Membranes tested before the marble.

Almost every primary bath built in Weston Hills, The Lakes or The Isles at Weston between 1990 and 2005 is the same room wearing different tile: a soaking tub sunk into a deck beneath a glass block window, a cramped separate shower with a molded pan, a cultured marble top carrying two oval bowls, and a closet-sized compartment for the toilet. It was a sensible plan in 1994. Today the tub deck is the first thing owners in Weston want gone, followed closely by the shower and the storage.

Weston's Building Code and Permitting Services Department permits the work, with plumbing, electrical and mechanical inspections at rough and again at final. Broward building departments work from one set of code amendments administered by the Board of Rules and Appeals, which also certifies the inspectors who show up at your rough-in. Owners in the Bonaventure condominiums and the country club villas have a second calendar to watch: Broward's Building Safety Inspection Program, which the Board administers, starts once a building reaches the age county policy sets for its location and then repeats on a fixed cycle, and it is the association's obligation rather than any individual owner's.

Tolerances in this room are tighter than anywhere else on the job. We flood-test pans and let them sit, slope to the drain rather than toward it, block walls before heavy glass is ordered, and vent to the outside instead of into an attic. Weston clients get a fixed written scope, daily supervision, protected pathways from the front door to the work zone, and crews who sign in at the gate and leave the street clean. Licensed and insured, Lic. CGC1539072.