The Chelsea crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Washtenaw 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 we use our bathrooms without thinking about the hidden dangers lurking on those slippery wet tile floors.
But a sudden slip while stepping over a high barrier can change your life in a split second.
Which is why finding a smart way to remodel your bathing area can bring back your independence and peace of mind.
If you want to stay in your beloved home for years to come, making your bathroom safer is the absolute best place to start.
This lets you enjoy a deep, warm bath without any of the scary slips or struggles.
We are here to help you explore the ultimate bathroom safety upgrade that fits your budget and lifestyle perfectly.
Fortunately, you can get a completely free estimate today to see how easy it is to transform your daily routine.
Our local team visits your home to look at your space and give you an honest price.
You will see how simple it is to bring back that secure feeling in your own home.
Maybe you are wondering what makes these specialized deep-soaking units so different from a standard cast iron basin.
Instead of forcing you to lift your legs over a high, dangerous ledge, these clever systems feature a leak-proof side door.
This means you simply walk right in and sit down on a comfortable, built-in raised bench.
Once you are safely inside, you close the heavy-duty latching door which seals tightly to keep every drop of water contained.
Then you fill the deep basin with warm water and let the soothing warmth wash away your daily aches.
On top of that, these units drain incredibly fast so you do not have to sit there freezing when you are finished.
| Feature | Immediate Safety Benefit |
|---|---|
| Low Step-In Threshold | Removes the need to balance on one foot while entering |
| Contoured Seat | Lets you bathe while sitting upright without slipping down |
| Watertight Door Seal | Prevents messy bathroom floods and protects your subfloor |
| Fast-Draining Technology | Minimizes waiting time before you can safely open the door |
To make things even better, these modern setups often come with therapeutic water jets or air massage systems.
This lets you target sore muscles in your lower back, hips, and legs with gentle, healing pressure.
Which means your daily wash turns into a luxurious spa experience right in your own home.
Some folks think they can tackle a massive plumbing upgrade like this as a quick weekend DIY chore.
However, installing these heavy, specialized units requires serious plumbing knowledge, electrical skills, and carpentry expertise.
A single tiny mistake with the drain or the door seal can cause massive water damage under your floors.
When you hire a dedicated local team, you get the assurance that the job is done right the very first time.
This is because we know how to properly reinforce your floorboards to handle the weight of a fully filled deep basin.
We also make sure the new pipes align perfectly with your existing home drainage system.
Besides the basic plumbing, we also handle the electrical wiring needed for those relaxing heated seats and massage jets.
This guarantees your safety because water and electricity require expert separation and proper grounding.
You can just sit back and relax while we transform your bathroom into a secure haven.
Every single homeowner has different physical needs and design tastes when it comes to their private washroom.
That is why we offer a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and additional safety accessories.
This lets you customize your new setup with heavy-duty grab bars, handheld shower wand extenders, and anti-slip flooring textures.
You might be worried that a safer bathing unit will look like a cold, sterile hospital room.
Actually, modern designs look incredibly stylish and come in various colors to match your existing vanity and tile.
Which means you get a gorgeous bathroom upgrade that raises your home value while keeping you completely safe.
We take pride in measuring your exact space to find a unit that slides perfectly into your current footprint.
This minimizes the need for costly demolition or wall movement, saving you a ton of hard-earned cash.
You get all the benefits of a custom remodel without the massive headache of a full home renovation.
Living in this beautiful part of Michigan means enjoying a charming, tight-knit community with a rich history.
With a local population of around 5,295 residents, we love helping our neighbors stay safe and comfortable in their homes.
Many of the houses in the 48118 ZIP code area feature classic layouts that can benefit greatly from a modern safety update.
Since the median household income here is about $78,958, we understand that homeowners want to invest their money wisely.
Which is why we focus on durable, long-lasting products that prevent costly slip-and-fall injuries.
Investing in your safety today saves you from massive medical bills and helps you maintain your cherished independence.
Our friendly team lives and works right here in Chelsea, Michigan, so we can arrive at your door quickly.
We treat your home with the utmost respect, keeping our work area clean and tidy from start to finish.
You can trust us to deliver honest, high-quality work that makes your daily life much easier.
First, we start with a friendly, consultation right in your home to look at your current setup.
We discuss your mobility goals, measure your doorways, and check your hot water heater capacity.
This ensures your home can easily support the new high-volume water demands of a deeper basin.
Next, we provide a detailed, itemized estimate so you know exactly what to expect with no hidden fees.
Once you approve the plan, our crew carefully removes your old, outdated tub without damaging your walls.
Then we run new plumbing lines, install robust electrical hookups, and slide the new unit into place.
Finally, we test every single seal, door latch, and drain to ensure absolute perfection before we leave.
We even spend time showing you how to operate all the jets, temperature controls, and rapid-drain features.
This leaves you completely confident and ready to enjoy your very first safe, warm soak.
You do not have to live with the daily fear of slipping or struggling to get out of a low tub.
Our dedicated local team is ready to help you reclaim your freedom and enjoy your bath time once again.
We make the entire process stress-free, affordable, and incredibly fast.
Why wait until an accidental slip forces you to make a sudden, stressful change to your living situation?
Taking action now ensures you can stay in your beloved home for many peaceful years to come.
It is the ultimate gift of safety and relaxation for yourself or your aging loved ones.
Contact us today to request your home estimate and safety consultation.
We will answer all your questions, show you our catalog of beautiful models, and find the perfect fit for your budget.
Let us help you turn your bathroom into a secure, spa-like retreat where you can truly unwind.
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 Chelsea.
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