Bathrooms at home
Tile showers in place of fiberglass, freestanding tubs and low entries, in Bixby homes old and new.
Bathroom remodeling in Bixby, OK
From builder grade to built right
More than half of Bixby's homes went up since 2000, so most bathrooms here still have the shower the builder picked. We swap one-piece tubs and stalls for tiled, waterproofed showers or new wall panels, install freestanding tubs, and build entries low enough to roll across.
- We come to your Bixby home, free
- A line-by-line quote 1 to 2 days later
- Any change signed by you before we do it
- Two Bixby jobsPhotos and scope online
- Membrane behind tileIn every wet area
- Warranty in writing1 year, workmanship
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Jeremy Fuller started in tile at 16, apprenticed to a Tulsa home builder with more than 40 years behind him. Call about a Bixby bathroom and you will most likely get him, along with a straight answer about what he would skip in your house.
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ADA commercial restroom Bixby, OK
A home in Bixby, or a business here
Bathrooms in Bixby houses from every decade, and restrooms for Bixby offices, shops and restaurants. Choose the one that fits you.
Restrooms at work
Restrooms for Bixby offices, shops and restaurants: ADA layouts, stalls, fixtures, floors and tile.
Shower remodeling in Bixby homes
Young houses, first real remodels
Bixby stayed a small farm town in the Arkansas River valley until the 1960s. It has more than doubled since 2000, which leaves most bathrooms here young, quickly built and resting on concrete. Here is what that means once a builder's shower comes out.
Bixby in three numbers
- 2002Source 1
- Median year a Bixby home was built The national median is 1980, so the typical Bixby house is about 22 years younger.
- 56%Source 1
- of Bixby homes date from 2000 or later About 6,350 of the city's 11,440 homes. Only 31% are older than 1990.
- 28,617Source 2
- people counted in Bixby in 2020 Up from 13,336 in 2000, and from 1,711 in 1960.
What that means when the old shower comes out
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One-piece tubs and stalls instead of tile
Builders often set a fiberglass or acrylic unit where a tiled shower would go, and both Bixby bathrooms we have rebuilt started that way before ending in tile. Whether the new walls are tile over a waterproofing membrane or acrylic and solid-surface panels, the old unit comes out first, so anything wet or soft behind it is found and fixed.
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Drains set in the concrete
Nearly every new house in Oklahoma's Census region sits on a concrete slab (97.9% of single-family homes started in 2024), so the shower drain and its trap are in the concrete. A curbless entry or a moved drain means cutting it, so we find the trap before we promise anything. In one Bixby shower that took a little concrete and a $100 change order, signed before any of it came out. See that job.Source 3
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A soaking tub on a deck, a stall beside it
About four in ten Bixby homes were built from 1990 to 2009, when a primary bath often meant a drop-in tub on a tiled deck next to a framed glass stall. Take both out and the space holds a generous tiled shower, a freestanding tub and a shower, or one wet room for both.Source 1
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Owners who plan to stay
Owners live in about three of every four occupied homes in Bixby. If you plan to be in yours for twenty more years, build for the person you will be then: wood blocking behind the tile so a grab bar can go up any time, an entry you will not trip on, a handheld head on a rail. While the wall is open is the easy time; later it means cutting finished tile.Source 1
Towns that border Bixby
Sources (3)
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 5-year estimates for the City of Bixby, tables B25034 (year built), B25035 (median year built) and B25003 (tenure), via Census Reporter
- Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, "Bixby" by Dianna Everett
- National Association of Home Builders, Eye on Housing, "Foundation Types in 2024": U.S. Census Bureau Survey of Construction data for new single-family homes started, West South Central division (97.9% slab)
Tub to shower conversion Bixby, OK
When was your Bixby house built?
Choose the decade closest to your house. Each tab shows the bathroom we usually find from those years and what we would do with it.
Before 1990
Update the pipes, keep what still works
Houses from Bixby's first suburban wave, the 1960s through the 1980s, may still have their original tub, tile and supply lines. If someone in the house still takes baths, keeping a tub can be the right call. We retile the alcove over a waterproofing membrane and put blocking in for a grab bar while the wall is open.
- Aging supply and drain lines updated to today's code
- A tub kept where somebody still bathes
- Grab bar blocking added now, bars whenever you want
1990 to 2009
Fiberglass out, tile in
The 2000s were Bixby's biggest building decade: fiberglass tub-showers in hall baths, a drop-in tub beside a cramped stall in the primary. In one Bixby home we swapped a fiberglass combo for a tiled walk-in shower with a pebble floor.
- No walls moved
- Tile over a membrane, or new wall panels
- A garden tub's space turned into a bigger shower
2010 or later
Make a newer bathroom last you longer
A house this new rarely has a failing shower. The reasons to remodel are the step you will not want to make later and the tub nobody uses. In a Bixby master bath we replaced an acrylic stall and its step-over threshold with a tiled shower whose entry is a half-inch lip a wheelchair rolls right over.
- The lowest entry your slab will take
- Grab bars where your hands actually go
- A handheld head within reach from a seat
Freestanding tub installation Bixby
Before you buy the tub: four calls to make
A freestanding tub looks simple, but on a slab it decides where concrete gets cut and where pipes run. These are the four things we settle with you before anyone orders one.
Where the drain lands
On a slab the tub's drain sets the plan, so the tub gets chosen before anything is cut.
- Drain positions differ
- Some freestanding tubs drain at one end, others in the middle. The opening in the concrete has to sit right under it.
- A trench to the old line
- Moving the drain means cutting a channel in the slab, laying pipe with the right fall, and patching the concrete before tile.
- Upstairs is different
- A slab carries a full tub easily. In a second-floor bathroom we check the framing under the spot before anything is ordered.
- No access panel
- A freestanding tub sits on the finished floor, so its drain connection has to be right the first time.
Room to clean around it
Set it close to the wall or far enough out to reach behind it. The gap in between is the one we talk people out of.
- Close to the wall
- Less floor to mop and less to lose behind the tub, and a wall-mounted filler can reach it.
- Out in the room
- It looks its best with space to walk all the way around. You should be able to reach every side with a cloth.
- The awkward middle
- A few inches is too wide to ignore and too narrow to clean. Dust and water collect there for good.
- Keep the way clear
- The tub should never crowd the path to the shower or the toilet. Room to move matters more every year.
A filler from the floor, or from the wall
Both work well. On a slab, one means cutting concrete and the other means opening a wall.
- Floor-mounted filler
- It stands on its own beside the tub. The hot and cold lines come up through the floor, which on a slab means trenching to that spot.
- Wall-mounted filler
- The lines stay in the wall behind the tub. The tub has to sit close enough for the spout to clear the rim.
- Matched to the tub
- Spout height and reach have to fit the rim and the drain end, so the filler and the tub are best chosen together.
- A brand you can service
- Jeremy's pick is Delta, because its worn parts swap out without redoing the system. He will fit Moen or Kohler if that is your preference.
On its own, or inside a wet room
Put the tub inside the shower area and you have one waterproofed zone instead of two. We built one in south Tulsa.
- On its own
- The floor around it has to shrug off drips and splashes, and you still need a separate shower.
- Inside a wet room
- Tub and shower share one tiled, waterproofed space, so water runs to a drain instead of across the room. See the wet room.
- Thinking ahead
- Stepping over a tub wall gets harder with age. If that matters in your house, keep a low-entry shower beside the tub.
| Tub on its own | Tub in a wet room | Walk-in shower only | |
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| Floor area | The most: the tub plus room around it | Shares the shower's footprint | The least |
| Waterproofing | The shower, plus a floor that handles splashes | One membrane over the whole wet zone | The shower |
| Getting in | Over the tub wall | Over the tub wall; level into the shower | A low curb, or nearly flush |
| A recent job of ours | Quoted once we see your room | About $8,000 to $9,000 (Tulsa), tub and fixtures extra | About $7,000 to $7,500 (Bixby) |
Walk-in shower for seniors, Bixby
Two Bixby showers, before and after
Both began as factory-made units. See what we built, what turned up under the old shower, and the rounded price from the signed quote (one of the two jobs has none on file).
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A half-inch ledge, built for a wheelchair
A Bixby homeowner's master shower was a worn acrylic stall with a step-over threshold. We built a tiled walk-in shower with a half-inch ledge a wheelchair can cross, grab bars, a niche and a light overhead.
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Fiberglass tub out, tiled shower in
A fiberglass tub and shower combo with a curtain, in a Bixby home. We turned it into a tiled walk-in shower with marble-look walls, a pebble mosaic floor, corner shelves and a hand shower on a slide bar.
Luxury bathroom remodel cost Bixby
Questions we hear in Bixby
What does a luxury bathroom remodel cost in Bixby?
It depends on how much of the room changes, so we price it after seeing it. Our own numbers: a Bixby walk-in shower with a half-inch entry cost about $7,000 to $7,500, and a south Tulsa wet room with a freestanding tub to about $8,000 to $9,000, with the tub and fixtures bought separately. A full primary bath with custom tile, vanities and glass runs higher; most of our full remodels end up somewhere from $10,000 to $25,000. In Bixby the biggest swing is whether drains move in the slab. What goes into a luxury remodel.
Do you install freestanding tubs in Bixby?
Yes. We pick the tub with you first, because its drain position decides where the slab is opened, then the filler, then the spot where you can still clean around it. It can stand on its own or sit inside a waterproofed wet room with the shower. The four calls are laid out in the guide above.
Do you work in Bixby's newer subdivisions and custom homes?
Yes, anywhere in Bixby, and newer homes are most of what we see here. We come down from Tulsa for the free estimate. Whether a job needs a permit depends on the work and where the house sits, and we talk that through with you. If your HOA wants to review the work, we help with the approval.
Do you install low-threshold walk-in showers for seniors in Bixby?
Yes. How low the entry can go depends on the slab and where the drain sits, so we look before we promise. In one Bixby master bath the entry ended up as a half-inch lip a wheelchair rolls over, with grab bars where the homeowner needed them. Curbless showers, explained.
Can an accessible Bixby bathroom still look high-end?
It should. Grab bars come in finishes that match the faucets, a fold-down seat folds out of sight, and large tile means fewer grout lines. The Bixby shower in our photos has slate-look walls and a black mosaic floor; the grab bars are the only sign it was built for access.
Can you bring a Bixby business restroom up to ADA code?
Yes. We plan the turning space, the door, grab bars, sink and toilet heights, and signs against the 2010 ADA Standards, and we hold a SAM registration as a federal vendor. Our largest commercial job was a full restroom overhaul at the Tulsa Job Corps Center, done to federal guidelines. ADA restroom compliance.
Do you work around operating hours for Bixby businesses?
Yes. The schedule is agreed with you before work starts. In a building with two restrooms, closing one at a time so the other stays in use is possible, and the choice is yours. Most commercial restrooms take from two days to a week.
How a Bixby bathroom remodel runs
What happens after you call
- Free estimate, in your Bixby home
- Your quote, line by line, 1 to 2 days later
- Anything found behind the wall is explained before it is fixed
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Step 1: Call or text, we answer
Tell us what is going on with your bathroom. Someone picks up between 8 AM and 8 PM, and after hours our answering service takes the message.
Someone picks up, 8 AM to 8 PM.
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Step 2: Free in-home estimate
We look at the room, measure, and talk through what is possible and what we would not recommend, including how to future-proof the layout.
We measure and talk through your options.
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Step 3: Written quote in 1 to 2 days
You get an itemized quote that spells out the work and the materials, and says plainly what could change the price once the walls are open.
An itemized quote, with what could change it.
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Step 4: Build, with every wet area waterproofed
Work usually starts 1 to 2 weeks after you approve. Cement board and a waterproofing membrane go in every wet area, never sheetrock or green board. A full remodel runs about a week, up to two for intricate tile.
About a week. Waterproofing in every wet area.
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Step 5: Walk-through and a written warranty
We walk the finished bathroom with you and leave it clean. The workmanship carries a written 1-year warranty, with manufacturer warranties passed through to you.
We walk it with you. Written 1-year warranty.
Bixby bathroom remodel estimate
Show us the shower the builder left you
Phone us, or set up a free estimate at your Bixby home. We look at the room and the floor under it, and you get a line-by-line quote one to two days later.
Bathroom remodeler near Bixby, OK
Tell us about your Bixby bathroom
A few details are enough to start. Most messages get an answer the same day.
Call us(918) 300-4870- Free estimate with a written quote
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