Bathrooms built for old houses.

The bathrooms that came with the Upper East Side's houses — in Morningside, Bayside, and Shorecrest alike — were an afterthought: one per floor, tiled in pastel, sized for people in a hurry. The remodel most owners want now is a true primary suite, with a bedroom or oversized closet converted into a bath holding a freestanding tub, a frameless shower, book-matched stone, and lighting that flatters rather than interrogates. In a 1930s house that transformation is as much plumbing strategy as design, and it rewards a contractor who has opened up these floors before.

Every bathroom remodel here is permitted through the City of Miami Building Department, with plumbing, electrical, and building inspections included. What the permit card doesn't show is what we find under it: original cast-iron drain lines near the end of their service life, galvanized supply pipes ready for retirement, framing that has hosted a leak or two since the Kennedy administration. We scope the house's plumbing honestly before we quote, because replacing a corroded stack mid-project is exactly the surprise a fixed contract exists to prevent. Interior work rarely involves historic review; changing exterior windows in a designated district does.

Waterproofing is where bathroom budgets go to be vindicated or embarrassed, usually years later. PGX installs full membrane systems behind every shower and flood-tests pans before a single tile goes down — details nobody photographs and nobody should ever have to think about again. Add daily site supervision, dust containment that respects the rest of an occupied home, and a written scope that names your fixtures and stone before demolition starts, and you get the version of a bathroom remodel that ends with everyone still on speaking terms.