The Maple Grove crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Hennepin 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.
You can upgrade your bathing area today with modern features that prevent dangerous slips and falls. Local pros in your neighborhood stand ready to deliver a fast free quote for your custom home overhaul.
Honestly speaking, wet porcelain standard basins are basic traps for anyone with slightly stiff knees or slippery feet. Thousands of folks hurt themselves every single year trying to swing a leg over that tall wall like a high-hurdler. Instead of taking crazy risks, swapping out that old basin gives you massive peace of mind instantly.
Beyond the safety stuff, getting into a deep basin warm soak helps soothe sore muscles after shoveling snow off the driveway. Furthermore, local installers bring all the fancy plumbing gear to set up deep soaking basins with zero stress for your household. That simple upgrade turns a daily chore into a sweet little private spa retreat.
Also, keeping your independence at home matters way more than keeping an old ugly basin from the nineties. On top of that, these specialized low threshold water chambers fit right into your existing footprint without smashing down all your drywall. Naturally, that saves you a truckload of cash on total remodel costs.
Starting with the basics, swinging doors with waterproof silicone seals keep every drop of water right inside where it belongs. Absolutely nobody wants a soggy floor ruining their floorboards down in Hennepin County! Besides that, heavy duty steel frames keep the entire unit totally stable when you sit down.
Next up, rapid drain technology pulls all the water out in just a couple minutes so you do not sit there shivering. Plus, integrated heated seat panels keep your back warm while the giant basin fills up with hot water. Check out this quick feature breakdown to see what fits your lifestyle best...
| Cool Basin Feature | What It Actually Does | How It Helps You Out |
|---|---|---|
| Low Entry Threshold | Lowers the side step height to just a few inches off the floor | Stops you from tripping and losing your balance |
| Hydrotherapy Jets | Pushes targeted warm air and water streams over tired joints | Eases stubborn back pain and keeps blood moving nicely |
| Quick Water Discharge | Uses dual drains to flush water super fast | Prevents you from catching a chill waiting to open the door |
Additionally, giant grab bars built straight into the acrylic walls give your hands firm points to grip firmly. To be clear, these are not those cheap suction cup bars that snap off when you lean on them! These bad boys are bolted right into the heavy framework for absolute stability.
To begin with, home values in our lovely suburb sit pretty high with median household incomes hovering around $105,369 across local neighborhoods. Homeowners in the 55311 ZIP code area love investing back into their houses to raise market value while adding cozy snazzy features. Therefore, installing high end senior bathing units yields great return on investment long term.
Consequently, pricing depends on whether you just want a standard simple step-in design or a fully loaded jet-propelled relaxation machine. Fortunately, local specialists swing by your house to inspect your current plumbing setup and give you an honest estimate. That way you know exact numbers upfront with zero sneaky surprise fees later.
First off, the tech checks your hot water heater size to make sure it can handle extra gallons of warmth. Afterwards, they measure your door frames so the standard tub replacement unit slips right through without scratching up your hallway paint. Having an actual human inspect the spot prevents annoying surprises on installation day.
Simultaneously, electric wiring needs a quick glance if you plan on running fancy hydro jets or heated surfaces. Because safety is job number one, having licensed pros handle the heavy wiring keeps everything totally up to local building codes. In short, your custom estimate covers every single detail from start to finish.
Surprisingly, a skilled team usually finishes the whole tear out and fresh install job in just one or two days. First, they carefully rip out that old rusty bathtub and haul it away so you never have to look at it again. Then, they level the subfloor carefully so your new cozy retreat sits rock solid.
Following that step, plumbers hook up the heavy flex lines and high volume discharge drains for leak-free operation. Next, they seal up every seam with mold resistant silicone so your bathroom stays squeaky clean forever. Finally, they wipe down the shiny new walls and test every jet before handoff.
In fact, here is a small peek into my cousin's remodel last winter... He was so worried about plumbers making a huge mess all over his carpet! But the friendly crew laid down thick protective floor mats and left the place looking way cleaner than when they walked in.
Look, everybody comes in different shapes and sizes, which means your bathing seat needs to fit your body just right. Specialized contoured bench seating keeps your posture upright while taking all the pressure off sore hips and ankles. For this reason, sitting down in deep water feels a million times better than lying flat on a hard surface.
Meanwhile, choose between inward swinging doors for tight bathrooms or outward swinging doors if you use a wheelchair. Specialized transfer benches allow folks to slide right across from a seat directly into the basin without standing up. Truly, there is a smart design solution for every single physical need out there.
Fortunately, maintaining non-porous high grade acrylic surfaces takes almost zero effort on your end. Simply wipe down the smooth walls with a mild soap mixture after your soak to stop soap scum in its tracks. Clearly, nobody wants to scrub tub bottoms on their hands and knees anymore!
Moreover, built in ozone sanitizing systems automatically flush out internal water lines to keep bacteria from growing in the jets. As a result, you get squeaky clean water every single time you hit the power button for a relaxing evening soak. That gives your family ultimate peace of mind every single day.
Maybe you are wondering if your small master bath actually has enough room for one of these deep bathing units? Surprisingly, these compact designs match standard standard tub footprints perfectly while giving you double the depth! Thus, you gain massive soaking room without blowing out existing walls.
Or perhaps you worry about running out of hot water halfway through filling up the massive basin? Fortunately, pros can pair your new unit with a high capacity tankless water heater upgrade during installation. Which means you enjoy endless hot water flows whenever you feel like having a nice long soak.
Right now, local experts are cruising around Hennepin County helping a population of 69,571 residents upgrade their living spaces safely. You do not have to live with fear of slipping or deal with stiff joints in an uncomfortable flat tub anymore. Reclaiming your independence and daily simple pleasures starts with one quick conversation.
So, why keep waiting and risking a nasty fall in your old slick porcelain basin? Reach out to friendly neighborhood technicians right now to schedule your quick no-obligation free estimate! They will come right to your door, answer every silly question, and help you pick the exact dream basin for your home.
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 Maple Grove.
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