to think I'm not the only person who's happy to bathe rather than shower?

[wigglylines]

I'm considering renting out the spare room to help with the bills.

My friend reckons that it will be totally impossible to rent the room because we only have a (newly fitted, nice) bath with a rubbish shower attachment, not a proper shower. I recognise that many people prefer showers, and that if we had one, it would mean more people would be interested in the room, but I can't be the only one who prefers baths surely? Not to the point of making the room unrentable anyway? I don't need loads of people to rent it, only one!

He also reckons no one wants to live with a family. But we've rented rooms to students many, many times in the past (in old house with shower) He's talking mince, isn't he?

AIBU to expect a spare room in a family house with no shower to be perfectly rentable to a lodger (probably a student)?

GrannyOnTheSchoolRun and WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes thank you, what nice things to say :)

I do want people to feel welcome here. My lovely two closest friends in this town, we met because they were our lodgers originally, and we're still in touch with most of the others. I really enjoy it when we have overseas students stay, we always invite them along with us when we go out, so they can get out and about and see a bit of the town and the surrounding country pubs countryside with us, if they're up for it great, if not, not problem! (The language students we've had so far have been adults, rather than teenagers on official programmes).

I haven't read the whole thread, but on a technical note, it may be possible to get the shower up to power shower strength by installing a pump. My flat has two Stuart Turner dual pumps in the airing cupboard, one for each bathroom. The water pressure would be negligible without them. The "dual" part of the pump description means that internally it has two separate pumps, one for hot water and one for cold, so there are four pipes connecting to each pump, cold in and out and hot in and out.

A word of warning, the pumps are quite loud, so if anyone is going to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, installing might be a bad move. (They pressurise the whole supply to the bathroom, so if someone flushes a toilet or uses the basin the pump will also come on.)

These pumps are industrial strength quality items that will last for decades, but they aren't cheap, last time I looked the cheapest internet price was about £400, then you need to pay to get it installed.

The other thing to consider is how waterproof you walls and floors are, I have to have very good shower screens otherwise I'd end up with disintegrating plasterboard walls or rotting chipboard floors. I've had to spend £3000 retiling one bathroom where the tiles lifted as a result of water getting through the grout.

I think I want to go and live with wiggly and her family

Yes, wiggly, I dont shower. I washed everything hanging this morning