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Lakeland does not have one kind of house, and that changes the job before we set a single tile. The older homes near the lakes sit on wood subfloors — those need the deflection checked and an uncoupling layer underneath, because a floor that flexes will crack grout no matter how good the tile work above it is. The newer subdivisions north and south of town are slab-on-grade, and those need flatness and crack isolation instead. Same finished floor, two completely different builds underneath it.
We build every shower the same way: cement board on the walls, the floor built as a mud bed sloped to a FloFX drain, every joint and every corner covered with cement tape and thinset, then two full coats of Laticrete Hydro Ban over all of it before a single tile goes up. No pan liner. You never see any of that once the tile is on, which is exactly why it’s the part most quotes stay quiet about.
Lakeland is Polk County, not Hillsborough — different building department, different inspectors, different timelines. When a project needs plumbing or electrical, the licensed Florida pro doing that scope pulls the permit for it and we schedule around their inspections. Most tile, waterproofing and finish work doesn’t need one at all.
Marty’s bathroom is the one in his review below. Every remodel of a certain age comes with a list of things nobody could see from the doorway. The only question is whether there is a plan for them before the demo starts, or a phone call after.
The shower went back in with white marble-look porcelain floor to ceiling, a glass mosaic strip running full height beside the arched window, and a mosaic pan on a low curb capped in solid surface. The same marble-look porcelain runs out across the bathroom floor, so the room reads as one space rather than a shower and then a bathroom.
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Two accent bands, two niches and a river rock floor, none of which can be improvised. The bands set the layout for the entire room: everything above works up from the top band, everything below works down from the bottom one, and both niches have to land inside the field so no cut tile shows at their edges.
River rock is the most physical floor there is to set. Every stone has to sit in the same plane or you feel it underfoot for the next twenty years, and the fall to the drain still has to be right through all of it. Chrome rain head and handheld, a floor-mounted filler at the tub, and marble-look porcelain on the walls tying the two halves of the room together.
Polished large-format porcelain is the least forgiving floor there is. It behaves like a mirror, so every high spot and every dip in the slab shows up in the reflection from across the room. The flattening happens before anything gets set, not after somebody notices.
Wood-look plank is the opposite problem. Long planks bow slightly through the middle, so they get laid at a one-third offset — never the 50% brick pattern people expect from real wood. A half offset puts the high point of one plank against the low point of the next and gives you a lip at every single joint.
Large hexagon on a wall means every edge is an angle cut, and there is no straight line to hide behind — top, bottom and both corners are all cuts, and they all have to be consistent or that is the only thing anyone looks at. Around the window it gets harder again: the pattern has to read continuous above and below the opening, and the waterproofing has to carry into the return and off the sill. A window inside a shower is a leak waiting for somebody to get lazy.
Black hex full height on the wet wall, textured white tile on the flanking walls, black penny mosaic on the pan, and large black hex out across the bathroom floor.
Still curious? Text us at (813) 364-0630 — usually faster than email.
Guest bath tile remodels typically start around $8,000 in labor. Master bathrooms with custom showers, large-format tile, and premium features run higher. Each project is quoted individually.
We’ll come to you, measure, listen, and leave you with a written quote — usually within 48 hours. No hidden fees, no surprises, no follow-up calls you didn’t ask for.
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