Bath or shower?

[Johnnybravo]

I was seriously considering a shower until I realised that a bath would be needed when we come to sell in the near future as it's a "family" home and you can't wash small children / babies in a shower

Oh yes you can. I used to get held at arms length and washed off with a hosepipe . I was a proper dirt magnet when I was knee high to a grasshopper

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I used to get held at arms length and washed off with a hosepipe

Outside and in Winter?

 

[Johnnybravo]

Outside and in Winter?

Don’t think our house was so luxurious as to have an indoor hosepipe
…Ever tried to get water out a hosepipe in winter?

 

[brightspark]

Friends daughter bought her first house a couple of years ago. One of the first things she did was have the shower ripped out and a bath fitted.

my daughter had the bath ripped out and i put a walk in shower in

 

[MattF]

 

[gaz1]

id rather fit a wet room and also fit a bath in there as well

the best of all worlds

 

[JMS1972]

That sums it up I think. Bearable.
A proper walk in shower is so much nicer and safer.
Best bet as people say is to ask the local estate agents.
I don't plan on living there - just want to do the place up nicely.
You can guarantee the housing market will collapse as soon as it is ready

You can always rent it for a year or two ...

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Doing up my semi derelict old house to sell.
3 bedroom semi. Rooms pretty big but bathroom tiny.
I would like to install a nice big shower like this - walk in.
But then it would mean no bath.

Is it hard to sell a house with no bath these days?

Or better off just doing the usual. Shower over the bath?



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If you only have room for one fit a shower bath

 

[keithski122]

3 bedroom house is a family house. P shape bath with shower. No bath would put me off buying a house even though I never have a bath.

 

[Morrisman]

id rather fit a wet room and also fit a bath in there as well

the best of all worlds

My parents had one of those stupid baths-with-a-door in fitted to their place, as they are both elderly. Never occurred to them that they could only actually run a hot bath once they were sat in it. Never a pleasant experience. They both blame each other for the decision......

So they just used it as an expensive shower cubicle.

Now my dad is hardly mobile the local care authority is looking at turning it into a plain wet room for him.

 

[badabec]

Go for the cheapest option, the new owners will only rip it out anyway.

 

[Ross365]

If you go with shower over bath, be sure to install a really good handle on the wall, which greatly helps oldies climbing out of the shower, or even the bath. I installed one which is about 12" high and about and inch diameter, and has a "knurled" surface. Each end has three screws holding it in place and a I made a major effort to get screws and fixings which did the job. It's been there for many years now and is still rock-solid. I can hold that, while exiting, absolutely confident it is secure. Non-slip adhesive tape on the floor of the bath is also good.

I think that at the back of my mind I have the story of my very elderly father finding himself unable to get himself out of the bath, not even with my mother's help, and they had to get my sister involved (I live much too far away to help).

 

[Morrisman]

If you go with shower over bath, be sure to install a really good handle on the wall, which greatly helps oldies climbing out of the shower, or even the bath. I installed one which is about 12" high and about and inch diameter, and has a "knurled" surface. Each end has three screws holding it in place and a I made a major effort to get screws and fixings which did the job. It's been there for many years now and is still rock-solid. I can hold that, while exiting, absolutely confident it is secure. Non-slip adhesive tape on the floor of the bath is also good.

I think that at the back of my mind I have the story of my very elderly father finding himself unable to get himself out of the bath, not even with my mother's help, and they had to get my sister involved (I live much too far away to help).

I put two of those in my dads shower last year, a couple in the downstairs toilet, and a couple more on his bedroom wall near his bed.
My own bathroom has some in, as the previous owner was in a wheelchair. I planned to remove them, but that’s tempting fate, I’m the wrong side of 60 myself.