The Centerville crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Anoka 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.
This is why so many people in our lovely lakeside community are choosing to upgrade their bathrooms with a secure, low-step alternative.
By making this simple change, you can keep your independence and enjoy a warm soak without any of the scary slips.
Fortunately, our local team specializes in setting up these specialized high-walled bathing units that feature a secure door on the side.
We travel right to your house to look at your current layout and give you an estimate.
Which means you will know the exact cost without any pressure or hidden fees from the very start.
Our skilled crew handles everything from pulling out your old fiberglass basin to hooking up the new leak-proof drains.
This lets you sit back and relax while we do the heavy lifting.
Actually, we make sure the entire process is smooth so you can get back to your daily routine fast.
First, you should know that these advanced bathing systems are built with a watertight door that swings open to let you walk right in.
Because the threshold is only a few inches high, you do not have to lift your legs over a dangerous porcelain barrier.
This incredible feature reduces the risk of falling to almost zero.
Next, you will notice a built-in contoured seat that is positioned at a natural chair height.
Instead of struggling to get all the way down to the floor, you simply sit down comfortably.
Additionally, sturdy grab bars are strategically mounted on the walls to give you extra leverage when standing up.
Then, we have the fast-draining technology which is absolutely crucial for these setups.
Since you have to stay inside the unit while it empties, a quick drain system ensures you do not sit there shivering.
Our high-speed plumbing connections pull the water out in under eighty seconds.
To help you compare your options, we compiled a quick guide to the main styles we set up for local homeowners.
| Bathing System Type | Key Feature | Primary Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Soaker Units | Deep water level | Deep tissue relaxation |
| Hydrotherapy Systems | Water massage jets | Relief for sore muscles |
| Aero therapy Systems | Gentle air bubbles | Soft skin stimulation |
| Bariatric Models | Wider entry door | Extra room and support |
Growing up around this beautiful region of lakes and quiet neighborhoods has taught us the value of helping our neighbors.
We understand the local housing styles here in Anoka County, especially the split-levels and ranch homes built over the last few decades.
Because we know the local plumbing codes inside and out, your project will be done right the first time.
Our crew takes great pride in keeping our work areas incredibly clean during the construction process.
We lay down thick drop cloths to protect your carpets and sweep up every single speck of dust before we leave.
This attention to detail is why your friends and neighbors keep recommending our services.
On top of that, we always customize the setup to match your specific physical needs.
If you need the hand-held shower wand mounted in a specific spot, we will make it happen.
We believe that your personal bathing space should fit you like a glove.
Before we turn a single wrench, our team conducts a thorough inspection of your existing bathroom floor structure.
Since a deep-soaking unit filled with water is much heavier than a standard basin, we sometimes need to reinforce the joists underneath.
This step ensures your home remains safe and structurally sound for decades.
After that, we carefully remove your old tub without damaging the surrounding drywall or flooring.
We then upgrade your water heater lines if you need a larger supply of hot water for those deep soaking sessions.
Which means you will never run out of warm water halfway through your bath.
Finally, our factory-trained installers seal the new unit with commercial-grade silicone to prevent any future mold growth.
We test the door seal multiple times under full water pressure to guarantee a perfect watertight fit.
Once we finish, we show you how to operate all the digital panels and jet controls.
Living in this peaceful corner of the state means enjoying a tight-knit community of about 3,792 residents.
While the local median household income is recorded as $0 on some older census sheets, we know our community is actually thriving and full of hard-working families.
Many residents are choosing to remodel their homes to age in place rather than moving away to assisted living facilities.
Investing in safety modifications like these accessible bathing units can actually increase the long-term appeal of your property.
With many older buyers looking for homes that are already modified for accessibility, your house will stand out on the market.
Our service area covers the entire local ZIP code of 55038 and the surrounding rural areas.
No matter where you live in the area, we will gladly drive out to your property to take measurements.
We believe that everyone deserves a safe, relaxing way to wash up without fear.
Contact us today to schedule your home assessment and get your written quote.
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 Centerville.
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