The Higgston crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Montgomery 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, simple tasks like stepping over a high barrier to take a warm bath become surprisingly risky for folks with limited mobility.
Indeed, slipping on wet tile remains one of the most common causes of home accidents.
By choosing to retrofit your space with a custom low-threshold bathing system, you instantly reclaim your independence and peace of mind.
Naturally, you might worry about the mess and the cost of a major home renovation.
Thankfully, our dedicated team makes the entire process incredibly smooth by handling everything from the initial measurements to the final cleanup.
Which means you get to enjoy a gorgeous, accessible sanctuary without any of the usual construction headaches.
To help you get started on this exciting home upgrade, we provide a completely free in-home estimate where we look at your current plumbing setup.
Actually, we want to make sure you get the exact features you need for your daily routine.
So click the link below to request your free quote today!
When you first look at these specialized, deep-soaking units, you will notice they feature a leak-proof door built right into the side.
This smart design allows you to step inside without lifting your legs more than a few inches off the floor.
Consequently, you avoid that awkward, dangerous balancing act that standard basins force you to perform.
Once you step inside, you sit down on a comfortable, molded, raised seat that is much higher than the bottom of a normal basin.
This elevated position makes standing up and sitting down incredibly easy on your knees and hips.
On top of that, heavy-duty grab bars are strategically placed along the walls to give you solid handholds at all times.
To prevent any messy bathroom flooding, these units utilize advanced, commercial-grade pressure seals that keep every drop of water inside.
As a result of this clever engineering, the water pressure actually helps push the door shut even tighter during your soak.
You can just relax and let the warm water soothe your muscles while feeling completely secure.
Moreover, you can customize your setup with heated backrests, quick-drain technology, and therapeutic hydrotherapy jets that target sore joints.
These premium features turn a daily chore into a luxurious, spa-like experience right in your own home.
If you want to see how these options fit into your layout, our team is ready to assist you.
While some brave souls might think about tackling this project as a weekend DIY task, this job requires highly specialized plumbing and carpentry skills.
For example, these heavy units require reinforced floor joists because they hold much more water than a standard porcelain tub.
Our crew knows exactly how to evaluate your floor structure to ensure it can easily support the extra weight.
Besides the structural side, we also must deal with the complex internal drain systems and faucet connections.
Since these systems are designed to fill up and empty out very quickly, we often need to upgrade your existing pipes.
This means you won't have to sit around shivering while waiting for the water to drain away after your bath.
To give you a better idea of what to expect, we put together a simple comparison table of the installation steps:
| Project Phase | What We Do For You | The Direct Benefit To You |
|---|---|---|
| Preparation | Carefully remove your old tub and inspect the underlying subfloor for hidden water damage | Ensures a solid, mold-free foundation for your new unit |
| Plumbing Alignment | Install high-flow drains and heavy-duty brass faucet fixtures | Fills and drains your new tub in record time |
| Final Fitting | Slide the custom unit in, level it perfectly, and seal all edges | Guarantees a watertight finish that protects your home |
By trusting our experienced hands, you avoid costly plumbing mistakes that could cause hidden leaks behind your drywall.
We treat your home with the utmost respect, keeping our work area clean and tidy from start to finish.
Your peace of mind is our absolute priority throughout the entire transformation.
As a local service provider operating in Montgomery County, we understand the unique needs of our neighbors in this charming region.
With a local population of around 474 residents, we take pride in serving every single household with personal care and honest pricing.
We know that many of our clients live on a fixed income, especially since the median household income here is about $30,000.
Because we live and work nearby, we are very familiar with the local building codes and permitting processes in this part of Georgia.
Whether you reside in the heart of town or in the surrounding countryside under ZIP code 30473, we will drive right to your doorstep.
You never have to worry about out-of-town contractors charging you extra travel fees just to look at your bathroom.
Additionally, we work closely with local suppliers to source high-quality materials at the absolute best prices possible.
This close connection allows us to pass those savings directly on to you, keeping your project affordable.
We believe that safety should never be a luxury that you cannot afford.
Perhaps you are wondering if investing in this type of bathroom upgrade is truly worth it for your current lifestyle.
If you find yourself holding onto the walls or sink for balance when exiting the shower, the answer is a resounding yes.
These subtle warning signs suggest that your current bathroom layout is no longer serving you safely.
Furthermore, making this change now allows you to stay in your beloved home for many more years to come.
Instead of moving into an expensive assisted living facility, you can maintain your privacy and dignity right where you are comfortable.
It is an investment in your future and your personal freedom.
To help you visualize the transformation, we will walk you through several design options during our free consultation.
We can match the new unit to your existing tiling, color scheme, and overall bathroom aesthetic seamlessly.
Our goal is to create a space that offers both incredible safety and beautiful visual appeal.
Now is the perfect time to take control of your home safety and banish those bathroom slips and falls forever.
Our friendly team is standing by to answer all of your questions and schedule your free, no-obligation home visit.
We will sit down with you, measure your space, and give you a clear, honest price quote with zero hidden fees.
So do not wait for an accidental fall to force your hand when you can make this upgrade on your own terms today.
Contact us right now to book your free estimate and take the first step toward a safer, more relaxing daily routine.
We look forward to helping you transform your bathroom into a secure haven!
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 Higgston.
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