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Bathroom Remodeling in St. Petersburg
Letting a contractor 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 opening up your walls will do the work 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 remodel bathrooms across St. Petersburg, and I walk every job myself.
The kind of homes we see in St. Pete
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 these houses have small, original bathrooms with decades of living behind the walls.
Then there's the water. So much of St. Pete sits close to the bay or the gulf, and that changes the job. Salt air and steady humidity are harder on a bathroom than most people realize, and they make two things matter a lot more here than they would inland.
Waterproofing and venting, the parts you can't see
Those two things are waterproofing and ventilation. This is where I won't bend.
A bathroom is a wet room to begin with. Put it in a St. Pete house near the water, with our humidity and salt in the air, and moisture is working on that room every single day. If the waterproofing under the tile isn't done properly, water gets behind it and rots the framing where you'll never see it. And if the room can't breathe, if the venting is weak, you get mold creeping in around the edges no matter how new the tile is.
When a quote comes in cheap, this is usually where the corner got cut, because none of it shows up in the finished photo. We do both right, every time. Here's why I hold that line: why bathroom waterproofing is the part you can't see.
What we find in these older homes
Open up a bathroom in a 1920s Kenwood bungalow or an Old Northeast home and you don't always know what's waiting. Sometimes it's old plumbing on its last legs. Sometimes it's a previous repair that hid a problem instead of fixing it. We figure out what we're dealing with, we tell you plainly, and we handle it the right way. 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 subcontractors 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. If a layout change isn't worth what it'd cost to move the plumbing, I'll say so. Sometimes the smart money goes into the bones and the protection first, and the showpiece finishes wait. A bathroom done right serves you for decades, and one done cheap is a leak waiting to happen.
We pull permits through the City of St. Petersburg or Pinellas County and do that step properly. No shortcuts.