Primary baths, engineered behind the marble.

Bathrooms are where Coral Gables homes show their age first. Merrick-era houses near the Biltmore came with one modest bath per floor, and even the mid-century homes out in Gables by the Sea and Snapper Creek Lakes predate the idea of a primary suite with a double vanity, a freestanding tub, and a shower you can stand in without negotiating. So owners here remodel: combining a small bedroom and a hall bath into a real suite, or taking a dated eighties renovation down to the studs and doing it properly in stone.

Bathroom remodeling in Coral Gables is permitted through the city's Development Services Department, with plumbing, electrical, and mechanical inspections along the way. Purely interior work skips the Board of Architects; add or enlarge a window for natural light and the Board weighs in before the Building Division does. The bigger local issue is what sits behind the walls: original cast iron drains, galvanized supply lines, and slabs poured decades before anyone dreamed of a curbless shower. We scope those realities up front, because discovering them mid-demolition is how other people's projects lose their schedules.

PGX treats a bathroom as a small building with unforgiving tolerances. Waterproofing membranes get flood-tested before a single tile goes down, slopes get checked with a level rather than optimism, and stone is handled by installers who have earned the right to touch it. You get a fixed written scope, daily supervision, and protection for every finished surface between the front door and the work zone. Licensed and insured, Lic. CGC1539072, every project permitted and inspected, because a beautiful bathroom that leaks is just an expensive one.