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Is there any use for Baths these days?

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well, personally, I love a bath. Some nice bath oils or such added to the water. Very relaxing.

    The thing about showers is interesting because I would think you'd use more water with a shower. Sure, some people do very quick showers, but whenever I've shared with people, they would stay in the shower for quite some time. Whereas with a bath, you fill it, and just maintain the heat.

    I'd suspect a shower uses more water..


  • #33
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    In about 20 years, two baths. Although, I would imagine a house with a bath, would still sell quicker than one without one. Still give re sale, especially for a young family.
    retro:electro wrote: »
    They’re a great host for dissolving bodies in hydroflouric acid

    Not necessarily...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfO-54me-jY


  • #34
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Can the children not just have a shower :confused:

    Try and get a child under 4/5 years old into a shower...


  • #35
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I specifically request hotel tooms with out baths. I hate stepping into them when going for a shower, the constant feeling that I’ll slip and hurt myself.

    I don’t find baths relaxing or pampering. I have a bath in my house but I haven’t used it once. Don’t have kids or dogs so can’t see it being used either.


  • #36
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Creative83 wrote: »
    For one thing, baths just seem like a massive waste of space... I mean come on, when was the last time you had a bath? :o For me, it was when I was 10 or 11 I think... a shower is not only way more efficient but you don't get to lye in your own filth! You can get so much more space in any bathroom without the bloody bath that is never used!


    Have baths in houses & apartments had their day?

    No.

    Very rarely have one myself - maybe 5 or 6 in the past decade, but use it for the kids all the time.

    I've never understood people who spend good money removing their bath and installing as shower "for space" - what do you gain a 2 or 3 grand bill and a square metre of bathroom to do what in exactly?

    It's not like you're going to fit an extra bedroom in that square metre is it!


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  • #37
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    No.

    Very rarely have one myself - maybe 5 or 6 in the past decade, but use it for the kids all the time.

    I've never understood people who spend good money removing their bath and installing as shower "for space" - what do you gain a 2 or 3 grand bill and a square metre of bathroom to do what in exactly?

    It's not like you're going to fit an extra bedroom in that square metre is it!

    Will be honest, I contimplated this, replacing a bath for a walk in shower, as I would never use it. As my last post, was told 're sale'.


  • #38
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Baths are very nice on the very odd occassion I take one, but agree generally waste of space and water usage and I think Id prefer have a bigger bathroom instead


  • #39
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,479 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I was maself weith a rag on a stick


  • #40
    AlphaOmega1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭AlphaOmega1


    Had one the other night, dumped a load of body lotion in, scalding hot water, threw the phone in a ziplock bag. was deadly


  • #41
    trick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭trick


    I love my bath. I have a bath at least once a week. (I shower every day).
    I love the ritual of a bath. A tonne of Epsom salts, some essential oils.
    It would never live in a house that doesn’t have a bath
    (Obv not having baths at the mo with the drought situation)


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  • #42
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Moved into a new apartment with a bath. Great for the kids, I thought. I think they've used it once. Used it three times myself, never on my own though, that's just boring.


  • #43
    greenttc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Try and get a child under 4/5 years old into a shower...

    My 1.5 year old loves the shower! Just tries to climb out of the bath!


  • #44
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    A place for drinking water storage in the event of nuclear war.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Total waste of space, we did up the main bathroom at home recently and got rid of the bath altogether as it was never used. I’d seriously consider not putting in a bath at all if I was building a house.


  • #46
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭valoren


    The thing is you will decide that the bath is a waste of space, that it rarely if ever get's used.....but.......when you do get rid of it, you'll be overcome with an intermittent urge to have a bath and will regret getting rid of it. I guess you only appreciate something when it's gone.


  • #47
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Epsom salts and a bath
    Nice


  • #48
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Re-did the bathroom in our house, ripped out the bath and got a really nice pumped shower instead. We wouldn't use it and the toddler has its own small bathtub.
    I just don't do relaxing baths unless I'm in a hotel with the children 100 miles+ away.


  • #49
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,054 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Can the children not just have a shower :confused:

    Have you ever tried to give a toddler a shower. Also babies can't go in the shower.


  • #50
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If you really think a bath is "lying in your own filth", you clearly don't know how soap works. Use bubble bath, then any dirt that comes off is coated and can't stick to you: you're insulated against the dirt by the soap.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #51
    Arrival
    Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Arrival


    I hate the fact that so many apartments have baths instead of showers. They could make better use of that room that it takes up


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  • #52
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    optogirl wrote: »
    Have you ever tried to give a toddler a shower. Also babies can't go in the shower.

    They can fit in the sink...


  • #53
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    My current 2-bed house (really more a duplex apartment as no garden either) has no bathROOM... just 2 ensuites and a downstairs toilet.

    Would never use the bath anyway but not sure about missing the entire room!


  • #54
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    dudara wrote: »
    I specifically request hotel tooms with out baths. I hate stepping into them when going for a shower, the constant feeling that I’ll slip and hurt myself.

    I don’t find baths relaxing or pampering. I have a bath in my house but I haven’t used it once. Don’t have kids or dogs so can’t see it being used either.

    Very handy for soaking the oven racks!


  • #55
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Walker Wailing Bunny wrote: »
    Total waste of space, we did up the main bathroom at home recently and got rid of the bath altogether as it was never used. I’d seriously consider not putting in a bath at all if I was building a house.

    Presumably you put a shower in though, which is roughly half the size of the bath if not bigger? You basically gain about a square metre - is it really worth the effort?

    It's only the kids use it in our house and the missus often talks about getting rid of it when they're a bit older, but it just seems like a lot of effort for no real reward to me. There'd barely be room to stand on the piece of extra floor you'd gain!


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Presumably you put a shower in though, which is roughly half the size of the bath if not bigger? You basically gain about a square metre - is it really worth the effort?

    It's only the kids use it in our house and the missus often talks about getting rid of it when they're a bit older, but it just seems like a lot of effort for no real reward to me. There'd barely be room to stand on the piece of extra floor you'd gain!

    There was already a separate shower in the room also (though it was replaced with a new one) its a big bathroom, just took out the bath, rearranged the layout out of the sink etc and generally made the bathroom more spacious and nicer looking. The bath was very big also so there was quiet a bit of space freed up and the new layout is better.


  • #57
    Star Bingo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭Star Bingo


    When it occurs to me I need to become reacquainted with the bike/bench out in the shed then yes the hot tub is important for recovery it’s very therapeutic. Rejuvenating reinvigorating. Detoxifying/deep cleansing....what else does it say on the bottle

    Natural extracts but yes there is definitely a use for a bath. Wouldn’t really be a bathroom without one anyway now would it


  • #58
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Bath no good and too small. Time to start buying €5,000 plastic jaccuzis from China again

    The heady days are back!


  • #59
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Very handy for soaking the oven racks!

    That is honestly the first time I’ve ever heard that!! :)


  • #60
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • #61
    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    optogirl wrote: »
    Have you ever tried to give a toddler a shower. Also babies can't go in the shower.

    Fair enough if you've a fixed shower head. We have a shower (no bath), fixed shower head & separate shower head on flex hose we use for the toddlers.

    When they were babies they were in a small plastic baby bath.


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