Three or four baths a week?

[christonapushbike]

When we redid our bathroom we got a lovely big deep tub with the intention of using it as a nice treat approx once every 2-3 months. DSD enjoys using it 3-4 times a week and complains that her ensuite shower isn't usable as the pressure in her shower is 'too low' (its fine- not a power shower but totally usable!). Am I unreasonable to feel this is completely ungrateful attitude and an ensuite is a massive privilege (only she has one in our house) she spends up to 2 hours bathing in our bath and I've worked out each bath costs £3.50 in gas and water (it's 300 litre capacity). When challenged on why she refuses to use her own bathroom she just shrugs/ scowls. Her ensuite is a shower room with a toilet (no bath) for reference.

I was once in a relationship with somebody whose mother insisted that you only needed an inch of bath water and policed it too. As a result he was the same and I found it really stressful if I wanted a bath as he didn’t have a shower and I’d have to have a wash in what was effectively a puddle. I have never denied my children baths. I did used to get annoyed with my daughter having 40 minute showers though. She doesn’t do it now she’s paying her own bills!

I hear you about the showers! I think most teenagers seem to go through this, though. Also, I was always grateful, because there are some teenagers who are a bit reluctant.....

At the time my FIL shouted at me for using too much water they were living in a house worth half a million quid, renting out another house and renovating a third.

his total assets were well in excess of a million pounds.

he was just a dick. Some people are,

I used to love baths and had one every day. Then I got an inflammatory arthritic condition affecting my knees and ankles and I just could not get down into the bath, so had to make do with showers. By the time the arthritis cleared up - which took about 8 months - I’d completely gone off baths. I find now I just can’t be bothered, especially now we've had a really good shower fitted.

Yes my young teen son is a shower dodger. He is ND and I think he finds the whole routine overwhelming. I sometimes wish he’d have a 40 minute shower, he’d smell so much nicer! 😆

Ah, bless him. I had one a bit like that, but he got better. I do think it's the routine.

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Wind-up merchant.

Having a bath is a treat? You worked out the price? Did I read this correctly

I rarely have a shower as I prefer baths. I have a bath every day or two. I also fitted an enormous bath, and an enormous hot water cylinder to feed it. We calculated the cylinder size for the house/family and then added 25% because I absolutely hate running out of hot water and having to wait an hour for it to heat up again.

It is up to you what you allow your step daughter to do in your house, but having a daily bath wouldn’t be on my list of things to tackle with a teen!

I think they're usually called the Inn.

So you installed a bath as a decorative item and now want to vilify your stepdaughter for using it for what it was intended for?

This is NUTS. You’re either staggeringly mean or you really dislike your stepdaughter. Or both.

Im going out to my back garden now for a pee in the foliage as I purchased a naaaice loo seat recently.

How pretty standard to have en-suite? Really? Maybe for high earners / 2 income families.

I used to live in a very cheap 2 bed flat in a dodgy area of town that had an ensuite...

Most new builds round here have en-suites. So nearly everyone I know who lives in a HA property has one.

Most new homes have en suite bathrooms; the actual dimensions of these homes are often quite small compared to say 50 years,ago

How odd to start a thread and then not return to it at all. I don't understand the mentality.

Lots of people do this when the responses don't go their way

Is this a joke?

It’s really annoying. Few of them around. Most annoying when you think you want to help too. Less so this one!

prob ai or someone bored and trying to think of bait to get people going.

I don’t live in a new build, I live in a 1940’s build semi so it was a bit of an alien concept to me tbh.

Feel like the are put on to wind people up tbh

Me too, 1930s semi here. Even the 1950s built detached house I grew up in didn’t have en-suites, just the one bathroom and a downstairs loo.

It's definitely a new build thing. Huge hallways, ensuites, more toilets than bedrooms, but rooms like postage stamps. Not even a downstairs loo here (1920's semi), but I know many people in new builds with them.

Absolutely! But have no storage!

Plenty of storage in my four bathroom new build.