Please help me decide what to do re bath!

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I am installing a new bathroom after endless problems with leakage and seepage from a wet room shower. There isn't room for an actual shower cubicle and a bath, so if I want a separate shower (which I do) I shall have to stick with the existing layout, which has an open showering area to one side of the bath.
Fitter has advised shower tray rather than tiles, which I'm fine with.
What kind of bath and panel would be best to avoid water seeping into the join between bath and floor? I suspect a free-standing bath on legs would be best, but then we'd have to tile under the bath (money) and as space is tight there'd be nowhere around the bath for unguents.
The current bath is an inset one with tiled surround, which has been a nightmare as you can't remove the panel. If we went for this option I wouldn't want a tiled panel, but acrylic looks a bit plastic and I'm worried that wood wouldn't cope with being so close to the shower. Also, there is bound to be a small gap between the shower tray and the bath - how best to deal with this?
Apologies for long post. It's doing my head in!

If it is your house couldn't you lounge in the other bath on weekends?

So you can spread out shower, toilet and basin (and bidet?) and forget about bath in the ensuite

Giving much more room in ensuite

is that dressing room next door?

Or have a wetroom shower and a free formed bath on feet next to each other with bath taps next to corner so you get into bath from shortend

Or if you have wetroom shower it won't matter about getting into bath

Can you have all the plumbing at the end of the bath by the sink with a removable end panel for maintenance. A fully tiled bath side with bath screen and a shower door attached to the wall.

Yes it's my house. Bath opens off the dressing room. I am the only person who uses it (yay).
The other bathroom is being turned into a shower room as there isn't room for a separate cubicle and DH isn't fussed about having a bath. Also I wouldn't want to lounge in a bathroom full of the boys' fetid crap.
The taps will go in the middle of the bath to enable double bathing. I don't think I'd need a bath screen as the problem has been water at ground level but a door that could be opened flush against the wall sounds an excellent idea.
I'd love a freestanding bath but I just don't think there's space.
If I did get a freestanding back-to-wall one on legs, though, would that help with spray issues? I mean in terms of getting right under it to mop up any spillage?
If anyone can see any alternative layout, I'd be overjoyed!!

Do you use the bidet?

quite deep free standing bath so splashing might be minimal

No, bidet can go.
I'm not a big splasher. The problem has arisen because of drains clogging with hair - nothing seems to shift it.

Ok sorted it

T = toilet

S = sink/washbasin

B = bath

etc

Hope my scribble makes sense

Vinegar and bicarbonate soda should shift hairs in sink iirc

KangaMummy I can't believe the energy with which you (not to mention others!) have set to work on this problem!
That looks an amazing solution as long as I have the width to have the bath opposite the basin. The room is pretty much 150cm wide - what do you reckon?
Also will there be a problem having the shower so close to the window?

IT is called procrastination!!!!!

What are the dimensions of the bathroom?

1500mm wide but how long from steps to corner and on far wall?

The toilet and sink can take the space of the toilet and bidet but less cos sink can go close to toilet if needed

Think the shower cubicle can go next to window as could have blinds etc if you felt shy but as you have bath there already you are ok with Windows etc presumably you have frosted glass

Showers next to windows don't work. They rot the windows. This bathroom cannot have another layout unless you want a ridiculously narrow bath and a tiny basin. A decent lounging bath should be 800 wide. That leaves too little room for a decent basin opposite. This room is small so Grand schemes just won't work. If you splash water from the shower all over the bath area, tank the whole area. Cleaning the area where the shower abuts the bath would be a problem too. You would need a large glass shower screen to protect the bath. My glass shower screen is 1200 long and water comes out of the open end by another 200 at least so the whole area by the bath will be wet unless you put up a glass screen but then you cannot get in the bath! I assume you won't want to sell this house?

Why don't you want a shower over the bath? We have a thermostatic shower mixer over a bath, with a curved shower rail as recommended by Mumsnet, and it's amazing. I never feel cramped and the shower rail somehow moves the curtain right out. You can get have a wooden bath panel then if you like for easy access (we do).

Bojorojo - no of course we won't want to sell the house. How could anyone be expected to live in such appalling squalor?
Oh, except us, of course, when we bought it.

How long is the room OP?

Pretty much exactly 4m.

OP. Have you taken your plan into a bathroom showroom or the like?

Somewhere like City Plumbing I've found to be very good if you go to the showroom not the trade side. They'll have access to all the different ranges and may have some product suggestions to help you get what you want.

Can you put the actual dimensions on your plan?

Could you put the bath where the loo and bidet currently are and then have the end of the room where you have your shower currently as a wet area? Have the loo and basin down there too as they'll cope better with being splashed.

This is a plan for a room measuring 400 cm x 150cm

I used Magic Plan which is a free app and it's fab. I've used it a lot for our house.

The room is pretty much exactly 400x150 cm.
the layout you suggest is not impossible, except that the loo and sink would have to go on the opposite wall because of the window. I just think aesthetically it wouldn't look great to have the bath right opposite the doorway like that, and, as we were brutally reminded last night, we have to consider future purchasers. This is the bathroom that will be in the house when we sell.
Haven't been to a showroom because until I posted here I hadn't thought that any other layout would work.

Do you have 2 windows in that room? I can't really tell from the plans. If so block one up, create a new window, change the size of the existing window, increase the height of the sill etc.

You have options. Corner bath, wall hung sanitary ware, compact/space saving. You'll have to compromise somewhere though. I think you can work on the aesthetics easily with how you decorate and style the room. I've lived in a flat with the bath like that as you went in the bathroom door and it looked great and no trouble selling.

Hum. We can't change the windows as it's a listed building.
I think the current layout will have to stay, combined with careful drain maintenance!