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Bathroom Tile, Vanities, and Finishes in St. Petersburg
Letting people into your home takes trust, and a bathroom is about the most personal room in it. You've probably heard a horror story or two. Maybe you lived one. So you want to know that the people working in there will do it right and tell you the straight truth about what they find. That's the whole game for us.
I'm Ricky Powers. My crew and I do bathrooms across St. Petersburg, and I walk every job myself.
What we do in a St. Pete bathroom
Tile on the floor, in the shower, and up the tub surround. The vanity and its top. Mirror, trim, paint, hardware, and a faucet in the same spot the old one sat. The finished room, top to bottom.
Old houses, small baths, good bones
St. Pete has some of the prettiest old housing stock in the bay. The historic bungalows in Historic Kenwood, the grand old homes in the Old Northeast, the mid-century blocks scattered through the city. A lot of them still have the original bathroom, which usually means one small room, a tiny window, and tile that's been there since before your parents.
Those rooms don't need to get bigger to get better. Tile scale, a vanity that isn't oversized for the floor, a lighter paint, and hardware that was chosen instead of grabbed will change how a small bath reads more than people expect.
Near the water, the finish is the decision
So much of St. Pete sits close to the bay or the gulf, and that changes what lasts. Salt in the air plus our steady humidity is harder on a bathroom than most people realize.
It shows up first in the metal. Cheap plated faucets, towel bars, and shower hardware pit and spot within a couple of seasons here, and there's no fixing them after. Grout and the seal around a tub or a shower base are the other one. They're the cheapest thing in the room and the first thing to fail if they're rushed. We'll tell you which upgrade actually earns its money in a house this close to the water.
Waterproofing, the part you can't see
This is where I won't bend. A bathroom is a wet room to begin with, and in a St. Pete house near the water it's working against moisture every single day.
If what goes behind the tile isn't done properly, water gets past it and into the framing where you'll never spot it. When a quote comes in cheap, that's usually where the corner got cut, because it doesn't show up in the finished photo. Here's why I hold that line: why bathroom waterproofing is the part you can't see.
What we find in these older homes
Take the tile off a 1920s Kenwood bungalow bath or an Old Northeast home and you don't always know what's waiting. Sometimes it's a previous repair that hid a problem instead of fixing it. Sometimes it's a wall that's been soft for years behind tile that looked fine.
We tell you plainly what we're looking at, the day we're looking at it. You'll hear about it from me, not from a surprise line on the final bill.
One crew, start to finish
The same crew that starts your St. Pete bathroom is the crew that finishes it. No rotating cast of people you've never met. We protect your floors, clean the site every day, and you always know who's in your home and how the job is going.
Honesty, even when it costs us the sale
If your budget and your wish list don't line up, I'll tell you before we start, not halfway through. Sometimes the smart money goes into the tile work and the protection first, and the showpiece finishes wait a year. A bathroom done right serves you for decades, and one done cheap is a leak waiting to happen.