The Zortman crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Phillips 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 to step over high bathtub walls lately? Upgrading your bathroom with a secure, accessible bathing setup brings peace of mind back to your daily routine. Get a free quote today to make your home safer.
Every single day, standard high-walled soaking basins create big hazards for folks who just want a relaxing bath. Jumping into a slippery tub feels plain scary as the years roll on by... Honestly, I almost slipped real bad myself last year while cleaning my own setup! That scary moment pushed me to help neighbors upgrade their homes with safe side-door bathing setups that eliminate giant steps completely.
By bringing low threshold access into your washroom, you instantly remove the terrifying fear of falling on slippery wet tiles. Furthermore, this smart switch keeps your independence alive so you can wash up without needing a helper nearby. You deserve total privacy in your personal routine.
Along with deep safety features, these high-walled accessible tubs hold deep water levels that submerge your lower back completely. As a result, warm water soothes aching joints and tired muscle groups much better than standard shallow tubs ever could. Getting a local pro to measure your layout is the first move toward peace of mind.
Because every household holds unique layout needs, custom options make a massive difference in how your new washroom functions. Built-in seats let you sit down at a natural chair height while washing up without straining your knees. Consequently, sitting down feels completely stable from start to finish.
Moreover, leak-proof magnetic sealed doors keep every single drop of water trapped right inside where it belongs. That means your floor stays totally dry, which stops dangerous slippery puddles from forming near your exit zone. You can finally relax without worrying about messy cleanup duty afterward.
Besides those sealed doors, fast draining technology empties huge amounts of water in just a couple short minutes. Therefore, you will not freeze while waiting around for the water level to drop down before opening the side portal. It speeds up your whole morning routine amazingly well.
To help you see how these upgrades improve home safety, I put together this basic simple breakdown below. Take a quick look to compare standard setups against modern accessible side-door units.
| Bath Feature | Standard Traditional Basin | Accessible Side-Door Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Step Entry Height | 14 to 18 Inches High | 2 to 4 Inches Ultra-Low |
| Seating Style | Flat Low Floor | Contoured Chair Height Bench |
| Safety Grab Bars | Rarely Included Factory Direct | Built Directly Into The Frame |
| Water Depth Capability | Shallow Soak Depth | Deep Full-Body Soaking Reach |
Looking at the clear differences above, upgrading your space offers massive daily benefits for any owner staying long-term. In addition, adding safety features raises overall property values while making life simpler everyday.
Living out in smaller rural locations like high-country mining hamlets brings unique building needs to light. For instance, tiny mountain towns with tiny populations near 30 residents often have older plumbing setups that need expert eyes. Our local region in Phillips County features historic homes that require careful measuring before bringing heavy equipment inside.
In fact, properties around the 59546 region code often feature unique narrow hallways and compact vintage doorway framing. Thankfully, modern accessible units are engineered carefully to fit right through standard interior room entries without knocking down walls. Your home stays totally intact during the setup phase.
To add to that, winter weather around these rugged parts can drop temperatures low and cause chilly water line issues fast. Professional fitting ensures your pipes stay wrapped tight and fully protected against freezing drafts during harsh mountain winters. Having a trusted contractor manage the heavy work saves major headaches later.
Although upgrading a washroom requires an upfront investment, it saves massive amounts of money over long periods. When you look at local median household income statistics around $33,750, keeping home upgrade costs practical and transparent matters tremendously to every family. Staying in your beloved home long-term costs way less than moving into expensive living facilities.
Furthermore, simple updates keep your daily independence intact without relying on outside paid helpers coming into your living space. Which means you save money every month while maintaining complete control over your everyday life. That level of freedom is truly priceless for senior homeowners.
On top of that, homes featuring upgraded accessible features attract a wider market of prospective buyers if you ever choose to sell. Naturally, buyers appreciate seeing modern safety grab bars and comfortable seating already finished for them. It adds serious physical appeal and practical usability to your entire floor plan.
Since everybody enjoys relaxing differently, custom water jet packages take your daily wash routine to totally new heights. Warm hydrotherapy jets gently massage stiff lower back muscles and sore feet while you soak in peace. Truly, it feels like having a private spa built right inside your house...
Additionally, soothing air jets create gentle bubbles that pamper sensitive skin without harsh mechanical pressure. So you enjoy mild soothing warmth that melts away daily stress and body fatigue after long hard working days. Custom settings let you dial in perfect water pressure every time.
Besides water features, hand-held shower heads make rinsing off hair simple while staying seated securely on the contoured bench. Furthermore, easy-reach control dials allow you to adjust water temps without leaning over uncomfortably. Convenience stays right at your fingertips throughout the entire bath.
First off, a experienced technician comes straight to your doorstep to check out your current washroom setup. They measure your existing plumbing lines, check electrical connections, and inspect door clearance routes closely. That accurate zero-cost estimate ensures no surprise fees pop up later down the road.
Next up, the old heavy cast-iron or porcelain tub gets carefully unbolted and removed from your property without damaging your drywall. Then, modern sub-flooring supports get installed to support heavy deep-soaking water weight properly. Every structural support gets reinforced tight so your new basin sits perfectly level forever.
Finally, your new step-in unit gets slid into place and connected straight to your home plumbing and drain networks. After testing for zero leaks and verified water pressure, complete wall surrounds get installed to finish off the gorgeous aesthetic layout. The entire project usually finishes up super quick with minimal mess left behind.
When you weigh all the incredible benefits, securing your private bathroom setup remains one of the smartest choices you can make. Stopping scary slips before they happen lets you age peacefully right in the comfort of your favorite place on earth. No more stress, no more high steps, just easy soaking whenever you want.
Ready to see how easy fitting a low-threshold soaking tub into your existing layout really is? Request your 100% free estimate today from your local licensed installation contractor right now! Taking this single simple step brings total peace of mind directly back to your home daily routine.
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 Zortman.
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