Changing shower to bath

[Buddhapud]

Hi

We have found a house we would love to buy. The only downside is they have two bathrooms both with walk in showers but no bath ( which we need with 3 kids under 5!). Does anyone know how hard it would be to convert the shower back to a bath and whether it would be expensive. Thanks in advance x

As long as the space is large enough for a tub, it should be fine. All the plumbing is there so it's just a question of stripping out the shower tray and cubicle (leave the shower itself if possible so you have a nice over-bath one), tee-ing off the pipes that are underneath it or behind the wall to create a feed for the bath taps, routing the bath waste to join the old waste and perhaps a bit of retiling. Decoratively, it would be a problem if the shower cubicle is much wider than the bath tub and you were unable to match the flooring in the gap that was left.

My dh had to do this in our house. We only had a disabled walk in shower with tiles falling off the wall, he bought a cheap B&Q suite ripped out the old suite and put it in in a day. We had to have a cloakroom size sink to fit the bath in but B&Q showed us several design options on their system. The biggest pain is retiling, we patchwork in cheap white tiles as it was a temporary fix and will redo it properly once the rest of the house is finished. I am aiming to keep the suite it's actually gorgeous esp as it was bought to throw away iykwim. If you need to retile it's a longer job but if you've got two bathrooms take your time any bathroom company will be able to tell you if you can fit a bath in.