i30 Builders · Residential
Aging-in-Place Bathrooms in Rockwall and DFW
A bathroom you can keep using at any age or after a surgery: no step into the shower, a seat, bars where hands reach, and doors wide enough, without the room looking like a hospital.
Measured and built for your house · Written scope and locked price before any deposit · One-year workmanship warranty
Free site visit · written scope · lump-sum price
Rated 5.0 on Google$1M GL + $1M Umbrella1-year workmanship warranty
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Who builds aging-in-place bathrooms in Dallas-Fort Worth?
i30 Builders, a general contractor based in Royse City, TX, designs and builds aging-in-place bathrooms in Rockwall and across Dallas-Fort Worth for homeowners across Dallas-Fort Worth, centered on Rockwall, Collin, Hunt and Kaufman counties. Curbless walk-in showers, blocking and grab bars, wider doors and comfort-height fixtures, planned so the room does not look clinical and priced in one written scope. Every job is measured and designed for the house, then priced in writing after a site walk, before any deposit, with permits handled.
- Pricing
- Written price after a site walk, before any deposit
- Permits
- Handled by us
- Warranty
- One-year workmanship warranty, in writing
- Where
- Dallas-Fort Worth, centered on Rockwall, Collin, Hunt and Kaufman counties
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Aging in place is decided by what goes into the floor and walls now.
The parts of an aging-in-place bath that matter most are hidden. A shower floor recessed so there is no curb to step over. Solid wood blocking in the walls wherever a bar will go. A doorway framed wide enough for a walker. Each is straightforward while the room is open and a demolition job once it is tiled, which is why the right time to plan for them is the remodel you are doing now, even if nobody in the house needs them yet.
The rest is fit. The shower valve goes where you can reach it from the seat and from outside the spray. The toilet sits at comfort height with room beside it. Faucets get lever handles for hands that grip less well, and the lighting is brighter and more even, with a low path light for the walk at night. Bars come in the same finish as the faucets, or double as a towel bar, so the room reads as a good bathroom first.
We plan and build the whole room as a remodel, mid-grade to high-end. A bar screwed into drywall, or a tub-to-shower kit dropped in where the tub was, is not our work.
How the planning works
Measured, drawn and picked before anything comes out.
Step 1
Who uses the room, and how
Walking, with a cane or a walker, or seated. A partner or caregiver who helps. Whether the plan is for now or ten years out. That sets the door width, the turning space, the shower size and seat, and where every control and bar goes.
Step 2
Floor and shower entry
Slab or framing, where the drain sits and how far the floor can drop. A fully curbless entry needs the shower floor recessed, which on a slab means cutting it, so this is settled before anything else.
Step 3
Blocking, bars and controls
Every bar, the seat, the hand shower slide bar and the valve are marked on the drawings at the heights the user needs. The walls get blocking behind each, plus extra where a bar may go later.
Step 4
Selections and written scope
Floor tile with grip, the toilet, vanity, lever faucets, bars finished to match, lighting and glass. One written price covering the floor work, plumbing, electrical, permits and finishes.
Finish levels
Mid-grade or high-end, named by what goes in.
Most rooms mix the two. Tell us where you want to spend and where you do not, and the written scope names every material either way.
Mid-grade
- Low-threshold or curbless shower with a linear drain and a fixed glass panel
- Fold-down seat or tiled bench, and a hand shower on a slide bar
- Grab bars at the shower, toilet and tub, with blocking for more
- Comfort-height toilet and lever-handle faucets
- Matte porcelain floor tile and a low path light for night
High-end
- Fully curbless shower with the floor recessed into the slab, and frameless glass
- Thermostatic valve with the controls placed for seated use and outside the spray
- Doorways widened, with a pocket door where a swinging door blocks the room
- Floating vanity with knee space for a seated user, and a mirror set low enough to use from a chair
- Grab bars that double as towel bars or shelf rails, finished to match the fixtures, and a heated floor
Blocking is quick to add while the walls are open, so we put it in for bars you may only want years from now.
Code and permits
The rules that apply to this room.
- A toilet needs at least 15 inches of clearance on each side of its center and 21 inches of clear space in front. City of Austin Residential Plumbing Final Inspection Checklist
- Every bathroom receptacle is GFCI protected, and so is any receptacle within 6 feet of a tub or shower. City of Austin Residential Electrical Final Inspection Checklist
- Light fixtures above a tub or shower, or within reach of the spray, are listed for wet locations. Others inside the tub and shower zone are listed for damp locations. City of Austin Residential Electrical Final Inspection Checklist
- Bathroom receptacles sit on a circuit that serves only bathroom receptacles, or serves a single bathroom, and none goes inside the tub or shower space. City of Austin Residential Electrical Rough Inspection Checklist
Read from the model codes on the dates linked. Each city adopts its own edition with its own amendments, so we confirm the rules for your address before we pull the permit.
Ready to get yours planned?
A free site walk, then a written scope and one price within five business days.
In every job
- A layout built around how the room will be used, with every bar, seat and control on the drawings
- The shower floor recessed for a curbless entry, waterproofed and flood-tested before tile
- Solid blocking behind every bar and seat, and where bars may go later
- Doorway widening and framing changes where the plan calls for them
- Permit and inspections for the plumbing, electrical and any slab or framing work
- A punch list before final payment, and a one-year workmanship warranty
How we quote it
We do not publish prices or ranges. Every job is measured and built for your house, so a number off a website would be a guess.
A site walk, then a written scope back within five business days. The scope names the work, the materials and the price, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
Anything found behind a wall or under a slab that changes the work gets priced and approved before we touch it. That is a change of work, in writing, not a surprise on the final invoice.
Payment is by ACH, card, check or cash, on the schedule written into the contract.
What Moves the Number
Up and down, before you ask for a quote.
Pushes price up
- Cutting the slab to recess the shower floor for a fully curbless entry
- Widening a doorway in a bearing wall, or changing the door type
- Moving the toilet or shower drain to make turning room
- A thermostatic valve and controls placed for seated use
- A floating vanity with knee space and a comfort-height or wall-hung toilet
- Heated floors and frameless glass
Keeps price down
- A low threshold instead of fully curbless, where the slab makes recessing hard
- Keeping the drains and the toilet where they are
- A fold-down seat rather than a built-in tiled bench
- Doorways that already clear a walker
- Fixtures and tile picked before demolition starts
Common Questions
Aging-in-Place Baths questions, answered
How much does an aging-in-place bathroom remodel cost?
We price it in writing after a site walk and a drawn layout. The biggest swing is the floor: a fully curbless shower on a slab means cutting and re-pouring it, and moving drains for turning room adds more. Widening a door, a thermostatic valve and the finishes come next. You get one written price for the room as planned, and it does not move unless the scope does.
What is the best walk-in shower for seniors?
A curbless one. No curb to step over, a floor that slopes gently to a linear drain, a bench or fold-down seat, a hand shower on a slide bar, and a valve you can reach from the seat. Fixed glass is safer than a swinging door, and a large enough shower may need no glass at all. Floor tile with grip matters as much as any of it.
Can you turn a tub into a curbless walk-in shower?
Yes, and it is the most common version of this job. The tub comes out, the floor is recessed so the shower meets the bathroom floor flush, the drain moves to suit the new slope, and the walls and floor are waterproofed before tile. On a slab, recessing means cutting it. We tell you at the walk what your floor allows, and where it does not, a low threshold is the fallback.
Where should grab bars go?
Where hands go when balance goes: at the shower entry, inside the shower by the seat and the valve, and beside the toilet. Each bar screws into solid wood blocking in the wall, never into drywall or tile alone. We set the heights for the person using the room and block the walls for any bar you may want later.
Will it look like a hospital bathroom?
Not when it is planned from the start. Linear drains, large-format tile, bars in the same finish as the faucets, a tiled or teak bench and warm, even light read as a well-built bath. The clinical look comes from chrome bars and plastic seats added after a room was finished without them.
Is an aging-in-place bath the same as a wet room?
Not always. An aging-in-place bath needs a step-free shower, a seat, bars and room to move, and it can keep a separate tub and a glass panel. A full wet room puts the shower, and often the tub, in one open waterproofed zone with the whole floor falling to the drain. That is a natural fit for aging in place, and it has its own page on this site: Wet Rooms and Curbless Showers.
Can you widen a bathroom doorway?
Usually. We frame a wider opening and, where a swinging door would block the room or the person inside it, fit a pocket door or a door that swings out. If the wall carries load, the header is sized before anything is cut. Doing it during the remodel means one round of drywall, trim and paint instead of two.
How long does an aging-in-place bathroom take?
A bath that keeps its layout and gains a curbless shower usually runs 3 to 6 weeks on site. The slab work, the inspections, the waterproofing test and glass measured after tile set that range, and widening doors or moving drains adds to the front of it. If the house has only one shower, we plan around that with you before we start.
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