<p>Thinking of remodeling a bath that our kids share…it is a shower over tub,typcial bathroom…we are thinking of replacing the tub with a tiled shower,no tub…we have a master bath with oversized tub and seperate shower, a guest room with en suite bathroom with shower over tub, and the kids bathroom…would this be a negative if/ when we sell in future? I think having a normal tub/shower combo in guest room would meet anynyoung families need in future, but curious to all thoughts…</p>
<p>I think it would be fine as long as you have the other two tubs. It’s one of those things where some buyer will walk into your house and announce that it is a deal-breaker that all the bathrooms don’t have tubs, but the vast majority of buyers won’t care. My sister and her husband remodeled their master bath and took out the tub and I think that was a mistake. (I wasn’t consulted, however).</p>
<p>We recently remodeled master, removed the jacuzzi tub, replaced with oversized tub…i think having a regular tub in guest room/princess suite would suffice,but interested in hearing from others…thanks for your feedback</p>
<p>If the only tub were located just in the master bath, I would advise against it, but since you have a tub in one of the other bathrooms I think it would be okay if that is what you want. If it were me, however, I would leave tubs in all baths that currently have tubs. No prospective buyer will balk at having tubs in all baths, but someone may balk at NOT having a tub in one of the baths-- with the possible exception of a handicapped or mobility impaired person.</p>
<p>When removed the tub at my Dad’s house a few years ago, we were assured by friends in RE that as long as there is a tub in at least one bathroom, it shouldn’t impact resale value.</p>
<p>I agree, as long as you have one standard tub you will be fine. I wouldn’t do this if the only other tub was a large, soaking/Jacuzzi type tub–just thinking about trying to give a bath to a 3 year old in a big tub.</p>
<p>I am planning doing the same. We have 3 full baths, Planning to have one regular tub and one small sitting tub in addition to shower in master bedroom and make shower out of 3rd tub. But it will have to wait when we can actually spend all these $$ in addition to kitchen, looks like it might be $50k+.
Anybody have an idea about cost of this type of remodeling with lots of ceramic tile/granite for spacious countertops? OP, what is your price tag, unless you mind sharing?</p>
<p>Did master for 50+k, the current Jack and Jill bathroom should come in at 25k or less, fully tiled,double vanity,…buying all fixtures ourselves over the internet saves 30% off retail,(grohe faucets etc)…</p>
<p>I think you have to look at who you would be selling your house to in the future. Are you in a highly desired school district? Is your home more than likely going to appeal to families with school-aged/small children? If a shared bathroom or jack and jill bathroom (especially if it was the only bath upstairs) did not have a tub, for our family, it would be a deal breaker. For our kids, up until age 8 or 9 is was strictly baths. I would not have liked it if the guest room bath or my master was turned into a bath toy zone. For me personally I like to contain that type of stuff in one quadrant of the house…lol.</p>
<p>do you need more room in the bathroom that the tub is to be replace with shower? I thought it might be cheaper just replace the tub. What is the purposes of doing that? $25K for a jack and jill bath is a lot of money to me. Just saying.</p>
<p>We have 5 BRs upstairs, the master suite on one side of house, the other 4 bedrooms on the other…2 bedrooms enter dirctly into this bath we plan to remodel,the 3 br is across from it…5 th bedroom is a princess suite,which we use as a guest room that has a full bath( w tub) en suite…8 yr olds still taking a bath? My memory must be shot as i don’t recall my kids bathing past 5, or younger…</p>
<p>The guest room with ensuite would make more sense as the shower only bathroom. The “kids” bath should have a tub.</p>
<p>I watch a lot of the tv shows on buying/selling/renting homes, and like one poster said, I’ve never seen a complaint when there IS a tub, but they do complain when there is NOT one.</p>
<p>it will depend on the buyer. If they have small children, they might prefer that the HALL bath have the bathtub for use with both their kids AND if they have overnight guests with children also. If the ensuite bathtub is a room that is used by a family member as THEIR room, they might not be so happy to have folks treking through to take a bath.</p>
<p>If it were me, I would try to have the hall bathroom have the tub.</p>
<p>We had a family member who did a house bathroom redo. They left the tub in the master and put only a shower in the hall bath. There were a number of young families who looked at the house, and this was a deal breaker for them. They did not want to have to bathe their kids in the master tub. Their agent told them…this was a problem for a few prospective sales.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking of some remodeling, too, but $25K would be out of the question. I just want to replace the tub and take the tile above it from the nasty-grouted little bathroom tiles to larger ceramic tiles. Any ideas of what that would cost?</p>
<p>Just walked through a contractor client of mine with two “Contractor specials”, we were talking about $2500 for a tub/tile removal and reinstall, $10K for re-start over for a bathroom. I think it should be lower.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, why did you want to get rid of the jacuzzi tub? A lot of the houses we are looking at just so happen to have them and we think we like them… but we’ve never actually had one. We only have an oversized tub in our apartment. Hoping to avoid any major remodeling needing to be done any time in the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>My boyfriend and I are looking for a house right now, and I think we’d only accept a hall or kid bathroom not having a tub if we had no intention of ever having guests in the other rooms. I agree with the people that said it would be awkward to have people trekking in to bathe if the guest rooms are occupied, and that bath toys don’t belong in the master bathroom. But that’s just the kind of buyer we are, other buyers might be more interested.</p>