The Hickory Hills crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Jackson 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.
Are you looking to make your bathroom much safer and way more relaxing right now? You can get a brand new accessible deep-soaking bath set up in your home with zero stress. Grab your free quote today to see how affordable your daily bath upgrades can truly be!
Honestly, taking a bath ought to feel like a total treat after a rough day of work. Yet for a lot of folks, balancing on one foot to climb over a tall porcelain wall gets pretty scary real fast. Actually, slick tile floors mixed with high tub walls cause thousands of nasty falls inside homes every single year.
That is exactly why upgrading your bath space with a low-threshold swinging door basin changes everything for the better. Suddenly, you just open a leak-proof door, step inside easily without lifting your leg high, and sit right down on a warm built-in seat. Furthermore, this simple change instantly gives you back your full freedom while keeping you totally safe from bad slips.
Now, you might wonder how water stays inside the basin without ruining your bathroom floor tiles. Well, these special bathing units use heavy-duty rubber silicone seals along with strong latching handles to lock the entry tight. Because of that heavy seal, water stays strictly inside the tub where it belongs instead of soaking your bath mat.
Besides that seal, these units come equipped with super fast draining tech built directly into the plumbing pipes underneath. Naturally, nobody wants to sit on a cold plastic chair for twenty minutes waiting for the bath water to go down the drain. Therefore, double drain valves pull that used water out in just a couple minutes so you can dry off fast.
Living right here in our quiet area of Mississippi means appreciating a warm and cozy home setting. In fact, among the roughly three thousand people living in our local township, keeping folks independent in their own houses is a big deal. Homes near local routes deserve top quality upgrades that actually last for decades.
Luckily, updating your main washroom does not mean you have to rip out every single wall board in the house. As a matter of fact, experienced installers can put your new accessible basin right where your old fiberglass shower unit used to sit. Consequently, you save a ton of cash on heavy construction costs while completely upgrading your daily routine.
Indeed, these deep entry soaking units come packed with cool features that make your morning routine feel like a high-end spa day. For instance, heated backrests keep your shoulders totally warm while the deep basin fills up with fresh hot water. Plus, strategic hydrotherapy jets rub your tired back muscles to melt away bad stress from a long afternoon.
On top of that, controlled air bubble systems give you a gentle full-body massage without hurting sensitive skin tissue. Which means you wake up feeling way less stiff every morning after a nice warm night soak. To help you compare these neat features, take a look at this quick breakdown below.
| Cool Feature | What It Does | Why You Will Love It |
|---|---|---|
| Low Step Threshold | Cuts down entry height to just a couple inches | No more scary balancing acts on slippery wet floors |
| Dual Drain System | Empties out all water twice as fast | You get out quick without sitting in cold air |
| Whirlpool Water Jets | Pushes warm water right at sore muscles | Eases stiff joints and painful backs daily |
| Heated Seating | Warms up the chair before water hits | Keeps you super warm during the entire fill process |
First, a friendly local installer comes out to your house to measure your current space accurately. During this quick visit, we check your existing water lines and test your electrical panel capacity. Ultimately, this ensures your home can handle powerful heated pumps without tripping any breaker switches later on.
Next, the old worn-out basin gets carefully disconnected, lifted up, and hauled away out to the service truck. Soon after, the crew glides the new low-step soaking unit right into the empty alcove spot smoothly. Afterwards, we connect the heavy plumbing lines, test every seal three times, and clean up the mess completely.
Sometimes, people buy cheap acrylic shell units online without checking if their water heater is actually big enough. Look, a sixty-gallon deep soaking tub needs a solid water heater to fill it all the way up with steaming hot water. Otherwise, you end up sitting in lukewarm bath water, which completely ruins the relaxed vibe you were going for.
Additionally, trying to hook up these heavy systems by yourself can lead to terrible water leaks hidden behind your drywall. Furthermore, fixing ruined floor joists later costs way more money than just hiring a pro to set it up right the first time. So, letting experienced hands install the unit keeps your home safe and gives you solid peace of mind.
Surely, spending money on home improvements makes anyone think twice about their hard-earned household savings. However, staying safely in your beloved home instead of moving to an expensive assisted living facility saves huge money down the road. So, spending a little bit today on accessible upgrades protects your financial future long-term.
Moreover, modern swinging door basins add serious appeal to houses because buyers love seeing updated safety features already installed. Even if you stay in your house forever, enjoying cozy baths every day offers incredible value that you can feel immediately. Put simply, taking care of your body while protecting your home value is a total win-win situation.
Let us look closely at regular standard tubs for just a second. Regular tubs require you to lift your knee high while stepping onto slick, wet porcelain surfaces. On the flip side, accessible entry units feature built-in grab bars, textured non-slip floor panels, and safe elevated seating.
In addition, standard tubs force you to lie down flat if you want to soak your upper body in warm water. Contrarily, deep seated units let you sit upright comfortably while warm water rises all the way up to your chest level. As a result, getting up out of the seat feels totally natural and takes almost zero effort from your knees.
Right now, our local installation crew is ready to come out and inspect your bathroom setup. After taking precise measurements, we sit down with you to pick out textures, colors, and jet setups that fit your style. Then, we write down a clear estimate with honest pricing and no hidden surprise fees at all.
Why wait around until a bad slip on wet tile forces you to make a panicked change? Instead, take control of your daily bathroom safety right now while locked-in discounts are still available. Reach out to your local home improvement team today to schedule your home estimate!
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 Hickory 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