# Identify this book from my childhood

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This is frustrating the hell out of me: I’m normally pretty damn good at answering these questions!

So. Family buys a house. It used to belong to a giant. All the rooms have been divided up into more sensible, human-size rooms as that’s easy enough to do, but the bathroom hasn’t: you can’t divide a collosal bath and reconfigure the plumbing.

They use the bath as a pool, and the different soaps add different characteristics to the bathwater. Mysterious minty-green glow, etc…I think.

I can’t remember much about the adventures which ensue, to be honest, though there may have been a person-flushed-down-plughole episode? Maybe? It’s the premise that sticks in my head, not the story.

I’d say I probably read it in the mid 80s, in the UK.

Any ideas?