Anyone have a portable bath?

[catshatsandchats]

I live in a housing association flat with a large walk in shower. Due to having chronic pain I’d like a bath, but housing association won’t put one in and I can’t afford to do it myself. I’ve seen portable baths on websites and wondered if anyone has one and how they find it, e.g for getting in and out.

I’ve got one for grandchildren but it’s not big enough for adults.

It’s from Temu local warehouse https://share.temu.com/uCCEzeeNsPB

got the siphon from Amazon

Presumably fill with the shower head and empty over the wet room drain.

If it had a bath installed before it'll hold the weight. If it didn't, I'd be worried about any flat designed without enough weight bearing capacity.

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i had this one - it was perfect

I don't know if it had a bath before.

Tbh even if it didn't, it really should be able to hold the weight of the water. However to put your mind at rest you could as you say check with the HA

Definitely need to check with housing association or landlords and leases re these baths. It's not just the weight issue , it's the risk of flooding too if your place is above other residents.

Yes good point- and depending when the wetroom was installed the drain may not be able to cope with the sudden rush of water either.....

We have Tubble (google it) inflatable bathtub that fits into our walk in shower. It's fantastic, going strong since 2018. Because it's inflatable it takes very little room when not in use. The sides are sturdy but not hard plastic so it's really comfy to lie in it. 100% recommend.

I’m going to order one for the garden in summer when it is very hot. It’s private, so unless Brian next door is on a ladder he won’t see it and if he is on a ladder I will sit completely still and pretend to be a figment of his imagination.

That looks good! Is it a standard walk in shower? How do you fill it? Isn't it a pain to inflate and deflate?

Hi please could you explain how you fill it? Also do you think it would be possible to put a lightweight chair inside, if the legs
Were rounded ? Basically wondering if I could use it so my mum could have a bath. .many thanks

Why? Most people have baths in bathrooms ?

I put the shower head in and unscrew so it’s just the hose.

not sure about the chair. She’d still face to step quite high to get in.

Great idea!

I had one of these in the exact same situation, bath had been taken out at some point by HA and a walk-in shower installed. We had a collapsible bath that fit exactly in the shower and pretty much left it there 24/7, I would just stand in it to shower though my husband did put it away (by collapsing and leaning against the wall in the shower furthest from the actual shower) on the rare occasion he chose not to have a bath. When we were buying a house, a bath was a must, but we've been unfortunately ruined for normal baths by said fold up bath as it was so much wider and deeoper than a standard bath, and the one we've got now is nothing in comparison.

On the drainage issue, the one we had had a hose attached to the plug hole, so we took the hair filter bit off our shower drain and stuck the end of the hose directly in the hole. When the shower curtain was closed you couldn't tell it was there. It was incredibly expensive to fill with the electric shower, however, which might be a concern. In our final months of living there I would just use one of those shower heads that you attach to a set of normal taps (my husband had one for quickly rinsing his hair in the sink) to fill the bath from the bathroom sink.

We had a Tubble for a while before our actual bath was installed. It's comfy! To drain it we used a submersible drainage pump by the same brand, not all that cheap but worth it because you don't have to position the bath in the shower cubicle or faff about. It was very fast and efficient.

@Gonefishingithink our shower enclosure is big enough for it, 900 x 1600. We fill it using the shower head and drain into the drain in the shower tray. With the tray and sliding door frame theres around an inch of a "lip" so a bit of water while draining isn't a problem.
There's a pump for inflating takes about 30 seconds.
Deflating, just squish down once dry.