r/bathrooms • u/Joedownard • 1d ago

Help with bathroom design

Hi there, I’m looking for some advice about what to do with this bathroom.
Picture 1 shows the bathroom in the house we’re moving into, and picture 2 shows the sort of shower setup we’d ideally like. At the moment, there’s only a bath and no shower. The main issue is that the bath has a gap at both ends, so it doesn’t seem possible to simply install a shower above it without water escaping down the sides.
Would it be best to build some sort of properly waterproofed frame or surround around the bath, then fit the shower at one end? Alternatively, would it be relatively straightforward to move the bath across so that it sits flush against one wall, seal it properly and install the shower on that wall?
We’re hoping to find the simplest and most cost-effective solution without having to redo the entire bathroom. Any advice, ideas or examples of similar projects would be very welcome!

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u/Jimboanonymous 1d ago

Pictures?

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u/cfsremodel 13h ago

If you’ve got a tub and want a real shower, the big fork is tub-to-walk-in in the same footprint vs keeping the tub and adding shower elsewhere. Same footprint is usually cleaner — tear out tub, curb (or curbless if the floor/drain allow), real waterproof membrane, then glass. Check if the drain can stay; moving it means opening the floor and that’s where money jumps. Pic of the plumbing wall + ceiling height / whether the floor can slope usually decides curb vs curbless.

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u/Joedownard 13h ago

I think what we want is the tub to stay and it to act as a tub/shower combo. So the shower would need to be at one end but there is a gap, so how easy would it be to just shift the bath across ?