"Alan Braggins" wrote in message
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In article , Clive
George wrote:
On 31/01/2011 13:46, Alan Braggins wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:58:08 -0000, Skipweasel
wrote:
In articlec5cf299e-9c62-42ca-be35-0ea9a4f45f0f@
33g2000pru.googlegroups.com, says...
A shower **and** a bath? Put the show over the bath.

Not always appropriate. We sweated blood trying (successfully) to fit
in
a seperate shower 'cos the one we had over the bath was too hard for
the
wife to get into. We wanted to keep the bath so the kids can have a
soak
when they come home from rugby.
[...]
The Subject is "Tiny Bathroom", so a decent sized shower cubicle and
a separate decent sized bath probably isn't possible. I know you can
get baths with doors in the side to make it easier for people with
restricted mobility to get in and out, but I don't know how well they
work. Obviously the door is only usable when the bath isn't full of
water....

Quick Google later, something like
http://www.practicalbathing.co.uk/the-topaz-2.html

You've spotted the fatal flaw. Strip off, get in bath, wait for it to
fill. Enjoy bath. Pull plug, wait for it fo drain. The middle bit is
fine, but the bits at either end aren't necessarily that pleasant.

Presumably someone with full mobility can just leave the door closed
and do what they'd do with a normal bath? And someone who can't get
into a normal bath and wants a shower doesn't have to go through the
wait to fill/drain bit.
If you want a bath and can't get into a normal bath, it's flawed, but
so is having to rely on a helper or hoist.

Why are you all talking about baths when I simply don't have rrom for one in
this particular 'bathroom'? However, I do have a separate, yet again small,
bathroom downstairs with a very tiny and practically useless bath in it!
Lucky none of the family particularly enjoy baths and prefer showers.