The Balfour crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over McHenry 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.
Looking to make your daily home bathing routine safe and super easy? Upgrade your standard bathroom setup with a modern leak-proof accessible soaking basin today. Request your free quote right away to get started!
Actually, everyday custom bathroom safety modifications can totally change how you feel in your own home. Nobody wants to slip on wet tiles while trying to step over a tall porcelain barrier. Honestly, adding a specialized tall side door bathing unit gives you massive peace of mind every single morning.
So, making this home upgrade real fast means you cut down on dangerous slip hazards big time. You get to enjoy warm water therapy without any scary balancing acts. Plus, these cozy setups hold heat way better than thin plastic tubs!
Likewise, if you are planning to age gracefully right in your favorite house, getting a easy access step in whirlpool enclosure is huge. It gives you back your pure personal privacy. You will never need to ask for extra help just to take a warm splash.
Normally, a thick sealed barrier wall entrance water chamber comes with smart features that sound super technical at first. Let us break down those neat perks so you can pick the exact design you need. Well, here is a helpful list of common options for your home upgrade project.
| Cool Feature | Awesome Daily Benefit |
|---|---|
| Low Step Threshold | Prevents trips because you just walk right in without lifting your legs high. |
| Quick Drain System | Saves you time by emptying all the heavy water in under two fast minutes. |
| Hydrotherapy Jets | Soothes sore muscle joints after a super long workday on your feet. |
| Heated Seat Rest | Keeps your back warm while the deep basin fills up with hot water. |
In addition, having built in grab bars inside the wall unit gives you solid stability. You get a steady grip when sitting down or standing up. That means no more reaching for slippery towel racks that might yank off the drywall!
Furthermore, slip resistant textured flooring prevents unexpected falls on wet soap suds. This heavy duty floor grip keeps you locked in place safely. It simple removes all that quiet anxiety from your evening routine...
Naturally, living in a peaceful little town of about 23 tight-knit folks means you value sturdy work that lasts through icy prairie winters. Our tiny rural region around ZIP code 58712 gets crazy cold real fast. That harsh weather makes warm indoor soaks feel like absolute heaven!
Therefore, proper heavy plastic pipe insulation is crucial when we fit a leak free sealed side entry tub inside your house. Cold winter drafts will ruin a hot bath if your plumbing lines lack rich heat protection. We always make sure your hot water stays extra piping hot for hours.
Besides that, looking at a typical regional median household income around $35,000 means every home renovation dollar must count. You need real durability that lasts decades without sneaky maintenance costs down the road. Investing in solid high grade fiberglass shells protects your hard earned cash long term.
Consequently, local bathroom setups often have custom cast iron plumbing pipes that need gentle hands. Our skilled team knows how to adapt fresh wide mouth drains into old home layouts without breaking your budget. You get modern updates without wrecking your house foundation.
First off, asking for a totally free project estimate is smooth and simple. We travel right out to your front porch to check your current setup carefully. Then, we measure your door frames to verify everything fits without a scratch.
Next, we inspect your current water heater unit to make sure it handles high gallon capacities properly. Having a big tub means you need enough hot water to fill it up fast. If you need a plumbing update, we spot it early to prevent bad surprises later!
Then, we hand you an accurate total written estimate with zero hidden fees attached. You get full total control over your wallet choices. There is zero pressure to buy anything until you feel totally confident in the plan.
Right away, our crew protects your home floor mats with clean drop cloths before bringing in a heavy sealable entry water box. We treat your living space with massive respect. Cleanliness is our biggest pride!
Subsequently, we carefully remove your old metal tub and clear out cracked moldy drywall pieces. We fix rotten subfloors so your new heavy basin sits totally level. Strong structural backing prevents annoying floor squeaks later.
After that, our team connects heavy duty solid brass fixtures directly to your main water lines. We test every single silicone rubber door gasket to ensure zero water ever leaks on your nice wood floor. Water damage is your worst enemy, so we double seal everything!
Surprisingly, you get to select custom jet placements that match your exact body height! Swirling water jets can target your aching lower back or sore leg calves directly. This custom alignment turns your plain bathroom into a true personal spa day.
On top of that, adding dual grab bars and anti scalding mixing valves creates top tier peace of mind. Scalding hot water protection stops sudden burns if someone flushes a toilet downstairs. You can just chill out and relax without any worries!
Now, some folks worry these wide access tall soaking chambers take forever to empty out completely. However, advanced dual valve drainage tech pulls water out crazy fast! You do not have to sit around freezing cold waiting for the water to clear out.
Similarly, people think fitting a huge side opening bath requires destroying the whole room completely. Actually, standard framed models fit right into the exact same spot your old tub sits today. That means minimal tile destruction and faster complete turnarounds for you!
To be fair, high end features cost a bit more money upfront than basic plastic tubs. Yet, avoiding bad hospital bills from dangerous bathroom falls makes this upgrade worth every single penny. Your daily physical safety is totally priceless anyway...
Granted, nobody likes spending their whole weekend scrubbing dirty tile grout lines on their hands and knees. Luckily, smooth non porous acrylic surfaces resist nasty mold build up automatically! A quick wipe down with soft soap keeps your space sparkling clean constantly.
Moreover, running simple internal pipe cleaning flushes once a month keeps internal hydro jets super fresh. You just fill the tub with warm water and a little vinegar to clear out stubborn mineral scale. That tiny bit of care keeps your pump motor humming smooth for years!
Ultimately, getting a robust walk in tub installation done by true local pros protects your precious home value forever. You get total personal freedom, top notch safety, and high grade daily snug relaxation. Take the smart step today and claim your free in-home cost estimate right now!
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 Balfour.
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