The Fort Myers Beach crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Lee 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.
Looking for a way to modify your main full-size bathroom for safer splashing in Lee County? You came to the absolute right place for honest advice on changing your soaking space. Getting a fresh set of accessible bathing fixtures can totally change your daily routine for the better!
First, taking a normal step over a high porcelain wall gets pretty scary after a while. Slipping on wet tiles is literally nobody's idea of a fun Tuesday morning. So getting a dedicated low-threshold entry soaking system installed brings pure peace of mind right into your daily home routine. You just swing open the leak-proof door, walk right in, and sit down on a built-in seat without any balancing acts.
Additionally, these specialized modern soaking units come packed with some seriously awesome perks. We are talking about soothing hydrotherapy jets that blast away those stubborn lower back aches after a long day of walking on sandy shores. Honestly, it feels just like having a personal spa day right inside your own master suite! Plus, fast-draining technology means you will not sit around freezing while waiting for the water to spill down the drain.
Furthermore, keeping your independence at home is probably the best part of this whole upgrade project. Nobody wants to ask for help just to take a simple relaxing soak after working hard all week. By adding sturdy handrails along with textured slip-resistant flooring, you stay completely in control of your personal hygiene routine forever.
Naturally, everybody wants to know what kind of hit their wallet is going to take for a remodel like this. Well, the honest answer is that prices vary quite a bit based on what kind of fancy bells and whistles you end up choosing. Basic models with quick-drain features cost way less than custom spaces packed with heated surfaces, atmospheric LED lights, and air massage jets.
To give you a clearer picture of how options stack up, here is a quick breakdown of popular feature setups:
| Model Setup Type | Key Features Included | Main Benefit to You |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Access Soaker | Low step threshold, wide seal door, grab bars | Basic fall prevention and total safety |
| Hydrotherapy Combo Pack | Water jets, air massage, heated seating backrest | Targeted muscle relief and ultimate warmth |
| Luxury Bariatric Package | Extra-wide door frame, rapid drain pump system | Maximum roominess and ultra-fast exit times |
Consequently, picking the right option depends on your specific budget and personal mobility needs. Getting a walk-through evaluation helps figure out the exact layout without any guessing games... That way you never end up paying extra cash for features you will never actually use!
First of all, our team rolls up to your property to take super accurate measurements of your existing layout. We check out your current plumbing lines, evaluate your water heater capacity, and make sure your home electrical panel can handle new jet pumps. Honestly, old houses down here in sunny coastal zones sometimes have wacky plumbing quirks that need a quick fix first.
Next, we gently rip out your outdated fiberglass tub or old tiled shower setup. We clean up all the hidden mold, fix up any water-damaged subfloors, and reinforce the underlying framing. Afterwards, we slidingly position your shiny new easy-entry sealed basin straight into the exact same footprint.
Finally, our crew hooks up all the high-flow supply lines and tests every single door seal to ensure zero water leaks onto your subfloor. We make sure the water flows fast, the drain sucks quickly, and the grab bars hold absolute firm. Then we clean up every bit of dusty debris so you can enjoy your modern wet-room upgrade right away.
Interestingly enough, you get to pick out all kinds of cool finishes to match your existing vanity setup. From brushed nickel faucets to bright white acrylic walls, your space does not have to look like a sterile hospital room at all. Instead, it looks incredibly stylish while hiding all its top-tier safety features in plain sight!
Besides nice looks, you can choose dual-drain systems that clear out full water basins in under two minutes. Which means you stay warm inside your heated enclosure instead of sitting around shivering while waiting to open the side door. Additionally, ozone sanitation systems can keep your water pipes squeaky clean without demanding hours of harsh scrubbing on your hands and knees.
Furthermore, handheld shower heads make rinsing off super simple while sitting down on the raised bench seat. You can easily wash your hair without straining your shoulders or reaching way up high. It turns a chore into pure relaxation every single day of the week!
Usually, standard forty-gallon tanks struggle to fill these high-capacity deep soaking spaces fully with steamy water. Therefore, installing a tankless inline heating unit or upgrading your existing tank is often the smartest move to ensure you never run out of warm water halfway through your relaxing bath.
Honestly, most straightforward replacement projects take only about one to two days of work inside your home. Our crew works super fast to make sure your main restroom is back up and running with minimal noise, dust, or hassle for your family.
Yes, absolute modern non-porous acrylic materials resist ugly mildew, soap scum buildup, and hard water stains naturally. A quick wipe down with a mild liquid soap and soft sponge keeps your new setup looking brand new for many years to come!
Living in this beautiful Gulf coast area means dealing with high humidity and unique home construction quirks. For instance, many local properties built around the 33931 and 33932 ZIP code zones feature concrete slab foundations that require specialized plumbing approaches. Knowing how to route drains correctly through concrete keeps your installation totally rock solid.
Also, keeping local property values strong matters a lot to area homeowners where the median household income sits around $66,297 per year. Upgrading an outdated, unsafe bath into an accessible sanctuary adds real value to your home. It makes your property much more attractive to future buyers who want long-term accessibility options ready to go!
Whether you live near the bustling boulevard or tucked away in a quiet neighborhood of 6,966 residents, getting your home fitted for safe bathing is a fantastic investment. You get to stay comfortably in the home you love without worrying about dangerous trips or falls in the dark!
Now is the perfect time to stop stressing over high bathtub walls and slippery tile surfaces once and for all. Upgrading your space brings back the fun of a long, warm, soothing soak without any of the anxiety. You deserve a beautiful space that treats your body right every single morning!
Therefore, reach out to our friendly team right now to request your completely FREE project estimate! We will send a friendly installer out to inspect your space, discuss your favorite features, and give you an exact quote down to the penny. Do not wait for a nasty fall to make a change... grab your free quote today and start enjoying safe, easy soaking right at home!
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 Fort Myers Beach.
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