Do wet rooms add value to a house?
As a second bathroom or en-suite, yes — a quality wetroom reads as premium and future-proof, photographs superbly and broadens appeal to older buyers. As the only bathroom, it can subtract: families filter listings for a bath. Position it as an addition, not a replacement.
Estate agents across south London tell the same story: a tanked wetroom en-suite is a feature that gets mentioned in the first paragraph of the listing, and level-access showering quietly widens the buyer pool at both ends of the age range. In flats — where buyers skew younger and baths are used less — a well-built wetroom as the main bathroom is increasingly a neutral-to-positive choice too.
The value cases that go wrong: removing the only bath in a three-bed family house (young-family buyers filter it out), and cut-price wetrooms whose surveys flag moisture readings — a failed wetroom is worse on a survey than no wetroom at all, which loops back to why the flood-test build matters.
If resale is the main motive, spend the budget where listings look: the glass, the brassware, the tiling. If staying put is the motive, spend it where daily life lives: the valve, the underfloor heating, the storage that keeps towels dry.
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