Your floor is someone's ceiling.

The primary baths in Brickell's eighties and nineties towers were built compartmentalized and beige: a tub deck here, a bidet room there, original tile throughout. Owners at Santa Maria, Bristol Tower, and across Brickell Key now rebuild them as open suites, with frameless glass showers, freestanding tubs set where the view earns them, book-matched stone, and vanities with actual storage. In the newer towers, the upgrade is from builder-standard to bespoke. Either way, a Brickell bathroom remodel is really two projects: the one you see, and the waterproofing underneath it that protects the unit below yours.

Bathroom work in Brickell needs City of Miami permits for plumbing and electrical, inspections that include the shower pan, and association approval before any of it. Building rules matter here more than anywhere: most towers restrict moving wet areas beyond their original footprint, hard flooring triggers sound-rated underlayment requirements, and older units can require an asbestos check before demolition. And because every bathroom in a tower sits above somebody's ceiling, associations increasingly ask exactly how yours will be waterproofed. We consider that a fair question with a documented answer.

PGX builds bathrooms in the order that prevents problems: substrate corrected, membranes installed and flood-tested, inspections passed, and only then the stone and glass everyone came for. A supervisor checks the site daily, finishes are protected from trade to trade, and the paperwork, from permits to product approvals, is closed out and handed over. After 20-plus years and more than 150 South Florida remodels, we can say the expensive bathroom failures are almost never the tile. They are the shortcuts under it, which is why we refuse to take any.