Baths built to outlast the bay.

A surprising number of Venetian Islands bathrooms are still original to their houses: prewar tile in the Mediterranean villas, 1960s fixtures in the postwar ranches, builder-grade everything in homes flipped a decade ago. The owners who call us want a real primary suite, with a curbless shower behind frameless glass, a freestanding tub positioned for the light, honed stone, and ventilation engineered for a climate that never fully dries out. On Biscayne Island as much as Rivo Alto, that is a rebuild of the room, not a refresh, and bathroom remodeling at this level deserves to be treated like construction.

Bathroom permits follow the island: City of Miami for Biscayne and San Marco, City of Miami Beach for San Marino, Di Lido, Rivo Alto, and Belle Isle. In the Belle Isle condominiums, buildings like Belle Plaza and Costa Brava that date to the 1960s and 70s, your renovation also runs through the association, and because towers of that era are in their milestone-inspection years, boards now read alteration requests carefully. Anything touching a plumbing riser or a slab penetration gets extra scrutiny, and frankly it should. We prepare the drawings and documentation those reviews actually ask for.

The PGX standard is that waterproofing is structure, not trim: full-membrane showers, flood-tested pans, and sealed penetrations, photographed before tile goes on so you hold proof of what's behind the marble. A fixed written scope covers fixtures down to the drain finish, a supervisor checks the site daily, and the rest of your home stays sealed off and clean while we work. Twenty-plus years in South Florida taught us exactly which details fail in this humidity, and those are the details we refuse to skip.