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Accessible living · Showers, tubs and doorways

Walk-in tub, supplied and installed

A walk-in tub, supplied and installed. We fit them, and we will tell you the trade-offs before you buy one.

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A dated molded shower enclosure with a curtain rail, before any work
Before. Southern California.

What the work is

A walk-in tub has a door in the side, so you sit down and then fill. That is genuinely easier than climbing over a tub wall, and for someone who wants a bath rather than a shower it is the answer.

The trade-offs are real and they are rarely mentioned by whoever is selling one. You sit in it while it fills and while it drains, which means sitting in cooling water. Fill and drain times depend on your supply and your drain, not on the brochure. And the door has a seal that is a maintenance item.

None of that means do not buy one. It means buy one knowing. The guide below sets the two options side by side without a preference.

What is included

  • The unit, supplied and installed
  • Supply and drain modifications the unit requires
  • Blocking and grab bars where you want them
  • Sealing and making good around the unit
  • Removing and disposing of the old tub
  • Filling and draining it with you before we leave, timed

What is not

  • Electrical for a heated or jetted unit, which is our licensed electrical partner's work and quoted in
  • Structural alterations
  • Water heater upgrades if your existing heater cannot fill it hot. We will tell you at the survey
  • Any claim about a medical benefit

Two things to check at your house first

  • Whether your water heater can deliver enough hot water to fill it. This is the most common disappointment, and it is checkable before you buy.
  • How long it takes to drain on your drain, not on a test rig. We time it in front of you.

Walk-in tub or walk-in shower

They suit different people and different bathrooms, and the honest comparison is in the guide below. We install both and we have no reason to steer you.

What to ask anyone quoting this, us included

  • Can my water heater fill this hot?
  • How long does it take to drain, at my house?
  • What maintains the door seal, and how often?

What we can show you in writing

Every line traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below.

  • A walk-in tub is a large hot-water draw. The number that decides whether your water heater can serve it is the first hour rating, the gallons the heater delivers in the busiest hour starting full and hot. It is not the same thing as tank size, and we check it before anyone orders a tub.1
  • St. George is dominated by slab-on-grade construction. There is no basement and usually no crawlspace, so the tub waste runs in concrete and any change to where the drain sits is concrete work.1
  • We publish no fill time, no drain time, no seal life and no health claim for a walk-in tub, because no independent source publishes one. Every number in this market belongs to the company selling the tub. Tell us which tub you are considering and we will give you that manufacturer's own figures in writing, and say where they came from.2
  • There is one published standard for the part that matters, ASME A112.19.15, covering tubs with pressure-sealed doors. It runs 12 pages, it is dated 2012, and the publisher lists it as on stabilized maintenance. The door seal is the whole engineering problem, and that is the entire body of independent material on it.2
  • A walk-in tub is still a tub. The bar geometry that applies to any tub and the 17-to-19-inch seat height are the reference dimensions for what goes around it, and its bars and seat sit under the same wall-strength criterion as every other bar. Same blocking question, same wall.2

Where this comes from

Every line above traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below; hover it for the section. If you find a line wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say so.

  1. Plumbing research, August 2026 Compiled from manufacturer warranty documents and installation manuals (A.O. Smith, Noritz, Rinnai, Rheem, Navien, Bradford White), the Battelle / Water Quality Research Foundation study, the Utah Code and DOPL rules. 2 sections cited. Hover a number above for the section.
  2. Accessible construction research, September 2026 Compiled from the US Access Board's ADA and ADAAG texts and the 1984 Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, the Code of Federal Regulations, HUD's Fair Housing design guidance, the Utah Code, ASME and ASTM standard scopes, the Tile Council of North America on slip resistance, and the CDC and National Institute on Aging. 2 sections cited. Hover a number above for the section.

Read before you decide

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