Spa bath and shower board!

We fortunately have room for a free standing bath cause I just love to soak and read we also have a shower which comes in handy for a "quick one". We put boards in all round the bathroom and have never regretted this. Little cleaning is necessary and the walls look lovely and warm at all times. No tiles nor grout etc etc etc. The bathroom and wall boards were put in over 5 years ago and no problems yet!!! On the other hand my sister had her bath removed cause she prefers a shower and she now has the wall boards after having years of tiles and having a bath in her bathroom. She never tooka bath as she had a shower over her bath. Anyway you are the customer get what you want not what the salesman wants and get another quote from someone else.(a must) These people can come to your house with a laptop and design something which suits you. Don't be afraid to say what it is you want as I had to say when changing the deign of the bathroom "you can't place the bath there how will I reach the window" duh. Sales and costs can now be negotiated by the customer and I just love this power we as customers now have. Please let me know know how you get on and good luck

And enjoy

I really want to change my bathroom because the suite is a sort of peachy colour which I think is a bit naff. What is holding me back is that I have only a small house with no other loo and am worried about what to do when the work is going on. I have also thought about abandoning the bath and having a large walk-in shower with a seat in it as I hardly ever have a bath. However, there is room for a shower cubicle in addition to the bath. Any advice?

I think I'd consider retaining the bath if you also have room for an additional shower cubicle, on the grounds that if you come to sell your house, the lack of a bath could be seen as a disadvantage. Of course, this may not be an issue for you, in which case you can please yourself. As regards the loo, I managed this by the kindness of neighbours and my local Tesco - as they say, every little helps

anno We wanted a walk-in shower because climbing in and out of the bath to shower was a pest, and then sitting up in the bath and pulling yourself to stand up became even worse. We wanted the biggest shower we could, but to keep a bath.

Our bathroom is quite big (9 x 7) but with a door at one end and a window at the other there was a limit on where we could place things. the recatangular showers were still too deep to go at the side of the door - the only logical place if we kept a bath.

Then we saw a bath in B & Q which was shaped like a letter P. The narrow foot of it goes beside the door and the semicircle is far enough away for the door to open (had to turn main door round but that was nothing) Then we found a bath (also B & Q) which tapered at one end, so there was more space between it and the bulge of the shower. Result - bath, shower, loo, basin and a chest of drawers for towels (laundry in bottom drawer) and plenty of space in between.

Incidentally, neither of us ever used that bath after the shower was installed. The grandchildren are hosed down in it though.

I typed rubbish - the P shape was the shower, not the bath. sorry.