Well water, marble, no leaks.

Bathrooms are where Parkland houses show their age first. The two-thousands primary suite arrived with a corner garden tub under a glass block window, a separate shower roughly the size of a phone booth, cultured marble tops and a toilet room behind a louvered door. Nobody has filled that tub since closing day. Owners in Terramar, Watercrest and Cypress Cay, and on the older Country Place and Cypress Head streets, keep commissioning the same renovation: the tub goes, the shower absorbs the space, and the vanity wall gets rebuilt around storage that actually holds something.

Bathroom work here is permitted through the Parkland Building Department, with separate plumbing, electrical and mechanical inspections before anything gets covered, and that sequence is the entire point, since it is the only proof the rough plumbing and the waterproofing were right. Broward inspectors are certified through the county Board of Rules and Appeals and work from the Broward amendments layered onto the Florida Building Code. Out on the acreage in Pine Tree Estates and The Ranches there is an extra question, because those sections are not on city water and sewer. A private well and a septic system change what a bathroom project involves.

This is a small building with unforgiving tolerances, and we treat it that way. Shower pans get flooded and left overnight before anyone opens a box of tile, every slope is checked against a level rather than a feeling, and baths sitting above living space get pan detailing, pipe isolation and blocking that respect the ceiling below them. Slab work goes to installers who have done enough of it to be trusted with the last piece. The scope is fixed in writing, a supervisor is here every working day, and everything between your front door and the work gets covered first. Licensed and insured, Lic. CGC1539072.