Tub-to-shower conversions in Westerville
We are based in Westerville, at 7385 State Rt 3, Unit #306. It is the one town on this site where the answer to how far away we are is that we are already here. Westerville has two quite different kinds of bathroom in it, and they want opposite things from a conversion.
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The two Westervilles, from a bathroom's point of view
The older part of town, around Uptown and Otterbein, is largely late nineteenth and early twentieth century housing with a mid-century belt around it. Bathrooms in that stock are small, often the only full bathroom in the house, and typically built around a cast-iron tub in a five-foot alcove with plaster on wood lath behind the tile.
North and east of that, out toward Sunbury Road and Africa Road, most of the housing was built from the 1990s onward. Those homes usually have a primary bathroom with a separate shower and a corner soaking tub, and the tub is very often the fixture nobody has used in years.
Those two situations produce the same request and mean different things by it. In the older house, converting the tub is a decision about the household's only bathing fixture. In the newer one it is a decision about a tub that is already redundant, and it is usually the easier call of the two. The year-built figures for every town are on the house styles page.
The older Westerville bathroom
A small bathroom is often a better candidate for a walk-in shower than a large one, which surprises people. A tub occupies its whole footprint whether or not anyone is in it; a shower built into that same footprint gives back the floor in front of it and reads as a bigger room. The constraint is rarely space. It is usually the wall behind the tile, the age of the drain, and whether the house has a second bathing fixture anywhere.
Plaster on wood lath does not behave like drywall when it comes off, and there is more of it to take off than people expect. Older waste and supply lines are also worth looking at while the wall is open, since that is the only moment they are reachable without opening it again.
If it is your only bathtub, we will say so. Real-estate agents generally advise keeping at least one tub in a house. In an older Westerville home with one full bathroom that is a real trade-off, and it is one we raise before a contract rather than after. There is a whole page on who should convert and who should not.
The newer Westerville bathroom
The corner soaking tub in a primary bathroom built since the 1990s is the single most common conversion we are asked about anywhere in Central Ohio. It takes up a large corner, it is awkward to climb into, it takes a long time to fill, and in most households it has become storage.
Removing it usually gives enough room for a shower considerably larger than the one already there, which is the part people do not anticipate. Whether the drain has to move depends on where the existing shower sits relative to the tub, and that is the main thing that decides how involved the job is.
Two counties, one town
Westerville addresses sit in both Franklin and Delaware counties, and the line runs through the middle of the city. It rarely changes anything about the work itself, but it can change which building department a project answers to, so it is worth knowing which side of the line an address falls on before assuming anything about permitting.
What a Westerville project looks like
- A conversion is one to two days on site. A full remodel is three to five. The wait to begin is a separate and longer number, because the wall system, pan, valve and door are ordered to your selections.
- The price is written line by line before anything is torn out, and it is the price you pay unless you approve a change in writing.
- Floor protection goes down the whole path from your door, a barrier wall closes the doorway, and the room gets at least two full cleanings before we hand it back.
- Every bathroom carries the lifetime leak-free guarantee on the pan and walls we install, with five years on workmanship, finish and adjustment items.
Common questions
Where is your shop in Westerville?
At 7385 State Rt 3, Unit #306, Westerville, OH 43082. It is an office and a place to keep sample sets rather than a showroom with finished bathrooms in it, so the useful version of a visit is usually the other way round: we bring the sample sets to you at a free in-home consultation, and you see the colors in your own light next to your own floor.
Do you work on the older homes near Uptown Westerville?
Yes, and they are a different job from the newer ones. Plaster on wood lath comes off differently from drywall and there is more of it than people expect, the waste and supply lines behind it are worth looking at while the wall is open, and the bathroom is often the only full one in the house. We would rather talk all three of those through before you commit than discover them together on the first morning.
What is the most common bathroom project in Westerville?
Two, and they are opposites. In the newer housing north and east of town it is removing the corner soaking tub in the primary bathroom, which in most households stopped being used years ago. In the older housing around Uptown it is converting the single hall bathroom, which is a bigger decision because it is usually the only bathing fixture in the house.
We never use the corner tub in our primary bathroom. What goes in its place?
Usually a shower noticeably larger than the one already in the room, because a corner soaking tub takes up more floor than people picture until it is gone. What decides how involved the job is has little to do with the tub and a lot to do with where the existing shower drain sits, since a shower that can keep the drain where it is takes less work than one that cannot.
Do we need to be home while you are working?
Not for the whole time. We need to get in on the first morning and we want you there at the end for the walkthrough, where you mark anything that needs correcting with a piece of tape and that becomes the list. In between it is up to you, and plenty of customers are at work for most of it.
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