Crucial Bathroom Debate

[karrie]

Yes... yes... it's crucial. I need input. I need loud, outspoken views. Be as straight forward as you need to be.

Would you, or wouldn't you, buy a house with only a double shower on the main floor, and a simple bathtub/shower combo in the basement?

 

[Scott Free]

A bath is nice but shower sex is better.

 

[darkbeaver]

Hire a stone mason, have him/her build you something that will last and looks good, you can wire them in slab heating, that shower stall picture is hideous. Looks like an upscale urinal.

 

[Outta here]

TWO? TWO showers in ONE house?
Seriously, if I liked the house, I'd buy it and replace the shower upstairs with a tub. Yep... that's what I'd do.

 

[darkbeaver]

Yes, a big deep stone tub with heating elements.

 

[karrie]

look over this shower Zan, and tell me if you'd pull it out in favor of a tub (and keep in mind there's a hot tub in the back yard for soaking in).

http://www.maax.com/en/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?CodeCategory=B&Brand=2&ProductType=32&Product=1832

 

[karrie]

Hire a stone mason, have him/her build you something that will last and looks good, you can wire them in slab heating, that shower stall picture is hideous. Looks like an upscale urinal.

The bathroom isn't big enough (nor is the budget) for anything too custom beaver.

 

[Outta here]

ok... tough call, I admit. That's a pretty sweet shower, and I rarely get time for a bath anyway... guess I could haul my tired a$$ downstairs if I actually had time for one...

Best set-up I ever saw was my brother's old house... a jacuzzi tub IN THE BEDROOM, with a bathroom with a shower stall just a few feet away.

*sigh* I still covet that room.

 

[karrie]

Yeah, I'd go that route if I lived in a house that wasn't just a simple 70's floor plan. I've barely got closets let alone room for ensuites and such. lol

 

[jenn]

I am a shower person....but without an ensuite I am totally lost...lol.

 

[gerryh]

Yes... yes... it's crucial. I need input. I need loud, outspoken views. Be as straight forward as you need to be.

Would you, or wouldn't you, buy a house with only a double shower on the main floor, and a simple bathtub/shower combo in the basement?

If I was female...I'd do whatever my husband wanted.....cause I love him soooooooo much.

 

[Pangloss]

How Southern Baptist Convention of you.

Pangloss

 

[s243a]

That looks kind of neat. I´ve never seen a double shower before.

 

[s_lone]

A bath is supposed to be meaningful. I mean, when you take a bath, it's that you really feel like taking a bath. So I'm sure the trip to the basement will be worth it.

 

[Nuggler]

I can't relate to "you people" who multi-floor.
Have you never heard of bungalows?
One floor.
Bath and shower in one room.
You are just so "dated"
Just so 1970's.
We are, at least, 1950's.
One tub, with a shower curtain, and a hose thingy so one can shower/bathe at the same time, and get really clean.
Or just lay in a tub of hot water and read a book.
Double shower indeed!
How perverted.
CSIS (Canadians Shower In Silence) shall hear of this.
No more of your filth.
Fie on thee.
Harrumph.

:canada:ONE TUB, ONE SHOWER, FROM SEA TO SEA.

 

[hermanntrude]

when does anyone have time for a bath anyway? I'd always get a house with a decent shower over any house with a bath. And a walk-in shower is so much better than slipping over and smashing your head on the bath one day.

 

[Praxius]

I have and always will have one answer to that question, and unless you're talking about one of these bathtubs:

Then I would choose the shower of course. Being as tall as I am, unless it's a Victorian Bathtub in question, I ain't gonna fit in it, therefore a shower is my only logical solution.

Have you ever seen a 6'6 guy trying to take a bath in a standard apartment sized bathtub?

It's like watching a Walrus in a bucket.... all big, ackward and flapping all over the place trying to keep wet.

 

[Zzarchov]

Oh my first apartment with the missus was an attic apt, where the ceiling slopes at the sides. The bathroom was against the sliding wall, it held a tub (no shower) with a shower wand, and I could only kneel.

It sucked so badly.

 

[missile]

All I have is a large,old fashioned tub and would love to have a shower installed. Sounds like you have plenty of options there now..a hot tub

 

[boiler]

As a plumber who has installed many of each, I give you this to ponder:- most people wioth bath's say they like to soak in them, but skin is water proof, or isit because they like to lie in their own scum. whereas with a shower, the dirt grease or whatever is washed off and goes down the drain, whilst the water from the shower (normally) stays at the same temp, the bath water tends to cool.
Darkbeaver, what's with all the electric wires, you want to barbeque them all?