Walk-In Showers and Tubs in Paramus's 1950s Bathrooms
We help you choose between a walk-in shower and a walk-in tub for the bathroom your Paramus house actually has, and connect you with a registered contractor and a licensed plumber for whichever fits.
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Tell us which part of the house has become hard and who it is for. That is usually enough for us to tell you which trade the job needs, whether the town has to see it first, and who, if anyone, might help pay.
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Walk-in shower or walk-in tub in a Paramus bathroom
A walk-in tub keeps a soak but asks the bather to sit while it fills and drains; a walk-in shower is quicker to use and easier to pair with a seat and a helper. In a postwar Paramus bathroom, either may push against a wall. Cutting into a loadbearing wall or relocating the drain is outside ordinary maintenance under the state code, so ask whether your preferred option fits the existing footprint before choosing it.
What the user can do today
Stepping over a low sill and sitting to bathe suits a walk-in tub. A walker or wheelchair points to a shower.
Whether it fits the existing footprint
If the choice needs a wall moved or the drain relocated, it is a permit job with a licensed plumber.
How long the plan has to last
With about one Paramus resident in eight aged 75 or older, choose for the need two or three years out, not just this month.
Paramus's postwar housing and its older residents
The ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates show 71.8% of Paramus's 8,813 housing units were built before 1980, 45.4% before 1960 and 5.5% in 1939 or earlier. The largest single building decade is 1950 to 1959, with 34.8% of units.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034, accessed 2026-09-22
The ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates put Paramus borough's population at 26,568, of whom 6,971 (26.2%) are 65 or older and 13.1% are 75 or older, above New Jersey's 17.2% aged 65 and older.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B01001, accessed 2026-09-22
N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7(b) states that ordinary maintenance does not include cutting away any loadbearing wall or partition, removing or cutting any structural beam or bearing support, any work affecting structural or fire safety, or the addition, alteration, replacement or relocation of any water supply, sewer, drainage, gas, soil, waste, vent or similar piping, or of electrical wiring.
Source: New Jersey Administrative Code as published by the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, via New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, accessed 2026-09-22
The Medicare National Coverage Determination Durable Medical Equipment Reference List (NCD 280.1) lists grab bars as denied, a self-help device not primarily medical in nature; stairway elevators as denied, referring to elevators, a convenience item; bathtub lifts and bathtub seats as denied; raised toilet seats as denied; and toilet seats as denied, not medical equipment.
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare Coverage Database, NCD 280.1, accessed 2026-09-22
What accessible bathrooms involves in Paramus
A Paramus tub judged by a new generation of users
The 1950s built 34.8 percent of Paramus's homes, more than any other decade, and many bathrooms from that building boom were planned around a tub. Today 13.1 percent of the borough's residents are 75 or older, nearly twice the state share, so that tub is being judged by people it was never designed for. Whether it becomes a walk-in shower or a walk-in tub depends on the space it leaves behind and on who is using it.
Shower or tub in a Paramus bathroom?
Tell us who bathes there and what is hard about it now. We will say which option the room can realistically take.
Paramus walk-in shower and tub questions
Will a walk-in tub fit in my Paramus bathroom?
Some are sized for a standard tub space, but check the door into the room and the drain position too. If the tub has to come through a narrow doorway or the drain has to move, the job grows. A contractor who has measured the room is the only reliable answer.
Does Medicare help pay for a walk-in shower in Paramus?
Plan without it. Medicare's equipment reference list names grab bars, bathtub seats and raised toilet seats as denied, so do not budget on it for bathroom work. The IRS medical expense rules and NJ FamilyCare's residential modifications are the places to look.
Measure the Paramus tub space
Length, width and the door into the room. A registered contractor and, where the drain moves, a licensed plumber will follow.