Whenever I almost slip in the shower or help my mother into the tub, I hear an echo of that old ad "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" echoing in my mind. According to the Centers for Disease ...

Unlike an alcove tub, drop-in tubs don’t have shower heads or water-resistant walls. A bathroom with a drop-in tub almost always has a separate shower. Some people refer to drop-ins as soaking tubs.

A drop-in tub can be set in an alcove or outside the room. It’s dropped into a custom-made raised platform deck, which covers the plumbing and the exposed sides of the tub and creates a place to ...

Converting a tub to a shower can range in cost from $1,200 to $8,000, with walk-in shower installations upwards $15,000, according to Architectural Digest.

The whole process takes maybe five minutes, so you’re more likely to do it often enough to keep your shower and tub clean. A soap-filled dish wand makes shower cleaning even easier, but you don ...