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?

Of course I would if I loved the house enough. That said, I would rip one of the showers out and replace it with a lovely deep bath with overhead shower.

If this isn't your forever home I would keep a bath.

Your posts are very strange 😂

It’s perfectly possible to exfoliate, head to toe, in a shower - a light scrub is sufficient, you’re not trying to flay yourself, and people who don’t work down the mines and who wash on a regular basis do not develop an outer crust that requires steeping in hot water to ‘loosen [it] up’.

In Japanese bathing culture, all the hygiene and skincare is done under running water. A bath is meant for relaxation once you’re clean, not as a place for sloughing off old skin and sitting in a hot soup of it. Personally this is the only way bathing makes sense to me, but each to their own!

Have you seen a dermatologist regarding your skin problems? Are you aware that most of us don't have layers of old dead skin and block oil ducts that require sloughing off each time we shower or bath, flannels and towel do the job just well? 😄

David Icke was right....Lizards live among us

Personally no. I’d want a bath.

I wouldn't buy a house without a bath.

But... if you aren't looking to sell for 5+ years, then I wouldn't worry because personally if I was buying a house with a 5+ year old bathroom I'd be ripping it out anyway so it wouldn't make much difference whether it was a bath or shower.

I’d need a bath or the possibility of having one (re)installed.

We hesitated for far too long before removing the bath. Now we have a lovely double shower instead and it's so much better.

I never really got the "have a hot bath to warm up" thing because you can never get your whole self under the water so there's always a random foot or elbow sticking out into the freezing air. Then you have to climb out soaking wet and get cold again while you dry off. Much prefer to warm up under a heated throw these days. Same for applying heat to sore legs etc.

Fold out baby and toddler baths are less than fifty quid to buy and as a bonus you can take them camping.

I did buy a house without a bath (elderly couple owned it) but the whole house needed refurbishing, so we budgeted to get the bath put back in. I had a bath within six months but it was a long old wait!

I wouldn’t buy a house at full price (or top end of my budget) that didn’t have a bath, as I’d have to factor in the additional cost. I would either try to negotiate the price to factor this in, or pass on it for another house with a bath.

We did look at a house where the bathrooms and kitchen were recently refurbished but I HATED the tiles, the worktops, the units etc. We couldn’t justify ripping out brand new kitchens and bathrooms so we didn’t buy it.

I've just bought a house with a shower and no bath, for myself and my baby daughter. So, no!

It would totally put me off. As a family of four, someone has a bath most days. When the kids were little it was every day. I love my bath!

If the house was amazing, though, I would still look, and check if a bath could be installed and not too expensive.

Yes, I hate baths!

Me? - no. Lots of people I know who hate baths? - yes.

Yes. My house has a bath and two showers. I don’t use the bathtub for anything but washing the dog. It’s too uncomfortable.

We’d need a bath, both kids still prefer baths aged 8 and 10, it would probably be a deal breaker for me, it would be quite annoying to immediately have to have work to put one in.

If I liked the rest of the house and there was space to put a bath back in then I would buy it.

If that part of the room has been used to perhaps extend another room and its impossible to put a bath back in then no.

It's really no big deal to reinstate a bath at a later date when there's obviously room for one, either for the OP, or for a future buyer.

When my DS was small a bath was useful because I thought he'd play it in. He didn't really because he hated it. When we moved and had a separate shower he loved it.

We've only got showers here. Much as I love a bath it's such a lot of work and getting out can be a challenge!

The first thing I did was to remove the not very large bath and instead installed walk-in showers in the main bathroom and en-suite. I’ve lived here nine years now with the layout as I love it. I left the plumbing under the floor so the next occupants could install a bath very easily and a much larger one too since the pipework is also tidier. I have a hot tub outside for when I fancy a soak.😊

My daughter recently bought a house with 2 shower rooms, then changed one of them to a bath room, fairly easy.

My sister once installed a bath instead of her shower room then took it out and installed a shower!!

Have your shower and enjoy it!

I wouldn’t even go to view a house without a bath, DH has a bath every night so is a non negotiable.

It isn't hard to install a bath.

Think of another way to add storage. What are you trying to store in there? For example towels can be stored on wall-mounted racks. If you like, post a sketch plan and a few photos and we can make suggestions!

This.

Definitely would not buy ; I’d be sceptical that the bathroom was too small if there was only a shower, or that the water supply/ heating was too poor or inadequate to fill a bath. Even if the bath was rubbish ( plastic/ stained etc) I’d feel confident I could get a replacement installed - wouldn’t feel the same re a shower.