Bathrooms built for the neighbor below.

Bathrooms date a Hallandale Beach property faster than anything else. Units in the older towers along South Ocean Drive came with a compact primary bath, a tub nobody uses and a vanity built for one person. Houses in Golden Isles and the townhouses in Three Islands tell the same story in a different envelope. What owners build instead is a proper suite: a walk-in shower behind frameless glass, a freestanding tub if the plan earns one, stone rather than cultured marble, and light you can shave by.

The City of Hallandale Beach Building Division permits the work and inspects plumbing, electrical and mechanical before anything gets covered. Condo owners have a second rulebook. Associations here commonly require proof of insurance, a licensed contractor of record, approved work hours and a waterproofing detail they can point to if a claim ever lands. Leaks in a stacked building are not your problem alone, which is why the inspection sequence and a documented flood test are worth more than they cost.

We treat a bathroom as the most failure-prone room in the house, because it is. The waterproofing gets flood-tested and photographed before any tile arrives, slopes are checked with a level, blocking is set before heavy glass is ordered, and the exhaust fan actually terminates outside. Add a fixed written scope, daily supervision and floor protection from the elevator lobby to the work zone. More than two decades of South Florida work, licensed and insured, Lic. CGC1539072, and every project permitted and inspected.