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Would you buy a house without a bath?

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surferjet · 06/10/2018 10:48

Dh wants to rip out the bath & just have a nice big shower room, but I’m not convinced - at the moment we have a shower but it’s just one of those above the bath thingies. Another issue is we might sell up in 10 years when youngest flown the nest, so don’t want to do anything that might make house hard to sell.

Thank you.

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Onegoodmutha · 06/10/2018 10:55

notacooldad · 06/10/2018 10:56

batshitbetty · 06/10/2018 10:56

Yes

notWORKzilla · 06/10/2018 10:58

In ten years your bathroom would probably be dated anyway, and new buyers would be likely to put in their own bathroom anyway.
Do what works for you as a family now.
Don’t inconvenience yourself for 10 years for a maybe!!

0hCrepe · 06/10/2018 10:59

I did and we reconfigured it as it needed updating anyway.

AntiHop · 06/10/2018 11:02

No. Unless it was very cheap doer upper and therefore could afford to replace bathroom.

I think the days of people buying homes and immediately replacing kitchen and bathroom are over. We're all too broke.

QueenNovo · 06/10/2018 11:04

I might if it was a proper shower cubicle, not if it was a wet room, I hate those.

notangelinajolie · 06/10/2018 11:04

As a buyer I couldn't care less as I always put my own new bathroom in (with bath).

As a seller I would sell with a bath. Some people can't see beyond a bathroom with no bath.

Kintan · 06/10/2018 11:04

It depends if it would be easy to put the bath back in - so maybe configure it so the future buyer wouldn’t have to totally re do the whole bathroom but could just rip out the shower until and replace with a bath rather than have move around the toilet etc. It would definitely put me off it looked difficult!

NoArmaniNoPunani · 06/10/2018 11:06

Yes. I've just had my bath replaced with a huge walk in shower. I love it

chipsandpeas · 06/10/2018 11:06

generally no but if the space is there to put a bath back in then it possibly wouldnt put me off

MissLingoss · 06/10/2018 11:08

Do what works for you as a family now.
Don’t inconvenience yourself for 10 years for a maybe!!

Agree with this.

If a house ticked all the main boxes - location, price, type of house - I wouldn't be put off by something I could live with, and which could be fairly easily changed when I got round to it.

NameChanger22 · 06/10/2018 11:08

No. I would buy a house without a shower, but not a bath.

Bluewidow · 06/10/2018 11:14

Well if your selling in 10 years I really wouldn't worry about it. It's your house now so enjoy it as you want it. We have two ensuites and a bathroom - baths been used about 6 times is a year.

LittleBLUEsmurfHouse · 06/10/2018 11:14

Yes. Showers over baths are a pain in the neck and I hate them. An extra large shower cubicle in place of the bath or a wet room done properly (with the proper flooring not tiles which will leak) is much more appealing to me.

I agree with notWORKzilla Don’t inconvenience yourself for 10 years for a maybe!! and in 10 years no matter how much you try to make it so it won't date, it will have.

BlueEyedBengal · 06/10/2018 11:29

No I bath the kids in the bath I have 2 bathrooms and both have baths with shower mixer taps. The upstairs one has a separate power shower cubicle, so great for both uses older kids and younger kids and if they want a quick shower after sports it's there but usually they love the bath.

DonDrapersOldFashioned · 06/10/2018 11:31

Yes but DH wouldn’t.

bathsh3ba · 06/10/2018 11:37

No. Ideal would be a main bathroom with bath and shower mixer and a second bathroom with shower cubicle, or a bathroom with bath and shower cubicle. But if no bath I probably wouldn't even view.

CloudPop · 06/10/2018 11:40

Make sure your shower is the size of a bath - gives you a lovely big shower and if someone wants to put a bath back in, it's relatively straightforward

noenergy · 06/10/2018 12:01

Yes I haven't had a bath in years.

If you have a big shower then you can put a baby bath in it for babies which is what I did

acatcalledjohn · 06/10/2018 12:06

I would because I much prefer having a shower.

However, we have just fitted a shower over a bath in favour of a "proper shower" as we intend to move in the next five years or so. We live in a 3 bed terrace, so have kept the buying audience in mind.

If you intend to stay in your house closer to another 10 years then do what you want.

lastqueenofscotland · 06/10/2018 12:16

Yes. I literally cannot remember the last time I had a bath.

gamerwidow · 06/10/2018 12:18

No even though me and DH never use the bath it’s nice to have for DD.
However if you’re keeping the house for at least 10 years who cares if anyone else likes it. Make the house the home you want.

llangennith · 06/10/2018 12:24

Bath-loving DD recently bought a big Victorian house which had a newly installed, high spec 'bathroom' in a former large bedroom. I say bathroom but it didn't have a bath in it. It didn't put her off buying the house but the first thing she did was have a bath installed. It involved quite a lot of work and expense re new tiling and making good etc but now it's perfect.
As others say, do what works for you OP, any future buyer will know they can reinstall a bath if they so choose.

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surferjet · 06/10/2018 13:50

Thank you all, really appreciate your comments.

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