The Franklin crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Oakland 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 deep basin gets pretty tough as the years roll by.
This common issue makes daily washing feel like a risky chore instead of a relaxing break.
We can help you regain your independence with a specialized step-in bathing system designed for ultimate safety.
Think about how nice it will feel to wash up without worrying about slipping on wet porcelain.
Our high-quality sealed-door basins offer a worry-free way to bathe while staying seated the whole time.
You deserve to feel secure in your own home every single day.
This simple change prevents slips and falls, which are the main cause of household injuries for seniors.
Our local team makes the entire upgrade process incredibly smooth and fast from start to finish.
Requesting a free estimate today is the very first step toward transforming your daily routine.
Most traditional bathroom setups feature high barriers that require you to balance on one slippery foot.
That dangerous balancing act becomes a thing of the past when we swap your old basin for a low-threshold model.
This specialized upgrade features a leak-proof swing door that lets you simply walk right inside.
Once you step over the tiny threshold, you can sit down on a comfortable, raised built-in seat.
This ergonomic design means you do not have to lower yourself all the way to the floor.
Which means your knees and back will thank you every single time you want to clean up.
To help you compare the different options, we put together a quick guide on how these modern systems compare to old-fashioned tubs.
| Feature | Standard Deep Tub | Our Low-Step Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Barrier Height | 14 to 18 inches high | Only 2 to 4 inches high |
| Seating Area | Lying flat on the floor | Contoured upright chair-height seat |
| Safety Features | None built-in | Grab bars, non-slip floors, and fast drains |
On top of the physical safety benefits, these modern deep-soaking units add incredible value to your property.
Homebuyers love seeing accessible features already installed, especially in areas with established, beautiful neighborhoods.
Our custom installations blend beautifully with your current decor while providing top-tier functionality.
Every single unit we install comes packed with smart features to keep you safe and warm.
For example, the heavy-duty grab bars provide sturdy handholds right where you need them most.
This lets you move around with absolute confidence even when your hands are soapy.
Besides the secure grab bars, the slip-resistant floor texture prevents your feet from sliding around.
We also include heated seating surfaces so you stay warm while the basin fills up with hot water.
No more shivering while you wait for the deep water to reach your chest.
Another amazing feature is the rapid-drain technology that empties the basin in under two minutes.
This speedy draining process means you do not have to sit cold and wet waiting to open the door.
You can simply dry off, open the latch, and walk out without any hassle.
We take pride in serving our lovely community of 3,332 residents with top-notch craftsmanship.
Our skilled crew understands the unique plumbing setups found inside the gorgeous homes of Oakland County.
We treat your property with the utmost respect, keeping our work area clean and tidy.
Because the local median household income sits around $154,079, we know our neighbors appreciate premium quality and long-lasting materials.
We never cut corners on the critical sealing process or the underlying support structures.
This careful attention to detail ensures your new system remains leak-free for decades to come.
Whether you live near the historic village center or closer to the outer borders of ZIP code 48025, we travel directly to your door.
We inspect your current bathroom layout and give you a clear, honest assessment of what it takes to upgrade.
Our friendly installers handle all the heavy lifting so you do not have to stress about a thing.
First, our crew carefully removes your old, heavy cast iron or acrylic basin without damaging your walls.
We inspect the exposed plumbing pipes and subfloor to make sure everything is solid and dry.
This step prevents future mold issues and ensures a perfectly level foundation for the new unit.
Next, we hook up the new drain lines and position the specialized walk-in unit securely in place.
We seal every single seam with commercial-grade waterproof silicone to block any potential leaks.
Finally, we test the door seal and the rapid-drain system to ensure flawless operation before we leave.
Some homes require a compact model to fit into a tight alcove space where a standard shower used to be.
Other spacious bathrooms can easily accommodate a larger, deeper soaking unit with hydrotherapy jets.
We help you choose the ideal size and shape that matches your personal physical needs and your room layout.
You can choose between inward-swinging doors for tight spaces or outward-swinging doors for easier wheelchair transfers.
This level of customization ensures your new bathing setup feels like it was custom-made just for you.
We walk you through every option so you make the best choice for your long-term independence.
Working with a local team means you get personalized service from people who actually care about your wellbeing.
We do not believe in high-pressure sales tactics or hidden fees that surprise you at the end of the job.
Our goal is simply to make your home a safer, more relaxing place to live as you age in place.
Many folks worry that this kind of remodeling project will take weeks and disrupt their entire lives.
However, our experienced team can usually finish the entire swap in just one or two days.
This means you get your bathroom back quickly without living through a messy, drawn-out construction nightmare.
We also understand that investing in your home is a big decision that requires careful planning.
That is why we offer consultations right in the comfort of your living room.
We answer all your questions, measure your space, and hand you an accurate price estimate on the spot.
Do not wait for an accidental slip or fall to force your hand into making a sudden change.
Taking proactive action now protects your health and gives your worried family members true peace of mind.
Our beautiful step-in solutions offer the perfect blend of daily safety and soothing relaxation.
We invite you to reach out to our friendly local team located right here in Franklin, Michigan.
We will schedule a convenient time to visit your home, look over your bathroom, and discuss your goals.
This completely free estimate gives you all the details you need to make an informed decision.
Let us help you rediscover the joy of a peaceful, pain-free bath in a gorgeous new secure setup.
Our dedicated craftsmen are ready to deliver the high-quality results you expect and deserve.
Contact us today to claim your free quote and take control of your home safety.
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 Franklin.
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