Help bathroom refit – No bath?

Twenty years ago we bought a flat that had a shower cubicle fitted into a small bathroom. Wonderful we thought, it looked very smart. Now we are replacing it and will re-install a bath in there. With renting to tenants during that time we have found they do not clean it properly and this allows the cabinet to deteriorate to the extent it leaks. Often the leaks go unnoticed until they come through the ceiling in the hallway downstairs. As the bathroom is small, even with a fan working, it doesn’t dry out property and with tenants closing the door to the cubicle it keeps it wet and damp within it. I realise that there may be better products available now, but we certainly feel a bath would eliminate many of the issues we have experienced and our tenants are pleased that now they will have a choice of a shower or a bath.

A family house needs a bath – it’s very hard to manage without one if you have young children, and the absence of a bath would certainly put me off if I were renting with young kids. A 1-bed house, on the other hand, probably doesn’t need one.

Reply to the comment left by “Y L Newbury ” at “09/05/2015 – 14:03“:

‘With renting to tenants during that time we have found they do not clean it properly and this allows the cabinet to deteriorate to the extent it leaks’

IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT LACK OF CLEANING IS CAUSING CABINET TO LEAK.

Reply to the comment left by “Joe Bloggs” at “10/05/2015 – 23:06“:

Absolutely, like any area that isn’t cleaned properly eventually it deteriorates – in small bathrooms they need to be kept as dry and clean as possible but that is often overlooked by the younger tenants we rent to, despite us reminding them.