Marble above, waterproofing below.

Primary suites are the thing Fort Lauderdale's older houses simply do not have. A 1958 ranch in Coral Ridge or Lake Ridge came with a five-by-eight hall bath, a steel tub and a medicine cabinet. A 1930s house in Rio Vista or Colee Hammock may still wear its original pink tile, which is charming right up until the day the shower pan lets go. Owners here respond by annexing a closet or a small bedroom, building a proper double vanity, a freestanding tub and a walk-in shower, and finally putting a window where the light is.

Bathroom work in Fort Lauderdale is permitted through the city's Building Services division, with separate plumbing, electrical and mechanical inspections before anything gets closed up. That sequence is not bureaucracy; it is the only proof that rough plumbing and waterproofing were right before tile hid them. Broward County amendments administered by the Board of Rules and Appeals apply alongside the Florida Building Code. In the beachfront and Intracoastal towers, unit renovations also need association sign-off, insurance certificates and elevator windows, and buildings now in the milestone inspection cycle can carry their own limits on structural work.

We treat a bathroom as a small waterproof building with no tolerance for optimism. Pans get flood-tested before tile. Slopes get verified with a level. Heavy glass hangs on real blocking rather than on anchors and confidence. Niches get waterproofed as carefully as the floor, because that is exactly where cheap jobs fail. You get a fixed written scope, daily supervision, and covered pathways from the front door to the work zone. Insured and licensed, Lic. CGC1539072, permitted and inspected every time, because a bathroom that leaks is just expensive damage on a delay.