Bath or shower?

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BrynCP

Über Member
Location
Hull
Shower.

I dislike sitting in a bath, doesn't seem as hygienic as continuous clean water. Also a bath takes 20 minutes to run with our boiler.
 

cosmicbike

Perhaps This One.....
Moderator
Location
Egham
SWMBO likes a bath, so when I did the new bathroom it got a bath and a shower. Shower gets used most and always nice after a ride at this time of year, but in the past year having regular baths worked really well on the legs.
 

Garethgas

Senior Member
Ah, yes....anyone who doesn't wash the same way as you is 'dirty' eh?
I use a bath 90% of the time. I also use a clever substance called soap. This holds the excess dirt in suspension, so it doesn't stay on your body.
Also, after 50 or 60 miles, a good soak will be a far more thorough means of cleaning your intimate parts than a pint of water trickling over you.
A shower is just for freshening up.
 

PK99

Legendary Member
Location
SW19
Reading the thread about Kindles, one thing that always seems to be brought up about them vulnerability to damage if reading it in the bath. (try a ziplock bag).
It actually got me thinking about the last time I actually had a bath and it's so long ago I can't remember. Indeed a refit of the family bathroom soon will see it removed to be replaced by a walk in shower as no-one else really uses it either, we all use the shower in the ensuite.

So, what's your favored cleaning method? A quick (metered) water preserving shower or filling a tub and wallowing in your own filth?* I'm also curious if it's an age/gender related thing as well.
*(I may be biased on this)

A walk-in shower big enough for two....
 

pawl

Legendary Member
Reading the thread about Kindles, one thing that always seems to be brought up about them vulnerability to damage if reading it in the bath. (try a ziplock bag).
It actually got me thinking about the last time I actually had a bath and it's so long ago I can't remember. Indeed a refit of the family bathroom soon will see it removed to be replaced by a walk in shower as no-one else really uses it either, we all use the shower in the ensuite.

So, what's your favored cleaning method? A quick (metered) water preserving shower or filling a tub and wallowing in your own filth?* I'm also curious if it's an age/gender related thing as well.
*(I may be biased on this)
Shower for me.At 73 my flexibility is not all it should be. Her in doors would object to me using her as a bath hoist.
 

Salad Dodger

Legendary Member
Location
Kent Coast
Showers for me, not baths, thank you.

In our last house we removed the bath and replaced it with a shower cubicle, as we both prefer showers to baths. And the house we moved to recently only has a shower, which is no hardship for us.

I do concede that, after something like a whole day of hard gardening, or some such real hard physical labour, then a soak in a hot bath may ease out some of the aches and pains. But, for us, such events are so few and far between that it's not worth keeping a bath for literally a "once in a blue moon" event......
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Shower...never found a bath i could fit in comfortably yet...
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Keep looking.
 

stephec

Squire
Location
Bolton
Showers for me, not baths, thank you.

In our last house we removed the bath and replaced it with a shower cubicle, as we both prefer showers to baths. And the house we moved to recently only has a shower, which is no hardship for us.

I do concede that, after something like a whole day of hard gardening, or some such real hard physical labour, then a soak in a hot bath may ease out some of the aches and pains. But, for us, such events are so few and far between that it's not worth keeping a bath for literally a "once in a blue moon" event......
Get yourselves a bath big enough for two, or is that a blue moon event? :smile:
 
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