The bath your builder didn't build.

The primary bath in a Harbor Islands house follows a script written around 1999: a corner tub with jets nobody has run in a decade, a glass block window, cultured marble tops, and a shower with a curb, a builder door and one sad niche. Owners in The Estates, Edgewater and Harborside are rewriting it into something calmer — a wet zone with a freestanding tub and a frameless walk-in shower, one long stone vanity, and a closet that finally makes sense with the bedroom next door.

Bathroom work here needs permits from the City of Hollywood Development Services Department, and the inspection sequence is the point rather than the obstacle: plumbing rough, electrical, and the shower pan flood test all get looked at before tile hides them. Broward's code amendments, administered by the Board of Rules and Appeals, govern the details, and any new or enlarged exterior window brings an HVHZ product approval and an association submittal. Nothing about an interior bath goes to architectural review, but everything about it goes past an inspector.

Most of these baths sit on the second floor, directly above a family room ceiling, which is why we treat waterproofing as structure rather than finish. Membranes are installed to the manufacturer's detail and flood-tested, slopes are verified with a level, blocking goes in before the heavy glass is ordered, and the exhaust actually reaches the outside. Scope is fixed in writing, one supervisor runs the job, and PGX has delivered more than 150 permitted and inspected remodels and additions across South Florida.