Would you buy a house that has two showers and no bath?

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I'd like to get rid of our bath and install a shower cubicle which would free up some much needed storage space in our small family bathroom.

No one in our household has had a bath in years and I feel a shower cubicle would work better for us (me and two adult DC).

The master bedroom already has a small en-suite shower room which DH uses.

But I'm concerned no bath could put people off buying when we sell up in a few years time (5+ years).

Would you be happy buying a house with no bath?

Firstly you should make your house work for the you not some hypothetical buyers in the unknown future. Maybe you'll lose a handful of potential buyers, but you only need one. But as regards space I think it's better have a larger shower area rather than extra storage.

How long you are in the shower, 5-10 minutes? That's fine to rinse yourself but it wont steam your body enough to loosen up the old skin.

You get soaked in the bath then scrub yourself in the shower? With either scrub or a mitten? How else do you get dead skin off?

Well you would be much less "juicy" if you regularly removed old dried skin and oil from your body. Also, probs good to get out from the bath to wee.

I agree with @Newusername2026

Make your house work for you now. A future buyer might be put off, or they might be happy to buy & replace the bath.

When we were planning on staying in our house for a max of 5 years, and in the boom years, we made a decision to do a fairly substantial remodelling of our downstairs area, combining kitchen & dining room, changing our windows and putting in a wrap around feature & extending upwards into the attic space, resulting in a lovely bright open plan area. So many people told us not to do it, that we wouldn’t get back the money we put in, it was a waste if we weren’t staying etc. The project was about 3/4 through when I found out I’d lost my job, my then H’s was at risk & I was pregnant with my second baby.

Subsequently my (abusive) marriage ended, leaving me solo parenting 3 DC, and money has been tight. I have never regretted doing the work, I never left the house, there’s a lot that needs doing but I’m glad every day of my bright, spacious kitchen / dining area.

I’d ideally want a bath for the dog but it wouldn’t be an absolute deal breaker for the perfect dog. I would end up cursing the previous owners for removing the bath everytime I had to wash the dog though 🤣

Your posts are odd.

I hate baths. I only liked them when I was pregnant.

I’m perfectly clean thanks to my showers every day.

I soak in hot bath with salts, then scrub my skin then shower. I do this regularly so I dont have a flaky skin issue.

Flannel is useless if your skin is not steamed up properly.

I feel its a cultural issue. I used to go to Korean baths regularly, so I adopted a very different way of washing. Its much more thorough with a lot more scrubbing, but I do find seeing dead skin coming off me quite satisfying ))

You are weirdly obsessed with ‘old skin’. What do you think humans are, snakes?

Of course dead skin comes off regardless how you clean yourself, once you do it properly.

So you never exfoliate? Or you think your face is somehow different to your body in this respect?

I did not realise there are so many people around who only ever rinse themselves a bit and think this is fine!

Family home a bath is a must

however if I was a buyer and there was room to add a bath, it wouldn’t necessarily be a deal breaker on the house

We have 2 baths with showers over. Dh and I have only used the showers for years now, but the 3 Gdcs always use one of the baths when they stay, which is pretty often. And dd1 invariably wants a good soak in the bath when she’s here.

5 years is a long time for you not to be getting maximum enjoyment out of your home. It wouldn’t put me off - it’s not hard to rip a shower out and put a bath in, you wouldn’t need to redo the whole bathroom and it would be extremely short sighted to rule a house just because of no bath

No it isn't.

Yes. We got rid of ours years ago as we never used it.

Er, I do. And exfoliating and having a shower works perfectly. Why wouldn’t it?

Batshit.

who is ‘only rinsing’ themselves? People wash themselves in showers. Properly. Arguably much more so than in a bath, sitting in a pool of dirty water.

We bought a house with two showers and put a bath in. Having said that, I know someone with a bath and they never use it so the guinea pig lives in there.

We've literally just moved into a house with no bath. It was a minor consideration (I do like to have a bath on the odd occasion, for instance if I'm ill) but it wasn't enough to put us off buying the house.

I suspect people with young children may be put off though, as a bath is more practical at that age, so you might be limiting your buyer demographic in the future.

Its not strange or weird. I have always preferred a shower, although a nice hot soak was enjoyable sometimes. Some 22 years ago I went hip deep in a bog while walking my dogs which trashed one knee, part trashed the other and finished off an old work related back injury. For a long time I couldn't even get down on the floor and back up again without severe pain. A really fabulous local private physio sorted me to a degree but getting into and out of a slippery bath is one risk too far. There is still a bath in the house and I keep coal in it
It has a clothes drying rack set up in it permanently and is a great place to dry delicates.
Yes I know about bath aids, can give chapter and verse on the cons of all of them.

what a strange and untrue thing to say.

With 2 young kids, no bath would definitely put me off but if the house otherwise ticked all my boxes, it wouldn't be a deal breaker.

7 bathrooms in my house. We’ve recently refurbed it and I kept one bath, purely for resale value.
I hate baths, haven’t had one in decades. I shower twice a day.

I’d far rather have two showers, I know my parents would too, but my daughter with a toddler needs at least one bath. Everyone’s different. Let your home suit your needs