The Odin crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Marion 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 looking to make your bathroom safer and way more relaxing right now? Our local team provides top notch deep soaking modifications that let you bathe without any fear of slipping. Grab your free quote today to get started!
Safe home bathing becomes a huge deal as the years start rolling on by. Honestly speaking, standard high-walled basins are total hazard zones when your knees start aching... Furthermore, slipping on slick wet porcelain is literally everybody's worst nightmare. So swapping out that old setup for a low-threshold swinging door model changes everything for the better! Suddenly, getting into the water feels super easy and completely stress free.
You might wonder if your current bathroom layout can even handle this kind of upgrade. Luckily, modern low-step bathing units are designed smart enough to fit right where your old standard basin sits today! That means you do not have to tear down your entire house just to get a safe wash. In addition, these specialized fixtures come packed with tall built-in seating that keeps you sitting upright while soaking. This setup gives you tons of coziness while letting you stand back up without straining your lower back!
Taking a warm soak should feel like pure relaxation, not some kind of crazy Olympic gymnastics routine. Besides that, having proper grab bars positioned right where your hands naturally fall gives you rock solid stability every single time. Now you can finally stop worrying about losing your balance on slippery tiles! Plus, modern quick-drain technology empties out all the water fast so you are not sitting around freezing while waiting to open the door. It really is a total life changer for staying independent in your own home!
Living right here around Marion County means we all appreciate practical home improvements that actually make sense. For example, many folks around the 62870 ZIP code area live in classic homes with cozy, compact bathroom layouts. Well, fitting a high-wall accessible basin into these traditional spaces keeps your home safe without sacrificing precious floor space! To be fair, keeping your independence at home is priceless, especially when local median household incomes linger around $37,292.
Our small community of 1,089 residents deserves home upgrades that bring long-term value without ridiculous price markups. Because of that, upgrading to an accessible entryway wash unit keeps you living comfortably in your favorite house for years longer! Naturally, avoiding costly assisted living facilities saves your hard earned money over time. Table below highlights why local homeowners make this quick smart switch...
| Standard Basin Hazard | Accessible Entry Solution | Direct Homeowner Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| High wall step over | Ultra-low step threshold | Zero trip hazards when stepping in |
| Slippery flat bottom | Textured anti-slip floor | Rock solid footing while wet |
| Low floor-level seating | Integrated raised bench | Super easy sitting and standing |
On top of safety, these tall soaking fixtures add serious home value throughout Southern Illinois! Furthermore, future home buyers always hunt for properties that already feature accessible, modern safety improvements. This smart investment protects both your physical well-being and your equity at the exact same time. It just makes total sense for smart local homeowners!
First off, the wide opening side door forms the absolute core of these modern safety basins. High quality silicon seals along the door frame hold back every single drop of water without leaking onto your subfloor! Consequently, you get a watertight guarantee that keeps your bathroom floor totally dry and safe. No more sloppy floor towels or water damage concerns!
Secondly, targeted hydrotherapy jets turn your basic daily wash routine into a luxurious home spa day. Warm water streams massage tired muscles and stiff joints while you relax inside! Therefore, you wake up feeling looser and ready to tackle your daily tasks with a big smile. Plus, warm air massage jets gently soothe sensitive skin without feeling overly harsh.
Thirdly, easy to reach controls mean you never have to strain or stretch awkwardly just to adjust water temperatures. Everything sits right at hand level while you lean back against the contoured heated backrest! As a result, you stay completely wrapped in soothing warmth from the moment you sit down until you step back out onto the dry floor. Talk about ultimate luxury right in your own master bath!
Too many people try to buy cheap, unbranded import units off the internet without measuring their doorway width first. Unfortunately, those discount mystery tubs frequently arrive damaged or refuse to fit through narrow hallway doors! Which means you end up stuck with an expensive piece of plastic sitting uselessly in your garage. Working directly with local contractors prevents those costly shipping headaches entirely!
Another major mistake involves ignoring your home's hot water heater capacity before purchasing a deep soaking unit. Keep in mind, these massive step-in vessels hold way more water than a tiny traditional apartment tub! So if your water heater is old, you might end up running out of warm water halfway through filling it up. Checking your utility system beforehand ensures endless hot water for every single soak!
Lastly, never hire an inexperienced neighborhood handyman who lacks proper insurance or specific plumbing experience with accessible basins. Subpar plumbing connections behind water sealing walls can leak slowly and rot out your bathroom floor joists over time! Instead, hiring seasoned local professionals guarantees your project gets completed right the very first time. Protect your home by letting real pros handle the heavy lifting!
Getting your free estimate is completely stress free and takes just a few quick minutes of your day. First, we visit your home to inspect your current plumbing lines and measure your bathroom layout down to the exact millimeter! Consequently, you receive an accurate, honest price quote with zero hidden fees or weird surprise charges later on. We believe in total transparency for all our neighbors!
Next, we help you select the exact features, colors, and jet packages that fit your daily routine and personal budget. Whether you want basic safety or a fully loaded luxury massage unit, we tailor everything directly to your desires! Thus, you never pay for unnecessary extra features that you will not actually use day to day. You stay in total control of the design process from start to finish!
Finally, our crew schedules your project at a convenient time and handles the entire installation fast, often in just one or two days! Furthermore, we pack up every bit of garbage, hauling away your old heavy cast iron tub so your home stays sparkling clean. You just sit back, relax, and get ready to enjoy your first deep, safe soak in your brand new setup! Reach out to us right now to claim your fast, completely free estimate today!
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 Odin.
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