What you don't know about walk-in bathtubs may actually hurt you, and your pocketbook.

Potential buyers should proceed with caution, as there can be more inconveniences, safety risks and hidden costs present than apparent at first site when you are choosing a walk-in bathtub.

With Senior Safe Solutions, your safety is our #1 concern. Our walk-in bath has the lowest step to enter so that it is easier to enter our tub without having to step up into your bath.

One of the most overlooked facts about any walk-in bath is the natural drain time. Our bath is designed to drain naturally like your original bath. Almost every other product on the market are assisted draining tubs that require assistance from fail prone pumps in order to drain the tub fast enough for you to comfortably exit the tub in a reasonable amount of time.

Our walk-in bathtub is frameless which means it will perform much better for a longer period of time than a framed tub. The framed tub design requires a rigid steel frame which must be adjusted to your home. From filling and draining a framed tub, as it is meant to be used, filled with water contracts and expands the tub making the caulking that will seal the tub to the backsplash or wall to crack. The Senior Safe walk-in bathtub is frameless so the tub is one solid piece mounted flush with your wall, alleviating any contraction and expansion.

If you purchase a framed tub, you will loath having to call the company to have them come back to your home to re-caulk their tub several times a year. With Senior Safe's tub our superior design let's you enjoy your bath all year without having to have us come out and fix caulking.

Lastly, Senior Safe Solutions was found on the principle that there were too many companies in the business taking advantage of seniors nationwide with overpriced, poor quality products purely for profit alone. We set out to change that by offering the best products you could buy and sell them at a reasonable price. In most cases we cost less than many of the larger companies that advertise on television and the internet. If you choose us, you get a better product for a cheaper price.

Frameless vs. Framed walk-in batubs: Why drain times are important.

When you have a bathtub with a door on it, it only stands to reason that you cannot open up the door and get out of the tub until it is completely drained.  The Senior Safe Frameless Walk-in Tub has the fastest natural drain time of all Walk-in tubs.

I know, you are thinking, “Big deal, water drains out of your bathtub.”  But did you know that the drain time is one of the biggest complaints about our competitor’s framed walk-in tubs?  Some framed tubs take as long as twenty minutes to drain.  Imagine yourself cold, wet, and naked for twenty minutes waiting to be able to open the door and get out!  The complaints grew so loud, that most of our competitors were forced to add an extra pump to their framed walk-in tubs to literally pump the water out of the framed walk-in tub.

Now, you should be asking yourself, why would anyone add a pump to a bathtub to get the water out?  Have you ever heard of a bathtub, which is intended to be filled and drained daily, that drains so poorly that it requires a pump to evacuate the water?

When your original bathtub was installed, the plumber installed the drain pipes underneath it to match up perfectly with your drain height, allowing for a perfect air-water mixture.  This is what causes the little whirlpool above your drain while the water is flowing out, and your tub drains quickly and efficiently.

A framed walk-in tub has at least a 6 inch high step in.  This means that the floor of the tub sits six inches in the air, suspended on a frame, with nothing underneath it.  When our competitors install their framed walk-in tubs, they are raising your drain height by six inches without changing any of the original plumbing underneath it.  This design causes your air water mixture at the drain to be slow and inefficient.

I am sure you can picture pouring a bottle of Coke into a glass.  If you hold the bottle at a 45 degree angle, the soda pours out smoothly into your glass.  Now imagine flipping the Coke Bottle 180 degrees upside down and it goes, “Glug, Glug, Glug.”  It pours out very slowly.  This is what happens with framed walk-in tubs because of the raised drain height and this is why they need to add a pump where gravity used to do the trick. Not so with the Senior Safe Frameless Walk-in Tub.  Our frameless design puts the drain at the exact same height as your original bathtub, allowing gravity only to give us the fastest drain time in the industry with no extra moving parts, no extra electricity.

Why is this so important?  For several reasons:

• The pumps or “minute valves” on framed walk-in tubs have a high failure rate.  If it fails when you are in the tub, which if you think about it, is the only time you will notice it has failed, you need to figure out how to bypass the pump in order to drain the water and get out safely. If you had trouble getting in and out of your 17” bathtub, good luck climbing over the side of a 36” to 40” high Framed Walk-in Tub.  Again, a major safety issue.

• If the pump needs to be replaced, in most cases, the tub will need to be removed from the opening, the pump replaced, and then the framed walk-in tub reinstalled.  This is a couple of days of work, at your expense, to replace a part that should have never been there in the first place if the walk-in tub was just designed to drain properly.

• In a lot of municipalities, pumping water out of a bathtub is a code violation.  Please check your local ordinances before you allow a pump to be installed.

• All of this is a non-issue with the Senior Safe Walk-in Tub.  Our Frameless Walk-in Tub was designed to drain the way that bathtubs have drained for thousands of years, using gravity, which is free, and quite frankly, far more effective.  The Senior Safe Walk-in Tub drains naturally in about two minutes.

•  Do not settle for a walk-in tub that is engineered so poorly, that you actually need to pump the water out of it.

The Senior Safe Frameless Walk-in Tub… It Just Works!