The Underhill crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Oconto 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.
Every single day, simple tasks like stepping over a tall barrier just to wash up can feel like climbing a mountain. Because of this, many homeowners worry about slipping on wet tiles. This lets you take back control of your personal space without any of that constant anxiety.
Fortunately, we can transform your existing bathroom into a secure haven where you can actually unwind. Which means you get to enjoy a deep, warm soak without needing to balance on one foot. Our dedicated team travels directly to your home to assess your space and provide an estimate.
On top of that, we focus on custom setups that fit the exact layout of your current room. This approach ensures you do not have to deal with a massive, messy construction project. By choosing our specialized layout design, you gain peace of mind and get to keep your independence for many years to come.
Now, let us look at how these specialized low-threshold basins actually function to make your life easier. For starters, they feature a leak-proof swing door that opens up wide. This allows you to walk right inside and sit down on a comfortable, molded seat before turning on the faucet.
Specifically, you can select from several configurations depending on your physical needs and the size of your bathroom. To help you compare the main options, we put together a simple breakdown of what we offer.
| Model Type | Key Feature | Primary Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Soaker Basin | Deep water depth | Therapeutic warmth for joints |
| Air and Hydro Massage | Built-in jets | Relief for sore muscles |
| Bariatric Design | Wider entry door | Extra room and stability |
Besides the physical setup, each unit comes with heavy-duty grab bars and slip-resistant floors. This means you never have to grasp at flimsy towel racks for balance. Additionally, the fast-drain systems empty the water in under eighty seconds so you do not sit there shivering.
To make the unit work for your body, we carefully measure your reach and your range of motion. For instance, an outward-swinging door provides maximum room to step inside if you use a wheelchair. Conversely, an inward-swinging door uses water pressure to keep the seal tight and saves a ton of floor space.
Additionally, we adjust the height of the built-in seat so your knees do not have to bend at painful angles. This gives you the ability to sit down and stand up with zero strain. Consequently, you can enjoy a hot bath without requiring assistance from family members or nurses.
If you suffer from arthritis or poor circulation, adding targeted water jets can change your entire morning routine. This lets you target tight muscles in your lower back and calves with warm, pressurized water. Ultimately, your body feels looser and you sleep much better at night.
Furthermore, air jets offer a gentler bubbling sensation that keeps the water moving without putting pressure on sensitive skin. This combination turns a simple wash into a luxury experience right in your own home. Best of all, we customize the jet placement to match your personal physical needs.
Perhaps you are tempted to ask a handy neighbor to help you slide a new unit into place. However, heavy acrylic basins require precise leveling and complex plumbing adjustments to prevent future leaks behind your drywall. Our crew brings specialized tools to handle the heavy lifting and the intricate pipe connections.
Moreover, we must reinforce the floor joists underneath the basin because these units hold way more water than a standard shallow tub. Which means a weak floor could sag or crack over time under the immense weight. By trusting us, you ensure your home structure remains perfectly safe and dry.
Consequently, we take care of the entire permitting process and make sure every pipe matches local building codes. This saves you from expensive inspection failures down the road. Our team works quickly to get your water running again so your home routine experiences minimal disruption.
Because these deep basins hold a large volume of water, your old heating tank might run cold before the tub is even halfway full. To prevent this cold surprise, we check your current utility setup during our initial visit. This allows us to suggest affordable upgrades like a fast-heating booster or a tankless system.
As a result, you will never have to worry about running out of hot water mid-bath. This gives you a continuous stream of warmth that makes every dollar spent on the upgrade worth it. We ensure all your utilities work in perfect harmony before we pack up our tools.
To keep mold and mildew from growing behind your new walls, we apply commercial-grade silicone sealants around every edge. This protects the wood framing of your home from humid air and splashing water. Therefore, your bathroom stays fresh and clean without requiring constant scrubbing.
On top of that, we use mold-resistant backer boards behind the wall surrounds for double protection. This means you do not have to worry about hidden rot ruining your property value. We build things to last so you can focus on relaxing instead of worrying about maintenance.
When you contact us, we do not just send you a generic price sheet over the internet. Instead, we drive out to your property in Oconto County to look at your bathroom layout in person. This lets us give you an honest, accurate price quote with absolutely no hidden fees.
During the visit, we measure your doorways to make sure the new basin can actually fit through your house without damaging your walls. This prevents any stressful surprises on the actual day of the project. We also listen to your specific physical concerns to recommend the safest possible features.
Surprisingly, we often find ways to save you money by utilizing your existing drain lines instead of tearing up your entire floor. This honest approach has made us a trusted name for the 846 residents living in this quiet Wisconsin community. We treat your home with the utmost respect, always cleaning up every speck of dust before we leave.
Even if you do not plan on staying in your home forever, adding accessible features is a smart financial move. This is because buyers look for properties that can accommodate aging family members without requiring immediate renovations. Your investment protects your physical health today while boosting your real estate appeal for tomorrow.
We offer competitive pricing and flexible options to fit your family budget. This ensures you do not have to compromise on safety just to save a buck.
Whether you live in ZIP code 54174 or nearby areas, we are ready to assist you. Our team brings local knowledge and reliable craftsmanship to every single job. You can trust us to deliver an upgraded bathing experience that brings back the joy of independent living.
Now, you do not have to live with the daily fear of slipping or falling in your own shower. This is your chance to turn your bathroom into a place of pure relaxation and safety. All it takes is one simple conversation to get the ball rolling.
Simply reach out to us today to request your completely free, no-obligation estimate. We will schedule a convenient time to visit your home, answer your questions, and design the perfect setup for your needs. Let us help you make your daily routine easy, comfortable, and completely worry-free.
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 Underhill.
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