The Briarcliffe Acres crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Horry 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.
Getting in and out of a standard bath can feel like climbing a mountain when your knees start acting up. Actually, many folks around Horry County face this exact struggle every single day in their own homes. Since you deserve to feel safe while keeping your daily independence, we bring the showroom experience right to your doorstep to discuss these amazing low-threshold deep soaking systems.
Because safety is our primary focus, we design these specialized accessible bathing units with watertight doors that seal shut to prevent any leaks. This means you no longer have to step over a dangerously high barrier just to get clean. Instead, you simply open the door, step inside over a tiny ledge, and sit down on a built-in contoured seat.
This smart design eliminates the fear of slipping on wet porcelain. By choosing this upgrade, you protect your physical well-being while adding a touch of luxury to your daily routine. We want to help you make this transition as easy as possible, starting with a complimentary on-site evaluation.
Many homeowners worry that retrofitting their bathroom will turn their home into a chaotic construction zone for weeks. However, our experienced local team specializes in swift, clean retrofits that usually take just a couple of days. We carefully measure your existing space to ensure the new leak-proof high-walled unit fits perfectly where your old tub used to be.
Which means you do not have to worry about major structural remodeling or moving your main plumbing lines around. On top of that, we handle all the heavy lifting, including the disposal of your heavy old cast iron or fiberglass basin. Our crew treats your property with the utmost respect, keeping dust to an absolute minimum.
During the initial visit, we inspect your current water heater and pipes to make sure they can support your new system. Some older homes might need a quick upgrade to a larger water heater or a fast-drain kit. We explain all these technical details in plain English so you can make an informed decision without any pressure.
Investing in your home should always bring immediate improvements to your daily quality of life. To help you visualize the transformation, we compiled a quick guide to the main features and how they benefit you directly.
| Premium Feature | Your Direct Benefit |
|---|---|
| Ultra-low entry threshold | No more balancing on one foot to climb over a high tub wall |
| Heated seating and backrest | Keeps you warm and cozy while the deep basin fills up with water |
| Hydrotherapy air jets | Gently massages sore muscles and improves circulation in your legs |
| Fast-drain technology | Allows you to exit the unit quickly without sitting in the cold |
As you can see, every single component serves a specific purpose to make your life easier. For instance, the safety grab bars offer sturdy leverage points exactly where you need them most. Consequently, you gain peace of mind knowing that the risk of a bathroom fall is virtually gone.
Our beautiful coastal enclave near Myrtle Beach boasts a wonderful community of around 547 residents who appreciate high-quality living. Since the median household income here sits comfortably at $125,313, local homeowners consistently look for home upgrades that preserve property value while offering maximum convenience. We understand the unique layouts of the coastal properties in this exclusive pocket of South Carolina.
Whether you live in a spacious beach home or a cozy ranch within the local ZIP code area, we customize the setup to match your existing decor. This ensures your new safety-focused bathing system looks like a natural extension of your home rather than a clinical addition. We offer various finish options for the fixtures, from classic brushed nickel to modern oil-rubbed bronze.
This attention to detail keeps your bathroom looking gorgeous while secretly providing top-tier accessibility. You get to enjoy a spa-like retreat that feels like a personal sanctuary. Our local team is always nearby to answer questions and provide quick support whenever you need us.
We believe in being completely transparent about the pros and cons of these accessible deep-soaking units. For example, one drawback is that you must step inside and close the door before you can turn on the faucet. Naturally, this means you have to wait inside the unit while it fills up with warm water.
To solve this minor inconvenience, we install high-flow tap valves that fill the basin much faster than standard faucets. Additionally, the heated seating options keep you warm during those first couple of minutes. We also install dual-drain systems that empty the water in under eighty seconds so you can exit without shivering.
Another factor to consider is the size of your current water heater. Because these units hold more water than a standard shallow bath, you might need a booster to ensure you never run out of hot water. We check your utility setup during our free home assessment to prevent any cold surprises down the road.
Attempting a DIY project with a heavy, complex water containment system is a recipe for expensive water damage. Since these specialized units feature intricate door seals and advanced hydrotherapy pumps, precise leveling is absolutely critical. A tiny mistake of just a millimeter can prevent the door from sealing properly, leading to ruined drywall and subfloors.
Our trained installers possess the exact tools and experience needed to secure a perfect, watertight fit. We also ensure that all electrical connections for the hydrotherapy jets meet strict safety codes. This professional touch guarantees your manufacturer warranty remains fully valid for years to come.
By letting us handle the job, you save yourself hours of frustration and physical strain. We pull any necessary local permits and clean up every speck of debris before we leave. You simply get to sit back, relax, and look forward to your very first safe, deep soak.
Taking the first step toward a safer home is much easier than you think. We provide completely free, no-obligation consultations where we measure your bathroom and give you an honest, upfront price. This allows you to review your options in the quiet comfort of your own living room without any pushy sales tactics.
We sit down with you to discuss your mobility needs and aesthetic preferences to design the perfect setup. Our goal is to help you remain in the home you love for as long as possible. With our professional assistance, you can say goodbye to bathing anxiety once and for all.
Do not wait for an accidental slip to force your hand when you can make a proactive choice today. Reach out to our friendly local team to schedule your free home visit. Let us transform your bathroom into a safe haven of relaxation and independence.
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 Briarcliffe Acres.
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