From every corner of Ouray County, the climb over the tub wall gives way to a watertight door, a warm seat and a steady hand to hold.
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 bathtub walls every morning? Today we will look at replacing that old hazard with a smooth soaking basin.
Now, climbing into a slippery porcelain box can turn into a daily dread. This lets you avoid nasty slips and painful falls completely.
Basically, a specialized local crew drops a brand-new side-entry basin right into your existing bathroom footprint. This means you skip months of chaotic demolition debris all over your house.
Historically, folks struggled with high ledges that caused heavy bruises. Instead, a modern low-threshold door gives you total ease of access.
Inside the unit, waterproof seals keep every single drop of water right where it belongs. Consequently, your floor stays totally bone dry after every splash session.
Furthermore, hydrotherapy jets massage tired leg muscles while you sit back and relax. This gives you deep muscular relief without ever leaving home.
First off, a professional contractor measures your space to ensure a tight, custom fit. This prevents any awkward plumbing leaks behind your drywall later on.
Then, the old cast iron tub gets hauled out through the front door very carefully. Such heavy lifting saves your back from unnecessary strain.
Naturally, changing the drainage setup requires some specialized PVC pipe cutting and gluing. This guarantees your new basin drains water rapidly without any backing up.
Besides that, electrical wiring gets updated safely to power your new therapeutic whirlpool jets. Safety remains our absolute top priority during every single step.
Traditional setups force you to lift your legs dangerously high just to wash up. Meanwhile, modern alternatives offer a wide-swinging door that opens outward or inward.
To help you see the difference clearly, check out this quick comparison chart below.
| Feature | Old Bathtub | Modern Accessible Basin |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Height | High and Risky | Ultra-Low Threshold |
| Seating | Hard Floor | Built-In Contour Seat |
| Hydrotherapy | None | Optional Air and Water Jets |
Ultimately, upgrading your bathing quarters drastically improves your daily independence at home. Which means you can wash up safely without needing a helping hand from anyone else.
Budgeting for a major home modification can feel slightly overwhelming at first glance. However, investing in your daily household safety pays off through priceless peace of mind.
Given that median household income levels vary wildly across regions, finding flexible payment options matters immensely. Fortunately, many contractors offer friendly financing plans that fit nicely into realistic budgets.
Sometimes, rotten subflooring hides beneath an ancient leaking shower enclosure. Therefore, your technician must inspect the wood framing before dropping in the new fixture.
Additionally, old copper supply lines might need immediate replacement to match modern fittings. Addressing these issues early stops major water damage before it starts.
Hiring a random handyman from far away can turn into a massive headache. Instead, working with a dedicated neighborhood specialist guarantees honest communication and reliable workmanship.
Plus, local pros understand mountain weather quirks and rural logistics much better than outsiders. This local expertise ensures your project finishes right on schedule.
Before signing any paperwork, ask about their licensing and insurance coverage status. This protects you legally if an unexpected accident happens on your property.
Moreover, always inquire about manufacturer warranties on both the door seal and the acrylic shell. Knowing you are covered brings immense mental relaxation.
Clear out all personal hygiene items from the vanity and medicine cabinet beforehand. This gives the installation crew plenty of unobstructed elbow room to work efficiently.
Also, cover nearby furniture in the hallway with plastic sheeting to block floating drywall dust. Such thoughtful preparation keeps your living areas neat and tidy.
Cutting acrylic panels generates fine static dust that sticks to carpets everywhere. Therefore, professional installers always lay down protective drop cloths along every walking path.
When the work concludes, they vacuum the entire work zone meticulously. This lets you enjoy your fresh bathing space immediately without cleaning up.
Owning a secure bathing system transforms your routine into a spa-like daily ritual. On top of that, your overall home value gets a nice little boost.
Future buyers love seeing updated safety features already installed in the master bathroom. This makes your property much more attractive on the real estate market.
Wipe down the acrylic walls with a soft sponge and mild dish soap weekly. Avoid harsh scouring pads that scratch the shiny surface over time.
Furthermore, leave the side door cracked open slightly after bathing to let air circulate freely. This simple habit keeps your gasket seals fresh and pliable for decades.
Living with bathroom anxiety drains your daily energy and steals your joy. Luckily, a professional upgrade solves this problem permanently and affordably.
Reach out today to request your totally complimentary, no-obligation estimate from our local team. This lets you plan your home improvement project without spending a single penny upfront.
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.
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