The Kingston crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Luzerne 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.
Your daily bath should feel like a relaxing escape instead of a scary obstacle course. Unfortunately, climbing over that high slippery barrier on a standard basin gets harder and more dangerous as the years sneak up on us. If you are starting to dread your personal hygiene routine, we have some fantastic news that will change your life. Our local team brings safety and peace of mind straight to your home with specialized modifications designed to keep you safe and upright.
Think about how nice it would feel to just open a secure door, step inside without lifting your legs to crazy heights, and sit down on a warm molded seat. You do not have to worry about losing your balance because everything is built around keeping you stable. This simple upgrade lets you stay in the home you love without needing someone to help you bathe every single day. We believe everyone deserves to keep their dignity and enjoy a warm soak without any fear of falling.
Our friendly local crew is ready to visit your house and look at your current bathroom setup to see what fits best. We never charge a single dime for this initial visit, meaning you get a complete plan and a price breakdown. By choosing a local team who understands the homes in our beautiful corner of Luzerne County, you get personalized service that big national corporations simply cannot match. Let us help you turn your bathroom back into a safe haven where you can truly unwind.
Safety is obviously the main reason to consider upgrading your setup, but the physical relief you get from a deep soak is a very close second. Standard basins are shallow, which means your upper body stays freezing cold while you try to relax. With a high-walled unit that features a leak-proof swing door, you can submerge your torso completely in warm water. This deep soaking action works wonders on sore muscles, stiff joints, and those stubborn backaches that keep you awake at night.
To help you see how these specialized units compare to what you probably have in your house right now, we put together a quick comparison table below.
| Feature | Standard Basin | Accessible Safe Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Step-In Height | Usually 14 to 18 inches high | Very low, usually 2 to 5 inches |
| Seating | Lying down on the flat bottom | Contoured, comfortable raised seat |
| Safety Features | None built-in, very slippery | Grab bars, non-slip floors, fast drains |
Besides the wonderful muscle relief, these units are incredibly easy to keep clean because they use high-grade non-porous materials. You will spend way less time scrubbing on your hands and knees, which is a massive bonus for anyone with back pain. Additionally, our secure doors feature heavy-duty seals backed by lifetime guarantees so you never have to worry about water pooling on your bathroom floor. It is a smart, durable investment that protects your health and your home's subfloor at the same time.
Installing one of these advanced soaking units is not a weekend DIY project that you can tackle with a few basic tools. Plumbing lines often need to be relocated, and the drain system must handle a massive volume of water very quickly. Our skilled technicians understand how to retro-fit these units into existing spaces without destroying your walls. We make sure the seal is absolutely perfect so you do not experience mold or water damage down the road.
Another critical factor is the electrical work required if you choose a model with heated surfaces or soothing air jets. Water and electricity are a dangerous mix, which is why you need certified pros handling the wiring. We bring years of hands-on experience to every single job site, ensuring everything meets strict local building codes. You can sit back and relax while we handle the heavy lifting, the plumbing, the cleanup, and the final testing.
We take pride in our clean work habits because we respect your home just as much as you do. Our crew uses protective floor runners and cleans up every speck of dust before we pack up our tools. This means you can use your brand-new safe bathing space almost immediately without dealing with a massive construction mess. We walk you through every single feature and button before we leave so you feel completely confident using your new system.
Depending on the layout of your bathroom and your personal mobility needs, you can choose between an inward-swinging or an outward-swinging door. Inward doors use the natural pressure of the water to help keep the seal tight, which is a great safety feature. Outward doors, however, are perfect for individuals who use wheelchairs because they allow for an easy lateral transfer onto the seat.
Our team helps you measure the clearance space in your bathroom to determine which door style makes the most sense. We want to ensure you have plenty of room to move around even when the door is fully open. This careful planning prevents any annoying layout surprises during the actual setup process.
If you suffer from arthritis or poor circulation, adding air or water jets can turn your daily bath into a therapeutic healing session. These gentle jets target your legs, hips, and lower back to stimulate blood flow and ease chronic tension. It is like having a private spa right in your own home, ready whenever you need a boost.
We offer several customizable jet packages so you can find the perfect level of pressure for your body. Our specialists will explain how each system works during your in-home consultation. This lets you customize your unit to match your exact physical needs and budget limits.
Staying in your own home as you age is far more affordable than moving into an assisted living facility. By making this simple modification to your bathroom, you eliminate one of the primary hazards that force people to leave their beloved homes. Our local community in Kingston, Pennsylvania, which has a wonderful population of 13,182 neighbors, features many beautiful older homes that need these updates. Whether you live in ZIP code 18704 or nearby, we can easily adapt your vintage bathroom for modern safety.
We work hard to keep our rates competitive while delivering top-tier craftsmanship that lasts for decades. Investing in your safety today saves you from costly medical bills and gives your family immense peace of mind. Your relatives will sleep better knowing you are safe from slips and falls in the tub.
We treat every client like a member of our own family, offering transparent communication and zero high-pressure sales tactics. Our free estimate are highly detailed, showing you exactly where every dollar goes so there are no hidden surprises. We believe in building trust through honest work and reliable service right here in our local neighborhood. Let us help you protect your independence and make your home a safer place to live.
There is absolutely no reason to keep risking your safety in a slick, outdated bathing space when a solution is so close. Our dedicated team is ready to help you explore your options and find the perfect safe-stepping unit for your budget. We make the entire process incredibly simple, from the very first phone call to the final splash of water. You have nothing to lose by scheduling a friendly visit from our local home modification pros.
During our visit, we will answer all your questions about installation times, plumbing requirements, and custom safety accessories. We provide a written estimate that remains valid so you have plenty of time to discuss it with your loved ones. We never rush your decision because we want you to feel completely comfortable with your choice. Take the first step toward a safer, happier, and more relaxed lifestyle today.
To get started, simply give us a call to book your home assessment. We will find a time that works perfectly with your schedule and show up right on time. Rediscover the simple joy of a deep, warm, worry-free bath in the comfort of your own home. We look forward to meeting you and helping you reclaim your daily 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 Kingston.
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