Bath with no shower - what are the options?

[Lottapianos]

Hoping to move house soon. There is a shower room downstairs and a bathroom upstairs. Upstairs bathroom has a lovely bath, with plumbing in the middle. No shower over the bath, no shower hose attached to the taps. No room to add a separate shower enclosure

What are the options? Would it be possible to add a shower hose to the existing mixer tap in the middle of the bath and attach it to the wall, giving us a shower over the bath? Or would we need to rip out bath and replace it with one that has plumbing on the left?

You can add a shower attachment or chang the taps

But a photo would be helpful

Annoyingly, I don't have a photo do you have any specific questions about the space?

Can you find a photo of a similar set up?

But if you wanted to - have a look at shower baths (online suppliers rather than ham bath showrooms)

Bath panel and screen £200 delivered

New bar shower £150

Then you're looking at plumbing and possibly new tiles (but with the trend for an 'odd' strip of tiles or sparkly one you may get away with just a small section

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Sorry, on phone so can't do clicky links. It's like this, but instead of the space on the right hand side, there a wall with a window. I would want the shower to hang on the left hand side wall (obvs!)

Option 1 is to replace the current tap with one that has a mixer attachment if yours doesn't have it. Have you looked underneath the taps for where you would attach a shower hose?

Option 2, you can buy a ceiling fed Mira digital shower where the water hose is fed through the riser rail. That way you don't have to touch the tiling already there, just attach the riser rail to the wall.

It does mean that the mixer box where the water is mixed together has to live in the loft space above the shower and you will need an electrician to supply the mixer box with power.

This video helps explain it a bit better.