The Bigelow crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Perry 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.
Sliding into a deep, warm bath feels like absolute heaven after a long day of hard work.
However, high tub walls present a real slipping hazard for many people in our local community.
This makes a simple daily shower feel like climbing a steep mountain peak.
Fortunately, you can easily reclaim your independence with a specialized low-step bath upgrade.
Our team visits homes in Perry County to help folks find the perfect fit.
We provide a totally free on-site estimate to get you started without any stress.
Imagine stepping over a tiny threshold of just a few inches instead of a dangerous barrier.
This simple change protects your joints and keeps you safe from nasty bathroom falls.
Let us help you transform your space into a secure haven today.
Choosing the right setup requires a bit of planning and some basic plumbing knowledge.
First, you need to decide between different door configurations that open inward or outward.
An inward-swinging door utilizes water pressure to seal itself tight while you soak.
On the other hand, outward-swinging doors offer much easier entry for wheelchair transfers.
Next, you should consider the internal seating arrangements inside these specialized units.
Most models feature a comfortable, built-in chair height seat that keeps you upright.
This design prevents you from having to struggle up from the cold floor.
Which means your knees and hips will thank you every single time you bathe.
Then, we must look at the actual footprint of your existing bathroom space.
Many of these secure units fit perfectly into the standard five-foot alcove slot.
This clever sizing saves you from expensive structural wall demolition during the upgrade process.
We can measure your exact layout to ensure a flawless match during our visit.
| Feature | Direct Benefit for You |
|---|---|
| Low-entry door threshold | Prevents dangerous tripping and slipping hazards |
| Contoured built-in seating | Eliminates the struggle of standing up from the floor |
| Integrated grab bars | Provides solid handholds for extra stability |
| Rapid drainage systems | Saves you from sitting cold while the water empties |
Preparing your home for this upgrade involves a few crucial steps by skilled local hands.
Initially, our crew carefully extracts your old, outdated porcelain or fiberglass basin.
This requires careful muscle to avoid damaging your surrounding drywall and floor joists.
We handle all the heavy lifting and disposal so you do not lift a finger.
Thereafter, we inspect the underlying subfloor for any hidden water rot or structural sagging.
Strengthening this foundation ensures your new heavy-duty unit remains level and secure for decades.
This extra care prevents annoying squeaks and future leaks down the road.
Our team treats your home with the utmost respect throughout this dirty phase.
After that, we run new heavy-duty plumbing lines to accommodate the unique drainage needs.
These units require specialized fast-drain technology to empty the water quickly.
This prevents you from shivering in the cold waiting for the basin to empty out.
We hook up top-tier brass fixtures that resist corrosion and look beautiful too.
Attempting a complex bathroom remodel on your own often leads to massive headaches.
For instance, a single bad pipe connection can ruin your ceiling downstairs.
Our crew brings years of hands-on experience to every single residential project.
We know exactly how to handle tricky older homes without breaking your budget.
Additionally, we understand the unique water pressure challenges in our small Arkansas community.
Living in a quiet town of 282 residents means you deserve personalized, friendly service.
We pride ourselves on helping neighbors across the 72016 ZIP code area stay safe.
Our local reputation matters more to us than making a quick buck.
Furthermore, we adapt our designs to match various household budgets and needs.
With a median household income of $52,188 in this region, we keep our prices fair.
This ensures you get premium safety features without draining your hard-earned retirement savings.
We offer transparent pricing with zero hidden fees or high-pressure sales tactics.
Investing in your safety today protects your freedom and independence for tomorrow.
Non-slip flooring inside the basin prevents your feet from sliding on soapy surfaces.
This textured finish gives you solid traction even when the unit is completely full.
You can move around with total peace of mind and zero fear.
On top of that, strategically placed safety bars offer solid handholds when rising.
These heavy-duty bars are anchored directly into the wall studs for maximum strength.
They will easily support your full body weight without bending or loosening over time.
This adds an extra layer of security during your daily routine.
Lastly, advanced hydrotherapy jets can soothe your aching muscles and arthritic joints.
These gentle warm water streams stimulate blood flow and help you relax completely.
This turns a simple chore into a luxurious spa experience right at home.
You get to enjoy therapeutic relief whenever your body feels stiff.
Starting this journey is incredibly simple and requires no financial commitment from you.
First, we sit down with you to discuss your specific mobility challenges and goals.
We listen closely to your concerns to find the absolute best design for your lifestyle.
This helps us tailor the project to your exact physical requirements.
Subsequently, we perform a detailed measurement of your current bathroom layout and doorways.
This ensures the new unit can navigate the tight corners of your home during delivery.
We also check your water heater capacity to guarantee plenty of warm water.
This thorough check prevents any unpleasant surprises on the actual installation day.
Ultimately, we hand you a detailed, written estimate covering every single penny.
You can review the quote with your family without any high-pressure sales tactics.
We want you to feel completely confident in your home improvement decision.
Reach out to our friendly team today to schedule your free home evaluation!
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 Bigelow.
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