Waterproofing first, marble second.

In a Sunny Isles Beach tower, the bathroom is the room where risk lives. Owners at Turnberry Ocean Club, the Estates at Acqualina, and the older Collins Avenue buildings redo primary baths for the same reasons — a bigger shower, a freestanding tub, book-matched stone — but a failed shower pan on the 38th floor is an insurance claim, not an inconvenience. Over in Golden Shores and Poinciana Island, the stock is different: baths from the 1950s through the 1980s with original cast-iron drains and tile set by tradesmen long since retired. Either way, the glamour sits on top of the plumbing.

Bath renovation permits go through the City of Sunny Isles Beach Building Department's online system, and the inspections that matter most happen when nothing looks finished — rough plumbing, then the shower-pan flood test before any tile goes down. Condo associations add their own layer: wet areas generally cannot migrate over a downstairs neighbor's dry space, insurance certificates precede demolition, and work hours are enforced. We treat every bit of that as the baseline for doing business here, not as an obstacle to negotiate.

PGX builds bathrooms in the order that keeps them dry: substrate, slope, membrane, test, and only then stone. You get a fixed written scope, a daily on-site supervisor who has seen every way a shower can fail, and protection from the corridor to the closet while we work. Across 20-plus years and more than 150 remodels and additions in South Florida, we have never met a bathroom worth building without that discipline.