The Farmington Hills crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Oakland 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.
Taking a bath should feel like a simple slice of heaven. Sadly, those high slippery walls on standard basins turn a relaxing moment into a stressful obstacle course. If you worry about slipping every time you want to soak, you are definitely not alone in Oakland County.
Our professional crew visits homes everyday to replace old hazardous setups with secure accessible alternatives. We help you regain your peace of mind by bringing the showroom directly to your door. This means you can stay in the home you love without worrying about accidents.
By requesting an in-home consultation today, you take the first step toward a safer daily routine. We analyze your layout to find the perfect fit for your specific needs. Let us handle the heavy lifting while you focus on reclaiming your personal freedom.
Essentially, this project replaces your traditional high-sided basin with a custom-engineered washing system featuring a leak-proof door. You simply open the swinging entry gate, step inside over a very low threshold, and sit down on a built-in elevated seat. Which means you never have to lower yourself all the way down to the floor level again.
These units come loaded with therapeutic benefits designed to soothe aching muscles and joints. For example, warm hydrotherapy jets target your back and legs to wash away the aches of the day. On top of that, fast-draining technology ensures you do not sit shivering while the water empties out.
To help you understand the options, we compiled a quick comparison of the main features you can choose.
| System Feature | Concrete Benefit for You | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Ultra-low entry threshold | Eliminates tripping hazards | Protects your balance |
| Contoured built-in seating | Provides a secure upright position | Prevents slips and falls |
| Hydrotherapy air jets | Delivers a deep muscle massage | Relieves arthritis pain |
| Dual drain systems | Empties the basin in seconds | Keeps you warm and cozy |
Many folks in our thriving community of 81,482 residents want to plan ahead for their golden years. With a healthy local median household income of $81,203, investing in home safety is a smart way to protect your property value and your physical health. Our neighbors throughout the local ZIP codes realize that a quick slip can change everything in an instant.
When you choose this upgrade, you instantly transform your bathroom into a private spa retreat. Think about the relief of soaking in deep warm water without any fear of how you will get back up. This brings incredible peace of mind not just to you, but to your entire family who worries about your safety.
We believe in honest work, which is why we must mention that these units require a bit of patience. Because you must enter the enclosure before filling it with water, you will wait a few minutes for the warm stream to rise. However, our high-flow faucets minimize this wait time so you can start relaxing almost immediately.
Our process begins with a friendly visit to your house to measure your current space. We look at your existing plumbing, doorways, and hot water heater to ensure your home can support the new system. This step is completely free and comes with zero obligation to buy anything.
Once we agree on the perfect model, our skilled team handles the demolition of your old tub with absolute care. We protect your floors and clean up every speck of dust before we leave. Which means your bathroom will look cleaner when we finish than when we first arrived.
Next, we carefully run new plumbing lines and secure the heavy-duty frame to your subfloor. We seal every joint with industrial-grade waterproofing materials to prevent any future leaks behind your walls. Finally, we test every single button and jet to guarantee flawless operation.
Selecting the right configuration depends entirely on your personal mobility needs and physical height. Some folks prefer an outward-swinging door because it provides more room to step inside the unit. Others choose an inward-swinging door because it uses the natural pressure of the water to keep the seal incredibly tight.
You can also opt for heated surfaces that keep your back warm while the basin fills up. This luxury feature removes the chill of sitting in an empty tub during our cold Michigan winters. We love helping you customize these little details to create your ultimate oasis.
We want to be totally transparent about the financial side of this home improvement project. These specialized systems cost more than standard plastic basins due to the advanced door seals, internal steel frames, and therapeutic pump systems. However, preventing one serious injury easily offsets the initial investment of the remodel.
Our team works hard to find options that fit within your budget without sacrificing your safety. During your home assessment, we provide a detailed written estimate down to the penny.
To give you a better idea of how different setups compare, check out this quick overview of the popular configurations.
| Model Type | Best Suited For | Key Advantage |
|---|---|---|
| Soaker Model | Budget-conscious buyers | Deep soaking warmth |
| Bariatric Unit | Larger body frames | Extra wide entry door |
| Combo Massage | Maximum pain relief | Air and water jets combined |
Working with local contractors who know Oakland County inside and out makes a massive difference. We understand the specific plumbing layouts common in Farmington Hills, Michigan, which helps us avoid unexpected delays during setup. Our crew arrives on time, treats your home with respect, and communicates clearly throughout the entire project.
We do not believe in high-pressure sales tactics or rushing your decision. Our goal is simply to educate you on the best safety solutions so you can make an informed choice. This honest approach has made us a trusted favorite among your neighbors.
Are you ready to stop worrying about your daily bath and start enjoying it again? Contact us right now to schedule your home safety evaluation and detailed estimate. We look forward to helping you live safely, comfortably, and independently for many years to come.
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 Farmington Hills.
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