Bathroom remodeling.

A bath is the smallest room in the house and the most punished. It runs wet six days a week, sees three trades cross every doorway, and every joint a homeowner stares at while they brush their teeth has to read perfect for ten years.

We take one bathroom at a time. The crew is not split across three jobs in three neighborhoods; demo on Monday, framing on Tuesday, rough-in on Wednesday, every day on the same room until it is signed. Ivan personally walks the project at four milestones — demo close, waterproofing flood-test, slab set, finish — before any phase advances.

How a bath remodel actually goes from demo to sign-off

1 · Demo and protection

Adjacent rooms papered and Ram Boarded. Door openings sealed with zip-wall plastic and HEPA-filtered air scrubbers running for the duration. Existing tile, drywall, plumbing fixtures, and substrate taken back to studs and sub-slab. Demo close walked by Ivan and signed before framing starts.

2 · Framing, plumbing rough-in, electrical

Wall and floor framing brought to plumb and square — no field improvisation on a remodel where the original framing is 60 years out of plane. Plumbing rough-in coordinated with the in-house crew so drain centerlines match the engineered shower pitch. Electrical — radiant zones, vanity sconces, exhaust — pulled before substrate.

3 · Substrate, waterproofing, flood test

Schluter Kerdi-Board on shower walls. Cement board on dry walls. Subfloor leveled or recessed (curbless builds). Full Kerdi membrane assembly on every wet area, every seam banded, every drain bonded. 24 h flood test held before any tile. See Schluter waterproofing for the assembly detail.

4 · Tile, slab, stone

Tile and slab set with the same crew that built the substrate. Large-format slab walls (Laminam, Neolith) on Raimondi vacuum frame when the design calls for them. Mosaic floors, marble feature walls, custom niches — set at 1.5 mm joint, color-matched epoxy grout. See large-format porcelain slab and stone & marble installation for the setting detail.

5 · Finish, fixtures, sign-off

Vanity, mirrors, sconces, plumbing trim, glass enclosure all field-measured and installed by the in-house crew. Ivan walks the finished room with the homeowner — fixture by fixture, joint by joint, drain by drain — before sign-off. Punch list is closed in the same week, not the same month.

Partner systems we set every day

• Schluter Kerdi & Kerdi-Board — waterproofing membrane and substrate panel. The base of every wet area.
• Linear drain systems — Schluter Kerdi-Drain, Evolux, and other spec-grade channels for curbless and zero-threshold builds.
• Schluter Ditra-Heat — electric radiant under master-bath floors when the design specs it.
• Laminam, Neolith, Dekton — large-format porcelain slabs for vanity tops, shower walls, and full-bleed wet-room treatments.
• LATICRETE 254 Platinum + SpectraLOCK Pro Premium — the mortar and grout we set every tile, stone, and slab in.

Where this matters most

Brickell penthouses spec primary suites with curbless slab-wall showers, radiant under the floor, and a Laminam vanity wrap — every detail spec’d to a single material library. Coral Gables historic-home baths sit on 1950s framing that has to be brought back into plane before any waterproofing is bonded. Key Biscayne waterfront primary suites get marine-grade stainless on every fastener and Guru 316 drains on every threshold. Pinecrest single-story remodels add a master suite to a 1980s plan with seamless floor continuity at the threshold. Each project is one room at a time, one crew, one sign-off.

What the spec sheet should say

If you are an architect or designer specifying our build, four lines are enough:

Demo: full take-back to studs and sub-slab; HEPA-filtered air management for the duration. Substrate: framed plumb and square; floor leveled to ± 1.5 mm over a 3 m straightedge. Waterproofing: Schluter Kerdi assembly across all wet areas; 24 h flood test required prior to tile. Setting: LATICRETE 254 Platinum + SpectraLOCK Pro Premium epoxy grout; joint width per design.

We will hit those four lines, we will document each milestone, and Ivan will walk the room before any phase advances.