Three or four baths a week?

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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 do indeed and then shout on DH if I need a refill.

Well, my MIL for a start. Big country house (only house I regularly go to which could accommodate a 300l bath): no mains gas, oil-fired boiler for central heating but immersion heater for hot water. It's quite normal in rural areas.

It's like buying a Range Rover because it looks good, but only driving it six times a year because you can't afford to fill it up. Should have bought the Ford Focus.

Sorry if this question has been a answered. We have a jacuzzi bath. It's used every night pretty much (4 kids) they bath every other night. Two have eczema and hate the feeling of showers. Is this costing me £3.50 a go? Surely not. It's a normal sized jacuzzi bath (recently moved, we didn't install it).

OP I think if it is costing that then once a week is maybe reasonable?

YABVU

I would be delighted that she enjoys having a bath and being clean. Some teens are allergic to water, look like greaseballs and smell, so thank your lucky stars.

You could probably market that as an authentic natural cold water experience.

you’d have people queueing up to pay money for it.

Just sounds like you don’t like her

Surely the lifestyle of Elizabeth Taylor?

Surely he is standing at service at the corner of the bathroom like a butler awaiting your need for a top up... or does he really make you shout out the room for a refill? If it's the latter, you have a DH problem.

😂

🤣🤣🤣. My bath is one of my few indulgences, that was the deal made with DH when we moved here, if I was going to be living in the arse end of nowhere the bathroom was getting refurbished from the burgundy one in the house. Sadly not Elizabeth Taylor style, although I can dream. Edited to add this isn’t by bathroom but this IS the bath. I’m now wondering what OP’s bath is like…

My kids have a bath every day🤪

Dh grew up in a house where he wasn't allowed to use the fancy bath 🙄 only the shower.. I always thought it was ridiculous tbh. Why put in a lovely deep bath if noone is allowed to use it??

Oh crikey, there are four of us in the house and between us we have around 10 baths and 28 showers a week. DD and I always have a shower after the bath to wash our hair.

I can’t imagine buying what is essentially an ornamental bath that we can’t afford to use.

Oi Rich!

I need some more Blossom Hill!!

Oooh, fancy 😍

It’s terrible service tbh, sometimes I need to phone him if he’s downstairs. He really needs to up his game. He draws the line at bowls of crisps though, I don’t therm refilled, he thinks I’m weirdo for eating snacks in the bathroom.

....and the Rothmans!"

Lambrini if you don’t mind 🤣

No. Surely being a weirdo is putting camping containers in it....🙄

What even is a camping container? Just a cool box?

Wow, this wins the MN fruitloop of the day post.

So you installed it for show purposes only ? To be used only a few times a year ??! Some people like baths , some showers . I don’t think you can complain about people washing in a receptacle designed for .. washing in .

I haven’t RTFT As I completely get this. My water bills were tripled overnight as was my Gas and when I spoke to my utility companies, it was because I was having a bath every night

So now I don’t I probably have two a month if that!
My daughter is about to move home. She loves to have a bath but I will be telling her the same. It’s gonna be a rare treat. I’m afraid as she unfortunately will be out of work when she moves in and will not become contributing to the household bills until she gets another job.

I love a bath and would have one at least once a week. I don't even know why you would get one of you were only planning to have once 3/4 times a year!

I think it's fair to tell her 2 hours is too long and set a limit on time but I don't think it's fair to tell her she can't have a bath for 3 months!

I slightly regret that I no longer teach as this would make a brilliant real life maths lesson

ok.

so it seems to be the case that the standard uk bath takes 300 litres if full, less if not.
freestanding and claw baths take more.

info from here:
https://royalbathrooms.co.uk/blog/how-much-water-does-a-bathtub-hold

so lets run two scenarios, a highest possible cost scenario and a lowest likely.

highest: it takes 300 litres
lower: not actually totally full and say 250

cost of water - if the house is not on a meter and is just paying a regular ant per month it’s basically zero extra cost for the baths.

on a water meter - my water company charge 2.95 per cubic metre which is 1000 litres.

https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/services/extra-support/tariff-options/our-standard-charges

So that’s 88.5p for the water.

then there’s heating it up.

again, a lot depends on how it is heated.

I used to live in a very old house and we ran the Aga all the time b the winter so we had hot water on demand because it was generated as a side effect of heating the house.

most newer houses don’t have that so it’s either gas or electric.

i’ll be honest I’m not sure my physics is up to this but for what it’s worth I did measure how much it cost to heat my hot tub up from 18 degrees to 38 degrees and it was ten quid (and that was in January and includes household electricity use overnight)

so as my hot tub is 1800 litres and the bath is 300 litres then 300 to 1800 is one sixth so that’s one pound sixty to heat the water.

gas would be a lot cheaper.

so - lowest likely is no charge for the extra water plus maybe a quid to heat it

highest is 88.5 for the water and 1.60 to heat it is 2 pound 48 and a half p.