Surveyor calls bathroom shower room

[Buck3t]

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.

fannydaggerz Having a bath in your house increases its value.

We'll find out from the surveyor later.

Green Tulips
It's up to you or EA when doing viewings to point out that a bath could fit in the room

AGAIN she's not selling

Thanks so much Lol

My ablutions centre comprises a bath, a toilet, a shower and a basin. I refer to it as the bathroom because of the presence the bath. If there was no bath and only a shower it would be the showerroom. Without either of these I'd just call it the bog.

Tile it and take out the shower surround and then you can call it a wet room

I don't even look at properties on Rightmove that don't have baths in the bath room.

I wouldn't entertain the idea of buying such a property unless it was vastly under budget.

So I'd be spitting feathers at coming to view a property purporting to have 1/2/3 bath rooms if any of those bathrooms were merely shower rooms.

Your surveyor is the most righteous of right people, OP. If only more were like him, the world would be a better - and bathier- place.

Agree a bathroom should have a bath in it. Americans call toilets bathrooms but in the UK I'd expect there to be an actual bath in the room.

I don't think bathrooms existed before fixed baths with running water appeared. People got bathed in front of the fire and jugs and basins were in the bathroom or the dressing room if you lived in a stately home. Therefore a bathroom should have a bath in it.

Bum - should have said 'jugs and basins were in the bedroom

I have two wash rooms, one has a bath and shower, we call it the bathroom. The other has a (large) shower, loo and sink. We call that the shower room.

I don't get the issue.

HotelEuphoria. I can tell you don't get it 85% of respondents agree with you.

Upthread someone posted a definition. This works for me. The definition of bathroom says a room with a bath or shower. Suddenly I feel vindicated. If not a little petty.

Ah, but as I tell my students all the time: words listed as synonyms are often not quite interchangeable. Bathe and shower would be one such example.

Your right about synonyms, bit definition of bathroom is pretty cut and dried.

Only because fools insist on calling shower rooms bathrooms!

I know OP isn't selling, but surely it's best to be clear if one is selling.

Bathroom = room with a bath
Shower room = room with a shower
Wet room = a fully tiled room with a shower, loo etc
En suite a room off a bedroom
Lavatory/Toilet = room with a loo

Any necessary further information will be supplied by the estate agent.

When I was buying my current house - new build - one of the women in the sales off kept referring to the en suite shower room as a wet room. It got on my nerves rather as I just wouldn't bother even looking at a house with a wet room as I can't stand them but I think she thought it sounded somehow more impressive.

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.

I'd think exactly the same as that^

For me, a bathroom can contain a bath, or a shower, or both, but not neither. There is no such thing as a shower room.

I have two bathrooms of identical size and very similar layout, which both contain baths with showers over them. For 99.999% of times that someone has used them, they've showered not bathed. I'm considering refurbishing one of them and replacing the bath with a shower. I would be annoyed if it were then described as a shower room, as I agree with the OP that it does make it sound lesser. When in fact a good shower is a bigger luxury than a bath.

I hate wet rooms, everything just gets wet and needs wiping down or it gets mouldy. Fine if you have servants. I like large baths with powerful showers over them and a good leak proof shower screen. No poky shower cubicles or clammy shower curtains.

I call our upstairs toilet room 'the bathroom' even though there's no bath there, not even a shower, its just a toilet, but I still call it the bathroom. I guess I'm just used to the room where you brush your teeth being the bathroom.

Our shower room is big though, bigger than most UK bathrooms (our upstairs toilet is the same size as most UK bathrooms even)

I hate wet rooms, everything just gets wet and needs wiping down or it gets mouldy

I love wet rooms, I can clean the whole room every time I have a shower. I just scrape the water on the floor towards the drain afterwards (just a quick scrape, no need to be precise and get every drop), no need to wipe anything down, nothing gets mouldy.

Interesting. I was just in my en-suite-large enough-for-a- bath shower room and when DS shouted, where are you mummy, I said "I'm here, in the bathroom". so maybe, outside of estate agent descriptions, I DO agree with you OP. However, DS went into the family bathroom to look for me, not the en suite, so the next generation doesnt.

I like large baths with powerful showers over them and a good leak proof shower screen. No poky shower cubicles or clammy shower curtains.

Some shower cubicles are bigger than a bath. There are many shower trays that have the footprint of a bath, as they are designed for people replacing a bath with a shower. (Having said that, a 1m squared shower with the shower firing from the corner feels much more spacious in use than a bath-width rectangle, even though on the floor-plan it takes up less space.)

But I guess that explains why we don't like the term shower-room. Many people imagine a shower as something smaller/worse than a bath being used as a shower, when it might be bigger and better.

Jaxhog you don't, you have...
1 BATHroom
And
1 SHOWERroom
You can call it what you want but that's the same as calling your living room a bathroom, it literally is not!

Our shower room used to have a bath in it. It was the bathroom. When we moved the bath and put a shower in it it became the shower room.