Bathrooms built over other people's ceilings.

The bathrooms are usually the most dated rooms left on Fisher Island. Residences at Seaside Villas, Bayside Village, and Villa del Mare were finished when jetted corner tubs and brass fittings were the height of ambition, and owners have been quietly replacing them ever since. The current standard is a true primary suite: a curbless frameless shower, a freestanding tub set against the light, book-matched stone, warm concealed lighting, and fittings chosen to survive salt air. It is precision work in a compact space, which is exactly why it rewards a builder who does it constantly.

Bathroom renovations here are permitted through Miami-Dade County, because Fisher Island is unincorporated — plumbing, electrical, and any wall changes go through county review and inspection. The building layer matters just as much: associations typically require approved waterproofing details, licensed and insured trades, scheduled water shutdowns coordinated with management, and proof that the contractor is registered with the Fisher Island Community Association. In a building where your shower pan sits above a neighbor's dressing room, none of that is bureaucracy. It is the difference between a renovation and a future insurance claim.

PGX builds bathrooms the unglamorous way first: full waterproofing membranes, flood-tested pans, sealed penetrations, and photographs of all of it before a single tile goes on. Then the glamorous part — stone, glass, brass or nickel, lighting that flatters at 7 a.m. Our crews work clean in occupied buildings, protect the corridor from door to door, and answer to a supervisor who is on the island daily. Twenty-plus years in South Florida, licensed and insured under CGC1539072, and a written fixed scope before demolition: that is the whole pitch.