If you would miss a bath in a house?

[FishersGate]

We are redoing our downstairs bathroom currently has a standing separate shower cubicle and a small _not full size adult bath. It's not a big bathroom, we have a shower room upstairs.

I was thinking of removing the bath and putting in a larger walk in shower. We don't use the bath and environmentally i think the shower is better but conscious if we sell the house it would put people off there being no bath.

We took ours out as we decided that it was silly to keep a thing we never used to benefit a person in the future that may or may not care! Do what works for you and your family.

No hate baths, showers are the way to go.

Personally I wouldn't mind and neither would my husband but my 5 year old loves a bath so it would be a deal breaker for us while she's small.

If you plan to sell in the next 5 years and it's a family sized home then I probably wouldn't do it. If it's your forever/long-term home then just do what works for you and your family.

This is also my thinking 🤔. We haven't used since DS was 2!!!! It just sits writing to be cleaned.

I understand the points raised but its just such a silly size bath too.

Yes it's a 4 bed 2 bathroom home so family wise

I have only used my bath to bathe in about half a dozen times in 14 years.

Properties with just a shower and with four or more bedrooms don’t sell well here.

One thing I can’t stand are taps on a bath with a shower attachment. Shower controls should be high up not at the bath taps

Love a bath. It would put me off buying.

@FishersGate mine are nearly 2 and 6. It's a family home but right now it is home to my family and we don't use baths! My husband is too tall to be comfortable, I get bored and the children probably would enjoy it but our water pressure is awful so it takes ages to fill. Sod that. We had a shower put in in when we revamped it. No regrets (although, admittedly, we aren't trying to sell). I love the shower, which is easy to keep clean and looks lovely and my mother with a bad knee can now stay over as she can shower at ours!

Yes. I would have to have a bath in the house. We have two and one shower room

I use mine every night.

I had our bath taken out and installed an accessible shower about 20 years ago. I can’t use a bath and we have never missed it.
To me a house without all that wasted space is a definite advantage, if it had a proper wheelchair accessible wet room, even better!

We took ours out , I don't miss it.

It would put me off but if the house was perfect in every other way and the right price I'd consider a house without a bath.

However, no bath would have me mentally deducting tens of thousands from the value as then I'd be forced to redo the bathroom, something that involves inconvenience and risk (the main thing putting me off), not just direct cost of the redo.

If it's a family house to be sold to people with children, i.e. if it has more than two bedrooms, keep a bath in.

Our bathroom is tiny, and lacked any storage (also no airing cupboard in this house) so we got rid of the bath and had a lush wak in shower put in instead, along with built in cupboards. None of us miss it at all, even the kids prefer the shower. We have no plans to sell in the next decade or two, so it needs to be right for us not future buyers.

We haven't used our bath in so many years. Maybe once in the entire 20 years we've lived in this house. We took the bath out of the other bathroom to give us more space, and we haven't ever missed it.

If you won't be selling for a long time, I'd do what suits you. Some potential buyers will be put off, but others will feel like you do.

I love a bath-have one every night.

But I also loved/needed a bath when DC were little.
Would not be without one!

That’s interesting. My husband is therefore correct. Shame because I would ideally want a fking fabulous shower!

I never have a bath so I wouldn't miss one, I think it can put some people off if you ever wanted to sell though.

We only kept the bath to make the bathroom look more balanced. Nobody ever uses it and I have to dust it. Essentially it’s just a piece of furniture! 😃

Massive shower cubicle all the way. I honestly don’t understand why people want a bath, they’re revolting.

I loathe showers and if I was house hunting I would not view a house with no bath. That's because I wouldn't want the hassle of changing it.
However I firmly believe that your house should be your home not an investment and it should work for you. Never mind what others want.

I wonder if, now that houses are such a huge investment and so likely to make a profit, we are now more obsessed with what the next people might want? Whether or not the house will sell/make money is now so important compared to our own needs in the moment.

I wouldn’t buy a house with no bath

I really wouldn’t not live in your house the way your want to just so you can sell it better one day. Make it work for you and enjoy it! Loads of people don’t have baths. And people often like to put their own one in if they do. Unless you’re planning on selling in the next two years I’d live in the house like
you want it.

When we bought our house, it had a manky old kitchen, a leaky bathroom downstairs, a shower upstairs, no central heating and stunk of cats. We bought it anyway because of the location, school catchment, and local amenities.
We're redoing our bathroom for the 2nd time and will be getting rid of the bath we put in. I think there are bigger things buyers consider than if there's a bloody bath in the house or not.

I much prefer baths but members of my family have had their baths taken out and replaced by shower rooms. Each to their own; as long as there is room for a bath, it wouldn't put me off buying a home without a bath

bath over shower any time. Plus, bath can double as a shower. I shower in our bath but I would struggle to bathe in a shower cubicle 😅. I also wash my hair in the bath tub as do the DC in between showers. Just easier. I wouldn't buy a house without a bath tub.