The Boelus crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Howard 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 bathtub can feel like climbing a mountain as the years slip by.
This common daily struggle often leads to unwanted slips and painful falls on wet bathroom tiles.
Fortunately, we can swap your old high-walled tub for a secure, low-step alternative that brings back your peace of mind.
Imagine stepping over a tiny threshold of just a few inches instead of balancing on one slippery foot.
Our professional team specializes in setting up these highly secure, door-equipped bathing systems right in your home.
We travel straight to your house to inspect your current layout and help you choose the perfect model for your needs.
Every homeowner deserves to feel safe and relaxed while keeping up with their personal hygiene.
By inviting us over for a quick look, you get a zero-cost, no-obligation estimate customized for your specific bathroom space.
We focus on making your daily routine effortless, secure, and wonderfully comfortable again without any pushy sales tactics.
These specialized units feature a leak-proof door built right into the side of the acrylic or fiberglass shell.
Which means you simply open the door, step inside with ease, and sit down on a comfortable, raised bench.
Once you latch the door shut, you can fill the basin with warm water and enjoy a deep, soothing soak.
Because you sit upright, you do not have to struggle to push yourself up from the floor of the tub.
This smart design benefits anyone dealing with stiff joints, balance issues, or limited lower-body strength.
On top of that, the built-in grab bars provide sturdy handholds so you always feel steady on your feet.
Safety remains the absolute number one priority for every single unit we bring into your home.
Our heavy-duty door seals prevent water from escaping onto your bathroom floor, keeping the area bone dry.
This eliminates the puddle hazard that so often leads to dangerous slips after you finish washing up.
| Feature | Direct Benefit to You |
|---|---|
| Low-step entry door | Eliminates the need to climb over high tub walls |
| Contoured built-in seat | Allows comfortable upright bathing without joint strain |
| Fast-drain technology | Minimizes waiting time before you can open the door |
| Sturdy grab bars | Provides reliable support when sitting or standing up |
Fitting a complex, door-accessed tub into an existing bathroom footprint requires real hands-on experience.
Our skilled technicians know how to navigate the trickiest plumbing layouts and older home structures.
We make sure your hot water heater can handle the new capacity so you never face a chilly bath.
Living in a small, tight-knit community means we treat every customer like our own neighbor.
We proudly serve the rural heart of Howard County, where neighbors look out for one another every single day.
Our service area covers the entire local region, including the local 68820 zip code and nearby countryside.
With a local population of just 189 residents, we understand the unique charm and housing styles of our area.
Many homes here feature classic layouts that require a careful, customized touch during plumbing upgrades.
We respect your property, keep our work area incredibly clean, and complete the job as quickly as possible.
First, we sit down with you to discuss your mobility goals and look over your current bathroom setup.
This initial visit lets us measure your doorways, inspect your pipes, and check your water pressure.
Then, we explain the different options, from deep-soak models to advanced air-jet hydrotherapy systems.
Once you choose your ideal unit, we carefully remove your old, hazardous fixture without damaging your walls.
This stage often involves adjusting the drain location and upgrading the faucet valves to match the new setup.
We handle all the heavy lifting, structural reinforcing, and plumbing connections with absolute precision.
After we secure the new slip-resistant basin, we seal every edge to prevent mold and water damage.
We test the door seal multiple times to ensure a 100% watertight fit before we declare the job finished.
Finally, we walk you through how to operate the controls so you feel completely confident using it.
You can choose from several amazing upgrades to turn your bathroom into a private home spa.
Heated seating keeps your back warm while the tub fills up with soothing hot water.
This cozy feature prevents you from catching a draft during those colder Nebraska winter mornings.
For deep muscle relief, you can add gentle water jets or rejuvenating air bubble systems.
These therapeutic options help soothe aching muscles, improve blood flow, and relieve stubborn joint pain.
We help you weigh the pros and cons of each feature to find what fits your lifestyle.
We offer a wide variety of dimensions to fit almost any existing standard tub alcove.
This means we rarely have to tear down walls or remodel your entire bathroom to complete the project.
Our compact models fit tight spaces, while our larger units offer extra room to stretch out.
During our free home visit, we measure your hallways to ensure a smooth path for delivery.
We want the installation day to be as stress-free and quiet as possible for your household.
Our precise planning guarantees a seamless fit that looks like it was always part of your home.
We believe in giving you the straight facts so you can make an informed decision for your family.
The biggest advantage of these units is the incredible level of safety and independence they restore to your life.
You no longer have to rely on family members or caregivers just to take a simple bath.
However, you must sit inside the tub while it fills up and while it drains out completely.
This waiting period can feel a bit chilly if you do not choose a model with a heated seat.
To minimize this wait, we install high-speed drains and fast-filling faucets to speed up the process.
While the initial investment is higher than a cheap plastic shower curtain, the long-term value is massive.
Preventing a single bad fall can save you thousands of dollars in medical bills and rehabilitation costs.
It also allows you to stay in your beloved home longer instead of moving into assisted living.
Taking the first step toward a safer home is much easier than you might think.
We offer completely free, friendly consultations right at your kitchen table to answer all your questions.
We provide a clear, written estimate with zero hidden fees so you know exactly what to expect.
Our team understands that home budgets can be tight, especially when navigating retirement years.
That is why we offer honest advice, fair pricing, and reliable service that stands the test of time.
We never pressure you to buy, because we want you to feel totally confident in your choice.
Do not wait for an accidental slip to make this important safety decision for your household.
Contact us today to schedule your free home assessment and discover how easy bathing can be again.
We look forward to visiting your home in Boelus, Nebraska, and helping you regain your daily independence.
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 Boelus.
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