Deep Baths

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Bathroom space is tight so a 1600 x 700 mm, square edged, fitted bath is needed. Finding it difficult to find one that isn’t just average depth or less, as it appears that the shorter the bath, the shallower it gets. That seems counter intuitive to me. I eventually found one that claims to be “Extra Deep” in a banner across its web page, the Sonas Pacific Endura Double Ended Bath, but on closer inspection it appears to be just an average, rather underwhelming depth of 420mm. Any suggestions will be welcomed for a 1600 bath, that isn’t a freestanding oval one & in which a 5ft 9 (170cm) person can lie in comfortably submerged without shoulders & knees getting cold.

Have you looked at Japanese baths? My sister has one, it’s short but deep.

A Japanese bath is a lovely experience - wish we’d had one fitted in our en suite

This is our bath although the fittings our bronze. I think its the best thing in our entire loft conversion and I just managed to squeeze it in. It's lovely and deep and even my wife who doesn't like baths love it. However I'm 5'3 and she's 5 foot. I can lay out but slightly curved with my head at the top one side and fit up to my toes in very slightly bent. All the fitters commented on how much it held. However the delivery was terrible in that they sent one man to deliver it alone so you really need to be ready to receive it the other end. I shall have to keep it forever as we had to bring it in through the window before it's final fitting. It makes the whole room very spa like. Other companies do what seems to the same base model but more expensive.

Edited to add it's the plumbword affine or something like that. Victorian plumb do a version with brass fittings, but it's £300. It was much better value to get the one from plumbword and the separate fittings although I did get blue light discount from drench

Thanks everyone for the help but Japanese baths are square, I need 1600 x standard width 700 to fit in the space. I can’t do a corner bath either as again wrong dimensions.

This is the one my sister has https://www.omnitub.co.uk/collections/deep-bathtubs/products/deep-seated-tub-1500-l-x-700-w-x-1000-h-japanese-soaking-tub-from-omnitub?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlsfWBhD4ARIsACL7p1GVuM3l_Ahus3XLGv-_l1LJT6IECe3AyuE--icFM-ztjMe63iO29U4aAovpEALw_wcB&gbraid=0AAAAAC4qei7J5_QbeWgN6LkwOEJo0dSGz&omn_cat=1792192692770

We have an Omnitub and I love it - we have the 800x1550 I think. Makes having a bath feel worth it because of the depth and their customer service was excellent.

I would just embrace the benefits of a small bath. Had a gigantic bath at our last house and much prefer the smaller one we have now which I'm fairly certain is 1600 x 700 (tho could actually be 650 wide - when I first saw it I was worried my fat ass wouldn't fit in it). Fills up in no time so you can have a bath on a whim and I find the slightly wedged in feel actually really comforting and relaxing as I'm not concerned about dozing off and slipping under. I am 5ft 9 too.

I've had my eye on an Omnitub for a long time.

Nice to see them getting a shout out here @IcedIslandLongTea @steppingout

My bathroom is very small and I need a shorter bath. The idea of a very deep bath is appealing. I think you don't need a shower screen with these.

I have a bette ocean, which comes in that size. Mine is larger and I slightly regret it. I love a bath but it takes so long to fill and takes so much water. I just don't use it. Wish I'd got a small Omni tub and put a bigger shower in instead.
I'd redo the bathroom but the DH won't hear of it as we only did it 2 years ago.

Too wide for the space, need 700.

It’s very shallow only 380 deep.

We used Pochins (via builders) and by spending hours carefully reading the measurements in the catalogue I managed to get a standard size that is deeper than standard. It is slightly narrower internally to make up for the depth. Fine for me. DH has a bit of a squeeze but it's my bathroom anyway! I got the more expensive finish on it, claimed to hold heat for longer and I was skeptical but it actually does and is lovely to use. Around £600 but worth it. Pochins have a huge choice of everything and good quality, recommend them.

A company called Design&Form does a huge range and bespoke. Can’t paste a link as then I can’t submit the post

Do you really need a bath? Could you just fit a showe instead?

https://www.omnitub.co.uk/en-us/collections/deep-bathtubs/products/deep-seated-tub-1100-l-x-700-w-x-1000-h-japanese-soaking-tub-from-omnitub

this looks great to me. I considered this kind of option during our remodel but it was too big of a change and would have increased our expense.

No, you're looking at the low line version. It's this one Bette Ocean

The best we found was this one, which we bought (a slightly longer length and 5cm wider but same thing):
https://www.heatandplumb.com/acatalog/carron-quantum-single-ended-rectangular-bath?variation=2777302

Very similar to the one you already found I think. But this one has a slightly bigger volume capacity than the one you found - 213 litres vs 188. Probably because it doesn’t have the space for taps along the side, vs at the end.

We found it was worth maximising for overall volume as well as depth - I wouldn’t go for the taps at the side setup as it narrows the bath even further.

This was the deepest “normal shape” bath we found - still just 410mm - but it fits us pretty well. We didnt look at Japanese baths etc as we have a shower over the top and need to be able to have elderly visitors climbing in and out.

We have this one https://bathcenter.co.uk/beaufort-portland-1600-x-800mm-single-ended-bath-gloss-white-premium-acrylic-230074-p.asp?_gl=11y4jlis_upMQ.._gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwotzWBhBFEiwA1JhPoO85Gt4-uVBYSyCWEw8wym38cLyjq1yOA4lw0OzfTM9-kCwirWf5VxoCX2sQAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAAC4_Yp9TBc3V7BJc5KTW3sxwYjhCN
It's 1600 length and 440 depth. My 6'4" partner can use it happily. Got it from bath centre and it was good quality and affordable. Might be too wide possibly but he needed more width for his frame.

Just checked, they do a 700 width too https://bathcenter.co.uk/beaufort-malin-1600-x-700mm-single-ended-bath-includes-legs--fixings-230351-p.asp?_=&variantid=230353&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16411205735&gclid=CjwKCAjwotzWBhBFEiwA1JhPoKTpJatCSYvVY4TkUc6aJ8OldFSUjPrDboi4sDPJcyAbkq6ij09vthoCM8kQAvD_BwE

Our bathroom is so small that each time we’ve had new fittings the plaster has had to be cut out to allow the bath to be fitted. Once tiled, it looks fine. We have solid walls upstairs.