Residential bathrooms
Tub to shower remodels, safer baths for owners who plan to stay, and full remodels with the outlets and lights brought up to date.
Bathroom remodeling West Tulsa, OK
West of the river, built before the bathroom rules
Most houses around Red Fork went up in the 1940s and 50s, decades before the electrical code asked for a GFCI outlet or a 20-amp bathroom circuit. We remodel West Tulsa bathrooms from the tile down to the wiring behind it (the electrician on our team handles that part), and restrooms for the businesses along Southwest Boulevard.
- Free in-home estimate west of the river
- A written, itemized quote 1 to 2 days later
- Call or text from 8 AM to 8 PM and reach a person
- Family ownedServing Tulsa since 2018
- GFCI protectedEvery bathroom outlet
- Warranty in writing12 months on workmanship
The owner is kind and respectful, it was a great experience. I would definitely recommend!
- 7+Years in business
- 4.931+ Google reviews
- Free estimates
- Homes and businesses
- Waterproofing on every wet area
- Written 1-year warranty
- We answer 8 AM to 8 PM
- Bathrooms only
- Registered federal vendor
- Locally owned in Tulsa
Bathroom contractors in West Tulsa
Customers on camera and on Google, then the owner
Two customers talk through their remodel in the video, three more speak in the Google reviews below, copied word for word, and the owner tells you how he works.
I don’t think you could find anybody any better to work with than these people.The homeowners, in their video review
Jeremy has lived in Tulsa since he was 8 and was learning bathrooms at 16 under a Tulsa home builder. Call about a West Tulsa house and he is the one who tells you what is worth keeping and what has to come out, the wiring included.
How Jeremy got startedThe Tinker Federal Credit Union Foundation had the honor of working with this company to do an accessibility shower for a Korean War veteran and they were not only great to communicate with, but very professional and willing to work within our nonprofit budget. Highly recommend
Their attention to detail puts them at a higher level than their competitors. I highly recommend them for their high-quality work and professional staff!
Great job, would recommend them 10/10
Commercial bath remodel, West Tulsa
A west-side house, or a Southwest Boulevard business
Homeowners get a bathroom planned around an older house. Owners and managers along the old Route 66 get a restroom planned around their hours, the ADA and the commercial electrical code. Pick the one you came for.
Commercial restrooms
Restrooms for shops, offices and restaurants west of the river: fixtures, stalls, tile, floors and ADA work, done around your hours.
Bathroom renovation, West Tulsa
Red Fork's houses, and the wiring inside them
West Tulsa grew up across the river from downtown after the Red Fork oil strike of 1901, with refineries following in 1910 and 1913. The Census does not count it by name, so we used the five tracts inside Tulsa's city limits west of the river and north of about 61st Street (46, 47, 48, 49 and 67.01), and the two around Red Fork (47 and 48) for the figures below.
Around Red Fork, by the numbers
- 1955Source 1
- Median year a home was built around Red Fork 1955 in tract 48 and 1954 in tract 47. For the whole city it is 1973.
- 69%Source 1
- of homes around Red Fork were built before 1960 About 1,960 of roughly 2,840. Across Tulsa the share is 30%.
- 1 in 5Source 1
- were built before 1940 About 560 houses, twice the city's share of 9%.
- 1975Source 2
- First edition of the national electrical code to require GFCI protection for bathroom outlets The typical house around Red Fork is about twenty years older than that rule.
What that means behind a West Tulsa bathroom wall
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Two towns before it was one city
Settlements west of the river grew after the railroad bridge of 1883 and the oil strike of 1901, and West Tulsa joined Tulsa in September 1907, twenty years before Red Fork did. Houses here were built over many decades, by many hands, under whatever rules held at the time, so we never assume what is behind a wall until it is open.Source 7
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Older than the GFCI rule
Unless someone has updated it, an outlet in a bathroom from the 1940s or 50s has no ground-fault protection, the device that cuts the power when current leaks toward water or a person. When we remodel a bathroom, the electrician on our team brings its outlets up to that rule.Source 2
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A bathroom circuit that came later still
The national code first asked for a 20-amp circuit feeding only the bathroom outlets in its 1996 edition. A house wired long before that can share its bathroom outlet with other rooms, so a hair dryer and a bedroom heater can trip the same breaker. With the wall open, running the bathroom its own circuit is far easier than it will ever be again.Source 3
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Which code your house answers to
Inside city limits, Development Services enforces the 2018 residential code for houses, which carries its own electrical chapters, and the 2020 National Electrical Code for commercial permits. Updates to the 2024 codes and the 2023 electrical code are pending for January 1, 2027. Depending on the work, a remodel inside the city can call for building, electrical or plumbing permits, though not every bathroom job needs one. Whether yours does depends on the work and the address, and we talk it through with you before work starts.Source 4
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Restrooms on the old Route 66
Red Fork joined Tulsa shortly after Sapulpa Road, today's Southwest Boulevard, became part of Route 66, and Red Fork Corner filled with businesses for locals and travelers. A shop or restaurant restroom there falls under the commercial code, where every bathroom outlet needs GFCI protection and the room has to work for a wheelchair. We plan the wiring and the 2010 ADA Standards together.Source 8
Tulsa and its other neighborhoods
Sources (9)
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates for Tulsa County census tracts 46, 47, 48, 49 and 67.01 and the City of Tulsa, tables B25034 (year built), B25035 (median year built), B25003 (tenure) and B25024 (units in structure), via Census Reporter
- Joseph Wages Jr., "The History of GFCI Protection in the NEC," IAEI Magazine, June 30, 2024
- Gregory P. Bierals, "Final 1999 NE Code Changes," EC&M, September 1, 1998: the 20-ampere bathroom circuit of the 1996 NEC (210-52(d)) and its move to 210-11(c)(3)
- City of Tulsa Development Services, Plans Review: adopted codes, the pending 2024 code and 2023 NEC update, and the permits a remodel may need
- Bobby D. Weaver, "Red Fork Field," The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Historical Society
- Bobby D. Weaver, "Refineries," The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Historical Society: the East (1910) and West (1913) Tulsa refineries
- Tulsa Route 66 Commission, "West Tulsa" historical marker (2019), transcribed by the Historical Marker Database
- Tulsa Route 66 Commission, "Red Fork" historical marker (2019), transcribed by the Historical Marker Database
- International Residential Code 2018 as adopted in Oklahoma, chapter 39, sections E3901.6 (bathroom outlet), E3902.1 (bathroom GFCI) and E3903.2 (switched lighting), via UpCodes
Tub to shower remodel West Tulsa
What should the old tub become?
Most tub decisions come down to who uses the room. Pick the one closest to yours to see what we would build, and what changes on the wall around it.
Nobody uses the tub
Pull the tub, build a shower in its place
If the tub only ever gets used as a shower, a tiled walk-in in the same five-foot space is the simplest big change a small bathroom can get: no tub wall to climb, and tile over a waterproofing membrane where the fiberglass or old tile was. While that wall is open, the electrician on our team moves any light or outlet that would end up too close to the spray.
- Same footprint, a low curb or none
- A membrane behind the tile, never green board
- Lights and outlets moved clear of the spray
Stepping over is hard
A shower you walk into and sit down in
When climbing over a tub wall starts to feel risky, we replace it with a shower that has a low curb or none, a bench or fold-down seat, a hand shower on a slide bar and grab bars set on blocking. Light matters as much as grip: a wet-rated light over the shower and a switch at the door, so nobody crosses a dark, wet floor looking for it.
- A low entry and a seat inside
- Grab bars placed for the person using them
- A wet-rated light over the shower
Small kids still bathe
Keep a tub, and rebuild everything around it
Little ones still need a tub, so here it stays and the room around it gets the work: a new tub set level on a sound floor, tile on waterproofed walls, a new valve our plumber sets to the manufacturer's specs, and a GFCI outlet by the sink. When the kids are grown, the same space can still become a walk-in.
- A new tub on a solid, level floor
- Tiled, waterproofed tub walls
- A GFCI outlet within reach of the sink
Bathroom lighting in West Tulsa
Outlets, circuits and lights: what the code asks once the wall is open
Tile gets the attention, but the wiring decides whether a room full of water is safe to plug a hair dryer into. These are the electrical rules a remodeled bathroom has to meet, with their section numbers, and what to ask about in an older house.
GFCI protection on every bathroom outlet
The outlet that shuts itself off before a shock can hurt you.
- What it does
- A GFCI compares the current going out with the current coming back. If some of it leaks toward water or a person, it cuts the power almost at once.
- Where the rule is
- Every bathroom outlet: section E3902.1 of the 2018 residential code for houses in Tulsa, NEC 210.8(A) in the national code, and NEC 210.8(B) for business restrooms.
- One device, or one per outlet
- A GFCI outlet protects the outlets wired after it, and a GFCI breaker protects the whole circuit. Both meet the rule; we choose the one you can reach to reset.
- The outlet at the sink
- At least one outlet within 3 feet of the outside edge of each basin, on the wall beside it or on the cabinet no more than 12 inches below the top (E3901.6, NEC 210.52(D)). This one sits on the new half wall.
A 20-amp circuit for the bathroom outlets
Enough power for a hair dryer, on a circuit the bathroom does not share.
- The rule
- At least one 20-amp circuit feeds the bathroom outlets and nothing else (E3703.4, NEC 210.11(C)(3)). It entered the national code in 1996.
- The one exception
- When that circuit serves a single bathroom, it may also run the fan and lights in that same room.
- What an older house may have
- A 15-amp circuit shared with a bedroom or a hall, so a hair dryer and anything else running on it can trip the breaker.
- How it shows up in your quote
- With the wall open, a new run from the panel is its own line. If the panel has no room for another breaker, you hear about it before we price the job, not halfway through it.
Fan and lights: the right circuit and the right spot
The light at the mirror is for your face; the light in the shower is for your footing.
- Lights beside the mirror
- Sconces on both sides of the mirror light a face evenly. A single bar overhead throws shadows under the eyes and chin, so we suggest side lights where the wall allows.
- A switch at the door
- Every bathroom needs at least one light on a wall switch (E3903.2). We put it where you reach it before you step onto a wet floor.
- Over the tub or shower
- Hanging lights and paddle fans may not sit within 3 feet sideways or 8 feet up of the tub rim or shower threshold, and a light inside that zone must be rated damp, or wet where the spray reaches it (E4003.11, NEC 410.10(D)).
- The fan's circuit
- The fan may share the 20-amp outlet circuit only when that circuit serves this one bathroom. If its listing calls for GFCI protection, it gets it.
When the wall opens: two-slot outlets and old wiring
What we find decides whether a repair is enough or a new run is the better call.
- Two-slot outlets
- They have no ground. The code lets one be replaced with a GFCI outlet marked "No Equipment Ground" (NEC 406.4(D)(2)). That protects people, but it does not add a ground.
- Three slots, no ground behind them
- A three-slot outlet put in later with nothing wired to the third slot looks grounded and is not. A plug-in tester shows it in seconds, which is why every outlet in an old bathroom is worth testing.
- Brittle insulation and loose splices
- Wire this old can have cracked insulation or splices outside a box. We show you what we find and price replacing that run as its own line before anything is closed up.
- Part of the bathroom job
- Electrical and lighting come as part of our bathroom remodels, handled by the electrician on our team, never as a trade we sell on its own. That is how the east Tulsa master bath got its new GFCI outlet, vanity light and exhaust fan.
The rules side by side
Section numbers for a house inside Tulsa today, and for the national code that commercial permits follow.
| What it asks | Houses in Tulsa (2018 residential code) | National Electrical Code | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GFCI protection | Every bathroom outlet | E3902.1 | 210.8(A), and 210.8(B) for businesses |
| Outlet circuit | At least one 20-amp circuit, outlets only | E3703.4 | 210.11(C)(3) |
| Outlet at the sink | Within 3 feet of each basin's outside edge | E3901.6 | 210.52(D) |
| Switched light | At least one, on a wall switch | E3903.2 | 210.70(A)(1) |
| Over the tub or shower | No hanging fixtures in the zone; damp or wet rated lights | E4003.11 | 410.10(D) |
Bathroom projects near West Tulsa
Finished jobs, wiring included
We have no West Tulsa job written up yet. These are the closest documented ones, each card marked with its own town. The east Tulsa master bath got a new GFCI outlet, a vanity light and an exhaust fan; the Bixby walk-in got a light over the shower.
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The garden tub became the shower
An east Tulsa master bath with a jacuzzi garden tub, a separate older shower and an oak double vanity. We built a full tiled shower where the tub was, then updated the rest of the room around it, and the guest bath vanity too.
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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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A safe shower for a U.S. military veteran
The Tinker Federal Credit Union Foundation asked us to build an accessible shower for a Korean War veteran in Glenpool, within a nonprofit budget. The corner jacuzzi tub came out, and a curbless roll-in shower with grab bars went in its place.
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A soaking tub inside the shower
South Tulsa homeowners wanted a freestanding soaking tub without giving up the shower. We took out the old tub and shower floor and built a wet room: the tub and the shower share one tiled, waterproofed space with a pebble floor.
Senior bathroom remodel West Tulsa
Questions from west of the river
What does a bathroom remodel cost in West Tulsa?
Our whole-room remodels mostly land between $10,000 and $25,000, with $2,500 to $5,000 as the floor for any job. Two documented jobs show the range: a Bixby walk-in shower came to about $7,000 to $7,500, and an east Tulsa master bath with a new shower, quartz tops, a new GFCI outlet, a vanity light and a fan came to about $22,000 to $23,000. Electrical work shows up as its own lines, so you can see what it adds. What moves the price.
Do you do tub-to-shower remodels in West Tulsa?
Yes. The tub comes out, a tiled walk-in goes into the same space over a waterproofing membrane, and anything electrical too close to the new spray gets moved. Tub to shower conversion.
Do you build senior-friendly bathrooms in West Tulsa?
Yes: a low or curbless entry, a seat, a hand shower you can reach sitting down, grab bars on blocking, and light where it is needed, including a switch at the door. If the bathroom is for a parent, bring them to the visit so the heights fit the person who will use it.
Do you add grab bars and non-slip floors?
Yes. Grab bars are easiest to plan while the walls are open, so they can be anchored to hold real weight now or later. For the shower floor, small tile or textured porcelain grips better, since more grout lines mean more grip underfoot; we show you the options and you choose.
My bathroom outlet has no reset button. Should I worry?
It may still be protected by a GFCI elsewhere on the circuit or by a GFCI breaker, so press the test button on any GFCI you find nearby and see whether the bathroom outlet goes dead. If nothing protects it, have it fixed even before a remodel. During a remodel, the electrician on our team brings the room's outlets up to the current rule.
Do you offer financing for a West Tulsa bathroom remodel?
Not ourselves. Homeowners who want to spread the cost usually go to a local lender, such as Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, Arvest or Regent Bank, with our itemized written quote in hand.
Will the VA help pay for a safer bathroom?
Part of it, if a VA doctor prescribes the change for a medical reason. HISA pays up to $6,800 over a veteran's lifetime for a service-connected disability or one rated 50% or higher, and up to $2,000 otherwise. We never trim materials or labor to fit that limit; anything beyond what the VA approves is billed to you and gone over line by line. How we work with the VA.
Do you remodel commercial restrooms on Southwest Boulevard?
Yes, for shops, offices and restaurants. We schedule around your hours, can keep one restroom open while we work on the other if you have two and want that, plan fixtures, stalls and tile to the 2010 ADA Standards, and put every outlet on GFCI protection as the commercial code requires. We are also a registered federal vendor (SAM). ADA restroom compliance.
How a West Tulsa remodel runs
From your first call to the last outlet test
- A free look at your West Tulsa bathroom
- An itemized quote in 1 to 2 days, electrical lines included
- Work begins 1 to 2 weeks after your OK
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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.
Bathroom remodel quote, West Tulsa
Show us the bathroom, outlets and all
Call or text and describe it: a tub you want gone, an outlet that trips, a light you cannot see by. We come out for a free look and send an itemized quote within 1 to 2 days.
Bath remodeling company, West Tulsa
Start with the room you have
Tell us about the room, what is wrong with it and the best way to reach you. You will usually hear back before the day is out.
Call us(918) 300-4870- Free estimate with a written quote
- We answer 8 AM to 8 PM
- Locally owned in Tulsa