Serving Holden and nearby WV communities
In Holden's company houses the bathroom was usually carved out of a bedroom or a closed-in back porch long after the house went up. Bathroom remodeling in Holden starts with the floor that room was put on, because it was never meant to carry a tub.
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The kind of bathroom remodeling work we take on across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
Jack Smith
4 months ago
Had them out after the back steps started going soft underfoot. He came and looked properly before quoting anything, and told me the structure underneath was still sound — so it ended up a smaller job than I had braced myself for. Turned up when he said he would, cleaned up after himself, and the price at the end was the price we agreed. Not much more you can ask for.
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Skyler White
9 months ago
Called on a Tuesday and had someone out the same week. What I appreciated most was being told straight what needed doing now and what could safely wait until spring. No pressure and no trying to talk me into the bigger version of the job. It has held up fine through the winter since.
Trevor Alford
2 months ago
The quote came through itemised and the final bill matched it, which has honestly not been my experience with everyone around here. They worked around an awkward driveway without once making it my problem, and left the place tidier than they found it. Would have them back.
Kaleb Withrow
3 weeks ago
Fair price, showed up on time, tidy work. No complaints.
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Send a few photos and we'll tell you what it'll take — free written quote, no pressure.
Island Creek Coal built these houses for a way of living that did not include indoor bathrooms as we know them. When one was added, it went onto joists sized for a bedroom or a porch, and those were never meant for a full tub, tile and decades of slow leaks. In a house approaching a century old, framed with untreated lumber, that corner of the floor deserves a proper look.
Floor under the tub checked where the room came out of a bedroom
Soft subfloor replaced and support added under a new shower
Bathrooms on closed-in back porches looked at from below
Doors turned to open off the hall rather than another room
Casing and doors matched to the house pattern
What you get when Mackwood does your bathroom remodeling — and what we won't do.
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From first call to finished work — no surprises in between.
Step 1
Call, text, or send a message with what you're looking to build or repair. No form to fill in and no call centre — it comes straight to us, and you'll get a real answer about whether it's something we do.
Step 2
A few photos are often enough to tell us what we're dealing with. Where it isn't — anything structural, anything hidden underneath — we'll come out and look properly before quoting rather than guessing from the kerb.
Step 3
You get a written quote that itemises the work, so you can see what you're paying for and what you aren't. If we think part of it isn't worth doing, we'll say so. No pressure and no surprises at the end.
Step 4
We turn up when we said we would, work clean, and haul the offcuts away with us. The job gets built to last in this climate — and we'll walk it with you before we call it finished.
We'll come and look, then tell you straight — including if it isn't worth doing.
Straight answers to what we get asked most.
Often both. A bathroom added onto bedroom or porch joists carries more than they were sized for, and a slow leak softens the subfloor on top. We look underneath before quoting so you know which you are paying to fix.
Sometimes. Where the room is badly placed or reached through a bedroom, moving a door or a partition can be worth more than re-tiling it where it is. The plumber confirms what can move first.
Usually. The drain moves, which is the plumber's part, and we frame, waterproof and tile the shower. In a small camp-house bathroom it often frees enough floor to change how the room works.
Yes, replacing soft subfloor is part of the remodel. Failed joists or sills are floor joist repair, and we price those separately and tell you before starting.
Usually, and Holden is the best case for it. The houses were built to standard patterns, so the profile you need is generally still visible on the same street. Where something genuinely can't be sourced we'll show you the nearest option rather than substituting quietly.
Quite possibly. These houses were built the same way at the same time on the same ground, so they tend to reach the same failures together. It's worth a look underneath before it becomes urgent.
It's the normal situation in the camps and it's usually the side the work is on. It affects access and how long material handling takes, not whether the repair can be done properly.
We handle bathroom remodeling across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Water from outside adds to it. These houses are set into the hillside, water off the slope reaches the back and the low side first, and a bathroom on a closed-in back porch sits right there. So the subfloor, the joists and their bearings under the bathroom get checked before anyone picks tile.
Replacing soft subfloor and adding support under a new tub or shower is part of the remodel. Where the joists or sill have failed, that is floor joist repair, priced as a separate job before the bathroom work goes ahead.
Because the bathroom went wherever it could fit, plenty of them are long and thin, have a window where the tub wants to go, or can only be reached by walking through somebody's bedroom. New tile in the same spot keeps all of that for another generation.
A remodel is the moment to ask whether a partition should shift a couple of feet, whether the door should open off the hall instead, or whether a shower in place of the tub would make the room usable. Whether a fixture can move is the plumber's call; the framing, the floor and the finish are ours.
That decision belongs before anything is bought. A vanity and tile chosen for a badly placed room are hard to justify tearing out later.
A new bathroom looks out of place in a company house when the trim and door come from a different century. The houses were built to standard patterns, so the original casing profile and door style are usually still visible on the same street, and matching them is realistic.
The camps sit off WV-44 on narrow streets with little room to stage material, and houses dug into the hill often have the awkward side where the bathroom is. So tile and backer come in as each stage needs them, a cast iron tub leaves in pieces, and a shower is more often built from a base and tile than delivered as one unit.
Holden is about forty-five minutes from Williamson. Permitting is Logan County, which matters most if a wall or the floor structure changes.
Holden is a planned coal town rather than a town that grew, and it shows in the housing more clearly than anywhere else we work. Island Creek Coal built these houses to a small number of standard patterns across the numbered camps, which means whole streets share a floor plan, a porch detail, and a foundation type. For carpentry that is genuinely useful: once we have seen the failure on one of them we know where to look on the next, and matching original trim and porch detail is realistic because the pattern is documented by the houses around it.
These houses are approaching a century old and were built with untreated framing on block and stone piers, set into hillside sites where drainage was designed for the coal operation rather than for the houses. Water coming off the slope behind a house is the constant, and the damage concentrates at the back and the low side — sill plates, joist bearings, and the porch structure where it steps down the grade. The uniformity that helps us diagnose also means the whole street tends to arrive at the problem together.
About forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camps sit up off the main road on narrow streets that were laid out for the era, so the approach is tighter than the drive suggests and there is limited room to stage material. Houses set into the hillside also mean the working side is often the awkward side, which affects the day rather than the price of the carpentry.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
