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Wife and I think we want a walk-in tub with shower and I’m asking for anyone with knowledge here to cast some pearls. I could use them. I’m not handy and will either have a good carpenter/builder I know install it or one of the brand name seller/installers.
Unless persuaded otherwise, we want one of the small footprint sit in tubs with a door on the side and low threshold, no extras or frills.
Whether online or on the phone I’ve run into gobbledygook and evasions from ALL seller/installers. Safestep, Kohler and American Standard are scheduled to come look at our place and give us a bid. Home Depot and ilk are the only places that give features and price.
Experience, advice, warnings welcome.
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Good luck with those estimates. Seems they will try as hard as they can to upselll you from the base model you seem to want.
I'll be keeping my eye on this thread, one day the wife and I might want to go that route. Right now I use the regular tub/shower combo in the second bathroom and she uses the walk in shower in the master bath. Neither of us uses a bathtub regularly, so for now, the walk in works when we can' get over the edge of a regular tub, as in after knee replacement surgery.
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Something to consider with the walk in tub is that you have to sit in it while it fills up and while it drains out. You may also need to upgrade your water heater.
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Was looking at having a drop in tub and wall liner done for Khans bathroom and the updated plumbing and tub and shower fixtures done for it also.
8k.........
Fugg dat...
Had em do the updated fixtures and inside wall plumbing with access door to it thru a closet wall and new drain assembly with pipe.
925 bucks...... Bout a 3 hr job from Ben Franklin.
But that was all also late spring 2019.
I can only imagine cost now.......
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Before you buy understand how they work.
The door opens almost to the floor, for easy access.
You MUST enter the tub while it is empty.
Then you must sit there and wait for the water to fill.
You must also sit and freeze your ass off waiting for the water to drain.
You can avoid the waiting to fill and waiting to drain buy climbing over the edge, but then you just defeated the purpose.
If you have medium to low water pressure the fill wait can be a royal pain.
You will prolly have to install a drain large enough to drain it fast, so as to keep you from freezing your ass off .
Also make sure your water heater is large enough to fill it without sending you Luke warm water towards the end.
Besides, never wash your face in the same water you have your ass in.
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Besides, never wash your face in the same water you have your ass in. You do that in any bathtub, Jacuzzi, or swimming pool, not just in a walk-in tub.
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Were it me I'd just get a Jacuzzi and forget the tub. I changed out all the tubs long ago and went to walk in showers. Pat Boone should've stuck to singing and golf.
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Walkin in shower with a seat??
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As others have pointed out you sit in it as it is filled and emptied. You will be rinsing yourself as it empties to keep soap scum off of you. The seals can and do go bad. A curbless tile shower is a much better idea.
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Be careful with estimates. This is one of the biggest rip offs for seniors. I had two, one was $12,000 the other $15000
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In our former house, we had a walk in shower that had the same footprint as a common bathtub. Seats on both ends and a sliding glass door.
I sure miss that set-up.
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Phuque that , I might as well just install a dive tank so I can repair and service dive gear while I wait for the tub to fill and drain!
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Walki in shower with a seat?? I'd prefer a shower alone but wife likes the tub opton, though the comments here have me reconsidering. Appreciate the info and comments. Very helpful.
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My mother, who is 103, had a sit down shower installed a few years ago. It has 2 shower heads, one of them being a hand held mounted about waist height. She can sit on a stool and use it to wash all over. Make sure the stool has a back to keep an elderly person from rolling off backwards. This one is one I installed for my MIL who used to live with us. The hand held slides up and down the bar so a person can sit on a stool and reach it.
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Something to consider with the walk in tub is that you have to sit in it while it fills up and while it drains out. You may also need to upgrade your water heater. Another thing to consider is that Jim has AIDS. LOL
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Was looking at having a drop in tub and wall liner done for Khans bathroom and the updated plumbing and tub and shower fixtures done for it also.
8k.........
Fugg dat...
Had em do the updated fixtures and inside wall plumbing with access door to it thru a closet wall and new drain assembly with pipe.
925 bucks...... Bout a 3 hr job from Ben Franklin.
But that was all also late spring 2019.
I can only imagine cost now.......
And you could have done all that yourself for $146 Just have to take a day off from Good Guys at Sunrise LOL
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A decent bathroom remodel done by a contractor will run you about $18-25k depending on fixtures and flooring. Those walk in tubs aren't cheap.
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Walki in shower with a seat?? exactly. before or shortly after i retire i will eliminate the last tub in the house and do a tiled shower stall. i did mine downstairs with a seat, shelves, etc and my wife likes it. it takes up more space though and unless you do it yourself, it is pricey. i did mine and it only took me two years lol. talk about scope creep. started out as just a shower and ended up involving a jack hammer, sledge hammer and about 200 SF of tile. the next one will not be nearly as much.
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Those commercials on TV make those walk in tubs with the door look cool.
Betty Sue in there soaking…
Nothing to trip on….
Not a care in the world….
Until the bubble guts hit.
Never tell you how long it takes to drain.
Now you trapped in brown pond water…..
Cant swim from it either.
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