The Au Train crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Alger County. Bathing stays at home, where it belongs.
One number reaches the people who fit the tubs. Say what the bathroom is like and we take it from there.
(844) 578-1861Take your time on the phone. Who does the bathing, how they get around today, the size of the bathroom and the doorways on the way in: that is all we need to set a date for the visit.
Taking a bath should feel like a relaxing escape rather than a scary obstacle course.
Many folks find that stepping over a high ceramic barrier gets way too risky as the years roll by.
Thankfully, you can easily upgrade your bathroom to prevent slips and regain your complete independence.
Our specialized team visits your home to replace that old, dangerous basin with a secure, low-step alternative.
This simple change brings back your confidence and keeps you safe in your own home.
Actually, we would love to stop by and give you a completely free estimate today.
If you have never seen one of these setups, picture a beautiful, deep basin with a leak-proof door built right into the side.
You simply open the door, step inside over a tiny threshold, close it, and fill the basin with warm water.
This clever design removes the need to balance on one wet foot while climbing into a deep, slippery cavern.
Because safety is our main goal, these units also come with built-in contoured seating and sturdy grab bars.
You can sit down comfortably while the water surrounds you, which is much better than trying to lower yourself all the way to the floor.
On top of that, rapid-drain technology ensures you do not have to sit around freezing while the water empties out.
Let us look at how these specialized systems compare to standard options:
| Feature | Standard Setup | Our Secure Entry Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Step-In Height | Typically 14 to 18 inches | Usually less than 4 inches |
| Seating Area | None (flat floor) | Contoured, ADA-compliant seat |
| Drainage Speed | Slow, standard gravity drain | Ultra-fast powered drain system |
Living in our beautiful, snowy corner of the Upper Peninsula means dealing with long, chilly winters.
Nothing beats warming up your bones in a deep, hot soak after shoveling wet snow off the porch.
Local residents, from the small community of 1,138 people in the 49806 area, deserve to enjoy this simple pleasure without fear.
Since the median household income here sits at a modest level, investing in home safety is a smart way to protect your nest egg.
Preventing a single bad fall can save you thousands of dollars in medical bills and keep you out of an expensive assisted living facility.
We understand the local housing styles around Au Train, Michigan, and we know exactly how to fit these units into older cabins or modern homes alike.
You might wonder if you can just hire a random handyman to slap one of these heavy units into your washroom.
Honestly, that often leads to major headaches because these systems require advanced plumbing knowledge and precise leveling.
Our crew handles the entire process from start to finish, ensuring your floor is properly reinforced to support the extra weight.
Which means you do not have to worry about water leaking through your ceiling or ruined floorboards down the road.
We also hook up high-capacity faucets and heated surfaces that make your bathing experience feel incredibly cozy.
This lets you sit back and relax while we do all the heavy lifting, cleaning up every speck of dust before we leave.
Standard water heaters sometimes struggle to fill these larger, deeper vessels with enough hot water.
During our visit, we evaluate your existing tank to make sure you will not run out of warmth halfway through your soak.
If needed, we can install fast-heating valves to maximize your setup.
Every body is different, so we place heavy-duty grab bars exactly where your hands naturally reach for support.
This custom placement prevents awkward twisting or reaching when you want to stand up or sit down.
You get a tailored setup built specifically for your height and mobility needs.
We believe in keeping things straightforward and friendly, without any high-pressure sales tactics or confusing jargon.
First, we come to your house to look at your current bathroom layout and chat about what you need.
Then, we explain your options and give you a written proposal with zero obligations.
Once you decide to move forward, we schedule the work at a time that works best for your daily routine.
Our installers show up on time, respect your home, and work quickly to minimize any disruption to your life.
Before we pack up, we show you exactly how to operate the door seal and the jet controls so you feel totally confident.
Many folks ask us if their bathroom is too small for one of these secure-entry soaking systems.
Fortunately, manufacturers make these units in several sizes, meaning we can almost always fit one into a standard five-foot space.
We can swap out your old, dusty tub-shower combo and slide this new system right into the exact same footprint.
Another common worry is whether the door seal will start dripping water onto the bathroom floor over time.
To prevent this, we only use top-tier units featuring heavy-duty, lifetime-guaranteed silicone seals that stay completely watertight.
The weight of the water actually helps press the door shut, creating an incredibly tight barrier that keeps your floor bone dry.
Lastly, people wonder about the actual time it takes to complete the job.
Usually, our experienced team can finish the entire tear-out and new plumbing setup in just one to two days.
That means you will not have to live in a dusty construction zone for weeks on end.
You do not have to live with the daily anxiety of a slippery, dangerous bathroom anymore.
Taking action today protects your physical health and gives your worried family members true peace of mind.
We are ready to helper you regain your freedom with a beautiful, secure bathing space.
Reach out to us right away to schedule your friendly, home consultation.
We will measure your space, answer all your questions, and provide a detailed quote.
Let us help you make your home a safer, more comfortable place to live for many years to come.
Three ideas carry the whole invention. Once they make sense, the rest of this page is just detail.
You open the door, walk in on a dry floor, sit down and close it. Only then does the water run. Because the door swings into the tub, the water itself presses it against its seal: the fuller the tub, the tighter it holds. The design cannot forget to be shut properly.
An ordinary bathtub asks you to swing a leg over a wall some fifteen inches tall, on wet tile, usually while holding nothing sturdier than a towel bar. A walk-in tub asks for a small step, about the height of a stair riser cut in half, with a grab bar placed exactly where your hand goes looking for one.
The honest cost of the sealed door is that you sit while the tub fills and while it empties. Makers answer with fast drains, often two of them, that send the water away in a couple of minutes, and with heated seats and warm air so those minutes pass kindly. We time both on your own plumbing at the assessment.
We install walk-in tubs, so you might expect us to always recommend one. We will not. If you have not enjoyed a bath in twenty years, a walk-in shower may serve you better, and we will say so at your own sink. Here is the honest picture.
| The question | Walk-in tub | Walk-in shower |
|---|---|---|
| What bathing feels like | A full warm soak, jets if you want them | A quick rinse, standing or on a bench |
| Time it asks of you | Longer: fill, soak, drain | Minutes, in and out |
| Floor space needed | Sits in the footprint of the old bathtub | Wants a little more open floor to work well |
| Budget, installed | Higher, because the door and seal are precision work | Often lower for a simple conversion |
| Sore joints and tired muscles | Warm water and jets do real, daily good here | No soak, so none of the soak's relief |
| Who tends to love it | People who cherish their bath and mean to keep it | People who shower quickly and want easy cleaning |
The deciding question is usually the first row. If the answer to "do you miss your bath" is yes, the rest of the table tends to follow.
We cut it free, shield the floors along the hallway and carry it out gently. Most old bathtubs are gone from the house before lunch.
Walk-in tubs are built to travel through ordinary doorways. Every door on the route gets measured at the assessment, so delivery day holds no surprises.
Your supply lines usually stay where they are. We fit the new valve, the hand shower and the quick drain, and check that your water heater can fill a proper soak.
The door is the heart of the tub, so it gets the slow, careful hour: aligned, adjusted and closed on its seal until the gap reads even all the way around.
When your tub has hydrotherapy, the pumps go in quiet, the lines are purged, and every control lands where a seated bather reaches it without leaning.
Panels and trim close the sides and the caulk lines are drawn clean. Then the tub is filled to the very brim once, and we watch the seal earn its keep.
We would rather tell you this before you fall in love with a tub. A walk-in tub is a home improvement, not medical equipment, and it is paid for out of the household budget the way a new roof or a rebuilt porch is. Anyone who tells you otherwise on a first phone call is selling harder than they are listening.
We make no claim about what any plan, programme or agency might do on your behalf, and we will not guess for them. Those questions belong to the people who administer them, and their answer is the only one that counts. Ask them directly, and ask before you commit to anything, including anything of ours.
What we can do is make the asking easy. Your quote arrives itemized, every line explained, so whoever needs to see it gets a precise document instead of a vague promise. That is the whole of what we control, and we would rather hand you that than a hopeful sentence about somebody else's money.
You tell us who bathes and how they get around, the rough size of the bathroom and how the tub would travel in. A few minutes on the phone, and a date for the visit.
We come to your home, measure the bathroom and every doorway on the route, and listen. No van full of tubs at the curb, no clipboard theatrics, no hurry.
A written quote follows, with each line explained in plain words: the tub, the work, the removal of the old one. Show it to your family. Sleep on it as long as you like.
One crew, one to three days. The old tub out, the new one plumbed, sealed and tested full. Your water is off for hours at a stretch, never for days.
Before we leave, we go through the door, the seat, the drain and the controls with the person who will actually bathe, until every part of it feels ordinary.
| The project | Usual bracket | What sits inside it |
|---|---|---|
| Walk-in soaker tub, installed | $4,000 - $8,000 | The tub, the door, removal of the old bathtub and the full fitting. |
| Hydrotherapy tub with jets | $6,000 - $12,000 | Water jets, warm air or both, with the pumps and controls they need. |
| Bariatric or wide-door tub | $7,000 - $14,000 | Wider seats and doors on a reinforced frame, sized at the assessment. |
| Removing the old bathtub alone | $450 - $1,200 | Folded into the lines above; priced apart only if you stop there. |
| Dedicated electrical circuit | $400 - $1,000 | Heated seats and pumps want their own breaker when the panel has no spare. |
| Walk-in tub and shower combo | $8,000 - $15,000 | One unit that soaks and showers, for households that want both. |
Your bathroom, your plumbing and the tub you choose set the final figure. That is exactly what the assessment is for.
| The feature | What it is | Why it counts |
|---|---|---|
| Low threshold | A step of about four inches into the tub | The climb over a bathtub wall is where most bathroom falls begin. Removing the climb removes the moment. |
| Seat at chair height | A molded seat near seventeen inches, like a dining chair | Sitting down and standing back up stay easy on knees and hips, with no lowering to the floor of a tub. |
| Grab bars where hands land | Fixed bars at the door and beside the seat | Balance never has to depend on a towel bar that was only ever meant to hold towels. |
| Textured floor and seat | Slip resistance molded into the tub surface itself | Wet feet keep their grip without rubber mats that curl, slide and grow things. |
| Anti-scald valve | A mixing valve that caps how hot water can arrive | Skin grows thinner with the years. The valve keeps a hot surprise from ever reaching it. |
You do sit in the tub while it fills, so the wait is real: usually a few minutes, depending on your water pressure and your heater. Many bathers spend it with the warm air running or the hand shower on their shoulders. At the assessment we run your own faucet and give you an honest minute count for your own bathroom, not a brochure number.
The door only opens once the water is gone, so the drain matters. Fast drain systems empty most tubs in about two minutes, and heated seats and warm air keep the chill away while they do. We will tell you plainly which tubs drain fastest on your plumbing around Au Train.
The door seals the way a ship's hatch does: the water itself presses it shut, so a good seal gets tighter as the tub fills. Every tub we fit is filled to the brim and watched before we call the job finished, and the seal carries the maker's warranty. If it ever weeps, we come back, and the trip costs you nothing.
Nearly always, because walk-in tubs are designed to travel through ordinary hallways and door frames. We measure the whole route at the assessment, front porch to bathroom. If a doorway is genuinely too narrow, you hear it from us at your kitchen table, never on delivery day.
Yes, and it happens all the time. We can hold the assessment while you are there in person, on the phone or on a video call, and the written quote goes to whoever is helping with the decision. The walkthrough at the end is always done with the person who will actually bathe.
No. We measure, we listen, we leave a written price, and your house is your own again. Some families decide that week and some take a season. The figure holds as written, and nobody from our side will camp on your phone line.
Pan around for the terrain and the distances; the place lists at the bottom of this page name each community we can drive to from here.
One sealed door between you and the bath you have been missing.
Call (844) 578-1861