Tiny bathroom - bath or shower in rental property?

[feetheart]

Just canvassing opinion.

We have a small rental property with a tiny bathroom. Want to redo the bathroom as it is tired, old and the layout doesn't work - normal bath with shower over it, normal sized toilet and teeny, tiny cloakroom-type sink (it really is the smallest I have ever seen!)

Replacing the bath with a shower unit would create more space to fit a slimline toilet and decent-sized sink but is getting rid of the bath a good idea? I would have said no up until 2 years ago when we got a downstairs shower-room built. The bath upstairs has been used twice in nearly 20 months!

Thoughts please...

feet The bathroom we've just built is about 5'6" square. Bath on far wall from door, toilet sideways on left where there's more wall, then rather expensive small sink with cabinet tucked on the right, protruding only 12 inches but managing not to look small. It's a P-shaped bath, with the large bit next to the basin so there is plenty of space to shower. Previously the shower room was 3 foot x 10 foot so a bath wasn't an option!

The bathroom in our house is about 5'6" x 7, but we redid it so the door at the left of the short wall opens outwards, then toilet straight ahead, bath at the far end on the right, basin near the door. And built-in cupboards under basin and around the cistern down to the floor. So even with a full size bath and a heated towel rail, it's actually feasible to have 2 adults bathing and drying 3 small children!

Definitely keep the bath. We have been looking at properties to rent recently and I ruled out all those without a bath as we have two small DCs. You'd be seriously limiting your pool of potential tenants if you got rid of it.

I second the suggestion to rehang the bathroom door so it opens outwards. We did this with a tiny bathroom (it was a rectangle and the bath took up one entire 'long' wall) and it made a huge difference.

I had a tiny bathroom in my last flat and it had a bifold door which I am sure will garner terrible sneers for being studenty or trashy, but which made it possible to fit a full sized sink, toilet, and bath into the room. I far preferred having my lovely bathroom with a slightly scruffy door to the shower room with a normal door I had in another previous flat!

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