The Kirkwood 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.
Looking to fix up your main bathroom for safer, stress-free bathing right here in your home? Naturally, upgrading your home with a specialized accessible deep-soaking basin makes daily routines way easier and much safer. You can grab a free estimate today to see how affordable this awesome bathroom upgrade really is for your house.
First off, taking a regular bath gets pretty tricky as time rolls on. Honestly, slipping on slick wet porcelain is plain scary for anybody living in Saint Louis County. Furthermore, tall step-over walls on standard tubs invite nasty falls that nobody wants to deal with. That is why swapping that old setup for a low-step entry door basin just changes the whole game for your peace of mind.
Besides that, you get to sit down on a nice built-in bench instead of trying to push yourself up from the floor. Actually, sitting comfortably while the warm water fills up around your waist feels like total luxury after a long day. Even better, fast-draining technology means you will not sit around freezing while waiting for the tub to empty out.
On top of all that, local houses in our area, especially those around zip codes like 63122, often have classic older layouts that need custom fitting. Thankfully, professional installers can slide these tall side-door bathing units right into the exact same spot where your old standard tub sits right now. Which means you do not have to tear down walls or ruin your beautiful home layout just to get a safer splash zone.
To begin with, these high-wall entry-door soaking units come packed with cool features meant to pamper you every single day. For instance, heated seats keep your back warm while the water fills up fast. In addition, deep hydrotherapy jets target those achey lower back muscles and sore knee joints like magic.
Next, you will love the simple raised controls that are easy to reach without straining your back or arms. Surprisingly, grab bars are built directly into the inner frame so you always have a solid handle to hold onto. Consequently, you feel totally stable and in control from the moment you step inside until you dry off.
To give you a quick idea of what these great upgrades offer, check out this simple list of built-in features and how they actually help you every day:
| Cool Feature | What It Does For You |
|---|---|
| Low Step-In Threshold | Prevents tripping trips when entering or leaving the basin |
| Watertight Side Door Seal | Keeps water inside without leaking all over your floor |
| Hydrotherapy Water Jets | Soothes tight muscles and tired joints with soft pressure |
| Built-In Grab Bars | Gives you sturdy support so you never lose balance |
Furthermore, modern slip-resistant flooring inside the basin stops your feet from sliding around when things get soapy. Clearly, every single part of this modern fixture is planned out to maximize safety while delivering super relaxing bath times.
First, a friendly local specialist visits your house to measure your space. Indeed, checking the doorway width, plumbing lines, and hot water heater size ensures everything goes smooth later on. Therefore, you get an exact written quote with zero pushy sales talk or hidden surprise fees attached.
After that, the actual installation work takes way less time than most folks expect for a major plumbing project. Actually, experienced crews usually wrap up the job in just a couple of days while keeping your house super clean. Additionally, they haul away your beat-up old tub so you do not have to worry about junk removal at all.
Meanwhile, local homeowners enjoying median household incomes around $88,378 love how this modification boosts property value while securing long-term independence. To be honest, avoiding a bad slip in the shower pays for the whole project right off the bat. Plus, knowing you can wash up safely without needing extra help brings huge peace of mind.
Obviously, price is a big deal when you plan any kind of home remodeling project near your cozy neighborhood. Naturally, costs vary depending on whether you want simple air jets, powerful water jets, or fancy heated surfaces inside your new unit. However, getting a zero-obligation free quote helps you see all your choices clearly without spending a dime up front.
Likewise, thinking about your current water heater is super important before making any big decisions. See, these deep-soaking tall basins hold more warm water than a small standard tub does. Fortunately, your local tech can check your tank size during the walk-through and let you know if an upgrade is needed.
To wrap things up nicely, upgrading to a secure entry-door bath basin lets you stay independent in the home you love for years to come. Plus, enjoying a warm spa-like soak whenever you want feels absolutely amazing after working hard. So go ahead and pick up the phone to claim your free local estimate today!
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 Kirkwood.
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