Tub-to-Shower Conversions in Decatur, TX

The Wise County Old Settlers Reunion has been held in Decatur since 1881. It is the oldest recurring public event in the county, it runs the last full week of July, and its defining feature is that the same families return to the same campground year after year, across generations. Historically it drew crowds of up to twelve thousand, parading from the courthouse out to the grounds.

That tradition tells you something real about Decatur that no statistic quite captures: people here put down roots and stay. The Census bears it out — about 72% of occupied homes in Decatur are owner-occupied, well above the rate in most of the communities we serve.

The practical consequence is a lot of houses where the bathtub in the main bathroom is the original one, installed decades ago, and where the people using it are decades older than they were when they moved in. Climbing over a 14- to 18-inch tub wall is one of the most common ways people get hurt at home, and nationally the CDC associates roughly 235,000 emergency-room visits a year with bathroom injuries — most in the tub or shower.

A conversion is a targeted fix rather than a whole-house project. We remove the tub, waterproof the space floor to ceiling, and install a walk-in shower sized to the opening you already have, usually without touching the rest of the room.