Getting rid of the bathtub

pieroabcd

DullGreyGuy said:

99.9% of the time I am a shower person, if I have 1 bath a year its probably about average. However as soon as I moved into a place that only had showers then I wanted a bath all the time and missed its absence. Naturally when we moved on and returned to the status quo of a shower over the bath then didn't want to have a bath again. 

I can see that with those with families then a bath is a more important thing 

You seem to be saying it's bath or shower... why not the shower over the bath model? Its a bit of a compromise on the shower element but not massively 

My bathtub is detached from the wall, so water would spill everywhere behind the tub.
Also, there's still the problem of the inherent insecurity of tubs: I've fallen 3 or 4 times.

ThisIsWeird

pieroabcd said:

No plan to have children.
As for selling the house, definitely not in the near future and only if I can't afford it anymore. It's a blissful house so far.

Maybe I can have the tub moved to the shed and restored if the the need  to sell arises.

This is a 'blissful' house that you intend to live in for as long as possible? Lucky you!

In which case, arrange the house to suit you.

Remove the bath - and sell it. Don't store it - that would be nuts. Have a few nichts oot on the proceeds.

Perhaps take a photo beforehand just to show how easily a bath fits in?

But, if there's any chance you'll wish/need to move within the next X years, then having one bath in three 'bathrooms' is surely sensible?

The main reason has been outlined before - for bathing kids. Then there's the 'luxury' element of relaxing with a beeg soak. And finally there's the very realistic risk of 'baths' coming back into fashion. Let's face it - pretty much everything else 'housie' has.

If you have two other showers available to you, why don't you just use them, and leave this poor innocent bath alone? If it's a 'fancy' bath - and it sounds as tho' it is - then leave it as an enticement to the ultimate new owners.

Bigphil1474

We've been looking at houses to buy for a few months now. Houses without baths don't make it on the shortlist unless the price would allow us to fit one. If you aren't planning on selling, no issue though.

pieroabcd

There's only one other shower on the house.
The loo at the ground floor doesn't have a windows. A shower would create a lot of condensation. There's a 'fake" fan (it's impossible that it has a vent outside because behind it there are the kitchen cupboards, unless they found a way to add a twisted conduit going to the wall separating my kitchen extension and the neighbours, where there's a gap of 20cm). 

sisisimoore

People want a bathtub for children as well. 

Mutton_Geoff

I've done loads of house renovations. I would only ever remove a bath from an ensuite (and have done so) or from a flat (at a push). Estate agents will tell you anyone with young children will not entertain buying a house without a bathtub but if you're there long term, take it out then replace it later for resale.

jennifernil

If you take it out and put in a large shower, I would plan it so that the shower could easily be replaced with a bath with shower over.   A family with children would 100% need a bath somewhere.

Our daughter bought a house 5 years back, it had 3 en suite shower rooms plus another off the hall.  The first thing she did was remove the second basin from her large en suite to make room for a freestanding bath, and later replaced a second en suite to have a bath with shower over.  She has 2 little ones, age 2 and 5, so at least one bath was essential.

We have been going in the other direction, our house was built 35 years back with all 3 bathrooms having a bath with shower over, but climbing in and out was becoming a problem in our 70s, so we  have refitted 2 with  walk in showers.   The main bathroom will stay with a bath with shower over as this is a good size family house.

Cactus_Flowers

Before buying a place, I struck one flat off the short list because it didn't have a bath . . . . but specifically, it was because the bathroom looked newly renovated, and if that 'new bathroom cost' was included in the flat price then I wanted a bath included. If it hadn't been a new bathroom and so I didn't feel I was wasting money, I would have bought and just changed it around myself.

So basically, as you say you're not planning on selling I think you should do whatever you like

Jonboy_1984

My partner is a bath worshipper and regularly has that prune look from spending hours in a very warm bath. 

When we looked last year it wasn’t the lack of a bath that was the problem but that the space is deceptive and they couldn’t visualise how a new tub would fit into the renovated spaces, Particularly those with wet room type showers with handles and curtains round them.

twopenny

I need a bath for aches and pains!  But as long as it was reasonably easy to replace a shower with a bath  thats fine.

As your looking at adult lodgers a nice walk in shower would be fine.
My neighbour and my house are identical in shape. She has a long walk in shower in the bath space - i have a bath with a mixer tap shower.

We both also have walk in showers in en suite also.

As for safety, I have two friends who've broken legs slipping in the shower, so far none have had accidents in the bath.