The Shelly crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Norman 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.
Getting in and out of a standard bath can feel like climbing a mountain as the years sneak up on us.
Fortunately, you can swap that risky high-step barrier for a secure, low-threshold door that keeps your independence intact.
Our team visits your home to assess your space and provides a completely free estimate to make your daily routine stress-free again.
Slips and falls in the bathroom cause thousands of injuries every single year.
This is why installing a specialized, leak-proof accessible bathing unit with a built-in seat makes total sense for folks who want to age in place.
By choosing this smart upgrade, you protect your joints and gain ultimate peace of mind.
Think about how nice it will feel to sit down comfortably while soaking in warm water.
Which means you no longer have to worry about losing your balance on wet, slippery porcelain.
We specialize in retrofitting these modern setups directly into your existing layout with minimal fuss.
Living in a quiet, close-knit place with a population of just 134 people means neighbors look out for each other.
When safety at home becomes a concern, local residents in the 56581 ZIP code area look for practical, high-quality home modifications.
Our professional crew brings top-tier equipment and years of hands-on experience straight to your doorstep.
With a local median household income of $53,125, we know that every dollar you invest in your property must bring real, lasting value.
That is why we focus on durable, American-made materials that resist mold and stands up to daily use.
Investing in this upgrade actually increases your property value while preventing expensive medical bills down the road.
On top of that, we handle the entire process from teardown to the final cleanup.
This lets you avoid the headache of hiring multiple random contractors who might not understand the specific plumbing needs of older homes in this beautiful part of Minnesota.
We treat your house with the utmost respect, just like we would treat our grandmother's home.
You might wonder how these water-tight doors actually keep the water from flooding your bathroom floor.
Specifically, they use heavy-duty pressure seals that lock tight the moment you close the latch.
As the water rises, the pressure actually helps seal the door even tighter against the frame.
Furthermore, these systems feature dual-drain technology so you do not have to sit there shivering while the water empties out.
This rapid drainage system pulls water down the pipes in under two minutes.
Because of this, you can open the door and step out onto your dry bath mat almost immediately.
| Key Feature | Concrete Benefit for You |
|---|---|
| Low-Step Entry | Prevents tripping hazards and makes entering effortless. |
| Contoured Heated Seat | Keeps your upper body warm while the basin fills up. |
| Safety Grab Bars | Provides sturdy handholds for maximum stability. |
| Hydrotherapy Jets | Soothes sore muscles and improves poor circulation. |
To add to that, the built-in grab bars are securely bolted into the wall studs behind the acrylic surround.
This setup ensures they can support full body weight without budging a single millimeter.
Safety is not just a buzzword for us... it is the core of everything we build.
Every bathroom layout is slightly different, which is why we never believe in a one-size-fits-all solution.
During our visit, we measure your door frames and current tub footprint to find the perfect configuration.
This careful planning guarantees that the new unit fits like a glove without requiring major structural demolition.
In addition, you can choose from various configurations like outward or inward swinging doors depending on your mobility needs.
An outward-opening door offers the easiest wheelchair transfer options for folks with limited leg movement.
Meanwhile, inward-opening models are fantastic for tight, compact bathrooms where floor space is at a premium.
Besides the door style, you can customize the jet packages to target your lower back, legs, or feet.
These air and whirlpool systems gently massage your body to relieve arthritis pain and stiffness after a long day.
It is like having a private spa right in your own home, minus the steep resort prices.
First, we carefully extract your old, outdated fixture and inspect the subfloor underneath for any hidden water damage or rot.
Fixing these underlying issues before placing the new unit ensures your floor remains rock-solid for decades.
We never cut corners because we want your new setup to last a lifetime.
Next, our team upgrades your existing plumbing lines to accommodate the faster fill valves and high-capacity drains.
This part of the job requires precise leveling to ensure the heavy basin sits perfectly flat on the floor.
Even a tiny slope can cause improper draining, which is why our experienced installers use digital levels for absolute precision.
Finally, we seal every single seam with high-grade, mold-resistant silicone and test the water flow multiple times.
We do not leave your home until we are absolutely certain there are zero leaks and you know exactly how to operate all the controls.
Our cleanup crew then sweeps up every speck of dust so your bathroom looks spotless.
Now is the perfect time to take control of your home safety before an accidental slip happens.
Our friendly local technicians are ready to visit your home in Shelly, Minnesota, to give you an honest, transparent price estimate.
There is absolutely zero obligation to buy, and we promise no pushy high-pressure sales tactics.
Instead, we focus on answering your questions and helping you design a setup that fits your budget and lifestyle.
We believe in honest pricing, clear communication, and treating our neighbors like family.
Reach out to us today to schedule your free consultation and take the first step toward a safer, more relaxing daily routine.
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 Shelly.
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