The San Marcos crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Hays 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.
If you need a safer way to bathe without slipping, our local team provides a complete setup for easy-access bathing systems that fit your home perfectly. Because of this, you can finally stop worrying about dangerous bathroom falls and start enjoying a relaxing soak again. For this reason, we invite you to grab a free estimate today to see how simple this upgrade can be for your house.
First of all, stepping over a high barrier just to get clean feels like climbing a mountain as we get older or deal with nagging injuries. Actually, many folks in Hays County face this exact struggle every single day in their own homes. Since we want you to feel secure, we specialize in replacing those old, hazardous basins with modern, low-threshold alternatives.
In addition to that, these specialized watertight chambers let you walk right in and sit down on a built-in seat before turning on the water. This means you do not have to balance on one wet foot while trying to climb inside. Consequently, your daily routine becomes a stress-free experience rather than a scary chore.
Moreover, we take care of the entire plumbing and fitting process from start to finish. On top of that, we make sure the seal is completely leak-proof so your floors stay dry. Ultimately, this investment protects your independence while giving your family total peace of mind.
Naturally, living in a beautiful college town of 61,751 people means keeping your property functional for the long haul. Although the median household income here sits around $37,593, we believe safety should always fit within a realistic budget. Because we respect your hard-earned money, we offer cost-effective options that do not skimp on quality.
Specifically, we serve everyone across the local area, including the 78666 and 78667 ZIP codes. By focusing on local homes, we understand the specific plumbing layouts common in our neighborhood houses. Therefore, our team gets the job done quickly without causing unnecessary delays or mess in your living space.
To help you compare your options, we put together this quick overview of what to expect:
| Feature | Your Concrete Benefit |
|---|---|
| Low entry threshold | No high stepping required, which prevents nasty slips |
| Contoured seating | Sit down comfortably while bathing to rest your joints |
| Fast-drain technology | You do not have to sit cold waiting for the water to empty |
First, we must evaluate your current bathroom layout to see how the existing pipes line up. For example, older homes sometimes need minor drain adjustments to handle the rapid water release of these advanced units. This lets you avoid standing water issues and keeps your plumbing running smoothly for years.
Besides the drain, we also look at your water heater capacity to ensure you get plenty of warm water. Sometimes, a larger unit requires a dedicated heated rinse system to keep you cozy. Because of this, our thorough assessment covers every single detail before we even turn a wrench.
Then, we handle the heavy lifting of removing your old cast iron or fiberglass tub. Next, we prepare the subfloor to support the heavy weight of the new sealed-door unit when it is full of water. By doing this extra prep work, we guarantee that your floor will never sag or creak.
If you suffer from sore muscles, adding water jets to your new setup can work wonders. This lets you enjoy a soothing massage that targets your lower back and legs. As a result, you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day.
In addition to water jets, air injection systems offer a gentler bubble experience for sensitive skin. Which means you can customize your soak depending on how your body feels that day. Plus, these features help improve circulation without requiring you to visit an expensive spa.
Another crucial element involves placing heavy-duty grab bars exactly where you need them most. Since we customize the layout, we mount these bars to match your height and reach perfectly. Consequently, you always have a solid grip when sitting down or standing up.
Furthermore, the water controls are positioned so you do not have to stretch or bend awkwardly to reach them. This simple design touch keeps you in control of the temperature at all times. Ultimately, it prevents accidental scalding and makes the whole experience much more relaxing.
To begin, our friendly technician visits your home to measure your doorway and bathroom space. After that, we discuss which door configuration works best for your specific mobility needs. This ensures we bring the perfect unit that fits your layout without requiring major wall demolition.
Once we agree on the plan, we protect your floors with drop cloths before bringing in any tools. Indeed, we treat your home with the utmost respect, leaving everything clean and tidy. This means you do not have to clean up a big dusty mess after we leave.
Finally, we run a complete water test to verify that the pressure seal on the door is completely watertight. On top of that, we teach you how to use all the buttons and fast-drain features. Because we want you to feel confident, we stay until you are 100% happy with how everything works.
Now, you might be wondering about the total cost for this kind of home improvement. Fortunately, we provide no-obligation estimates right at your house. This lets you know the exact price upfront without any hidden fees or surprise charges.
Because we live and work nearby, we can schedule your visit quickly at a time that works for you. Why wait and risk a dangerous slip when a safer option is just a quick call away? Let us help you make your bathroom a secure, pleasant space where you can unwind with total confidence.
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 San Marcos.
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