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Tub vs. Shower

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tub Visit my other blog, Discover Columbus* for a very important issue: 

Tub or Shower?

Today on Inman News Illyce Glink had a very entertaining column .... bath or shower...It started out I believe with a question from older people who wanted to take out a bath tub in their home and replace it with a shower.  Would this ruin the value of the home?  Should they crawl over a tub each day to preserve that value or have a convenient walk in shower installed?  A question about value of real estate, of the value of bathroom fixtures turned into a question of bath vs. shower?

You gotta love the letter from a Texas appraiser with the sentences:  "Baths are fine as a method of getting cleaner than before, but you are seated in water that is polluted by skin flakes, dirt, deodorant, makeup and whatever. After stepping out of the bath and toweling off, some pollutants remain all over your body."

Ick...all over your body?

and

"Showers pound the body with clean water that immediately runs off down the drain carrying what ever can be loosened. Thus, after toweling off you are cleaner."

OK!

Trulia.com (a national search site) put out a trend report this week.  The average home listed in Columbus (just on their site I believe)  had 2.9 bedrooms and 1.8 baths.  That's averaging! I like Trulia.com but their 2.9 bedrooms and 1.8 baths tickles me.

Our Central Ohio multiple listing service (agent to agent information re: property, that becomes the ads (listings) consumers read on the internet search sites..(MaureenMcCabe.com, HERRealLiving.com, Trulia.com, Realtor.com etc where you see homes) the bath count goes, 1 bath, 1 1/2 bath, 2 baths, 2 1/2 baths, 3 baths.... we don't have .75 baths as some markets do and no .8 bathrooms..

Edit* January 2013 link no longer worked, so I broke it. Closing comments on this old post due to spam.  I would never have known about a long comment in some other language if a California real estate agent (member of AR) had not left a creepy sexual comment on an old, old post about bathroom fixtures.  So I guess I should say thanks or ick. 

 

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Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Thanks Margaret I have read it. I have meant to ask you to add it to the Active Rain 'Welcome Group.'

http://activerain.com/groups/Welcome

Inviting, welcoming and encouraging are so important to a network like Active Rain IMHO. 

Jan 12, 2007 09:19 PM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400
HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD
Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome

 Maureen, I have just added it to the Welcome group. This is the first group that I have joined. Thanks for the encouragement!

www.HomeRome.com

Baltimore,Md.

Jan 13, 2007 05:28 AM
Jessica Hughes
Ambiance Staging - Boulder, CO

OK, I might be in the minority here but I LOVE baths.  Who says we need to be that clean anyway?  ;)

The English love their baths and it is quite common to have a bath and no shower in a home (or only one of those handheld shower thingamagiggies).  When I first moved there I HATED having to take baths only.  My first house had an electric shower and it more like spat out water at me the pressure was so bad.  I was terrified I'd get electrocuted. 

BY the time I left 5 years later I was a bath loving convert.  My husband and I took a bath together almost every evening. Now all four of us bathe together.  Jolly good fun!

Jan 18, 2007 05:56 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

"Jolly good fun! "...  this is a PG blog entry Jessica... ;-) 

Ilyce had the tubophiles (those who love a bath) in her column this week and I wanted to do something with those but I think I missed my opportunity for quotes... since it wasin Inman.  Older women who have their hair done at the salon are proponents of baths... people who have always bathed seem to want to keep a tub even if it is hard for them to get in and out.

Reading the seriees in the  column was fun.  I guess I thought in the second column where all the shower power people responded that the house in question was going to become tubless.  I had read the first column in the series but did not have strong feelings... I thought of it as they should remodel their home however they are comfortable with it and not worry now about resale if they are in a position to afford the modification that fits their need.  The second in the series with the strong advocacy for showering tickled me.     

 

Jan 19, 2007 12:40 AM
Deborah Ryman
Santa Cruz, CA
M.A. Feng Shui Services, Santa Cruz County
I am a bath woman from way back. Love the bath. Would never buy a home without a tub, unless it had other redeeming qualities that could not be resisted.
Feb 18, 2007 05:13 AM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400
HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD
Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome
Maureen, I am still trying to figure out the .8 bath. hmmm
Apr 15, 2007 02:27 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate
. 25 would be a sink wouldn't it?  Maybe .8 is a sink with a drain but not running water?  Or an old fashioned wash basin?  The pitcher and the bowl? Bonnie Erickson has run into bathrooms without a sink (tub and toilet only) a couple of times lately.
Apr 15, 2007 05:26 AM
Anonymous
Mark
So for the states with no 3/4 bath classification,  if I have a house with a guest bath which includes a double vanity sink, toilet and large 4X6 walk-in shower...you call this a half bath?
Jul 06, 2007 04:19 AM
#25
Donna Harris
Donna Homes, powered by JPAR - TexasRealEstateMediationServices.com - Austin, TX
Realtor,Mediator,Ombudsman,Property Tax Arbitrator

Mark, in my area, what you described would be a FULL bath because there is a shower.  Showers and Tub are the same thing as you can get clean either way, so it's a full.

Jul 06, 2007 04:22 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Nope. re: Mark's  "So for the states with no 3/4 bath classification,  if I have a house with a guest bath which includes a double vanity sink, toilet and large 4X6 walk-in shower...you call this a half bath?"   In my area what you'd describe is a full bath in mls too,

a half bath is a toilet and a sink in my market and I am sure most.  I don't think "states" determine how baths are counted... I think it is more local than that but I could be wrong.

Jul 06, 2007 04:42 AM
Anonymous
Anonymous

My husband and I have been wondering if we should eliminate our bath tub and just have a shower? Our bath room is very small and we would love to maximize the space by removing the tub and just having a shower. It is very rare that we even use the tub. Not a fan of bathing in my own filth.

After reading the comments on this subject I have been left with the impression that is pretty much up to the individual making the decision. However, you may have to pay the consequences if you decide to sell your house. By that I mean, the no tub feature may not be appealing to buyers.

Question: Did the individuals that had the 3 baths ever sell or even sell below value considering that the home did not have any tubs in it?

Feb 16, 2008 05:58 AM
#28
Anonymous
CS

OK people, relax about the decimal point system. .2 doesn't mean 2/10's of a bath. The decimal is being used instead of a slash to abbreviate the feature. You wouldn't think that a 3/2 house is a house and a half would you? It's not 3 divided by 2. It's 3 br and 2 ba.

Jan 25, 2009 10:33 AM
#29
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Hey CS thanks for the comment but I think Eileen covered your point with   "So, if I show a home with 2.2 baths...means 2 full baths and 2 half baths." waaaaay back in January 2007.

Jan 25, 2009 09:47 PM
Anonymous
jon

most of these responses have absolutely nothing to do with the post!

May 06, 2009 10:02 AM
#31
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Jon... hmmmm  Margaret and I got a tad off the topic of baths but the rest all seem to be on the topic of how baths are counted or  whether a house needs a bath tub, or whether one loves or hates baths.  Sorry if it does not work for you, there's plenty more to read here  but thanks for stopping by....

May 06, 2009 10:13 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate
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Josef Erlebach
josef
Tub versus Shower
98.97.30.70

Hi Maureen,
you have a very interesting blog. Thank you for doing that.
i was just wondering if there are any statistics on the Tub versus shower issue. Thank you
Josef

 

Above sent via contact form on AR

the links to the results are in the post. Kinda

 
Jun 24, 2009 06:34 AM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400
HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD
Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome

This post is from January 2007 and it is still fun to see the comments. BTW, if you have  just a toilet  but no sink, we call it a flush...seen sometimes in basements.

Jun 24, 2009 08:25 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Flush?  ooooh I call that unsanitary... I was someplace recently where the owner of the home was there and said the 1/2 bath sink was so small... Never mind it should not be repeated.  Probably at a condo downtown at City Hop. 

I see people reading this post (or parking on it anyway) all the time.

Jun 24, 2009 09:42 AM
Mike Jaquish
Realty Arts - Cary, NC
919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

I see buyers who think they want a tub in the master, and then when the rest of the house is great, including a tub in one of the additional baths, they jettison the requirement.

It seems that bathrooms without tubs also tend to be very cramped, and that the tub is sometimes less important than having a little bit of elbow room, including separate vanities.

And, there is really no substitute for a good-sized shower.  We just removed our tub to enlarge the shower.  We like it much better now.

Sep 16, 2009 01:33 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

:-) 

Nov 20, 2009 12:27 AM
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