Would you buy a flat with no bathtub?

[mauvenailvarnish]

I'm looking at a flat in good nick with a good layout, good kitchen, in a good building.

Bathroom renovated attractively, but owners took out the bath. No hand shower either. I usually shower, but I'm not sure about never being able to bathe.

Big city view on a high floor, but modernist, very ugly (imo) building very visible from all rooms.

The photo is what you would see if you were reading in bed.

Price is not cheap, but fair.

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I haven’t had a bath in 20 years.
We renovated our bathroom a few years ago & ripped out the bath & put in a large walk-in shower. Much more practical.

The lack of a bathtub would not bother me at all, I prefer showers. However the view from the window is awful, it’s sort of prison like and quite close to your building.

The view alone would put me off, and the lack of bath would seal it.

Is the lack of a bath tub the only problem? If you usually shower can you see yourself actually wanting a bath and missing the option? Do you mind the view? It wouldn't bother me cos I don't value views but I know some people do. In a city you expect do see other buildings.

For a flat intended to house a single adult or couple; no it wouldn't bother me. For a house with children, yes, it would.

I detest baths so it’d be a big plus for me.

It's very ugly. And what size is the shower? A huge big walk in one probably means I wouldn't miss the bath. A small squeezed square with a fixed shower where you can barely turn round would be a definite no.

I'm on the No side anyway, to be honest just on that awful view.

Lots of couples have a baby before moving out, so it may reduce your future buyers. IfI was looking now past that stage I might be tempted if a bit discounted

Well I moved a few years ago and I would say that the biggest compromise I
made was only having a shower but no
bath. I won’t say I don’t miss a bath but , over all, this flat ticked the most boxes of those I saw.
Could you save for a bit and put in a bath
later? Or at least a shower with a hand
attachment?
The view from the bed in the photo isn’t great but, in bed, wouldn’t you have curtains closed?

The lack of a bath would not bother me at all, in fact we have taken out baths in the bathrooms and replaced them with spacious walk-in showers in the last two houses we have owned.
When we sold the last place the only people who were disappointed at the lack of a bath was one family who had failed to read the full description of the house. Where I had emphasised the fact that there was no bath.

No bath would be a bonus for me.

Our house didn’t have a bath when we bought it. It didn’t put us off as the house was otherwise perfect. We just budgeted to have a bath fitted once we had moved in.

We removed the shower cubicle but kept the shower on the wall, and then put a shower bath under it instead (a bath with a wider section at the end to shower in).

it want that expensive to do. We luckily got hold of some matching tiles to fill in the gaps.

This is the bathroom.

They did a nice job, imo, but they should have put in a hand shower. I would have to break that wall and replace the tiles - would be impossible to find exactly the same tiles as was done about 10 years ago.

Oops - here's the photo.

No bath would not bother me.
my dm worried about removing the bath from her house - as it was a small family home (3 bed detached) and when we sold it after she died nobody mentioned the lack of bath when viewing the property.

Offer well under asking

@mauvenailvarnish nice, decent sized shower. 😀

I can't bare a hotel room without a bath. I hate them. I'll tolerate them if I have to, but given the choice it's a bath every time.

A bath is one of those little things I'd really miss very quickly and I would not consider buying a house without one.

Yes I would…can’t remember the last time I had a bath (well over 30 years!)

I uploaded your photo to chatGPT and it says they are still available, and are called Carrara white marble tiles.

No bath wouldn’t bother me at all, only used ours twice in the eleven years we lived here. View is fairly standard for city centre place.

I haven't bathed for years. And I haven't used a hand held shower for years. What do you want one of those for, they're a pain. The bathroom looks lovely by the way.

It looks as if there may be space to reinstate a bath there (plus there was room for one before). The waste and water pipes should still be there so you could do this - plumbing wise, it shouldn't be that complex. However, I've got a bath with a shower attachment and just have showers.

If you find plans for other flats in the block from previous sales, you may find a layout showing how it was done.
A builder friend told me the first thing homebuyers do if change the kitchen and the second is change the bathroom.

I like having a bath available as I use it for quite a lot of things, mostly cleaning/soaking. But it's fairly straightforward to put one back in, as long as there's space, so not having one wouldn't be a dealbreaker, though it would annoy me to have to and it might put me off if there was a similar flat with a bath.

Ripped out two baths in my house and replaced with walk-in showers. Noone bathed in the former baths for over ten years, maybe even 15. If a small child puts in an appearance anytime soon there are portable baths. By 3 years old they can shower like everyone else. Views don't interest me, especially when I'm reading.