Our Hico crew pulls the idle tub, keeps the alcove, and hands back a shower anywhere in Hamilton County within days.
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Swap that dusty old soaking tub for a wide walk-in space today. Our local crew comes right to your door and gives you a free estimate fast. You get a safer and much more modern setup without any stressful delays.
Actually, many homeowners feel stuck with huge acrylic basins taking up all their floor room. Old porcelain giant tubs just end up gathering stray dog toys or dusty laundry piles instead of hot water. Ditching that tall rim lets you step right in without tripping over high edges every single morning.
Honestly, taking out that clunky unit opens up your whole room for better movement. You get extra space to stretch out while rinsing off after a long tough day at work. Plus, modern wall panels clean up with just one quick swipe of a damp rag.
Suddenly, your whole morning routine feels ten times faster and way less annoying. Nobody wants to scrub grout lines with an old toothbrush on a beautiful Saturday afternoon... game changing upgrades like this give you back your free weekends fast!
First off, we take measurements of your exact layout to ensure everything fits real tight. Our hardworking installers check the pipes beneath your floor to make sure drain water flows away super fast. That way you never end up standing in ankle-deep murky water while trying to wash your hair.
Besides that, we bring sturdy acrylic pans that resist cracks, nasty stains, and slimy green mold. These textured floors keep your feet planted firm so you never slip while reaching for the shampoo bottle. You get maximum safety built directly into the floor surface itself.
Furthermore, our team works clean by laying down heavy drop cloths across your clean hallway floorboards. We haul away the rusty heavy metal basin and all the broken tile trash when we leave. Your home stays spotless while getting an awesome upgrade.
| Cool Wall Upgrade | Daily Benefit For You |
|---|---|
| Patterned Acrylic Slabs | You skip scrubing nasty grout forever. |
| Recessed Wall Caddies | Your soaps stay tidy and off the floor. |
| Built-In Corner Seats | You sit back and shave legs easily. |
Naturally, grabbing onto solid grab bars helps everyone stay safe when surfaces get slick. Secure metal rails give older family members tons of extra confidence when standing up. You get total peace of mind every single time you step inside.
In addition, slick sliding glass doors keep all splash water inside where it belongs. Water never leaks out onto your subfloor to rot out your wooden joists underneath. Which means you save heaps of cash on expensive hidden structural repairs later on.
Consequently, custom shelving puts your favorite fancy soaps right at arm level. You never have to bend down low and strain your sore lower back just to grab a fresh bar. Everything stays super organized and super neat inside your custom enclosure.
Now, living out in this historic cattle town means dealing with real specific house setups. Many cozy residences near the local Billy the Kid museum feature tight original floor plans from back in the day. Updating these historic layout spaces takes some actual hands-on mechanical skill and patience.
Indeed, with a local population of around 1,518 folks, word travels fast when contractors do good work. Households earning around the median household income of $34,375 need direct pricing that fits their real family budgets. Our quotes stay clear with zero sneaky hidden fees tacked onto the final bill.
Likewise, folks across the 76457 ZIP code area deserve top quality service without high city markup prices. We respect your tough earned dollars by delivering long lasting work that stands up against heavy daily family use. You get an honest job done right by friendly folks who live nearby.
Regrettably, stepping over a two-foot wall while balancing on one foot gets dangerous fast as years crawl by. High walls cause scary slips that leave nasty blue bruises or even lead to broken bones. You waste heaps of heating energy filling up a huge vessel you barely even sit in anyway.
On top of that, hard water mineral deposits turn old cast iron surfaces into rough yellow sandpaper over time. Standard bath surfaces absorb soap scum like a giant sponge and turn yellow real fast. You end up wasting endless hours scrubbing away on hands and knees with caustic chemical cleaners.
Alternatively, low threshold pans let you walk right in without lifting your legs up high at all. Smooth non-porous walls block bad bacteria growth so your wash stall stays smelling totally fresh and clean. You save tons of valuable time every single week on tedious home chores.
Also, direct floor drains carry away suds rapidly without backup hassles or ugly water rings left behind. High flow hardware releases an invigorating stream that blasts away lingering stress after a grueling shift. You step out feeling totally refreshed and completely energized every single morning.
Simply message us up or send a quick message to lock in your free home visit today. Our friendly tech drops by to look over your setup and listen to what you want done. You get a firm price quote right then without any high pressure sales tactics at all.
Surprisingly, most tear-out and rebuild projects finish up in just one or two short work days! Our crew shows up on time with all the right tools ready to work hard until it is done. You get your brand new setup up and running without waiting weeks for finished results.
So, take the jump and trade that awkward old bathtub for a spacious walk-in setup right now. Our skilled team handles all the heavy lifting, demo work, and plumbing updates for you. Contact us immediately to claim your free quote and start enjoying your space today!
Obviously, every family uses their wash space a bit differently depending on their daily habits. Custom hand-held wand sprayers allow you to rinse down the walls real fast after taking a quick rinse. They also make washing the family dog a absolute breeze instead of a messy wet nightmare.
Furthermore, custom LED lighting kits bright up dark corners so you never miss a spot. Waterproof light fixtures build right into the ceiling paneling to create a bright warm feel. You get a bright energetic atmosphere that wakes you right up during early morning routine steps.
Granted, choosing matte black hardware or brushed nickel fixtures gives your space a classy custom touch. Solid brass controls feel solid in your hand and never loosen up or leak down into wall cavities. You get durable gear that performs like brand new for decades to come.
Realistically, prospective homebuyers always look at updated wash spaces first when shopping for a home. Replacing an outdated tub with a modern glass enclosure instantly raises your home market value. You enjoy the smart upgrade today while protecting your property investment for the future.
Equally important, preventing hidden water damage saves you massive cash down the road. Water leaking past old cracked tiles rots out floor joists and causes expensive structural sagging issues. Sealed wall slabs block moisture completely to protect your home frame from hidden wood rot.
Therefore, making this change right now pays off in so many practical ways for your whole family. You eliminate annoying daily hazards while dramatically boosting your overall home enjoyment every day. Give our reliable local team a quick note to setup your free estimate today!
Count the baths your household actually ran last year. In most homes we visit, the honest number is somewhere between zero and three, and yet every single morning somebody swings a leg over fifteen inches of porcelain rim to stand up and shower inside a fixture built for lying down. The tub charges rent daily and works a few evenings a year.
Nothing dramatic follows from that. Nobody is in danger because a bathtub exists, and if long soaks are part of your week, keep the tub and enjoy it with our blessing. The case for the conversion is plainer: when the tub has become a shower tray with high sides, you are paying, in caution and in cleaning, for a feature you retired years ago.
The swap itself is smaller than most people picture. The supply lines, the drain and the alcove walls are already exactly where a shower wants them, which is why this is a job measured in days. We are not building a new bathroom; we are letting the one you have stop pretending it still gives baths.
The same alcove, photographed the way the week actually unfolds. Weather never delays this one; it all happens indoors.
Floors along the hallway get covered, the water goes off for a few hours, and the bathtub is cut free and carried out, tile flange and all. With the alcove stripped, the plumber moves the drain to where the new pan wants it and sets the new valve at shower height. By supper the room is bare, clean and ready.
The base arrives first: an acrylic pan set dead level on a mortar bed, or a sloped, waterproofed floor when the plan says curbless. Then the walls close in, either grout-free panels bonded in a single afternoon or backer board ready for tile. Everything from here on is watertight before it is pretty.
The glass panel or door is drilled, hung and plumbed straight, the trim goes on, and the silicone lines are drawn last. Silicone wants a day to cure, so the first shower usually happens the following morning, which is exactly how we schedule the walkthrough.
Both are real showers in the same alcove. The difference is the entry, and what has to happen under it.
| What you weigh | Low curb | Curbless |
|---|---|---|
| What stands at the entry | A tidy threshold about 3 to 4 inches tall | Nothing. The bathroom floor rolls straight into the shower |
| Cost, installed | The friendlier bracket, most jobs land here | Roughly a third to a half more, the floor is rebuilt |
| What the crew rebuilds | The alcove only; the bathroom floor stays shut | Part of the bathroom floor, sloped and waterproofed |
| Water containment | The curb and glass do the holding | The slope and a linear drain do the holding |
| Suits best | Straight swaps on a budget and upstairs bathrooms | Wheels, walkers, and anyone planning to stay put for decades |
Undecided is a fine answer on the form. The site visit settles it with a tape measure, not a sales pitch.
Removal
Cut free, hauled out and off to recycling, with floors and doorways shielded on the way. The loudest hour of the conversion, and it wraps before most jobs have begun.
Plumbing
Tub drains sit at one end; showers drain where the pan says. We move what needs moving and swap the old valve for a pressure-balanced one.
The base
A level acrylic pan for most swaps, a mortar-built sloped floor for curbless plans. Either way it is tested with water before anything covers it.
The walls
Grout-free panels go up in an afternoon and wipe clean forever. Tile takes longer, costs more, and looks like whatever you can imagine.
The glass
A fixed panel keeps things open and easy to clean; a hinged door closes the warmth in. Both are tempered, both are set dead straight.
The finish
Shelving, the hand shower, clean caulk lines and a walkthrough. We leave the cure time in writing so the first shower is not a gamble.
| The job | Usual range | Inside the number |
|---|---|---|
| Standard tub-to-shower conversion | $3,100 - $5,600 | Tub out, low curb pan, wall panels, new valve, glass panel. |
| Curbless conversion | $4,900 - $8,800 | The floor is rebuilt flush and sloped to a linear drain. |
| Glass: fixed panel or hinged door | $450 - $1,400 | A single panel sits at the low end, a framed door at the top. |
| Walls: PVC panels or tile | $1,100 - $3,900 | Panels finish in a day; tile adds days and takes any look you want. |
| Tear-out only | $450 - $950 | The tub gone and the alcove left clean for another trade. |
| Small job minimum | around $2,400 | Even the simplest swap books a licensed plumber and a full crew. |
Wall condition, drain position and the glass you choose move every line. The visit pins the figure down, and the figure then holds.
A bathtub drains at one end through its own trap; most showers want the drain nearer the middle, or along one edge when the plan is curbless. Sometimes the existing trap is close enough to reuse and sometimes it has to travel a foot or two, which means opening a strip of floor. We can usually tell which from the basement or the crawl space during the visit, and the paperwork you sign already names which one you are getting.
Houses older than the seventies like to add a surprise: galvanized supply lines rusted nearly shut, a cast iron trap that crumbles at a touch, or framing that got damp decades ago and kept it quiet. None of it is rare and none of it is ruinous, but it is your call, not ours. When something like that turns up, work pauses, you get photographs and a price for the fix, and nothing is billed until you have said yes to it. A conversion should never be the job where the invoice writes itself.
QIs losing the only bathtub a resale mistake?
AAgents around Hico repeat one rule: a family house shows better with a tub somewhere in it. If this is your only tub and small children are in your plans, we put that on the table during the visit and you decide with open eyes. If another bathroom keeps its tub, or the buyers you expect are shower people, the argument evaporates.
QHow long do we go without washing?
AThe toilet and sink stay usable every evening, and the water is only off for stretches on day one. The shower itself is ready once the silicone cures, so figure on missing roughly three days of showers at home. Plenty of clients time the job before a weekend away.
QDoes all the old tile come off the walls?
AOn the alcove walls, yes, because the new waterproofing needs to start from the studs, not from forty-year-old grout. Tile outside the alcove stays put, and we cut a clean line where the two meet.
QCan the new shower use the tub drain?
AThe pipe itself is nearly always reusable; the position is the question. A low curb pan can often sit its drain within reach of the old trap. Curbless floors want a relocated or linear drain, and that difference is priced before demo, never discovered after.
QDo we need a permit for the swap?
AA like-for-like fixture swap usually rides on a simple plumbing permit, and moving the drain can add an inspection. We file whatever your jurisdiction wants and fold the cost into the written price.
QWhat if there is rot behind the tub?
AIt happens, mostly around the old tile flange. You get photographs the hour we find it, a firm price for the repair, and the choice to proceed or pause. The framing fix is usually a morning, not a remodel.
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One three-day job stands between this bathroom and its best fixture.
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