The Shedd crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Linn 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.
Looking to update your bathroom safely? You can get a free estimate today for a deep step-in bathing unit that transforms your daily routine.
Now, let us talk about making your home so much easier to use every single day. Upgrades like replacing a standard tall tub wall with a custom low-threshold door make entering the basin super safe. As a result, you never have to stretch your leg over a giant wall again.
Additionally, standard tubs turn into total ice rinks when soapy water hits the porcelain surface. By adding slip-resistant flooring inside the basin, your feet stay planted exactly where you want them. So, you can take a relaxing bath without stressing over slipping down.
Furthermore, sitting down comfortably while taking a long soak changes everything for your sore joints. Built-in contoured seating keeps your back straight and relaxed throughout the whole soak. Honestly, this extra posture support turns a standard wash into a luxury spa retreat right at home.
Besides making your room look amazing, these smart fixtures bring serious daily relief to tired muscles. Hydrotherapy jets push warm water streams directly against your aching lower back muscles. Consequently, tension melts away within just ten minutes of sitting in the basin.
Moreover, fast-draining technology keeps you from sitting around shivering while the water empties out. Specially engineered dual drain valves clear out gallons of water in less than two minutes. Therefore, you stay warm right up until you step out onto your bath mat.
In addition, simple push-button controls mean you never have to strain your wrists to turn thick chrome handles. Everything stays right at your fingertips, so you control water jets and temp effortlessly. For this reason, bathing becomes a smooth process you can manage entirely on your own without help.
Granted, choosing the right fixture for your house takes a bit of planning and looking at features. Here is a quick breakdown showing how these specialized basins compare to old school standard fiberglass tubs.
| Bath Feature | Standard Old Tub | Modern Step-In Basin |
|---|---|---|
| Step-In Height | 15 to 20 inches high | 3 to 6 inches low |
| Seating Position | Flat on the floor | Raised comfortable chair height |
| Safety Grab Bars | Rarely built into frame | Integrated standard safety bars |
| Drain Speed | Slow single pipe drain | Fast dual drain technology |
Clearly, modern retrofits beat standard units in safety and ease of use every single time. Meanwhile, you keep complete independence during your morning or evening routine without asking relatives for help. Plus, having heavy-duty stainless steel frames underneath means these units last for decades without flexing.
Indeed, every house has its own plumbing layout and floor space to consider before setup starts. First, a local team comes out to measure your exact doorway clearances and floor joist strength. Because these units hold more water weight, checking your subfloor structure beforehand keeps everything solid.
Subsequently, removing your old fiberglass unit happens quickly without destroying your surrounding drywall or flooring. Proper removal techniques prevent hidden water damage from turning into expensive mold repairs later down the road. Naturally, keeping your home clean during messy demolition work remains our top priority.
Thereafter, hookups connect right to your current drain pipes and water supply lines. Plumbers adjust your local pipe valves to handle higher fill rates without causing low water pressure elsewhere. Eventually, everything gets sealed with heavy marine silicone to block water leak hazards completely.
Actually, customization lets you pick features that match your specific muscle relief needs. Heated seat backrest panels stay warm before you even fill up the basin with water. Hence, you avoid that awful cold chill against your spine when sitting down initially.
To that end, air jet massage systems gently bubble through the water to soothe sensitive skin areas. Unlike aggressive water jets, smooth air massage offers light surface relaxation that feels unbelievable. On top of that, built-in light therapy uses colored hues to calm your mind after stressful days.
Equally important, extendable hand-held shower wands give you full control over rinsing soap off your hair. You can wash off quickly while seated comfortably without spraying water all over your bathroom floor. Truly, every single dial is placed right where your hands drop naturally.
Obviously, home improvements should make sense for your budget and long-term financial security. Homes across the 97377 area code benefit massively when bathrooms feature accessible upgrades for aging residents. Therefore, installing a safe bathing solution boosts your home value while protecting your personal safety.
Check out these structural and lifestyle perks you gain right after completing your bathroom update project:
Low entry doors eliminate trips and falls completely.
Built-in grab handles provide rock-solid support when rising up.
Deep soaking water levels cover your shoulders completely.
Easy controls eliminate painful twisting for arthritic hands.
* Fast dual drains prevent awkward waiting periods after bathing.
Naturally, high household quality of life matters most when you want to stay in your home long term. Neighborhoods around local historic farmland appreciate property updates that keep homes functional for every generation. Consequently, investing in your bathroom now saves thousands in future care costs.
Surely, Pacific Northwest winters bring cold wet days that make your joints ache like crazy. Crawling into a deep heated basin warms your core temperature up super fast after being outside. So, having a warm thermal sanctuary ready at home improves winter living dramatically.
Furthermore, damp climate conditions require mold-resistant materials around all your dynamic splash zones. High-grade acrylic surfaces resist soap scum build-up, stain marks, and stubborn mildew growth naturally. That means you spend way less time scrubbing surfaces on your hands and knees.
Basically, clean acrylic non-porous surfaces shine bright with just a quick wipe from a micro-fiber cloth. You keep a spotless space without using harsh chemical cleaners that irritate your breathing. Ultimately, your home stays fresher while you spend your free time relaxing instead of cleaning bathrooms.
Lately, taking that first step toward remodeling feels intimidating if you do not know where to start. However, getting an expert out to assess your space is completely free and totally pressure-free. A local contractor examines your current layout, checks your electrical setup, and answers every single question directly.
Indeed, custom solutions fit perfectly into standard bath alcoves without requiring massive structural framing shifts. That keeps your installation timeline short, so you get your new tub running in days. Thus, you avoid weeks of dusty home disruption while contractors work on your space.
Now, ready to turn your standard bathroom into a safe haven with deep soaking relief? You can get a free estimate right now without any obligation to buy anything. Simply reach out to your local installation team, ask for your zero-cost quote, and start planning your upgrade!
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 Shedd.
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