Do you regret removing bath for a shower?

[rocketdoggy]

As the title says - if you took your bath out do you regret it?

Is having a shower cubicle as good as you hoped it would be?

What time if cubicle did you go for and do you wish you had chosen something different?

Bought a house two years ago without a bath, we are still waiting to do the renovations needed to change the bathroom and put one in. I CANNOT WAIT!

We are about to get bathroom remodelled - smaller bath, moving a wall to make more room. None of us uses bath as a bath but it’s a must for young families and we don’t want to limit our target sales. 4-bed 1930s semi, large garden. We have an en-suite with shower, loo and sink and downstairs utility with loo.

young families will always want the bath for the babies/toddlers.

i'm plnning to replace my current sandard bathtub with a walk in shower and Japanese deep soaking bath. Best of both worlds!
If anyone has any experience/thoughts/tips on this please let me know.

We have a house with 2 baths with shower over, plus an ensuite with bath and separate shower. Everyone, teenage included, uses the walk in shower even though they have a nearer shower-over-bath. Thinking of replacing those baths with showers. This would still leave us with a bath, but in the en suite. People with small kids, would it put you off that the only bath was en suite to the master?

@Daftasabroom it's not the shower head, I'm talking the actual shower itself.

I've had them so furred up I can't turn them off fully

@Imevery well my kids are grown now but I would think that whilst one bath available in the home is better than none, the en suite is not the best place for it, probably because your en suite would inevitably acquire a collection of Bath toys, rather than being a relaxing stylish adult area. You are very lucky to have 3 bathrooms and such a big en suite, they tend to be tiny. Could you just convert one of your other bathrooms to a shower room, rather than both?

@rocketdoggy I'm going to offer a bit of a twist. A recent extension meant we had the option of either a family bathroom and an en suite or two bathrooms. We went for a family shower room - big walk in shower, and a separate bathroom for long soaks. We do also have a shower in the downstairs cloakroom next to the front door for apres sports type stuff.

Wow I never knew so many people don’t like baths! My family love them for destressing, bubbles, reading, escaping, doing top to toe home spa, sorting aches and pains after exercise, relaxing before going out/to bed. We have bath in ensuite and took bath out of main bathroom to put in full width shower wet-room style with travertine tiles and a huge glass screen, no door just a gap to walk in. Big waterfall shower-head is lovely. No regrets.
Don’t see how not having a bath puts off so many though as if spending hundreds of thousands on house for location etc and it’s the perfect property, it doesn’t cost comparatively much to just install bath?

Only if your showers never last longer than ten minutes. After that you are using as much water as a bath.

We did this in our old house, and had no regrets. If I wanted a bath I'd go to my best friend's house! Now we have a bath in every bathroom and rarely use them.

We've recently moved house and have replaced a (crappy, leaking) double shower with a bath/shower combo. It's great. Best of both worlds. The bath has a wider square end where the shower is, and we also has a grab rail installed to futureproof the "climbing over the bath" issue.

I removed the bath and a large closet when I renovated and put in an extra toilet and walk-in shower. Still love my bathroom 3 years later!

We have one bathroom and one shower room I hate wet rooms though, I never use the bath even though it’s a fabulous large and deep old one. It hadn’t been used for about 12 years since our youngest moved to taking showers, but now we have grandchildren who love to “swim” in our bath when they stay over so we are glad we never got rid of it. I think a family house needs a bath.

I’d probably see a house without a bath as a negative as I like to use my bath at least once a week,
although I shower every day. So
I would look for both in a property. It wouldnt worry me if it was a main bathroom or not, just so long as there was one somewhere.

Thanks, yeah I’m mulling whether to replace 1 or 2. One might be safer.

That was to @Pemba

We have both, but no one uses the bath, everyone prefers the shower.

We bought one of those rather pricey baths that have a little door to step in and out of. We never use the bath, but worried that we might have a dizzy moment when stepping out of the shower (in the bath). In a small flat we own, we ripped out the bath completely and put in a shower and plumbing for washing machine. We're confident that whoever we sell to will be more attracted by a belting hot shower and a washing machine, with dishwasher in the kitchen, than a bath.

all depends on how soon you might want to sell as well. I (and many others) have discounted viewing so many decent houses as they don't have a bath anymore. If you are thinking of living there for the next twenty years then ignore my post.
I agree with this. I wouldn't move into a house without a bath. But if you are not planning to sell soon then go ahead.