Accessible and Aging-in-Place Bathroom Remodeling in Scottsdale, AZ

We offer doorway widening and full slip-resistant floor systems. Our team provides universal design layout planning and discreet detailing, delivering bathrooms that stay usable for decades for Scottsdale homes and safe, watertight results for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by an Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured contracting team, we have completed kitchen and bathroom projects of every size, from single grab bar retrofits to full roll-in suite conversions.

From setting solid blocking behind the tile so a grab bar can go anywhere later to sloping a curbless floor so a wheelchair rolls in without water following it out, our team handles every detail. Serving Scottsdale, Carefree, Fountain Hills and Paradise Valley, we deliver thoughtful, well-built, professional work on every accessible bathroom.

This Does Not Have to Look Like a Hospital

That is the fear almost every client raises in the first conversation, and it is out of date.

A well-designed accessible bathroom looks like a well-designed bathroom. A curbless shower is the single most requested feature in high-end bathroom design right now for aesthetic reasons alone. Grab bars are made in the same finishes as your towel bars and several double as towel bars. Comfort-height toilets are simply the standard height most people prefer. Lever handles are easier for everyone.

The design approach behind this is universal design, built on seven principles: equitable use, flexibility in use, simple and intuitive use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and adequate size and space for approach and use. None of those say institutional. They say usable by everybody, which is a description of good design.

The Features That Matter

Curbless roll-in shower. The centerpiece. No curb, no threshold, no step. The floor tile runs continuously into the shower and the whole floor slopes to the drain. A linear drain at the back wall lets the entire floor fall in one direction, which tiles better and looks cleaner than a four-way slope to a center drain. This requires the floor structure to be recessed, which is the main construction cost.

Grab bar blocking. The most valuable thing you can do and the cheapest, if you do it now. Solid blocking installed behind the tile at every wall in the wet zone and beside the toilet means a grab bar can be mounted anywhere, at any height, at any point in the future, in seconds. Without it, mounting a bar later means finding studs and accepting where they happen to be, or opening the wall.

Install the bars you need now, block for the ones you might. The blocking is invisible and costs very little.

Shower seat. A folding teak or phenolic seat, or a built-in tiled bench. A bench needs waterproofing as carefully as anything else in the room, since it is a horizontal surface inside the wet zone.

Doorway width. Accessible guidance puts minimum clear door width at 3 feet. Most interior doors are 30 inches or less, and 24-inch bathroom doors are common in older Scottsdale housing. Widening a non-bearing doorway is not a large job and it is the difference between a walker fitting and not.

Turning space. Wheelchair guidance calls for a 60 by 60 inch turning space. Many bathrooms cannot provide it without moving a wall, and we will tell you honestly whether yours can.

Comfort-height fixtures and lever hardware. Higher toilet seat, lever faucets rather than knobs, and controls that operate with less than about 5 pounds of force. All standard products, all no more expensive.

Slip resistance. Smaller floor tile or a textured large-format tile, because more grout joints mean more traction. This is one place where the small-tile rule genuinely applies.

Handheld shower on a slide bar, plus a thermostatic valve that holds temperature so a pressure change elsewhere in the house cannot scald.

Lighting. Brighter and more even than a standard bathroom, with at least two sources at the mirror separated by a foot or more, and no dark zone at the shower entry.

Cost in Scottsdale

Estimated ranges.

That last row is the one to pay attention to. If you are remodeling anyway, building this in costs a fraction of retrofitting it later, because the walls and floor are already open.

Related Services

Curbless design overlaps almost completely with open curbless shower rooms. Widening doors and creating turning space is reconfiguring the layout. For the primary suite see primary suite bathrooms, for tight rooms compact bathroom renovation, and for a parent's suite adding a bathroom. The same thinking applies in the kitchen: drawer bases instead of low door cabinets, pull-down uppers and lever hardware, see our cabinet millwork. See all of our bathroom work.

Service Areas

We build accessible bathrooms throughout Scottsdale, 85250 through 85269. We do a great deal of this work in Carefree, where more than half the residents are 65 or older, and in Fountain Hills and Cave Creek, which have similar demographics. We also serve Paradise Valley. See Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Make Your Scottsdale Bathroom Work for the Long Run

Call Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros at (480) 776-6323 for a free in-home assessment, or request one online.

Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros · Scottsdale, AZ 85251 · (480) 776-6323

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Where we work

Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros works the northeast Valley along Loop 101, Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard, from Old Town north to DC Ranch and Desert Mountain. Outside the city limits we take this work to our Arcadia, Phoenix page, high-desert kitchens in Carefree and kitchen remodeling in Cave Creek.

• Old Town Scottsdale
• McCormick Ranch
• Gainey Ranch
• Scottsdale Ranch
• DC Ranch
• Silverleaf
• Grayhawk
• Troon North
• Desert Mountain
• McDowell Mountain Ranch
• Arcadia edge
• North Scottsdale

City pages

• Paradise Valley
• Arcadia, Phoenix
• Carefree
• Cave Creek
• Fountain Hills