The Ledyard crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over New London 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? Well, replacing your old setup brings total ease right into your bathroom.
Truthfully, hopping over a slick ceramic ledge feels like running a marathon blindfolded. Fortunately, upgrading your washing space gives you ultimate safety without any annoying hassle.
By swapping out that giant porcelain barrier, you gain a tiny doorway that swings open wide. This clever physical change lets you step right inside your personal basin without losing your balance.
Consequently, you avoid painful slips that usually happen when your knees ache. That means you protect your hips and ankles every single time you want to get clean.
Inside these specialized containers, built-in contoured seats give you proper posture while you soak. Now, targeted water jets massage your sore muscles and melt away daily stress effortlessly.
Plus, warm water circulation boosts your overall blood flow across your entire body. Therefore, you feel deeply relaxed and ready for a good night of restful sleep.
Most local dwellings in New London County feature quirky floor plans built decades ago. Because of that reality, picking a compact model lets you fit a new soaking tub into a standard shower footprint.
Meanwhile, larger master bathrooms can accommodate wide outward-swinging doors with extra room to spare. This flexibility ensures your interior styling remains completely intact throughout the renovation.
Nobody likes shivering while waiting an eternity for hot water to fill the basin. Fortunately, dual-port gravity drainage systems empty the entire reservoir in mere minutes.
That rapid empty cycle keeps you from catching a cold while the door stays locked. On top of that, fast-fill brass faucets get your bath ready almost instantly.
First off, experienced local contractors arrive to tear out your outdated iron monstrosity. This messy demolition requires careful handling so your surrounding tiles do not get damaged.
Next, workers inspect the subfloor for hidden water damage or rotting wooden beams. Fixing those structural issues right away guarantees your heavy new tub sits firmly.
Because these accessible basins hold massive amounts of water, supply lines often need upgrading. Specifically, plumbers install high-flow mixing valves to maintain your preferred water temperature.
Furthermore, whirlpool motors demand dedicated electrical circuits to prevent tripped breakers in your fuse box. This technical precision ensures your hydrotherapy pumps run safely for years.
Investing in a custom washing station might seem expensive at first glance. However, preventing just one serious bathroom accident saves you thousands in medical bills.
Naturally, homeowners living in ZIP codes 06339 want to see solid value for their money. By improving your daily routine, you actually boost your property resale value significantly.
| Project Phase | Estimated Duration | Primary Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Initial Consultation | One Day | Custom design plan |
| Plumbing Prep | One Day | Code-compliant setup |
| Unit Placement | One Day | Secure positioning |
| Final Testing | Few Hours | Leak-free operation |
Our tight-knit community houses about 15,051 residents who cherish their independence at home.
Fortunately, local service providers offer transparent pricing without any hidden surprise fees. This honesty lets you plan your home improvement project with total peace of mind.
Strategically placed stainless steel grab bars give you something sturdy to hold onto at all times. Meanwhile, textured floor surfaces stop your bare feet from sliding around when soapy.
These thoughtful design touches let you bathe independently without needing a family member to watch you. Thus, you maintain your personal privacy and dignity for many decades.
Accidental burns ruin a relaxing soak faster than anything else on earth. Fortunately, built-in thermostatic mixing valves cap the hot water before it ever reaches your skin.
Consequently, you enjoy a comfortable soak without constantly testing the faucet with your hand. That reliability protects children and visiting guests from sudden temperature spikes too.
Glossy acrylic finishes resist mold growth much better than old cast iron tubs. However, using abrasive scouring pads will scratch that shiny protective coating permanently.
Instead, mild liquid soap and a soft microfiber cloth wipe away soap scum effortlessly. This gentle cleaning routine keeps your investment looking brand new for years.
Internal plumbing lines require occasional sanitizing to clear out hidden mineral buildup and bacteria. Simply fill the basin with warm water and specialized cleaner before running the jets.
This quick maintenance step prevents unpleasant odors from developing inside the internal tubing. Therefore, your hydrotherapy experience stays fresh and hygienic every single time.
Upgrading your washing arrangements changes your entire morning routine from a chore into pure relaxation. Now is the ideal moment to ditch that hazardous high-sided basin for good.
Truthfully, waiting until an injury happens makes daily life much harder than necessary. Instead, take control of your home environment by exploring custom accessibility options today.
Reach out now to schedule your professional evaluation and claim your quote without any pressure. Local contractors are standing by right now to help you build the perfect bathroom.
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 Ledyard.
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