The Stevenson crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Saint Louis 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 worrying about slippery bathroom floors every single time you want a warm soak? You can easily get a safe leak-proof deep soaking basin set up in your home today. Get your free quote right away!
Actually, taking a nice long soak after a hard day should feel amazing. Plus, sliding into a cold shallow basin just does not cut it anymore when your body aches. Sadly, typical old setups with high walls make getting in and out super risky as the years creep up on us. You deserve a smooth upgrade that gives you complete cozy peace of mind without any scary slipping hazards.
Luckily, modern accessible bathing units come loaded with sealed door entries and built-in seats. Naturally, this means you never have to stretch your hips over high ledges again. Beyond that, sturdy grab bars and quick-draining systems make the whole process totally stress-free from start to finish. You just step right inside like walking through a regular doorway, sit down comfortably, and let the warm water cover your shoulders.
Furthermore, these high-wall safe tubs bring back full independence for anyone dealing with stiff knees or back issues. Honestly, my own uncle struggled for months after his knee surgery until he finally made the switch. Suddenly, his daily routine went from a nerve-wracking chore to his favorite part of the evening. That simple change kept him living safely in his own home for years longer than we expected.
Truth be told, house accidents happen way too often in ordinary bathrooms. Consequently, slick porcelain surfaces paired with high steps turn your regular morning routine into an obstacle course. By choosing a low-threshold soaking tub with non-slip floor textures, you completely eliminate those scary moments. That smart move keeps you safe and sound every day.
In addition, these specialized fixtures come packed with awesome hydrotherapy jets to soothe tired muscles. For instance, heated water streams work wonders on stiff lower backs and swollen ankles. On top of that, controlled warmth improves circulation while you sit back and relax. Which means you wake up feeling way less stiff every morning.
What is more, the extra depth lets you soak your entire upper body while staying seated upright. Standard tubs make you lie down flat, which is super hard to get up from. Contrastingly, these upright deep-water units hold water up to your chest while you sit safely like you are in an arm chair. It feels awesome, and you never get stuck at the bottom.
To begin with, let us look at what makes these accessible tall-walled basins so completely awesome for your daily home life. Watertight door seals keep every single drop inside your bathing area where it belongs. Furthermore, heavy-duty latches snap tight with simple pressure, so you do not need super strong hands to close them up tight. That keeps your subfloor dry as a bone.
Next, fast-drain technology empties out dozens of gallons in under two minutes flat. As a result, you never have to sit around freezing while waiting for water to go down the pipe. Meanwhile, fast-heating inline systems keep the water continuously warm no matter how long you stay inside. Therefore, you enjoy continuous luxury warmth without constantly running the hot tap.
| Special Feature | Daily Home Benefit |
|---|---|
| Ultra-Low Step Threshold | Prevents trips and lets you step inside effortlessly without lifting legs high. |
| Internal Grab Bars | Gives you solid leverage to sit down and stand up with total balance. |
| Targeted Air Jets | Delivers gentle massage action to ease joint tension and sore back muscles. |
| Dual Drain Pumps | Empties out all the warm water super fast so you can get out quickly. |
First off, putting in one of these massive tall soaking units takes real hands-on experience. Clearly, you cannot just drop a heavy glass-fiber shell onto old floor joists without checking structural support first. Our team checks the subfloor, measures every inch of door clearance, and makes sure your plumbing lines carry proper pressure. That guarantees zero unexpected headaches later on.
Additionally, expert technicians swap out your old standard basin and prep the drain lines properly. Frequently, older drain pipes are too small to handle rapid-drain safety systems. So, we widen the waste pipes to two inches to pull water out instantly. Consequently, you never sit around shivering while waiting to open the sealed side door.
Besides that, electrical wiring needs custom attention if you choose hydrotherapy air jets or heated backrests. Specifically, dedicated circuits keep everything running safely without tripping your main home breaker panel. Ultimately, seeing a finished job with clean caulking and perfect trim work brings total cozy satisfaction to your whole house.
Now, living in a northern mining region like Saint Louis County brings unique winter weather challenges to your home pipes. Cold snaps mean you need top-tier pipe insulation around your new soaking unit's supply lines. Otherwise, drafty exterior walls can chill your bathwater before you even sit down. We build local thermal barriers right into every backer board installation.
Incidentally, in communities with around 16,361 residents, keeping your property updated with age-in-place features adds massive appeal. ZIP codes throughout the area feature classic homes with older bath layouts ripe for a modern refresh. A clean, modern barrier-free layout makes any house stand out on the market.
Furthermore, local water conditions can sometimes leave mineral deposits in high-tech water jets if you are not careful. Fortunately, integrated micro-cleaning systems use ozone or UV light to keep internal lines pristine. That means less scrubbing for you and more time enjoying warm water therapy after working hard outdoors all week long.
Initially, you might think all high-wall door-entry tubs look pretty much the same. However, you can pick from outward-swinging doors, inward-swinging gates, and wide transfer seats. Outward doors give you maximum room inside the stall to move your feet. Conversely, inward doors work best if your bathroom floor space is super tight near the vanity.
Along with that, sizing varies wildly from compact thirty-inch models up to extra-wide loungers. For example, if you have a tight retro bathroom layout, narrow models fit right into the exact spot of your old five-foot tub. Thus, you do not need to tear down plaster walls or move main plumbing stacks. That saves you massive amounts of hard-earned cash on remodeling labor.
On top of that, you can customize shower head extensions and wall surround panels to match your style. Glossy acrylic wall surrounds give you a classy tile look without any gross grout lines to scrub with a tooth brush. Therefore, your space looks super neat and stays easy to wipe down with a soft cloth.
Mind you, true independence starts with feeling totally safe when nobody else is around the house. Textured non-skid floors stop feet from sliding out when applying soap or shampoo. In addition, built-in contoured seats sit at a natural height so your knees stay at a comfortable ninety-degree angle. That allows you to stand up without straining your lower back.
Even better, anti-scald mixing valves prevent sudden bursts of boiling water when someone flushes a toilet downstairs. Naturally, this keeps sensitive skin completely safe from accidental burns. Which means you can relax fully without constantly tweaking the temperature knobs every few minutes.
Right away, when you ask for an estimate, a friendly expert comes right to your door. First, we take exact laser measurements of your current bathroom footprint and check door frame widths. Then, we look under the sink to check water pressure and examine your electrical panel setup. That way, your estimate shows the real final price with no sneaky hidden fees later.
Subsequently, we talk through your exact mobility needs and style choices. Whether you want deep tissue water jets or soft soothing air bubbles, we match the unit to your personal wishlist. Additionally, we bring surface samples so you can see how the colors look under your actual bathroom lights. That takes all the scary guesswork out of picking new fixtures.
Finally, we hand you a detailed written quote that breaks down equipment costs and installation steps clearly. There is never any weird high-pressure sales pitch or pushy behavior from our team. We just give you straightforward facts and honest advice so you can make the best choice for your home.
Surprisingly, taking care of a tall door-entry soaking tub is super simple and quick. Since high-grade gelcoat acrylic resists soap scum buildup, a quick rinse after bathing keeps surfaces shiny. Also, flexible door seals just need a wipe with a towel to stay soft and pliable over time. That simple step prevents tiny slow leaks for decades.
In addition, running the jet purge cycle once a month keeps internal pipes clean as a whistle. You just fill the basin, throw in a cup of simple cleaning solution, and run the air jets for five minutes. As a result, no dark gunk or scale forms inside the hidden flex hoses. It keeps your bath water fresh every single time.
Ultimately, investing in modern barrier-free bathing equipment gives you complete control over your personal routine again. You get to stay in the home you love without worrying about awkward slips or painful falls. It really is the best home upgrade you can ever make for long-term safe living.
Now is the absolute best time to take action and secure your bathroom safety. Why spend another single day feeling nervous near a slick old tub? Reach out right now to grab your on-site estimate and see how easy a new setup can be. Our local team is ready to come out, measure your space, and give you honest answers 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 Stevenson.
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