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AIBU?

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Original poster

to find not having a shower in your house a bit weird.

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JackThePumpkinKing · 24/10/2012 07:49

Watching Beeny last night reminded me of this (weird flat with bath in bedroom in front of the windows, but no shower).

We've been veiwing houses and I'm really by the number of them that don't have a proper shower that you can actually stand up in. Just those pointless shower heads propped up just above the taps (what are they for ?)

Do people without showers have a bath every day?

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CaseyShraeger · 24/10/2012 08:21

Indeed - my parents got their bath taken out and a shower with room for a seat put in precisely because they had started to get elderly and infirm.

slatternlymother · 24/10/2012 08:21

Can I ask why people don't like showers? Is it that you don't feel clean enough, or it feels too rushed? Also, do you find your water bills are high?

I tend to shower twice a day (not in an office job though), I've definitely had less baths since DS was born. I think of a bath as a real luxury, to be lingered over with bubbles and a good book.

HappyTurquoise · 24/10/2012 08:22

We lived in a house with a shower over a hideous avocado plastic moulded bath which stopped working after about a month. Couldn't fix it, couldn't afford to mend it and for years I had a bath every day. When we finally saved up to replace the bathroom, we went for a nice bath, the best electric shower over it, and a nice heated towel rail and fitted cupboards. We moved again about 6 months later!
Now we have 2 showers (In cubicles) that don't really work, and no money to replace.:.

diddl · 24/10/2012 08:23

That´s the trouble with a shower over the bath-if you find it difficult to get in the bath, then it´s still difficult to get in for a shower.

This is the problem that my in his 80s Dad is now facing.

And as a short arse, it´s getting harder for me as I get older.

urbandaisy · 24/10/2012 08:23

I find the lack of either weird (but then I'm another immigrant).

We have a 3/4 bath in our current place and although I rarely have baths, I really miss having a full size bath (and I really felt the lack when I was pregnant). I find those shower attachments attached to the bath a giant faff for hair washing, though.

I am quite amazed at the number of people who expect someone to pay £450K for a house with no bath, though. Crosses a place off my list straight away, I couldn't deprive my one year old of his evening bath!

slatternlymother · 24/10/2012 08:25

vodka living in a HA house I'd have thought they'd have been obliged to provide you with a shower as part of the whole basic standards thing they have? All the HA houses round here are really nice and modern and have both. Some even have an en suite to the master bedroom, which looks lovely!

mrsscoob · 24/10/2012 08:25

If I had to choose to only have one in the house, it would be a bath over a shower every time. YABU

bamboobutton · 24/10/2012 08:26

I don't buy the 'baths use more water' argument. I put the plug in once when i had a shower and by the time i had washed and done my hair the water was about 4in from the overflow.

Lived in a house with no bath once and hated it, a boiling bath is just the thing i need when my joints and back are giving me gyp.

crashdoll · 24/10/2012 08:26

For me, showers are for washing but baths are for relaxing.

I grew up with only a bath and then we had a shower over the bath but only about 10 years ago. In my new house, we have a bath and a shower cabinet and it is lovely.

MadBusLadyHauntsTheMetro · 24/10/2012 08:26

It's weird isn't it! We are seeing a lot of houses like this too too - and it can't all be because of space/water pressure.

I would never rent anywhere without a shower. It takes me quite a while under a proper, strong shower to get my thick, long hair wet throughout, and then several more to get all the shampoo off. Hairdressers always remark on it. Whenever I have to use a bath attachment thing I get half-dirty hair with weird pockets of dried shampoo lurking in it.

diddl · 24/10/2012 08:31

"I put the plug in once when i had a shower and by the time i had washed and done my hair the water was about 4in from the overflow."

Bloody hell-do most people use that much to shower?

I know I don´t!

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JackThePumpkinKing · 24/10/2012 08:31

MadBus - same here. I need a decent shower to wash my hair, it just doesn't get clean in the bath

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EasilyBored · 24/10/2012 08:32

I just never feel clean after a bath, like been sat in a puddle of my own dirt? I have really hot showers, bath would take forever in our house.

Bumblequeen · 24/10/2012 08:33

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panicnotanymore · 24/10/2012 08:37

We have a flat that we rent out, and when we refurbed it H replaced the bath with electric shower over for a double width shower cubicle. Now we only can get American tenants as they prefer showers to baths, and all the English people who look round are about the lack of a bath.

I'm happy enough with that as ime American tenants are much nicer and look after the flat better. Why is that? I'm not stereotyping I'm just going by personal experience.

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JackThePumpkinKing · 24/10/2012 08:37

diddl - I don't either (unless I'm washing my hair which takes forever). 5 mins max. I'll leave the plug in tomorrow as an experiment

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quirrelquarrel · 24/10/2012 08:37

I don't shower here, the water pressure's shocking. Instead most days I sit in 10 inches of hot water and splash around. I wash much more than I did at home really, and we have a nice working shower there.

You're just used to have a shower. It's a relatively modern convenience.....nobody's walking around stinking because they don't have one!

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JackThePumpkinKing · 24/10/2012 08:41

I'd feel really grubby if I didn't get a good rinse off every morning though. I have about 1 bath a year. On my Birthday.

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SoggySummer · 24/10/2012 08:46

I think showers are a modern expectation and I do like having a shower.

We live in Army housing which in the most part is older and although certain bits will be modernised they wont ever change the layout (knock down walls etc) so the houses are still very traditional in layout. This includes bathrooms. Often with seperate WC, only a bath and I have never had a shower cubicle in a MQ (have known some people to have one in a more modern house but its not the norm). Out of the last 9 houses I have lived in 2 had what I would call "proper" showers over the bath - one connected to the Gas HW system and one electric shower on a wall. 2 other houses have had a (rather crappy)shower thing attached to the bath taps - but this isnt issue and something some previous tennants have done/left behind. 5 houses have not had a shower of any kind. When in these I used to bath every day and use a tap attachment thingy on the bathroom sink taps to wash my hair.

Its a PITA - I do miss a shower but its surprising how quick you do just get used to not having one.

shabooby · 24/10/2012 08:47

I have a bath everyday, with lots of bubbles and a book/magazine, usually at least one of the dc with me either in the bath or on the toilet, do keeps on about getting a shower, I hate them, don't like the water on my face!

expatinscotland · 24/10/2012 08:48

I wouldn't live in a home with no shower. Baths are very expensive compared to setting a timer and having a 2 or 3 minute shower.

diddl · 24/10/2012 08:51

Even if I wash my hair the water doesn´t get above my ankles!

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/10/2012 08:53

We've got a shower over the bath, I feel claustrophobic using cubicle ones in hotels, I also dislike the ones where the head is fixed and you can't lift it down and spray yourself with it, those giant silver ones are the worst. I can't bear the feel of water running on my face and it's hard to avoid with those.

I can't remember last time I had a bath, but wouldn't like to not have one in the house.

quirrelquarrel · 24/10/2012 08:54

to having No conjugation before 9, obviously....

SugariceAndScary · 24/10/2012 08:54

I'm not a soak in a bath person unless I'm ill.

I would also find it odd not to find a shower enclosure in a bathroom but appreciate that not all houses have the space.

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