<p>If this were us I wouldn’t look at this as a possible deal breaker problem when we sell … but whether we are willing to offer to pay to install a traditional tub when we sell if a buyer raises it as an issue … for us paying for a tub would be short money compared to a quicker sale of the house and having the bathroom designed the way we want while we are in the house.</p>
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I think the $10K would include gutted bathroom, floor to ceiling. re-routing wire, pipe or repositioning the tub or vanity. re-install the whole thing with new everything. Product will not be top of the line, but will be very very presentable.</p>
<p>Thanks. I have about $4,500 in mad money that I’ve been holding on to and was wondering how far that would go. I like the current ceramic tile on the floor but would love to get rid of the long sink combo that came with the 30yo house in addition to redoing the tub area, which would likely mean redoing the floor, too.</p>
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<p>If I were buying such a house, THESE two bedrooms would be the ones my KIDS would be using…and sharing the bath. I would want a tub/shower combo in that bathroom.</p>
<p>What is the reason for wanting only a shower in there?</p>
<p>qdogpa…my bedrooms in my former house were laid out the same as yours…</p>
<p>If kids are going to use a bathroom…I would keep the tub.</p>
<p>I give up…what is a princess suite?</p>
<p>We are also discussing removing the tub in the boys bath and replacing it with a tiled shower. I was thinking $3-5000 AND would gladly put in a tub if it was a deal breaker. My sister’s house has a 6 " deep lip in the shower with a drain plug that they used to give baths to their kids. Interesting concept.</p>
<p>H wants this more than me. I am really against grout lines. Swanstone (like Corian) makes a one piece shower floor with the drain in the same area as current tub. It is curved where vertical meets horizontal- so NO place for crud to collect.</p>
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<p>Now-a-days there is a product called “Groute Enhancer 1776”, instead of mixing water with groute powder, if you use this to mix, you have no crud at the grout lines. I tried this in my shower and after a year, the lines still look new. It is expensive and your contractor may not want to buy it. But if you buy it and give to them, they should use it.</p>
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<p>The kids bathroom should have a tub. I wouldn’t care about any other bathroom but kids do take baths.</p>
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<p>Ema, I’ll answer from my point of view. We have a jacuzzi in our master bath. We never use it…never. It was “the thing” to put in master baths in the 1990s…but to be honest, I would love to have just a nice large, deep bathtub and a slightly larger shower in our master (our shower is 4 feet, I’d love 5…if we didn’t have a 2 person Jacuzzi, it would be easy to have a larger shower AND the tub).</p>
<p>Thumper, we have as you describe in master, large walk in shower with glass surround, and large soaking tub…our kids haven’t used the bathtub EVER,so in our family it is useless…not usre of ramifications if/when we ever sell, but the plusses of our home currently would clearly outweigh having only 1 regular tub,or so i think…in current market conditions, not sure a family with kids that still bathe could afford the house…</p>
<p>Didn’t answer a post as to why we want to do this…i hate shower over tub configurations,hate them…and since kids don’t ever use tub,we can make a luxurious,spa like environment for them. ;)</p>
<p>We have a large Jacuzzi in the house we just bought a year ago. One night, DW decided to try it out. When the water was half filled, the hot water turned to cold, we have a 50 Gallen heater and that is not good enogh for the jacuzzi.
Serious design flaw or they never thought we would actually use it?</p>
<p>^^ we have a seperate 75 gal HW heater that services olny our bathroom,don’t have any issues with hot water…also have a recirculating pump to have hot water on demand in our master as it is far from HW heater</p>
<p>^^ 50k master bathroom, you must have a 1,500 sf bathroom with a hot tub, sauna, massage area, powder/sitting area and 3 toilets in it.</p>
<p>^^^lol^^^ hot tub is attached to pool…master is decent sized,perhaps a bit over 100sf…just like any remodel it is what you choose to replace with…we have a rainshower and a hand held with thermostatic controls…we have a hand held and regular tub faucet in 2 person soaking tub…all faucets from Grohe… Tub surround is granite as is double sink counter and all sills and flat surfaces…1/2 tile up walls with tile inlay borders and 3/4 inch rope tile around border tile…flat screen tv ,seperate toilet area, and chandelier all add to costs…all tile is tumbled and some cut to form different looks…Glass surround for shower was a couple thousand! Vanity and matching his/her medicine cabinets with mirrors,sconces etc…original quote was 70k, i purchased everyhting myself and saved bigtime</p>
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<p>I think it will go pretty far if you DIY…</p>
<p>qdogpa - could you share the store where you bought the fixtures for your bathroom? Is it online?</p>
<p>We are buying an apartment, the kitchen and 2 bathrooms need to be totally gutted. We are going to take the tub out in the master bedroom, making it a tiled shower, and leaving the tub in the other bathroom.</p>
<p>We recently re-did our master bathroom for resale purposes. Our shower is small, maybe 3x3.75. The glass surround for just two sides was $1700 (including installation).</p>
<p>We kept our very large soaking tub because a neighbor took theirs out when remodeling and then had some complaints of “no tub in master” when they put their house on the market.
Our tub had the fake marble sides. Our tile guy was able to remove the fake marble sides,build a new frame around the tub and then tile it with 12 in. tile set on the diagonal with rope trim around the top lip. The transformation was amazing.</p>
<p>There’s been some discussion of kids and baths vs showers. On a daily basis, all in our house choose showers, but after an all day sport event, the athletes in the family have been known to shower first, then soak in the tub.</p>
<p>Our master bath has separate shower and tub. Hall bath has shower over tub. Basement bathroom has a tiled shower and is the best of all.</p>
<p>Remind me that if I ever build another house that it should have a tiny room near the bedrooms and the only thing in it will be a bathtub that I dust periodically!</p>