The Waterville crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Lamoille 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 thinking about upgrading your washroom with a safe accessible bathing basin? We deliver quick installation work right here in your hometown. Get your free estimate today to start bathing with complete peace of mind!
Well, let us talk about your morning wash routine for a second. Slipping into a deep standard basin can get super tough as the years roll on by. You worry about losing your balance on those slippery porcelain surfaces. Honestly, nobody wants to feel scared just trying to clean up in their own place. That is why replacing that old tall ledge with a low step entryway makes a world of difference for your daily freedom.
Now, think about how much easier life gets when you just open a leak-proof door and sit right down. You do not have to stretch your legs over a high wall anymore. This specialized upgrade brings back that easy feeling you used to have. Safety features like built-in grab bars and anti-slip flooring protect you every single day. Plus, you get to stay in the home you love without needing extra help from anyone else.
Besides, these modern accessible soaking units come packed with cozy upgrades that make you feel like royalty. Imagine targeted hydrotherapy jets massaging your tired back muscles after a long afternoon working outside. The built-in heated seating keeps you warm while the basin fills up with fresh water. You get total relaxation without any of the old fear of falling down.
Living up here in our little corner of the Green Mountain State brings some really chilly winter weather. Ice and cold winds make our joints ache a lot more during those freezing months. Having a warm accessible deep soak setup inside your heated house is absolute heaven. Local folks living around the 05492 area code appreciate having real quality fixtures that stand up to tough cold seasons.
Honestly, our quiet community of around seven hundred people values self-reliance more than almost anything else. Staying independent in your own place means keeping your washroom totally safe as you age. Even if local financial stats list median household income numbers around zero bucks in public record books, investing in home safety pays off big time. It adds real market value to your property while keeping you out of expensive care facilities.
Actually, our team loves driving out to assist neighbors across this scenic rural valley. We know how the local plumbing setups work in these classic mountain houses. We handle every single detail from removing your gross old basin to hooking up new water lines. You just sit back and relax while we do all the heavy lifting for you.
So, what actually goes into one of these tall accessible bathing setups? First off, you get a super low step-in threshold that sits just a couple inches off the subfloor. That means you never have to balance on one leg again... not even for a quick second! A heavy duty rubber gasket seals the watertight door tight so water never spills onto your bathroom floor.
Next, you get deep ergonomic seating built right into the tough acrylic shell. You sit upright at a comfortable chair height instead of struggling to push yourself up off the flat floor. Quick drain technology pulls all the water out in under two minutes so you do not sit around shivering. Surrounding handrails give you solid metal grip points every step of the way.
On top of that, custom jet systems add a luxury spa touch right to your personal space. Microbubble therapy cleans your skin deep down without needing harsh soaps. Easy touch control buttons let you set the water temperature without any tricky dials. Here is a handy breakdown of what these awesome units pack inside:
| Awesome Feature | What It Means For You | Main Daily Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Low Step Entryway | No climbing over high tub walls | Prevents dangerous bathroom slips |
| Watertight Sealed Door | Keeps all the water inside the unit | Protects your subfloor from rot |
| Heated Built-in Bench | Keeps your back warm as water fills | Total comfort during cold winter mornings |
| Fast Water Release Drain | Empties gallons of water super fast | No sitting cold waiting to open the door |
Well, you might think tearing out a giant bathroom fixture takes weeks of messy construction work. But our trained crew has this down to a simple sci-fi science by now! We show up right on time with our work trucks packed full of pro tools and tough replacement supplies. Most of our complete swaps take just one or two days from start to finish.
First off, we carefully remove your existing old basin without busting up your surrounding drywall or flooring. We check your floor joists to make sure they can hold the new heavy water weight easily. If we find any old leaky wood rot down under, we fix it up strong right then and there. This solid prep work ensures your new sealed soaking setup lasts for decades.
After that, we slide the custom low-barrier unit right into the open wall alcove. We connect heavy duty copper pipes and strong PVC drain lines so everything flows perfectly. Then we seal up all the edges with premium mildew resistant caulk so moisture stays out. We clean up every scrap of trash before we leave so your house looks shiny and pristine!
Look, staying in the home you love is worth every single penny you put into it. Falling in a slick bathroom can lead to scary hospital visits and big medical bills down the line. Installing a safe accessible enclosure stops those accidents before they ever get a chance to happen. It gives your family peace of mind knowing you are safe inside your washroom.
Which means you keep your total privacy while taking care of your personal health. You do not need to rely on family members or hired nurses to help you bathe every week. That independence feels incredible and keeps your self-confidence high every single morning. It turns a daily chore back into a relaxing soothing retreat.
Moreover, these modern accessible fixtures look super stylish and fresh in any home layout. Modern white acrylic finishes brightened up dark old spaces instantly. They clean up super fast with just a simple damp cloth and mild dish soap. You save endless hours of scrubbing gross mildew off old tiny tile grout lines!
Now, every house in Waterville, Vermont, has its own unique layout quirks and plumbing quirks. Some spaces have tight corners while others have wide open footprints ready for giant dual seat models. We bring out full product catalogs so you can pick the exact shape and size that fits your room. You choose the door swing direction, handrail placements, and faucet styles yourself.
Furthermore, we offer walk-in units with built-in overhead shower kits too. That means if other family members prefer standing up for a quick rinse, they can still do that easily! You get the best of both worlds inside one versatile bathing space. Flexible hand-held shower wands make washing your hair super simple while sitting down safely.
Besides that, high grade marine gelcoat and thick acrylic shells resist scratches and yellowing over time. You will not have to worry about color fading or surface cracking down the road. The strong stainless steel frame hidden underneath supports heavy weight capacity without sagging or shifting. It is built tough like a rock to give you permanent security.
So, what are you waiting for, my friend? Stopping by your house to check out your plumbing setup costs you absolutely zero dollars. Our local team delivers accurate zero-risk quotes right to your front door with zero pushy sales pressure. We just sit down at your kitchen table, talk about what you need, and measure your bathroom floor space.
Then, we break down the whole price tag line by line so you see exactly where every penny goes. No hidden fees or surprise costs popped on your final bill at the end of the job! We believe in real honest work for honest local folks across our wonderful home state. You get top tier installation quality at prices that actually make sense for your budget.
Take that first easy step toward a safe, independent, and super relaxing bathing experience today. Pick up your phone or fill out our fast online form right now to schedule your complimentary evaluation. Let us transform your old hazardous bathroom into a safe haven you will love using every single day!
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 Waterville.
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