Getting rid of the bathtub

crankup

We removed the bath to have a shower, we did opt for a high end one and had the full room done nicely.
Sold no problem 5yrs later, no query from any viewer, I remember buyer remarked it was nice to see a decent one and not a diy barn special covered in sealant :-D
There's no right or wrong, it really depends.  Buying a tub and taps isnt much if it needs changing.  Depends on the rest of the house. Ultimately if a house is well presented and clearly not bodged in all aspects then one can buy with confidence and change anything when it suits the desire.

Emmia

We have a really good shower over the bath, and a walk-in shower with an equally good shower - best of both worlds

jonnydeppiwish!

pieroabcd said:

Hi,
in my home I have 3 bathrooms. In one of them there's a bathtub that I've hated with all myself since I first saw it.
It's a well-behaved bathtub, shining new because I'm sure that nobody ever used it in the last 6 years, except to wash the tub itself :-) . I've seen an identical one for sale at B&Q for 1k.
When I bought the house I had already sent it an eviction notice, planning to replace it with a large shower almost as soon as moved in, but a lot of people told me "noooo!!! you will devalue your house!!".
Not surprisingly all the potential lodgers that I'm viewing tell me that they want the bathroom with the shower, that I want for myself.

Think also how much easier it is to fall from a bathub than from a shower.

So the question is: have someone really experienced a loss of value of the house  or someone pulling  back just because none of the bathrooms had the tub?

We don’t have one, a load of EA have said it doesn’t make a difference to price. A few might get out off but not a significant number

Ganga

twopenny said:

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.

You do know that anti slip shower trays are available ? we have one and i have tried to see if it is possible to slip as my wife is like Bambi on ice in the wrong conditions  but it is perfect.
We took out the only bath in the house and replaced with a walk in shower as we both in our 70,s plus we have been in this house for over 30 years ,our next move will be in a wooden box 
With regards to selling the house when we pop our clogs our son ,who will inherit the house said dont worry mam you will not be here to worry about it,

SadieO

We're having our (only) bathroom renovated next year and are planning to remove the bath and replace it with a walk-in shower of the same footprint. We literally never use the bath and having a fab shower will be a lovely luxury every day. As well as just preferring showers in general, I have arthritis and find the blast of a nice hot shower more soothing than just sitting in water. 

We are planning to live here a long time and so want to have the house how we want it, not how a hypothetical future buyer might want it. Plus, a lot of people want to change the bathroom to their own taste when they buy a new house, and/or such buyer might also be anti- bath as we are! If we come to sell and find out that not having a bath really is a dealbreaker then we'll either get one put back in, or knock a few grand off to allow the buyer to. But in the meantime we want our house to suit us! 

pieroabcd

Actually I feel like I bought and fixed the house for someone else