Bathroom Tile Remodeling in Plainville, CT

In a Plainville house the water usually got in at the tub surround and has been softening the subfloor under the tile. Once a floor is soft it has to come up and be rebuilt rather than tiled over. We open the area, rebuild the base flat and sound, waterproof it, and flood-test before closing anything up.

No permit for the tile, a new vanity or a countertop: that finish work is exempt under the 2022 Connecticut State Building Code. If we move a drain, add a valve or run new wiring, those trades are permitted separately by the plumber or electrician doing them. Plainville no longer takes paper applications. Every permit goes through the town's ViewPoint Cloud portal and each permit is paid separately, so we raise those items early rather than the week of the job.

Usually yes, but the wins are different in a small house. Converting a tub to a shower gives you a floor you can stand on, and reworking the layout so the door does not swing into the toilet is a bigger daily difference than new tile would be. We will tell you which changes in your bathroom actually pay off and which are just money spent on surfaces.

A straight retile on an existing layout with the drain staying put is usually several days, and the waterproofing cure time sets the schedule more than the tiling does. Demo, rebuild and waterproofing, then a flood test, then tile. If the drain moves or the floor has to come down for a curbless shower, add days. We put it in writing at the estimate.

Your install is covered by a 1-year written workmanship warranty. We are a registered and insured Connecticut contractor, CT HIC #0706534, which you can verify in the state HIC lookup, and we are rated five stars on Google. The estimate is free, and we will tell you plainly if the job is not one we do well.

Yes, and in a small house it is often the single change that makes the bathroom usable. You gain a floor you can actually stand on. If the plumbing stays where it is we can usually convert without moving a drain, which is the biggest cost driver in the job. We tell you at the estimate whether your layout allows it.

We build the pan, then go over it with a bonded waterproofing membrane such as a Schluter-KERDI style sheet or a liquid-applied one where the geometry calls for it. The membrane runs over the pan, up the walls, around the curb, and over every seam, corner and valve penetration, and we hold a twenty-four-hour flood test before any tile goes down. If a drop moves, we find it while it is still inexpensive to fix.

Only sometimes, and only when the old tile passes the checks: solidly bonded everywhere when you tap it, flat, and structurally sound, with enough give at the outlets, counters and doors to absorb the added thickness. When it fails any of those, tiling over it locks the problem in. On a wet area we almost always take it down to the substrate instead.