Serving Man and nearby WV communities
A large share of Man's housing went up in the rebuilding along Buffalo Creek, so bathroom remodeling in Man mostly means bathrooms from the 1970s. Fifty years on, the tub, the tile and the wall behind them tend to come due at once.
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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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Houses of that era usually got one compact bathroom with the tub, toilet and vanity in a row, and sometimes a half bath as well. The fixtures were solid, and many are still there. What has worn out is everything they are attached to: the grout, the seal along the tub, the valve in the wall and the floor around the toilet.
1970s bathrooms taken back to studs and subfloor
Walls behind old tub tile rebuilt with backer board
Tub replacement or tub to shower conversion in the same alcove
Old floor tile tested before it is broken up
Bathroom remodels planned as consecutive full days
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.
Sometimes, if it is on a solid mortar bed and the grout and wall are sound. More often the tile around the tub is glued to drywall that has been taking water for years, and the wall needs rebuilding. We can tell once a tile or two is off.
In a fifty-year-old bathroom, usually the whole room. The tub seal, tile, valve and floor tend to be due together, and doing them in one job costs less than opening the room twice.
Usually. A 1970s tub alcove is a good size for a shower. The plumber moves the drain; we frame, waterproof and tile, and add blocking for grab bars while the walls are open.
As consecutive full days, with materials confirmed before tear-out and the trades booked to match. It gets the bathroom back sooner than a job spread over short visits.
Yes, at the edge of it — about fifty-five minutes from Williamson. We cover it, but we schedule it as a full day rather than fitting it around other work.
Yes, and a lot of Man's housing is exactly that. Fifty-year-old construction has its own list — original decks and porches at the end of their life, exterior trim due for replacement, and framing details of a period that were normal then and aren't now.
We'll be straight about it — Man is the furthest point we cover, so we group visits here rather than driving out for a single look. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
We handle bathroom remodeling across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Tile around a tub from that period went up in different ways. Some was set on a thick mortar bed that is still hard as rock; some was glued to drywall that has been soaking up water through the grout for decades. From the room they look the same. Once the first tiles come off, the difference decides whether the wall behind the tub needs rebuilding.
Because everything is due together, it usually makes sense to do the room once, properly, rather than a tub this year and a floor next.
Two creeks meet in a narrow valley here, and houses on low ground have had long exposure to damp. Put that under a bathroom with fifty years of splashing and slow leaks, and the subfloor around the tub and toilet is often soft, with the bottom plate of the wet wall gone as well.
Those get cut back and replaced as part of the remodel. The joists under a 1970s bathroom are generally conventional and predictable, which helps. Where they have failed, or been cut deep for a drain, that is floor joist repair, priced on its own.
One precaution comes before any of it. Some floor tile, mastic and wall materials used into the 1980s can contain asbestos, and paint from before 1978 may contain lead. Old flooring gets tested before it is broken up, and if anything comes back positive, abatement is a licensed specialty.
Man is the far edge of our area, roughly fifty-five minutes from Williamson on US-119 and WV-10. A bathroom remodel here is planned so nobody drives back for a missing piece: the tub or shower base, backer, tile with spare, the vanity and trim are all confirmed before tear-out.
For a house with one bathroom, that suits the household. Consecutive full days on site give the room back sooner than short visits spread out, as long as the plumber and electrician are booked to match.
Up the Buffalo Creek hollow the road narrows and houses sit close to it, so where the old tub and tile will go gets settled before the first day.
Man sits where Buffalo Creek meets the Guyandotte, and its housing has an age profile that is genuinely different from the rest of the county. Along the Buffalo Creek hollow a large share of the homes date from the rebuilding after the 1972 flood rather than from the coal-camp era, so instead of hundred-year-old pier-built houses there is a lot of 1970s construction now reaching fifty years old. That is its own set of problems — original decks and porches at the end of their service life, and framing and trim of a period that used materials we no longer would.
Two creeks meeting in a narrow valley means water is the defining condition here, and the community's history with it needs no explanation from us. Practically, the work it produces is what long-term exposure does to structures on low ground: rot in the framing closest to the ground, porches and steps that have taken decades of wetting, and additions built at different times with different levels of protection underneath. The 1970s housing is also now at the age where its original exterior woodwork is due, whether or not it has ever been wet.
Man is the far edge of what we cover — roughly fifty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-10. It is inside the hour, but only just, so we plan a full day here rather than a half and we make sure the material is right before leaving. Up the Buffalo Creek hollow the road narrows and the properties sit close to it, which limits staging room.
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