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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.

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Viviennemary · 25/08/2017 11:52

I think in this instance he is right. There is a shower instead of a bath. But I can see your point in a way as a bedroom without a bed would still be a bedroom. I would assume that a shower room would be small.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:53

lurkinghusband I like your thinking, but if you use akkakk's definition of a bathroom, it doesn't.

If you use 95% of the other replies, it's exactly the same.

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RhiWrites · 25/08/2017 11:53

I think it bothered you because you think your "bathroom" is as good or better than a usual one. You feel the "shower room" description makes it sound worse.

It probably does make it sound smaller because most people with room for a bath would put one in.

Had it actually affected the valuation?

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:55

Viviennemary Yes you get it.

For example. He didn't turn around and say your 4th bedroom doesn't have a bed (though it has room for one), so I'm calling it an office.

Why didn't you come sooner, I could have argued the toss with him, well least give him something to think about.

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sirfredfredgeorge · 25/08/2017 11:55

Buy a babies bath, stick it in the corner - it's a Bathroom!

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:57

By the way. I'm a loon, I get I'm a loon. I get this is nothing in the great scheme of things, but isn't it nice to worry about nothing in the great scheme of things. I can be serious on another thread completely. But please allow me my loon status and allow me to ignore further rational arguments.

Even though I still think I'm right. I would so allow him to just call it an ensuite for sale purposes. But we're not selling.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 11:58

Sirfredgeorge boom! You just made me snort out loud.

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Viviennemary · 25/08/2017 12:00

at sirfred

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 12:00

Rhiwrites

Had it actually affected the valuation?

I bloody well hope not. Maybe the fact it's an ensuite cancels out the 'showerroom' aspect.

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GavelRavel · 25/08/2017 12:04

Shower room to me doesn't imply size. It implies theres a shower in there not a bath. I agree with teh surveyour. It's a shower room, like most en suites are, and that is how I woudl expect it to be described.

When looking for a house next, I will be looking for a family bathroom with a bath in it. For the kids and for the selling on reason you mention. I would them be looking for an en suite bathroom off the main bedroom, as I would like my own space to have a bath in peace and quiet (we currently have an en-suiote shower room) and a ensuite shower room off the guest bedroom for guests/teenagers.

I would expect the names to reflect the contents, not the size of the room. I would be annoyed if I went to view a house that had an en-suite bathroom that didn't actually have a bath in and wouldnt buy the house.

CreamCheeseBrownies · 25/08/2017 12:09

Maybe posting this will help change the world in its own small way, turning the tide of people assuming shower rooms are smaller than bathrooms! From little acorns etc etc...

GreenTulips · 25/08/2017 12:11

We have 2 bathrooms - both have baths

Shower rooms have showers

daisychain01 · 25/08/2017 12:11

Get him to call it a Wet Room trendy and add £5K to the price

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 12:12

GavelRavel Can only go with my experience as to why it does imply size. However, I see your point. I really do. I just, you know, don't agree with it.

I see lots of descriptions say two bathrooms, then in the detail show one is shower room and as I say if I was selling that wouldn't upset me. However, personally, and for remortgaging purposes, it bothered me.

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ChristopherWren · 25/08/2017 12:12

I have a bathroom and a shower room. They're both about the same size but one has a bath in it and the other has a shower. One is a bathroom, the other is a shower room.

I wouldn't buy a house without a bath in it, so I'd be annoyed if I went to see house with a room described as a bathroom only to find that there was no bath in it. Probably different if there is more than one bathroom though.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 12:13

CreamcheeseBrownies from your lips to his ears.

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n0ne · 25/08/2017 12:13

I agree with you, OP. A bathroom is where you wash yourself, by whatever means. Shower room sounds like a bathroom too small for a bath.

Knottyash5 · 25/08/2017 12:13

I'd assume a shower room was smaller than a bathroom as they are often tiny en suites's without windows etc.

But if you've got a "proper" bathroom too, it doesn't really matter.

If I were selling, I'd want people to know that the room was big enough to reinstall a bath if they wanted one. My mum has a large walk in shower and no bath. She takes the view she is living in the house now and it can suit her needs while she is there. If someone wants a bath, it's a couple of days' work to reinstall one when she sells the house eventually.

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 12:15

ChristopherWren didn't you say that already? I don't want you to buy my house. I really don't.

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coddiwomple · 25/08/2017 12:16

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

I also wonder how can anyone get away with calling a "bedroom" a cupboard with a window that doesn't even accommodate a double bed and some kind of storage. Totally different thread, but that annoys me a lot more!

I read a forum when someone actively sold a house with a 4th bedroom, when the so-called room was the former attic and did not meet any of the current regulation (stairs, fire etc..). So not a bedroom at all. Buyers, BEWARE!

BlondeB83 · 25/08/2017 12:17

It's not a bathroom with no bath! We have a bathroom and a shower room in our house - the name gives it away!

GreenTulips · 25/08/2017 12:19

My friends knocked through their bedroom to the box room to make a dressing area, this reduced the house from 3 to 2 bed. They don't understand this a a bed could fit in there

ChristopherWren · 25/08/2017 12:24

I guess I was explaining badly that it probably wouldn't bother me if there were 2 bathrooms but one didn't have a bath in it!

thecolonelbumminganugget · 25/08/2017 12:25

I was with you until you said it was an en suite. To my mind if it's a separate room off a landing it's a bathroom regardless of the presence of a bath (I'd expect a house listing to itemize what was in the bathroom, so you'd know before you looked whether it had a bath, shower or both), if it's an en suite then ensuite shower room just describes what it is. I don't know why I think this, it doesn't seem entirely logical

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Buck3t · 25/08/2017 12:26

Thank you knottyash

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