Bath size help

[Kitten79]

Hi i'm buying my first bathroom suite and an getting really confused about the bath. I need a bath that i can stand in to shower in so what do i need. I have seen 5mm, 8mm, ones with different names for reinforced and steel. I'm not sure i'm happy with the metal sound of a steel bath though. Also my bathroom is only 1670mm long yet the bath in there currently fits end to end so is it likely to be a standard bath cut down or cut into the wall - so should i go and buy a 1700 bath anyway, the choice of a 1600 bath being too short? Thanks for anyone who can help

 

[DAZB]

It makes sense to go with the best quality bath you can so it would be 8mm thick for me and a 1700mm bath would be better as it would be set into the wall by 15mm each end which usually just involves hacking off the plaster to accomodate it.

 

[tryitandsee]

Not all baths are designed to have someone standing at tap end for showering, it makes sense then to reinforce the area underneath. I actually used spare offcuts of timber wedged under, but afterwards I was thinking, I should have used some spare kitchen unit adjustable legs, attached/screwed to some water proof ply, then screwed to floor (a bit like a table under the bath, with some silicone on the ply face). No movement when 10 ton tessie stands up at the shower end.