Bath Fitter turns 25 this year!

Bath Fitter would like to say Happy New Year and extend its warmest wishes to everyone for 2009! And a huge thank you, as well, to the thousands of customers who enjoyed our bath remodelling services in 2008. We are looking forward to bringing our bathroom solutions to plenty more homes in the next twelve months.

This is a landmark year for Bath Fitter. Twenty-five years ago, the idea for Bath Fitter came to the Cotton brothers from Montreal, Canada, out of personal experience. Sensing a need for a more sane approach to bathroom renovation, Bath Fitter was established in 1984. The company initially focused on building its reputation in high-end hotels by offering quick and professional bathroom remodelling with custom-molded products that fit right over existing fixtures – done in a matter of hours. This was a big plus for hotel owners who can’t afford to have rooms out of service for days at a time.

But the Cotton brothers knew their idea could go much further than hotels. Traditional bathroom renovations in homes can also be messy, costly, and time-consuming. What was a homeowner supposed to do if a bathroom becomes a construction zone for a week, or two weeks, or more? Not to mention the associated noise, chaos, and high cost. The Cotton brothers quickly learned that residential customers were just as eager to benefit from Bath Fitter’s custom-formed acrylic tub liners, shower bases, and wall-systems. The company grew very quickly, adding franchises coast to coast, starting in the late eighties and continuing right to the current day.

What are we looking forward to in 2009? While responses from our professionals may vary, typically, nothing makes our people happier than the look of pleasure and amazement on a customer’s face when they first see the finished product: a beautiful new bathroom, finished before the day is done.

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Why Acrylic Tub Liners?

Bath Fitter owes a large part of its success to acrylic – the tough but elegant material we use to manufacture our custom-molded bathtub liners and wall systems. As bathroom renovation veterans, we’ve worked with acrylic for almost 25 years, and over this time, we’ve come to truly recognize and appreciate its numerous benefits.Perhaps the number-one appeal of acrylic for customers is its non-porous surface. Mold and mildew cannot find a home here as they would with more porous materials. Also, you won’t find a vertical seam anywhere on our acrylic wall-systems – just a smooth finish. Even better: acrylic is easy to clean. Just spray it down with a non-abrasive and “green” cleaner and it retains an elegant radiance for years. Acrylic is also UV-stable, so you have peace of mind knowing that its luster and color won’t fade.

Here at Bath Fitter, we manufacture our own acrylic sheets. They’re the same color all the way through, so even if the liner gets a little scratched, a little buffing will make it good as new. And acrylic is tough: it won’t stain, chip or crack, so you know it’s going to hold up for as long as you own your home.

Acrylic has performed admirably for Bath Fitter; it can do the same for you, too!

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Bath Fitter – Green is Good

As promised a couple of weeks ago, today we’re bringing you information about Bath Fitter’s environmental approach to the manufacturing and installation of tub liners, shower bases and wall systems. Over our 25 years in business, we have continually refined these processes to reduce waste, recycle whatever we can, and cut down on energy use. Here’s how the Bath Fitter experience helps ensure that the environment comes out a winner when customers choose our products:

· Installing a new bathtub over the top of the old one eliminates the need to rip out old fixtures. This lightens the load for already overburdened landfills.

· Our wall system is placed over the top of the old one, further reducing the amount of debris that needs disposal.

· Acrylic tubs are good insulators, keeping water hotter for longer and saving energy.

· Acrylic materials last a lifetime, which means no need to replace them and less waste in landfills.

· We use the latest technology to reduce our electricity usage.

· Over 75 per cent of our shipping is free from the costly use of cardboard, pallets and shrink-wrap.

· At our plants, we recycle all the water that we use in the manufacturing process.

· Bath Fitter recycles all scrap plastic materials.

· Bath Fitter uses non-toxic installation materials and methods.

Given the increasing importance of environmental issues in North America today, we are working harder to bring this good news to our customers.

 

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Expansion at St. Eustache

Bath Fitter’s home in St. Eustache just keeps getting bigger. We’re at 270,000 square feet now; by the time this construction is over, we’ll be at 320,000. You can see the workers toiling away long hours, laying the foundations, and at the north end, part of the skeleton of the eventual extension is already standing.

When construction ends in the fall, there’ll be a much-needed home for the local corporate store. This’ll be a big help. Area customers will have a wonderful showroom where they can see Bath Fitter bathtubs, shower bases and wall systems. The expansion will also, of course, give added space to our factory and warehouse. With demand for bathroom products still so strong, you’ve got to have room for all those acrylic tub liners rolling out of production!

For those new who are unfamiliar with Bath Fitter, a few words about our company. Since 1984, we’ve been North America’s leader in one-day bathroom remodeling. We can install a brand new tub or shower base and wall-system over the old one in one day. We’re based in St. Eustache — just north of Montreal — and have another manufacturing plant in Springfield, Tennessee, not to mention a couple of hundred locations all over the United States and Canada. Some of these are corporate-owned stores; most are locally-owned franchises. Check out the About section for more about us.

Stay tuned for more about our exciting and growing company. Updates will be coming on at least a weekly basis. With so much going on, the challenge isn’t so much figuring out what to say, but finding time to say it!

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