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Post by elaine on Jan 24, 2023 0:59:09 GMT
Hmmm… for some reason I never considered getting rid of the bathtub as we are planning bathroom renovations. I LOVE the idea. And I would definitely be open to buying a house with only showers. Our kids rarely took baths. As babies they showered with one of us and were handed off to the other parent to dry and cloth. From about 2 yo and up, they showered with outside assistance and then by themselves. Baths were reserved for the few times there was enough time for the tub to fill and allow for playtime, which in a busy home was infrequent. There was one time our daughter as a teen decided to run the water for the bath and flooded the bathroom and the dining room below. That wouldn’t have happened with no tub! I think I may have taken a bath 2 times in all the 26 years we’ve lived here. Ask me about $1K+ of damage my teenage son did by not shutting the shower door all the way in his bathroom, flooded the bathroom and dining room below…😭 |
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Post by BSnyder on Jan 24, 2023 1:05:25 GMT
Hmmm… for some reason I never considered getting rid of the bathtub as we are planning bathroom renovations. I LOVE the idea. And I would definitely be open to buying a house with only showers. Our kids rarely took baths. As babies they showered with one of us and were handed off to the other parent to dry and cloth. From about 2 yo and up, they showered with outside assistance and then by themselves. Baths were reserved for the few times there was enough time for the tub to fill and allow for playtime, which in a busy home was infrequent. There was one time our daughter as a teen decided to run the water for the bath and flooded the bathroom and the dining room below. That wouldn’t have happened with no tub! I think I may have taken a bath 2 times in all the 26 years we’ve lived here. Ask me about $1K+ of damage my teenage son did by not shutting the shower door all the way in his bathroom, flooded the bathroom and dining room below…😭 And here I thought having only showers would solve that problem!!! |
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Post by elaine on Jan 24, 2023 1:09:37 GMT
Ask me about $1K+ of damage my teenage son did by not shutting the shower door all the way in his bathroom, flooded the bathroom and dining room below…😭 And here I thought having only showers would solve that problem!!! Teenagers have not-yet-mature brains and can be extremely costly to their parents who can only ask “what WERE you thinking?” To which, the response is, of course - they weren’t thinking…😝 |
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Post by kiavonne on Jan 24, 2023 3:38:52 GMT
I have a small 2-bedroom condo. For more than 30 years from the time I moved in, the only bathroom had a tub and shower combo. Over the past few years, the tub was getting more and more hazardous to me, slipping and having problems getting my bad knee over the side (it was a deep tub from the early 60s). A year ago, I had it converted to shower only. Showers are much more important to me, since I have many pains and being able to get up in the middle of the night and let hot water run down on that painful spot helps. I often shower in the middle of the night. Every time I peek at houses on the market (I'll never be able to afford), I always check to see if the en suite has a separate shower or shower only. So, I would buy a house if it only had showers. I don't have overnight guests, and my spare room is my craft room, so I would only have to please me. Regardless, you do you. Make that bathroom shower only, and enjoy it. It's your space right now, a new owner can do what they wish later. As Don said, it will still sell.
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Post by freecharlie on Jan 24, 2023 6:37:18 GMT
I would not, but I love baths.
If I had small children I'd want a bathtub.
But I also believe that you are living in the house, you should do what makes YOU happy.
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Post by jackietex on Jan 24, 2023 9:41:05 GMT
I would in my current stage of life. I haven't taken a bath in decades. Actually, I hate baths, I don't feel clean afterward. If I had small children, then one tub would be mandatory.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 24, 2023 15:49:13 GMT
We will be taking ours out and making it just a shower. We have another bathroom with just a shower too. Neither of us ever takes baths and we had a beautiful jacuzzi tub in our old house and never used it. We said when we have grandchildren and they are visiting we will just put a big bucket in the shower and use a hand held sprayer to fill it. I think that’s a reasonable plan. When my kid was little, we had one of those plastic baby bathtubs that sits inside the regular tub. She used that thing until she was probably almost two years old at our old house because it was safer than filling the bathtub. It would be just as easy, if not easier, to fill the little baby tub in a walk in shower as it would be to use it in the tub. |
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Post by katiekaty on Jan 24, 2023 17:25:05 GMT
The only time we have used a bath tub in this house in 23 years was to wash a dog! I would go for all showers if the was a dog washing tub/station built in the garage or laundry room!
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Post by papersilly on Jan 24, 2023 18:53:17 GMT
i am striving for a house with no bathtub. large showers are so much better.
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Post by lucyg on Jan 24, 2023 19:17:57 GMT
I’m going to be doing the same thing here and have had the same concerns.
There’s a master bedroom upstairs with only a shower, no bathtub. And a hall bath downstairs with bathtub/shower. I’m taking out the bathtub and replacing it with a walk-in shower. Mostly because I’m not gettin’ any younger, and I might want to move downstairs someday. (The remaining bedrooms are all downstairs.)
I’m a little worried that the lack of a bathtub could affect future sales prospects, but finally decided that it wouldn’t be that hard (or expensive) to take out the shower and replace it with a bathtub, if need be. Either for the seller or the buyer.
So I say, go for it.
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Post by caangel on Jan 24, 2023 22:25:42 GMT
The only time we have used a bath tub in this house in 23 years was to wash a dog! I would go for all showers if the was a dog washing tub/station built in the garage or laundry room! This is my quandary... We have 4 bathrooms, the 2 upstairs both have tubs (owners suite and kids' bathroom). And there are 2 downstairs, one with a tub in the guest bathroom that is for general use and the use of one bedroom. The other downstairs bathroom is a second owners' en suite with a shower. We need to redo the two downstairs bathrooms. So do I take out the tub and just keep the shower? I feel like the guest bathroom has to at least have a shower since it would be weird to share with the owner's en suite bathroom if they needed to shower. But having a tub for dog baths is convenient. We have medium to large dogs so a sink won't work and we don't allow dogs upstairs. We do have a mud room but no room for a dog wash area. All that being said I only wash the dog inside a few times a year. Most of the time it's warm enough to do it outside with a hose. |
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Post by kachilyn on Jan 24, 2023 23:40:23 GMT
The only time we have used a bath tub in this house in 23 years was to wash a dog! I would go for all showers if the was a dog washing tub/station built in the garage or laundry room! This is my quandary... We have 4 bathrooms, the 2 upstairs both have tubs (owners suite and kids' bathroom). And there are 2 downstairs, one with a tub in the guest bathroom that is for general use and the use of one bedroom. The other downstairs bathroom is a second owners' en suite with a shower. We need to redo the two downstairs bathrooms. So do I take out the tub and just keep the shower? I feel like the guest bathroom has to at least have a shower since it would be weird to share with the owner's en suite bathroom if they needed to shower. But having a tub for dog baths is convenient. We have medium to large dogs so a sink won't work and we don't allow dogs upstairs. We do have a mud room but no room for a dog wash area. All that being said I only wash the dog inside a few times a year. Most of the time it's warm enough to do it outside with a hose. Dog baths - walk in shower with hand held sprayer with extra long cord is perfect! Great options for putting a shower chair in and using post surgery or with mobility issues but doubles as an easy dog cleaning station! Has worked great for us and can be used as a regular shower for family/guests as well (ours is on the first floor). |
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Post by katlady on Jan 25, 2023 1:39:36 GMT
Just an random bath comment: I very rarely take baths. However, when I do, I soak in the tub for a while, and then get up and get in the shower to wash my hair and the rest of my body. I can't imagine just getting out of the tub and drying off when I have been soaking in "used" water.  I don’t take a lot of baths, but when I do, I do the opposite. I shower and wash my body and hair, then jump into the tub. We have a separate tub and shower. But like I said, it is very rare when I take a bath. As to the OP, I would keep at least one tub in the house. You never know when you may need one. |
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Post by hennybutton on Jan 25, 2023 6:59:37 GMT
The only time we have used a bath tub in this house in 23 years was to wash a dog! I would go for all showers if the was a dog washing tub/station built in the garage or laundry room! This is my quandary... We have 4 bathrooms, the 2 upstairs both have tubs (owners suite and kids' bathroom). And there are 2 downstairs, one with a tub in the guest bathroom that is for general use and the use of one bedroom. The other downstairs bathroom is a second owners' en suite with a shower. We need to redo the two downstairs bathrooms. So do I take out the tub and just keep the shower? I feel like the guest bathroom has to at least have a shower since it would be weird to share with the owner's en suite bathroom if they needed to shower. But having a tub for dog baths is convenient. We have medium to large dogs so a sink won't work and we don't allow dogs upstairs. We do have a mud room but no room for a dog wash area. All that being said I only wash the dog inside a few times a year. Most of the time it's warm enough to do it outside with a hose. I highly recommend shower-only downstairs. Our downstairs bathroom has a good sized shower with a bench and it has come in so handy when one of us is injured or has had surgery and has mobility issues as a result. We're getting ready to remodel all 3 of our bathrooms. We're keeping a tub in the upstairs bathroom, but we are shower only in the master and the downstairs. We figure that if one of us ends up having issues with climbing the stairs, at least the downstairs bathroom will be safe to get in and out of. |
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Post by jenb72 on Jan 25, 2023 15:16:41 GMT
If it were only me, then yes. I would. However, DH likes taking baths, so we wouldn't buy a house that only had a shower. The caveat to that is DH is not a small man. We're both tall and he's a very stocky guy. So he needs a deep tub - think soaking tub. So even buying a house with a tub already installed, the chances we'll be switching out that tub (which is usually a std size or garden tub) are pretty high.
Jen
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Post by caangel on Jan 25, 2023 15:20:00 GMT
hennybutton when we remodel the downstairs owners' en suite will be remodeled with aging in place in mind. It already has a shower only. I'm hoping to make it a zero entry shower but we are on slab so not sure it will be financially possible. Definitely will be adding grab bars. The downstairs guest bath is the one I'm debating on taking out the tub. I kind of wish I could take out the shower completely but then the guest room wouldn't have access to a shower besides sharing with the owners' en suite which I think would be odd. If I took out the guest shower it would give more space to the en suite which would be nice. We'd go from 4 full baths to 3 full and 1 powder.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jan 26, 2023 13:22:21 GMT
Thank you for your opinions and knowledge, everyone. This thread has been really helpful. I showed it to DH and I think we will be taking the bathtub out at some point, although it is pretty far down our list of priorities. At least we now have a decision made and a plan. Then we can start the fun shopping stuff and arguing over colours!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2023 13:33:23 GMT
I think you would decrease the potential buyer pool by 50% if you have no tub. You could have just a small soaking tub rather than a long rectangular type, if that would be a better fit.
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Post by katiekaty on Jan 26, 2023 19:47:57 GMT
This is my quandary... We have 4 bathrooms, the 2 upstairs both have tubs (owners suite and kids' bathroom). And there are 2 downstairs, one with a tub in the guest bathroom that is for general use and the use of one bedroom. The other downstairs bathroom is a second owners' en suite with a shower. We need to redo the two downstairs bathrooms. So do I take out the tub and just keep the shower? I feel like the guest bathroom has to at least have a shower since it would be weird to share with the owner's en suite bathroom if they needed to shower. But having a tub for dog baths is convenient. We have medium to large dogs so a sink won't work and we don't allow dogs upstairs. We do have a mud room but no room for a dog wash area. All that being said I only wash the dog inside a few times a year. Most of the time it's warm enough to do it outside with a hose. Dog baths - walk in shower with hand held sprayer with extra long cord is perfect! Great options for putting a shower chair in and using post surgery or with mobility issues but doubles as an easy dog cleaning station! Has worked great for us and can be used as a regular shower for family/guests as well (ours is on the first floor). Charlie thinks any kind of water is for splashing and diving so just a shower with hand held shower head doesn’t work! We’ve tried. Besides he’s a big dog and it takes a good bit of time, 5-10 minutes at least to soap him down and scrub things off him. He’s a mud diver and doesn’t mind rolling in whatever else he can find in the yard including bird dropping and his own Pooh if we don’t get to it quick enough. He’s a bratty 11 month old who is all clown and little boy kid inside. So, hubby is thinking of adding a laundry room in the garage where we have room—with a small tub for the mutt and washer and dryer and sink and shelves for folding and drop down folding racks. We would also keep the laundry closet inside but sta called and create a set of shelving for pantry overflow since this is right off the kitchen! I hope it happens ny summer. Then all bathrooms will be redone with new shower only and built in benches and wide doors to accommodate any visitors and my grown up sons! |
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Post by buddysmom on Jan 27, 2023 0:10:08 GMT
We used to move pretty often 30+ years ago. Realtors then always said you HAD to have at least one tub.
Now--especially in retirement areas or if you aren't planning on moving, that is no longer the case-do what you want.
We have a tub in our master that is very important to us:) We haven't used it in 15+ years but this is where we feed our cat so our dog doesn't get it and gobble it down.
It's a safe place for her to enjoy her goodies in peace.
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