The Ivy crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Albemarle 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.
Slipping on wet tile can turn your morning routine into a scary situation.
By choosing a specialized low-threshold bathing unit with a secure door, you instantly protect your physical independence.
This smart upgrade lets you enjoy deep soaking therapy without the fear of falling over a high porcelain barrier.
Entering a standard basin requires a dangerous balancing act on one wet leg.
Which means that replacing that old setup with a sealed, swing-gate basin keeps both feet planted firmly on the ground.
You can easily step inside over a tiny threshold that rises just inches from your bathroom floor.
Our dedicated crew handles every step of this transformation right in Albemarle County.
We travel straight to your home to assess your current layout and offer a completely free project estimate.
This pressure-free consultation helps you visualize a safer space designed around your specific physical needs.
Sitting down while you bathe provides unmatched physical relief for aching joints.
Our contoured built-in seats let you relax your back and shoulders while staying fully upright.
You get to enjoy a deep, warm soak without ever struggling to stand back up from the floor of a standard basin.
Every unit we put in features robust grab bars and textured slip-resistant flooring.
These safety additions ensure that your hands always find a sturdy grip when you sit down or stand up.
You will finally feel total peace of mind every time you decide to wash up.
To help you compare your options, we compiled a quick breakdown of how these specialized setups compare to traditional systems:
| Feature | Standard Basin | Sealed Door System |
|---|---|---|
| Step-In Height | 14 to 18 inches | 2 to 4 inches |
| Seating | None (flat floor) | Contoured, raised bench |
| Drainage Speed | Standard slow drain | Powered fast-drain tech |
High-speed drainage systems represent another massive advantage of these modern units.
Fast-acting drains pull all the water out of the basin in under two minutes.
This setup ensures that you do not have to sit shivering while waiting to open the door.
Our local team respects your living space and keeps the work area incredibly tidy.
We carefully extract your old cast iron or acrylic unit without damaging the surrounding drywall.
This careful demolition phase ensures that your walls remain fully intact for the new plumbing connections.
Proper pipe alignment is absolutely crucial for preventing hidden leaks behind your bathroom walls.
Our skilled installers reroute your hot and cold water lines to match the new faucet configuration.
We also inspect the underlying subfloor to ensure it can support the weight of a fully loaded deep-soak system.
After we secure the main shell, we apply commercial-grade silicone seals around all the joint lines.
This meticulous sealing technique prevents mold and mildew from growing in the hidden gaps.
You receive a pristine, watertight finish that looks gorgeous and stands up to daily use.
Living in a historic community with a median household income of $141,607 means that homeowners here value high-quality workmanship.
Investing in your home safety also preserves your long-term independence as you age in place.
This upgrade adds immense practical value to your property while keeping you out of assisted living facilities.
People managing arthritis or limited mobility find these accessible systems to be life-changing.
Even if you just want extra physical ease, the therapeutic water jets offer incredible daily relaxation.
You deserve to feel secure and pampered in your own home without relying on family members for help.
Let us look at some of the physical conditions that make this bathroom upgrade so beneficial:
| Physical Challenge | How the Unit Helps | Daily Lifestyle Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Severe Knee Arthritis | Zero climbing required | Pain-free entry and exit |
| Balance Deficits | Thick steel grab bars | Total stability while moving |
| Poor Circulation | Targeted hydrotherapy jets | Improved healing and warmth |
We take pride in serving the 511 residents who call this beautiful unincorporated community home.
Our trucks travel through the 22945 ZIP code daily to deliver top-tier home modifications.
We understand the local housing styles and know exactly how to fit these units into older, historic floor plans.
You can select from a wide variety of therapeutic jet packages to soothe your muscles.
Air jets gently bubble to massage your skin, while hydro jets target deep tissue tightness.
These customizable features turn a simple safety upgrade into a luxurious spa experience.
We also offer beautiful wall surround panels that mimic the look of natural stone or modern subway tile.
These non-porous materials are incredibly easy to wipe down and never require harsh scrubbing.
You spend less time cleaning and more time enjoying your warm, therapeutic baths.
Handheld showerheads come standard with our installations to give you maximum washing flexibility.
You can easily rinse your hair while sitting comfortably on the built-in bench seat.
This convenient feature puts you in total control of your daily hygiene routine.
Our friendly team simplifies the entire process from the very first phone call.
We schedule a convenient time to visit your property and take precise measurements of your bathroom.
This detailed inspection allows us to provide an accurate, written estimate with zero hidden fees.
We believe in honest communication and will never pressure you into making a quick decision.
Our experts answer all your questions about plumbing requirements, electrical hookups, and installation timelines.
You get all the facts you need to make the best choice for your household.
Do not wait for an accidental slip or fall to force your hand on home safety.
Take a proactive step today to secure your physical freedom and comfort for many years to come.
Contact us right now to request your free, no-obligation project quote in Ivy, Virginia!
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 Ivy.
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