Is it possible to fit a shower ( over bath ) when the taps are underneath the window?

[Endler32]

Hope this makes sense , we have a tiny bathroom with a bath but no shower, now the dc's are getting older we would love a over bath shower fitted, problem is our bath taps are located next to the window so we could not have a shower attached to the wall ( as there is no wall, just the window ). Is it possible to plumb in a shower the opposite end to the taps?

You could have a shower fitted to the wall at right angles to the taps. What about re-thinking the layout altogether? Can you post a photo of the bathroom?

We have this situation at the moment, bath taps at one end, shower at the other. Layout was like this when we bought, but it's not ideal as you really need a double ended bath for it to work, ours is sloped as the shower end so you can't really stand under the shower properly. Otherwise there should be no real issue with plumbing a shower in at the opposite end.

Fitting at a angle maybe possible. The window is about half way along the bath, we have a corner shelf in the corner so there maybe room for it to go in at a rights angle. Our whole house is designed badly, it is HA so not our house so ripping it all out and moving things around is probably not an option .

Yes you can have a shower opposite end to the taps - we had one put in in a previous house (there was no shower and the taps were by the window). Worked perfectly fine, I think the plumber had to run pipe work underneath the bath from the taps.

I have an over the bath shower where the shower is fixed to the wall opposite I assume all the pipes etc run underneath the bath. It is not a shower that has anything to do with the taps on the bath (if that makes sense). My only problem is that the bathroom window runs the full length of the bath so a shower screen is no good for us we have to have two shower curtains on a rail that is three sides of a square!!. Sounds odd I know, but it's absolutely fine

We will have a problem with a shower screen/curtain too. Glad to hear it can be done though, I will talk to my lovely dad tonight and see if he can do the job for us.

We have a powers shower opposite end to the taps, I'm not very technical but I have one

I'd say make sure you fit a shower with a flexible head (not the fixed overhead type) if you're going to do this - from my own experience, you need to be able to swivel the head to the side if you take a bath, to avoid cold drips of water landing on your head!

an idea; we did this by putting a false stud wall at the tap end and attaching the shower to that. Obviously this blocked off half the window and reduced the light, but it was the only way to fit the shower and have a shower screen. (Rather than a nasty curtain). The screen could not go at the other end of the bath as it was too near the door.

the back of the stud wall is closed off and there is still access to the window (for opening) and the sill (for storage).

I've stayed in two houses recently that had the shower at the opposite ends the the taps due to tap end being where the window was. In both I can't imagine it was a big job to put them in. One was an electric shower but not sure about the other one. They both had shower screens as there would have been nothing stopping them going in.

What I did notice about having a shower "at the opposite end" is that the tap end of a bath seems to be designed to be where you would stand up to have a shower, as it was noticeably more slippy (less flat) at the opposite end, especially when rinsing conditioner out of your hair, and as much as I dislike them if it was my bathroom I'd have been using one of those grippy suction mats!

We have telephone taps on our bath (combo boiler) with the shower riser rail on the long side of the bath. No problems except guests who are used to standing / showering the other way and generally manage to soak the window sill!

Look at the multi-way shower curtain rails from screwfix. We have an L-shaped one that was very easy to fix.