Can I stand a clawfoot bath in my wet room?

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It's a housing association property so cannot put in a new bathroom even if I could afford it. I have a tiny wet room and really miss baths! The dc hate the shower so they are currently bathing in an IKEA baby bath that they outgrew years ago. I've been looking at foldable bathtubs on Amazon and they all look cheap and uncomfortable. Would I be able to just buy a freestanding real bathtub and just put it in there? I'd obviously have to be careful when draining the water out as the shower drain is slower then a regular plughole. I'm sure there must be a flaw in my plan but I can't see it.

I thought about this as I have a very large shower but even if I put a temporary bath in the shower tray, the only way to fill it would be with the electric shower.
Not only would it take ages, it would cost a fortune compared to water heated by gas!

So the bath drainage wouldn’t be plumbed into a wastewater pipe, but you’d drain it straight onto the wet room floor to flow away? I think that’s going to be your biggest problem, along with the plumbing arrangements for the taps. It isn’t impossible but you’d want a decent plumber to sign off the arrangement first.

The weight of the tub would also need to be a consideration, especially for a full-size tub.

Also, if the shower drain is fairly slow, would you trust everyone to watch it while it drains? I think that would worry me the most; all it would take is one time of not doing it and it could cause a lot of water damage.

I'm on the ground floor so I don't think weight would be an issue. It's mainly for the dc so the bath would rarely be full to the top.

I was planning to get one of those push on rubber shower attachments and fill the bath from the bathroom sink taps rather than with the electric shower. It would drain straight onto the wet room floor but I'd do it slowly or it would flood out into the hallway. It's just me and 2 small dc so it's always me that drains the bath anyway.

You could stick the kids in a plasterers bath

@BlahBlub That's actually plan B