The Purdys crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Westchester 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.
Are you struggling with climbing over high step-in barrier walls every time you try to wash up? Getting a accessible high-wall soak basin modification will completely change how you wash up at home without any fear of falling down hard.
Honestly speaking, wet slippery floors are plain dangerous for everyone in Westchester County. Actually, taking a deep soak ought to offer sweet daily relief instead of making your heart beat fast with fear. Naturally, upgrading your bathroom setup brings back your complete independent daily life real fast.
First off, standard deep basins feature absurdly high side walls that turn simple daily washing into a dangerous athletic jumping task. Naturally, low-threshold swinging door basins let you just walk right inside without lifting your feet high at all. Furthermore, these smart step-in modifications eliminate painful falls real quick.
To put it simply, modern accessible deep units keep your water warm for a remarkably long time. Up until now, old iron basins lost heat instantly and turned cold before you even settled down. On top of that, built-in fast draining systems empty all the heavy water fast so you do not sit around shivering cold.
In addition to that safety feature, comfortable built-in contoured seats give you an easy place to rest your tired bones while washing. Clearly, you get to sit comfortably upright without worrying about slipping under the waterline. Beyond that awesome perk, smart built-in grabs bars offer absolute solid stability every single time you stand up.
Right off the bat, deep soaking units come stacked with amazing luxury features you will totally fall in love with immediately. Besides, who does not love warm hydrotherapy water jets massaging their sore aching lower back muscles after a long rough day? Check out this quick breakdown of awesome built-in features for your home setup below.
| Cool Feature | Awesome Daily Benefit |
|---|---|
| Ultra-low step entry threshold | Zero dangerous trips over high porcelain walls |
| Air and water massage jets | Soothes painful arthritic joints and sore muscles fast |
| Dual rapid-drain technology | No sitting cold while waiting for water to empty |
| Leak-proof magnetic door seal | Keeps your bathroom floor dry as a bone always |
To add to those wild features, heated seat surfaces keep your back cozy before the warm water even fills up the tub completely. By the way, easy-to-reach control dials mean you never strain your arms trying to switch settings. Consequently, every single bath feels like visiting a high-end luxury resort spa right inside your humble home base.
Additionally, modern smooth non-porous gelcoat surfaces make wiping down dirt totally effortless. Actually, nobody likes spending hours scrubbing nasty moldy grout lines on their knees. For this reason, these slick smooth surfaces prevent gross soap scum build-up real good.
Actually, living around the 10578 area code means homes have all kinds of funky old plumbing setups hidden inside the walls. Furthermore, our tight-knit community of about 5,104 friendly folks takes serious pride in keeping up their cozy house properties real nice.
For example, older regional homes often have narrow doorway openings that require careful measuring before bringing heavy fixtures indoors. Luckily, modern low-barrier step-in units come in clever modular designs made to fit right through standard interior room frames easily. Because of this smart design, you will not have to rip out your bedroom walls just to get a fresh clean setup done.
More than that, properly connecting strong water supply lines requires a trusted neighborhood plumbing contractor who truly knows the local water pressure quirks. Honestly, nobody wants a crazy sudden water leak ruining their ceiling downstairs while relaxing upstairs. Therefore, getting reliable local pros to handle the tricky piping connections gives you total long-term confidence.
Naturally, filling up a huge extra-deep accessible unit takes quite a bit more hot water than standard shallow porcelain pans use. Indeed, checking your current water heater tank size before installation day prevents sad cold bath surprises later on. In light of that fact, upgrading to a fast-recovering tank or a modern tankless setup ensures your bath stays nice and hot every single time.
To put it another way, strong electrical power connections are super important if you decide to get high-powered hydrotherapy air pumps installed. Strictly speaking, those awesome water jet motors require dedicated circuit lines wired straight into your home breaker box for maximum safety. That way, your house power runs smooth without blowing fuses when you turn on the high-speed bubble jets.
Understandably, lots of folks worry that tearing out an old setup will create a huge dusty mess all over their clean house. However, trained local installers place protective floor tarps everywhere and clean up every single piece of trash before leaving your driveway. Thus, your home stays just as clean as it was before the friendly crew arrived.
In short, people often assume that adding accessible low-step units takes months of loud hammering and noisy construction work. On the contrary, experienced plumbing crews usually finish the entire tear-out and fresh installation job within just one or two days maximum. Consequently, your daily routines get right back to normal before you even miss a beat.
Without a doubt, high investment costs scare plenty of practical homeowners away from making needed life-safety upgrades. Nonetheless, staying completely independent inside your beloved family home saves vast fortunes compared to moving into super expensive assisted living facilities. Frankly, this smart home upgrade pays for itself real quick while keeping your daily freedom totally intact.
First, take a close look at your current bathroom space to figure out where your existing drain lines and wall outlets sit right now. Next, think carefully about which custom features like air jets, heated backrests, or secondary handheld shower heads would make your life easiest. After that, reaching out for a friendly price assessment helps you budget everything without any pushy sales pressure.
Immediately after scheduling a simple walk-through visit, a friendly technician stops by to measure your floor area and check out your existing pipes. Furthermore, they will listen carefully to your personal mobility needs and suggest perfect low-barrier options made specifically for your home size. Because of this personal care, you get exact numbers upfront without any hidden cost surprises down the line.
To seal the deal, you just pick out your favorite sleek wall finish and awesome jet options to customize your total dream basin setup. Soon after, expert hands install your shiny brand-new safe soaking system quickly and correctly. Ultimately, you get to sit back, relax completely, and enjoy cozy worry-free baths every single day for years to come.
Why waste another single day feeling nervous or scared about slipping inside your old dangerous standard tub wall frame? Right now, friendly neighborhood specialists are totally ready to come directly to your house and provide a detailed custom project cost sheet for zero dollars down.
So, do not delay taking back your full bath freedom and daily home confidence any longer. Reach out immediately to grab your personalized no-obligation price quote today and see just how easy transforming your home life can truly be.
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 Purdys.
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