Sealed before it is styled.

The bathroom is the first thing that dates a Davie house and the last thing anyone budgets properly. Ranch homes in Shenandoah, Rolling Hills and out on the western acreage still carry the original hall bath with a steel tub, a 30-inch vanity and a window in the shower. The gated-community houses in Forest Ridge and Harmony Estates got a builder primary bath with a garden tub nobody has filled since 2004 and a shower built for one short person. Owners here consolidate: one genuine primary suite, and guest baths that stop apologizing.

Bathroom work in Davie is permitted through the Town of Davie Building Division, with plumbing, electrical and mechanical inspections along the way, and Broward's county amendments to the Florida Building Code apply as the Board of Rules and Appeals maintains them. The local complication is downstream. If your property is on septic, adding a bathroom or converting a half bath to a full one changes the load the system must carry, and the Florida Department of Health in Broward County, which still runs onsite sewage permitting locally, reviews that before the town issues anything. On sewer, you skip that step and go straight to plan review.

We treat a bathroom as a waterproof box that happens to have plumbing in it. The pan gets built, the membrane gets flooded and left overnight, and only then does tile arrive. Blocking for heavy glass goes in while the walls are open, niches are laid out to the tile module instead of to the plumber's convenience, and exhaust ducts to the outside rather than into an attic. Fixed written scope, daily supervision, licensed and insured under CGC1539072, permitted and inspected end to end.