the world not everyone has a bath tub, yet people have children and they are absolutely fine washing them, even when they're babies, toddlers or infants. What a very odd statement. 
    Well this is a British forum for (generally) British houses with the vast majority of posters being British  (Royston Vasey anyone?)

    If you think it's an odd statement because the "rest of the world" aren't used to baths, then that's nonsense on this forum. I notice nobody agreed with you. Do you have kids? Did you wash them in the kitchen sink?
    The statement was that it is bordering impossible to wash children without a bath tub. This is simply not true and I haven't ever seen people wash children in kitchen sinks. I am sure even British-born British people are capable of washing their children without a bathtub, even if the clear preference is to have a bath tub. Even British-born Britons manage to travel to places where not every house has a bathtub with their children. I am absolutely certain that part from you none of them would opt to not wash their children during that time.

    I wasn't saying house sales wouldn't be affected by not having a bath tub. I do think this is something many people consider which is why I wouldn't get rid of my bath tub even though I never use it and find it somewhat unsanitary to wash up in human broth. 

    I am also British despite not being British-born, your sweeping statement and "british forum for british people" rhetoric says more about you than anyone else. 
  • robatwork
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    Hannimal said:
    robatwork said:
    Hannimal said:
    robatwork said:
    There's a very good reason backed by sound logic.
    It's awkward, difficult, bordering on impossible to shower a baby, toddler or infant.  Hence the phrase "bath time, kids".
    Lack of bath instantly puts off anyone with a young family or planning one. 
    No it does not. It may put a lot of British-born British people off buying, sure, but in majority of the world not everyone has a bath tub, yet people have children and they are absolutely fine washing them, even when they're babies, toddlers or infants. What a very odd statement. 
    Well this is a British forum for (generally) British houses with the vast majority of posters being British  (Royston Vasey anyone?)

    If you think it's an odd statement because the "rest of the world" aren't used to baths, then that's nonsense on this forum. I notice nobody agreed with you. Do you have kids? Did you wash them in the kitchen sink?
    The statement was that it is bordering impossible to wash children without a bath tub. This is simply not true and I haven't ever seen people wash children in kitchen sinks. I am sure even British-born British people are capable of washing their children without a bathtub, even if the clear preference is to have a bath tub. Even British-born Britons manage to travel to places where not every house has a bathtub with their children. I am absolutely certain that part from you none of them would opt to not wash their children during that time.

    I wasn't saying house sales wouldn't be affected by not having a bath tub. I do think this is something many people consider which is why I wouldn't get rid of my bath tub even though I never use it and find it somewhat unsanitary to wash up in human broth. 

    I am also British despite not being British-born, your sweeping statement and "british forum for british people" rhetoric says more about you than anyone else. 

    That whoosh sound is the point going over your head, possibly in a bath full of Matey bubbles.

    I don't appreciate you quoting what you hoped I'd said to make some lame "ooh he's wacist" point rather than what I actually said. You put it in quotation marks too.  As you are obviously not capable of having a sensible debate without recourse to your very own "rhetoric", failed to get the sarcasm in my Royston Vasey reference, it wouldn't be fair nor interesting to partake in further discussion with you. 
  • ProDave
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    Hannimal said:
    I viewed this one back in July when I was house hunting. It's so over priced for what it is. For this price for a flat in this are, by a VERY BUSY main road with heavy traffic, it should be immaculate. The paint work was all over the place with dripping paint all over the staircase, paint over wallpaper and so on. Just a really shoddy job and you could tell you'd have to redecorate moving in. It was off market for a while so clearly someone was almost ready to go for it, but for this price the sellers are in la-la land. For reference, I bought a 3-bedroom house I viewed 30 minutes later for 15k more a 10 minute walk from there and closer to town. 

    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/81676165#/
    "This property has been removed by the agent"

  • I feel so sorry for this little house.  It could have been a really nice cosy 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house.  However, this is how it has been renovated:

    3 bedroom cottage for sale in Hull Road, Woodmansey, East Yorkshire, HU17 0TH, HU17 (rightmove.co.uk)

    - such generous sized corridors bedrooms
    - a ginormous en-suite bathroom
    - an open plan living room, dining room and kitchen which do not even match the look of the property.

    ...and my favorite, photoshopped furniture in most of the pictures!


    It has certainly had any character knocked out of it.
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