Safety essentials
$3k–$9k
- Grab bars set into wall blocking
- Handrails on both sides of stairs
- Brighter lights and night lighting
- Lever handles on doors and faucets
- Slip-resistant floor at the bath
- Comfort-height toilet
Aging in place remodeling · Licensed & insured · Background-checked crews
Aging in place remodeling that keeps your parent home,
safer, and on their terms.
A licensed supervisor walks the whole house with your parent, marks every place a fall is likely, and sends a written plan in three price tiers within 24 hours. The quick fixes can be done the same week; the bigger changes get a dated schedule.
You can join the visit by video from another city. The written plan is emailed to you and to your parent.
- 2 daysGrab bars and rails
- $18k–$45kMain-floor tier
- 4.9410 reviews
- 24hWritten plan
What happens after you text us
A supervisor who plans homes like this answers. You talk to the person who will visit.
Most of these conversations start with a son or daughter who lives a few hours away. You tell us what happened, we ask for a few photos, and we set a visit your parent is comfortable with, with you on video if you like.
- One named supervisor for both of you, not a rotating sales team
- Photos of the bathroom, the stairs and the front steps are enough to start
- Visit time set around your parent's day, never rushed
Hi, my dad slipped getting out of the tub last month. He is fine but I live three hours away and I want his house fixed before it happens again.
Hi Laura, this is Dana, I plan and run our home safety projects. I am glad he is okay. Could you or a neighbor send me photos of the tub, the toilet area, the stairs and the front steps?
His neighbor just sent them to me, forwarding now. He will not want anything that looks like a hospital.
Understood, most people feel the same. From these I can already see three quick fixes and one bigger question about the tub. Could I visit Tuesday at 10? You can join by video and hear everything he hears.
Tuesday at 10 works for him. Will you send the price to me as well?
Yes, the written plan goes to both of you by Wednesday evening, with the quick fixes priced on their own so they can start first.
What aging in place remodeling costs
Aging in place remodeling costs $3,000 to $120,000. The plan tells you which rooms come first.
Most families start with the Main-floor living tier: a safer bathroom, a step-free way in and everything needed on one level. Your written plan shows all three tiers so you can do the urgent part now and the rest later.
Main-floor living
$18k–$45k
- Curbless walk-in shower
- Doorways widened to 36 inches
- Zero-step entry or short ramp
- Kitchen drawers and reachable storage
- Rocker switches at 42 inches
- Everything in Safety essentials
Whole-home plan
$50k–$120k+
- Main-floor bedroom and bath suite
- Stair lift or home elevator
- Hallways and turns for a walker
- Accessible kitchen work zone
- Smart lighting and door locks
- Permits, drawings and inspections
Price the plan for your parent's house
Choose the tier, the size of the house and what it is like. The range moves as you pick, using the numbers our supervisors write into home safety plans.
A range, not a quote. Your written estimate comes after the visit and does not change once you approve it.
Typical range for your answers
Turn this range into a written safety planWhere the money goes
The bathroom takes a third of the budget. It is also where most falls happen.
Averages from our recent Main-floor living projects. Grab bars and railings are the cheapest line and prevent a large share of falls, which is why the plan always prices them first and on their own.
Get my itemized safety plan
Adapt the rooms or move life downstairs
Adapt the rooms you use if they are on one floor. Move daily life downstairs if they are not.
The biggest decision in a safety plan is whether your parent keeps using the stairs every day. At the walk-through we check six things and write down which answer fits this house and this person.
| If this is true | We recommend |
|---|---|
| Bedroom, bath and kitchen are already on the main floor | Adapt in place |
| The only full bathroom is upstairs | Move downstairs |
| Stairs are straight and the walls can take a rail | Adapt in place |
| A walker or wheelchair is expected within a year | Move downstairs |
| There is a den or dining room nobody uses | Move downstairs |
| Your parent climbs stairs well but tires easily | Adapt in place |
How long it takes
The first grab bar goes in within days, and the rest follows a dated plan.
Safety essentials take two to five days. A main-floor plan takes three to six weeks, a whole-home plan six to ten. Your parent keeps a working bathroom every night of the project.
Week one
Walk-through and plan
We walk every room with your parent, measure doors and stairs, and send the written three-tier plan.
Days after approval
Quick fixes first
Grab bars, rails, lighting and lever handles go in before anything bigger starts, often the same week.
Weeks two to five
Bathroom and doorways
Shower rebuilt without a curb, doors widened, floors made level from room to room, inspector sign-off.
Final week
Walk it together
Your parent tries every change with us, we adjust heights on the spot, and the warranty is handed over.
Before and after
Three homes, the same people living in them afterward.
What the changes are made of
Every product is named in the plan, so nothing looks like a clinic.
Safety products have improved a lot. Grab bars now look like towel bars, and a curbless shower looks like a spa. The plan names each brand and finish so your parent can see it before it goes in.
Designer grab bars
Moen Home Care and Delta bars in brushed nickel, matte black or chrome, some doubling as towel bars or shelves. Rated to hold 250 pounds or more.
Comfort-height toilets
American Standard and Kohler models with a seat 17 to 19 inches high, about chair height, so sitting and standing take less effort.
Curbless shower systems
Schluter-Kerdi sloped pans with a linear drain, so the floor runs flat from the bathroom into the shower with nothing to step over.
Slip-resistant flooring
Luxury vinyl plank and textured porcelain tile chosen for grip when wet, laid level across rooms so there is no lip at the doorway.
Lever handles and locks
Kwikset and Schlage levers that open with an elbow or a closed hand, plus keypad locks so family can get in without hiding a key.
Lighting that turns on first
Lutron motion sensors, lighted rocker switches and LED strips under cabinets and along stairs, so the path is lit before your parent reaches it.
Written into every contract
Six promises you can hold us to.
The approved price is the final price. Change orders only with your written approval.
A credit for every working day of delay we cause. Weather and inspections excepted, in writing.
Dust barriers, floor protection and a clean-up before we leave. Your home stays livable.
A text or email every working day with photos and tomorrow's plan, or the day is free.
Workmanship warranty in writing, transferable to the next owner, backed by a fixed address.
A small deposit, then you pay only for work that is already completed, inspected and photographed.
Who is in the house
Three people your parent gets to know, not a new face every morning.
Strangers in the house worry most families more than the price. Every person is background-checked, introduced by name and photo before day one, and the same crew comes back until the last adjustment.
Home safety supervisor
Plans the changes, texts you daily, explains each step.
Lead carpenter
Widens doors, adds rails, sets grab bars into blocking.
Bath and tile installer
Builds the curbless shower and sets fixtures at height.
Recent home safety projects, with real numbers
Three houses, three budgets, three parents still living at home.
Ranch, safety essentials
- Final price
- $6,400
- Duration
- 4 days
- Location
- City, ST
Cape, main-floor living
- Final price
- $36,900
- Duration
- 5 weeks
- Location
- City, ST
Two-story, bedroom suite added
- Final price
- $94,000
- Duration
- 9 weeks
- Location
- City, ST
Every family's case is different
Your family's case is different. Here is how the plan changes for it.
Every safety plan starts from the same three tiers, then shifts for the person and the house. Pick the case that sounds like yours.
Coming home from the hospital
When a discharge date is close, we install grab bars, a shower seat, a raised toilet and stair rails within days, then plan the bigger work later, once your parent is settled at home and has an opinion about it.
Get my parent's house ready this weekHelping a parent from far away
You get the photos, the written plan and a daily text, and you can join every visit by video. Your parent signs nothing without you if that is what you both prefer, and every quote is emailed to both of you.
Plan my parent's house from a distanceA parent moving in with you
We turn a den, office or garage into a bedroom with its own step-free bath, so your parent has privacy and a door to close, and the rest of your family keeps the rooms and the routine they already know.
Plan a suite for my parent at our houseA walker or wheelchair ahead
If a walker or chair is likely within a year, we size doorways, turns and the shower for it now, so you pay for the framing once instead of opening the same walls again next year just to make them wider.
Plan for a walker or wheelchair nowA house built before codes
Narrow halls, steep stairs and a single upstairs bath are common in houses built before modern codes. The plan shows what can be adapted, what needs to move, and what the EPA lead-safe rules add to the price.
Get my plan for a house like thisKeeping the cost down
The first five thousand dollars usually buys most of the safety: grab bars, rails, lighting, a comfort-height toilet and a shower seat. We tell you which of the bigger changes can safely wait a year or two.
Price only the essentials firstPaying with savings or benefits
Some changes may qualify for help from state programs, veterans benefits or long-term care policies. We itemize the plan so each line can be submitted, and we tell you honestly which ones rarely qualify.
Get an itemized plan I can submitJust one room right now
If the bathroom is the only worry, start there. We still write down anything risky we notice on the way in, so you have the full list, but we price and build only the one room you asked us to change right now.
Price the one room we need nowWhat this service is
Aging in place remodeling, explained the way we plan it.
Aging in place remodeling is a set of changes to an existing home that let a person keep living there safely and on their own as their needs change: grab bars, handrails, step-free entries, curbless showers, wider doorways, better lighting and, when needed, a bedroom on the main floor. ProBuild Remodeling plans and builds it as a licensed general contractor, room by room, under one contract.
The service covers the whole house: entry, stairs, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, hallways and lighting. It uses the ADA design guidelines as a reference for clearances and heights and adjusts them to the person living there. It does not include medical equipment, in-home care or hospital beds, and we do not give medical advice; an occupational therapist's notes are welcome and built into the plan.
It is for people who want to stay in the house they know, and for the sons and daughters helping them, often from another city. It is also for couples planning ahead. It is not a substitute for a care facility when round-the-clock care is needed, and it is not a single grab bar, which our handyman team can install.
The words you will see in the safety plan
- Blocking
- Solid wood added between wall studs so a grab bar screws into wood, not drywall. It is what makes a bar hold a full body's weight.
- Clear width
- The open space in a doorway with the door open, measured stop to stop. 32 inches is the minimum for a walker, 36 is comfortable.
- Curbless shower
- A shower with no step or lip at the entry. The floor slopes gently to a drain so water stays in and a person can walk or roll in.
- Comfort height
- A toilet seat 17 to 19 inches from the floor, about the height of a dining chair, compared with 15 inches for a standard toilet.
- Zero-step entry
- A way into the house with no steps at all, made with a short ramp, a regraded path or a threshold lowered to the floor level.
- Turning radius
- The 60-inch circle a wheelchair needs to turn around. Bathrooms and kitchens are planned so that circle fits when it is needed.
- ADA guidelines
- Federal accessibility standards written for public buildings. We use them as a reference at home, not as a rule your house must meet.
- Universal design
- Design that works for every age and ability, like levers and step-free showers, so the changes look normal to guests and buyers.
Questions families ask us
The eight questions families ask before the first visit.
How much does aging in place remodeling cost?
Safety essentials such as grab bars, rails, lighting and a comfort-height toilet run $3,000 to $9,000. A main-floor plan with a curbless shower and wider doors runs $18,000 to $45,000. Adding a main-floor bedroom suite or a lift runs $50,000 to $120,000 or more.
Which aging in place changes should come first?
The ones that prevent falls where they happen most: grab bars at the tub and toilet, rails on both sides of the stairs, lighting on the path to the bathroom at night, and removing trip edges between rooms. They are cheap, fast and do not need demolition.
Can the work be done while my parent lives in the house?
Yes, and nearly everyone stays. We plan the order so a working toilet and a way to wash are available every night, keep paths clear of tools and cords, and finish each day's work area clean and safe before the crew leaves.
Will the house look like a hospital afterward?
No. Grab bars come in the same finishes as towel bars, curbless showers look like a modern spa, and levers and rocker switches are standard in new homes. Guests usually notice that the house looks updated, not adapted.
Can I manage the project from another state?
Yes. You can join the walk-through and every milestone by video, receive the written plan and daily photos by text or email, and approve changes in writing. Your parent can be as involved as they want to be.
Is a stair lift or a main-floor bedroom the better choice?
A stair lift costs less and installs in a day, and it suits someone who can still transfer safely to a seat. A main-floor bedroom and bath costs more but removes the stairs from daily life entirely, which matters if a walker or wheelchair is likely.
Do we need an occupational therapist before remodeling?
It helps but is not required. If your parent has an occupational therapist, we build their recommendations into the plan. If not, our supervisor measures reach, grip and how your parent moves through each room during the walk-through.
Does Medicare pay for aging in place remodeling?
Original Medicare generally does not pay for home modifications. Some Medicaid waivers, veterans programs, state grants and long-term care policies do. We itemize the plan so each change can be submitted separately, and we tell you which lines usually qualify.
Aging in place remodeling near you
Your remodeling address, within our service area.
Home safety projects are built by local crews working under the license of the state the house is in, so the supervisor can come back quickly for any adjustment.
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida
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Free home safety plan
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