The Keenan crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Saint Louis 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.
Soaking in hot water ought to feel like pure bliss after a tough day. Actually, struggling with high tub walls makes bathing way too scary for many folks. Getting a free estimate today will quickly show you how simple fixing your bathroom can be.
Suddenly, stepping over that deep porcelain ledge feels like climbing a giant mountain. Honestly, I almost took a nasty spill myself last winter while visiting my folks. That crazy moment opened my eyes to how dangerous normal tubs are for everyday people.
Because of those scary daily slips, converting your setup into a low-step basin changes everything. Right away, you gain total independence without needing help from anyone else. Furthermore, entering through a swing door removes all that awful fear of falling down.
Consequently, you get to sit down on a nice tall seat while the warm water fills up. Plus, built-in grab bars give your arms solid leverage when standing back up. Living up in Saint Louis County means our cold winters really demand a super deep, relaxing soak.
Naturally, warm water relieves tired muscles and old aching joints better than almost anything else. Dynamic hydrotherapy jets target your sore lower back with customized water pressure. As a result, you walk away feeling refreshed every single afternoon.
Besides that, fancy heated backrests keep you cozy while the deep basin finishes filling. Surprisingly, fast-draining systems prevent you from sitting around shivering at the end. That means zero waiting time when you are ready to dry off and get dressed.
To help you compare the top options, here is a breakdown of key features and their benefits.
| Special Feature | Daily Benefit |
|---|---|
| Ultra-low step threshold | Prevents tripping accidents completely |
| Watertight door seal | Keeps water off your floor |
| Hydrotherapy air jets | Soothes tight muscles quickly |
| Fast drain technology | Ends cold waiting periods |
Additionally, modern slip-resistant flooring keeps your feet planted firmly on the ground. Therefore, soapy water cleans your skin without creating a slippery ice rink underfoot. That kind of real peace of mind is worth every single penny.
First off, measuring your existing space correctly keeps the whole job simple. Local homes near the 55714 zip code area come in all sorts of crazy shapes and layouts. Because we check every inch, your brand-new system fits right where the old tub sat.
Next, updating old plumbing lines ensures proper water volume and lightning-fast drainage. Sometimes, older pipes need a minor boost to handle modern high-flow faucets properly. Thus, fresh connections prevent annoying leaks inside your bathroom walls down the road.
Eventually, sealing every joint creates a completely watertight barrier against nasty home mold. Furthermore, durable acrylic walls wipe down easily without using harsh chemicals or scrub brushes. That basic upgrade saves you tons of tedious weekend chores...
Obviously, big home projects make most folks worry about their hard-earned money. Interestingly enough, local median household income levels around these parts require sensible, honest prices. Therefore, getting an accurate free quote helps you plan your budget without any nasty surprises.
In fact, modern tub conversions actually boost your home value quite a bit. Prospective buyers love seeing accessible features already installed inside a master bath area. Which means you enjoy the upgrades now while securing a strong return for the future.
Surprisingly, living in a small community of just 20 people means local craftsmanship really matters. Word travels fast when you do good work for your neighbors around town. Because of that, delivering top quality at a fair price remains our absolute main goal.
Traditional deep soaking vessels force you to lay down flat on the hard floor. Honestly, getting back up from the bottom of a tub demands serious arm strength. Elevated chair-height seating changes that dynamic completely for your daily routine.
Thanks to this raised bench, sitting down feels just like resting in a comfy living room chair. On top of that, your knees stay at a comfortable ninety-degree angle the whole time. That smart setup delivers supreme snug relaxation without straining your sore hips.
Meanwhile, easy-to-reach faucet controls sit right beside your hand at all times. Therefore, adjusting water temperature does not force you to lean over precariously. Everything stays safely within arm's reach while you kick back and unwind.
Initially, picking out shiny new fixtures seems a bit overwhelming with so many styles. However, focusing on your specific physical needs makes the choice super clear. For instance, outward-opening doors offer tons of room for easy wheelchair transfers.
Alternatively, inward-opening doors save vital floor space in smaller, tighter bathrooms. Also, adding gentle microbubble technology leaves your skin feeling super soft and smooth. That gentle cleaning action cleans deep down into pores without abrasive scrubbing tools.
Likewise, integrated handheld showerheads let you rinse hair effortlessly while sitting down. So, washing up remains a breeze even on days when your energy runs low. Small thoughtful touches like these bring back the total joy of bathing independent.
Unfortunately, many homeowners try taking shortcuts by buying cheap kit units online. Usually, those cheap plastic shells crack easily under heavy water weight over time. Spending money on high-grade solid acrylic protects your investment for decades to come.
Furthermore, improper electrical wiring for whirlpool pumps creates serious safety hazards indoors. Working with trained local pros guarantees all electrical lines meet strict safety codes. As a result, your home stays completely safe while you enjoy your warm bath bubbles.
Finally, forgetting to check hot water heater capacity leads to lukewarm, disappointing showers. Upgrading to a larger tank or tankless system ensures endless hot water flow. That simple detail ensures your deep basin fills with steaming water every single time.
Surely, nobody wants to give up their privacy just to wash up comfortably. Investing in a modified entry basin keeps your dignity completely intact every single day. Above all, staying in the home you love remains the ultimate goal for everyone.
Right now, our friendly local team stands ready to evaluate your bathroom space.
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 Keenan.
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