Bathroom Remodeling

The hall bath in a postwar tract house in San Jose, Sunnyvale or Santa Clara is usually five feet wide, with a tub, a small vanity and a fan that never did much. It serves three bedrooms, which is fine until it is not. Most calls we get are one of two jobs: gut that hall bath and make it work properly, or carve a second bathroom out of a closet, the end of a hallway, or the back corner of the garage. The second one is a plumbing question first — where the existing drain line runs, and whether the slab or the crawlspace lets us reach it. We answer that before anyone starts picking tile.

Slab houses and Eichlers need care. Radiant tubing in an Eichler slab means saw cuts for new drain lines get located and planned, never guessed at. Older homes in Naglee Park, Willow Glen and the Los Gatos Almond Grove often still have cast iron waste lines and galvanized supply, and once a wall is open that is the moment to replace them rather than tile over them. Venting matters too — a bath fan ducted through to the outside, not dumped into an attic or a soffit. When the vanity opening is an odd width, which in these houses it usually is, we build the vanity in our shop to fit it.

What’s included

• Demo down to the studs, with the framing and subfloor inspected while it is open
• Drain, waste and vent reworked to suit the new fixture layout
• Shower pans and waterproofing built as a full system, not a rolled-on coating
• Custom vanities, medicine cabinets and linen storage built in our shop to the exact opening
• Tile setting, including curbless entries where the floor structure will take it
• Exhaust fan ducted through to the exterior
• Bathroom electrical brought up to current requirements, including GFCI protection and proper lighting
• Replacement of galvanized supply and cast iron waste lines found in the walls of older homes
• Permit drawings and inspections whenever the work goes past a like-for-like swap

Why R Twyns Construction

We are a family-run licensed general contracting and remodeling company (CSLB #896811), building in the South Bay since 2007. Tim Reynolds owns the company and his VP Ben runs the work, so the people who price your job are the people who are on it. The cabinets and finish carpentry come out of our own shop, which is what an older house needs when nothing in it is square. And we tell you what a job actually involves before you commit to it — the load-bearing wall, the drain line, the permit — rather than after the walls are open.

Comprehensive Bathroom Remodeling Service Capabilities