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Surveyor calls bathroom shower room

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:23

because it has a shower instead of a bath (by choice, since I don't bath).

Now I get that semantically it could be correct, however. A room with a toilet, sink and overly large shower that could also hold a bath but we chose not to, is not a shower room. I think 'shower room' implies that it is dinky. And quite frankly it's larger than most bathrooms I grew up with. Definitely bigger than the bathroom in our old house.

This is not even a problem, but am I wrong for filling a little irked (not annoyed, as I do see his point, just don't agree with it).

Elite world problems I know.Hmm

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DonutCone · 25/08/2017 11:25

If it's for selling he has to call it a shower room

Can you imagine how pissed off people would be if they thought it had a bath and then found out it didn't? He's just making sure there is no confusion.

ArbitraryName · 25/08/2017 11:26

It would be weirder if he called it a bathroom when there is no bath.

coddiwomple · 25/08/2017 11:26

If there is no bath, he can't call it anything else though, can he?

Does it matter anyway? It makes absolutely no difference. The buyer will have seen the room and the floor plan so the size will be obvious. I am not sure why you are annoyed, I don't think that "shower room" is a synonym of small, so for that reason that would not bother me.

Seeingadistance · 25/08/2017 11:26

I expect to see a bath in a bathroom.

A shower room - I expect to see a shower!

EdmundCleverClogs · 25/08/2017 11:28

If, as a buyer, I saw bathroom on your house description and there wasn't a bath, I'd be really peed off about wasting my time viewing it. A 'shower room' doesn't imply 'dinky', it specifically says 'no bath'.

Glumglowworm · 25/08/2017 11:29

Surely it's obvious that a bathroom, technically speaking, would require a bath. If you only have a shower then shower room is correct.

Of course in everyday speaking most people would refer to either as a bathroom, but for selling purposes it has to be clear and correct.

You don't want to waste time with viewings from people who will find the lack of bath a deal breaker, so it does benefit you really

emwithme · 25/08/2017 11:29

We have been one bathroom and one shower room. They are identical size (only on different floors). The only real difference is one has a bath, one has a shower.

Ameliablue · 25/08/2017 11:29

Yabu, I don't necessarily think of a shower room as a small room but I do think a bathroom is a room with a bath in it.

PoppyPopcorn · 25/08/2017 11:30

If it doesn't have a bath, then shower room is technically the right description.

youhavetobekidding · 25/08/2017 11:30

To me, bathroom has to include a bath, so technically, I think I agree with the surveyor, but I'm inclined to agree that shower room does imply there is space for a bath

Would "spacious shower room with luxury shower" work as a compromise?

ShatnersWig · 25/08/2017 11:31

If he is surveying for purposes of your property being sold, then he's totally right and YABU.

youhavetobekidding · 25/08/2017 11:31

To me, bathroom has to include a bath, so technically, I think I agree with the surveyor, but I'm inclined to agree that shower room does imply there is not space for a bath

Would "spacious shower room with luxury shower" work as a compromise?

akkakk · 25/08/2017 11:31

bathroom comes from the room in which you bathe - not the room in which you have a bath ;) bathing in this context was washing yourself - so arguably a room with a jug and bowl could also be a bathroom...

CreamCheeseBrownies · 25/08/2017 11:34

I'd be more irked to be sold a bathroom with no bath! Even if there's space for a bath, buying a house with only a shower is not the same as buying a house with a bath, however large, luxurious and preferable to you the shower is. Sorry, I'm with him all the way.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:37

Please note I'm not annoyed. Just irked.
It's not for selling it's remortgaging.

Thanks, I get I'm in the minority thinking a bathroom doesn't need to have a bath. I'm unreasonable in being irked. It just bothered me when he corrected me so emphatically.

I think baths are unhygienic and wasteful of resources, but I'm no angel when it comes to being either myself Blush, so won't argue that point.

But I think akkakk understands the point of the bathroom. Like I said, Elite world problems.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:39

I'd be more irked to be sold a bathroom with no bath! Even if there's space for a bath, buying a house with only a shower is not the same as buying a house with a bath, however large, luxurious and preferable to you the shower is. Sorry, I'm with him all the way.

For people who think like this - if we ever wish to sell, which we don't - is why we have a bathroom with a bath in it. It's an ensuite with room for a bath that doesn't have one.

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Whinesalot · 25/08/2017 11:41

I'm with you op.

coddiwomple · 25/08/2017 11:44

I rarely bother with baths, but I wouldn't buy a house without one. It's so much easier to bath the kids than shower them, store water in the bath tube when there's a water cut (unless it's a surprise one), soak some laundry pre-wash etc.
I could technically leave without a bath, but I don't want to!

ChristopherWren · 25/08/2017 11:45

My ensuite is big enough to have a bath in it but it doesn't; we have a large shower cubicle instead. So it's a shower room and not a bathroom.
There is nothing about the definition 'shower room' that means that it's smaller than a 'bathroom'.

I can't see why it's bothering you.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:46

Coddiwomple The house has a bath. It in fact has two bathrooms. Just one doesn't have a bath in it. Right now the bathroom with the bath has clothes drying in it. So I understand baths have a purpose. I just don't use them for their primary purpose.

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Jaxhog · 25/08/2017 11:47

We have 2 bathrooms. One has a bath, one has a shower.

KitKat1985 · 25/08/2017 11:49

Oh I'm with your surveyor. As someone who is currently looking to buy a house, (with a bath which I need for the two young DCs), I'd rather your house was described as having a 'shower room' because, well, it does. I don't necessarily assume a shower room is smaller than a bathroom, but I do assume a bathroom has a bath in it.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:49

I'm sorry Christopher but in my limited experience of house hunting shower room, implies small, not big enough for a bath. I get this implication from the fact that the houses we saw with shower rooms were small, not big enough for a bath.

I'm not sure why it bothered me, other than the way he emphatically corrected me. But it did. Some things just do. No rational reason.

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smurfit · 25/08/2017 11:50

I'm in NZ and a bathroom is the room with the shower and/or bath (not necessarily both). For us, a shower room would be a walk in wet room type thing.

LurkingHusband · 25/08/2017 11:51

I wonder how this squares with "garages" that can't take cars ??

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