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Senior Bath Quote

Showers, walk-in tubs, safety fittings

A walk-in tub is one option. Sometimes it is the wrong one.

We convert bathtubs to curbless showers, install walk-in tubs where they genuinely suit the room, and anchor grab bars into something that will hold. One written quote, no same-day discount, and no salesperson at your kitchen table after dark.

A finished accessible bathroom: a curbless walk-in shower with a folding teak seat and a brushed nickel grab bar

One written quote

Itemised, left with you, and still valid tomorrow. No discount that expires when we leave the driveway.

No same-day close

We will not ask for a signature at the kitchen table. Read it, sleep on it, show it to whoever you want.

No health claims

We describe what a fitting does physically. We do not tell you what it prevents, because that is not ours to promise.

Cutaway of a curbless shower floor: joists, recessed subfloor, sloped bed, membrane and linear drain

Why quotes differ so much

A level shower floor is a change to the structure

For the shower floor to finish level with the bathroom floor and still drain, the subfloor underneath has to be recessed. Whether that is straightforward or structural depends on which way your joists run and how deep they are, and neither is visible from inside the bathroom.

That is the honest reason two bids for the same shower can differ by a multiple, and the reason we do not quote one over the phone.

What the conversion involves

Four questions, and none of them about money or health

We do not ask your budget, because a quote asked to fit a number will fit it. We do not ask about anyone’s health, because it is not a form’s business and it changes nothing about the tiling.

Senior Bath Quote converts bathtubs to curbless showers, installs walk-in tubs, and fits grab bars and other safety modifications. One written quote, no same-day discount, no in-home close.

  • One call, by a person, dialed by hand.
  • A survey of the room before any number is said out loud.
  • A written quote you keep, whether or not you use us.

Four questions

Request a written quote

No budget question, and nothing about anyone’s health. Both belong in a conversation, and asking the first one here is how a quote gets written to the answer.

To withdraw consent, reply STOP to any text or say so on the phone. The number is removed the same day. We do not call in the evening and we do not call twice. How the details are handled is set out in the privacy policy.

Curbless entryLinear drainWaterproofing membraneSloped mortar bedSolid blockingGrab bar anchoringThermostatic mixerDoorway widthThreshold heightSlip resistance

What the work actually is

The floor decides, and it is built before it is tiled

  1. A small bathroom with an old white alcove bathtub still in place against square white tile

    Before

    A high-walled tub in a small room. Nothing here is broken, which is why the decision gets postponed until a fall or a discharge from hospital forces it.

  2. The same bathroom stripped to bare plywood subfloor with the drain stubbed up and studs exposed

    During

    The tub is out and the floor is open. This is the part no photograph on a brochure shows, and the part that decides whether the finished floor drains: the slope is built here, not tiled on afterwards.

  3. The same bathroom finished as a curbless shower with a linear drain, a folding bench and a grab bar

    After

    Tile runs level from the room into the shower, so nothing has to be stepped over. The bench and the bar are anchored into solid blocking put in while the wall was open.

What gets built

Five bathrooms, five different problems

A completed curbless walk-in shower with tile running level from the bathroom floor and a linear drain

Full conversion

Curbless shower

A white walk-in bathtub with a low inward-opening door and a moulded seat in a tiled alcove

Bathing preferred

Walk-in tub

Two stainless grab bars mounted into tile beside a toilet, with solid backing visible at the anchor points

Fittings only

Grab bars

A teak folding bench and vertical grab bar inside a tiled shower with a thermostatic mixer

Seated bathing

Bench and mixer

A widened bathroom doorway seen from the hallway with a low bevelled threshold strip

Access first

Widened doorway

The part you never see

Tile is the part you choose and the part you are shown. The waterproofing behind it, and the slope built into the mortar bed under it, are what decide whether the room is still dry in five years. Both are finished before anyone sees a sample.

How the floor is built

Three questions that come up every time

Is a walk-in tub the best option?

Often it is not. It suits someone who wants to bathe and finds climbing over the tub wall the specific difficulty. If the person showers, or may use a walker later, removing the tub usually gives a better result for the same money. The two are compared on tub versus shower.

Why is there no price on this site?

Because the room decides it, and the part that decides it most is under the floor. A number published here would become the figure a real quote is judged against. What makes up a quote is set out on cost factors.

Will someone come to the house to sell to me?

Someone will come to measure, and they will leave a written quote. They are not paid on commission and they will not produce financing paperwork. What a pressure visit looks like, in detail, is on choosing an installer.

All frequently asked questions