The Curtis crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Mackinac 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.
Are you tired of tripping over high tub walls every single morning? This trusty local service lets you upgrade your daily routine safely.
Curtis Michigan is a quiet spot in Mackinac County with a tiny population of 1,055 residents. Local homeowners living around the 49820 ZIP codes often struggle with outdated bathrooms that cause stress.
Falling down in the bathroom happens way too often for folks getting older. This brilliant fixture gives you a low threshold so you step right in without lifting your legs high.
Building codes in this area require solid framing behind every wall tile. Our crew ensures your new setup stays rock solid for years.
Removing your old cast iron unit takes serious muscle and patience. Our team hauls away the heavy debris so you save your back from injury.
Fitting the new watertight door requires extreme precision during the leveling process. Plumbers use heavy silicone sealants to stop leaks before they start ruining your subfloor.
Ignoring bathroom safety hazards usually leads to painful hospital bills later on. Tackling this project right now protects your independence and physical well-being.
Waiting until an accident happens costs you way more than preventative home improvements. Smart homeowners upgrade their plumbing fixtures before mobility issues get worse.
People often rely on fixed retirement checks or personal savings for home upkeep.
Smart financing options let you pay for your upgrades in small monthly chunks. You never have to drain your entire bank account just to stay safe at home.
| Old Cast Iron Tub | Modern Step-In Hydro Unit |
|---|---|
| High slippery walls | Ultra low entry threshold |
| Zero relaxation jets | Soothing water and air jets |
| Scary slip hazards | Slip resistant textured flooring |
Traditional bathtubs trap you inside a dangerous high sided metal box. Modern hydrotherapy soaking systems give you total peace of mind during every wash.
Water jets massage your sore joints while you sit in total relaxation. Warm hydrotherapy sessions ease your arthritis pain so you sleep much better tonight.
Built in grab bars give your hands something sturdy to hold onto. Built in seats let you sit comfortably instead of squatting on a slick porcelain floor.
Measuring your exact bathroom dimensions prevents expensive fitting mistakes down the road. Our friendly technician arrives right on time to check your water supply lines.
Looking under your floorboards reveals any hidden wood rot from past leaks. Fixing those structural issues upfront saves you from major headaches later.
Inward swinging doors save precious floor space in narrow bathroom layouts. Outward swinging models make getting in and out much easier if you use a wheelchair.
Matching the door type to your physical needs guarantees maximum daily convenience. Our experts help you choose the best configuration during our free consultation.
Winter temperatures in the Upper Peninsula drop well below freezing for months. Well insulated plumbing keeps your fill pipes from freezing solid during sudden blizzards.
Proper ventilation stops steamy air from peeling the wallpaper off your bathroom walls. Our technicians check your exhaust fans to keep indoor humidity under total control.
Running dedicated power lines to your bathroom keeps your home completely safe from overloads. Licensed electricians install ground fault circuit interrupters near all wet zones.
Enjoying heated air blowers requires a reliable electrical panel upgrade. Safety inspectors check every single wire before turning on your new relaxing massage system.
Waiting twenty minutes for a tub to fill gets frustrating very fast. High flow faucets let you fill your basin in under ten minutes flat.
Checking your home water pressure helps us pick the best supply valves available. Fast draining technology empties the water quickly so you do not catch a cold.
Cleaning the acrylic surface regularly keeps your basin shining like a brand new penny. Mild soap removes body oils without scratching the shiny protective coating.
Running a vinegar cycle through the jet lines clears out mineral buildup naturally. Simple upkeep routines extend the lifespan of your plumbing investment by many years.
Finding reliable contractors in a rural town feels like searching for a needle. Requesting your free quote connects you with trusted local pros who care.
Reaching out to our team takes less than two minutes of your precious time. Call the number on this page to schedule your no obligation chat.
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 Curtis.
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