Bathroom Remodeling in Palm Beach County

The Most Complicated Room in Your House

It’s the smallest room in the house and it has the most going on in it. Plumbing, electrical, ventilation, waterproofing, tile, glass, cabinetry, lighting and storage all have to work together in about forty square feet — and every one of them ends up hidden behind a finish that’s expensive to open back up.

That’s why bathrooms are where shortcuts show up first, usually two or three years later, and usually as water somewhere it shouldn’t be. It’s also why the planning matters more here than anywhere else in the house.

We’ve been remodeling bathrooms for over thirty years — primary suites, guest baths, powder rooms, and the one small hall bathroom that four people have to share. We’ll walk your space, ask what’s actually wrong with the one you have, and tell you honestly what it takes to fix it.

What a Topnotch Bathroom Includes

Design & Layout

We measure, then we ask how you actually use the room — who’s in it, when, and what’s always in the way. Sometimes the fix is a better layout; sometimes it’s the same layout done properly.

Waterproofing & Tile

The part you’ll never see is the part that decides whether the bathroom lasts. Proper substrate, a real waterproofing membrane, and tile set to it — not over a shortcut.

Vanities, Fixtures & Light

American-made cabinetry, countertops, fixtures and lighting selected together so the finished room reads as one room. Storage planned around what you actually keep in there.

Every project is run by the same company from design through installation, with a five-year workmanship warranty behind it.

How a Bathroom Remodel Actually Goes

No mystery, no vanishing act. Here’s the sequence, and roughly what each stage feels like from your side of it.

We come to you, look at the actual room, and ask questions — what’s wrong with it now, what you’re picturing, who uses it, and roughly what you want to spend. You get a detailed written proposal, not a number on the back of a card. There’s no charge and no obligation.

Layout first, then the things you can see: tile, vanity, countertop, fixtures, glass, lighting, paint. This is the stage that sets everything else, and it moves at your pace — nothing is ordered until you’re sure.

Once selections are final we order everything and wait for it to arrive. Vanities and specialty tile are usually the long poles. We don’t start demolition until the material is here, so your bathroom isn’t sitting torn open waiting on a delivery.

Out with the old, down to the studs where it needs to be. Then the plumbing and electrical are opened up and set for the new layout, and inspected. This is also when we find whatever the previous renovation hid — and where an honest contractor tells you about it instead of tiling over it.

The stage that decides how long the bathroom lasts. Substrate, waterproofing membrane, then tile set to it. It’s also the slowest stage, because mortar and membranes cure on their own schedule and rushing them is exactly how a bathroom fails in year three.

Cabinetry, countertop, sinks, toilet, trim, lighting and hardware. Shower glass is measured after the tile is set — that’s why it arrives last, and why anyone promising glass on day one hasn’t thought it through.

We walk the finished bathroom with you and fix anything on the list before we call it done. Then your five-year workmanship warranty starts — and when you call us two years from now, you’ll get the same people.

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Bathrooms are the most complicated room in a house to remodel well — and the least forgiving when they’re done badly. We’ve been building them for 30+ years of remodeling craftsmanship, and we’re a Florida State Certified Residential Contractor (CRC1332966), insured, and family-owned.

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Planning Your Bathroom: 8 Questions Worth Answering

The best bathroom projects are decided before anyone picks up a tool. These are the questions we walk through with you — worth thinking about before we even meet.

Sometimes the room is fine and the fixtures are just tired. Sometimes the tub nobody has used in nine years is eating the space a real shower should have. Moving plumbing costs money, so it’s worth knowing early whether you’re refreshing a layout or rethinking one.

Floor only, or floor and shower? Walls halfway up, or floor to ceiling? One feature wall? Tile drives both the look and a meaningful share of the budget, and it’s the decision people most often wish they’d made deliberately instead of in a hurry.

Towels, spare toilet paper, the hair dryer, everything under the sink. Cabinetry solves some of it; sometimes a linen closet solves it better. Storage is the most common regret we hear about a bathroom that was otherwise done well.

If there is, it’s telling you something — and it’s almost never a housekeeping problem. Don’t plan to clean it; plan to fix what’s causing it. There’s more on this below.

Cold tile underfoot is a real complaint even in Florida, and radiant floor heat is worth asking about if it bothers you. So is where the air conditioning hits when you step out of the shower, and whether the exhaust fan is loud enough that nobody wants to use it.

Most older bathrooms have one fixture doing four jobs badly. Task light at the mirror, general light for the room, and something soft for the evening are three different things — and if there’s any way to bring in daylight, that’s usually the single biggest improvement available.

A seated makeup area, a place to do hair, a second sink so two people can be in there at once — all of it is easier to plan now than to add later.

Kids, guests, aging parents, or you twenty years from now. The choices that make a bathroom work for someone with limited mobility are inexpensive while the walls are open and expensive afterward. If that’s on your mind, just say so — grab-bar blocking in the walls, a low-threshold entry, or a built-in seat are all easy to include on request while everything is already open.

Not sure what you like yet? Pinterest and Houzz are genuinely useful for this — pictures tell us more than adjectives do. Our Houzz ideabooks are a good place to start.

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Bathrooms We’ve Built

Real projects, real tile, real glass. Click any bathroom to see it up close.

Renovated Boca Raton primary bathroom with a double quartzite-topped vanity, marble walk-in shower, and marble herringbone floor. — Full view of a Boca Raton primary bathroom remodel by Topnotch Remodeling, pairing a marble walk-in shower with a double quartzite vanity.

Boca Raton bathroom remodel with floor-to-ceiling white shaker storage cabinetry and a quartzite vanity with polished nickel fixtures. — Custom Holiday Kitchens shaker cabinetry and a quartzite vanity in a Boca Raton primary bathroom by Topnotch Remodeling.

Ocean Ridge coastal bathroom with a blue-and-white marble-look shower, a wavy dimensional tile accent, a pebble mosaic floor, and a sliding glass door. — A coastal walk-in shower with blue-and-white marble-look tile and a wavy tile accent in an Ocean Ridge bathroom by Topnotch Remodeling.

Lake Worth cabana bath and laundry with floor-to-ceiling white storage cabinetry, a glass-enclosed shower, a long quartz vanity with brushed nickel fixtures, and large-format grey tile flooring. — A Lake Worth cabana bath and laundry by Topnotch Remodeling — floor-to-ceiling white storage cabinetry, a glass-enclosed shower, and a quartz-topped vanity, with its own door to the patio.

Lake Worth cabana bath with white cabinetry, a quartz vanity, tile flooring, and an exterior door to the patio. — A cabana bath with white cabinetry and a quartz vanity opening to the patio, in a Lake Worth remodel by Topnotch Remodeling.

West Palm Beach walk-in shower with large-format marble-look tile, a brushed brass rain shower head and valve, a herringbone mosaic shower floor, and a frameless glass panel. — A walk-in shower in a West Palm Beach bathroom by Topnotch Remodeling, tiled floor to ceiling in large-format marble-look tile with a herringbone mosaic shower floor and brushed brass fixtures.

Mold Isn’t a Cleaning Problem. It’s a Construction Problem.

If there’s mold or mildew in your bathroom, the room is telling you something. Nine times out of ten it isn’t a housekeeping failure — it’s a design or construction failure. Water is getting somewhere it shouldn’t, or moist air has nowhere to go, and no amount of bleach fixes either one.

In a Florida bathroom, both are easy to get wrong:

Waterproofing behind the tile. Tile and grout are not waterproof — the membrane behind them is. Get that layer wrong and the wall gets wet every single shower, invisibly, for years.
Where the shower meets everything else. Corners, curbs, niches and the drain are where failures start. They’re detail work, and detail work is where a rushed job shows.
Ventilation that actually moves air. An undersized fan, or one venting into the attic instead of outside, turns every shower into a humidity problem for the whole house.
What’s already behind the wall. In a humid climate an older bathroom often has damage nobody knew about. We find out what we’re dealing with before we close it back up, not after.

This is the part of the job you will never see and never think about again — which is exactly why it’s where corners get cut. We build the assembly to last, and we don’t cover anything we wouldn’t want to stand behind for the five years our workmanship warranty runs, or the twenty after that.

How Long Does a Bathroom Remodel Take?

Straight answer: most bathrooms take about three to four weeks of actual work in your house, and about two to three months from the day you sign — and most of that gap is waiting on materials, not on labor.

Design and selections — two to four weeks. However long it takes you to be sure. Tile, vanity, fixtures and glass all have to be chosen before anything is ordered.
Ordering and lead times — three to six weeks. Vanities and specialty tile are the long poles. Nothing starts in your house until the material is here, so you keep using your bathroom the whole time.
Demolition and rough-in — about a week. Out with the old, then plumbing and electrical set for the new layout, and inspected.
Waterproofing and tile — one to two weeks. The slowest stretch and the one that can’t be rushed. Membranes and mortar cure on their own schedule.
Vanity, fixtures, glass and final touches — about a week. Shower glass is templated after the tile is set, so it lands near the end. Then it’s yours.

Every bathroom is different — a 1970s house with cast-iron drains has surprises a 2005 house doesn’t, and an association may have its own working-hours rules. So take the ranges above for what they are: a good-faith general guide drawn from typical projects — not a bid, a quote, or a commitment on yours. Until we’ve seen the room and put the scope of work in a written estimate, nobody can honestly promise your bathroom a schedule, and we’d rather be the contractor who says that up front. Once the scope is set, you get a real schedule for your bathroom — in writing.

Bathroom Remodeling FAQs

It depends far more on scope than on square footage — whether plumbing moves, how much tile there is and what kind, and what level you choose for fixtures and cabinetry. We give you a detailed written estimate after seeing the room, and it’s free. We’d rather have an honest conversation about budget early than design something that was never going to work.

For a typical full remodel, plan on about three to four weeks of actual work in the house — as a general guide, not a promise; the real schedule comes with the written estimate once we’ve seen the scope. If it’s the only full bathroom in the house, tell us; we plan the sequence differently when there’s nowhere else to shower.

Usually yes. Moving drains is more involved than moving supply lines, and a slab foundation makes it more involved still — but it’s routine work, and we’ll tell you what it costs before you decide rather than after.

For a primary bathroom, usually yes — most people stopped using that tub years ago, and the space buys a much better shower. Keep a tub somewhere in the house if you have young children or grandchildren who visit, or if it’s the only one, since most buyers still expect one.

Almost always, once plumbing or electrical is involved. We handle permitting and inspections as part of the project. If you live in an association there’s usually a separate approval process too, and we’re used to working inside those rules.

Because cleaning treats the symptom. Recurring mold almost always means water is getting behind a finish, or humid air isn’t being exhausted properly — both construction issues, both fixable, and both far cheaper to solve during a remodel than after one.

Yes, and a lot of our work happens exactly that way. We’ll send progress photos as it goes, and you come home to a finished bathroom.

Yes. Not every project is a primary suite, and a small bathroom done properly is one of the best returns in the house. Tell us what you have.

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Why Palm Beach County Homeowners Choose Topnotch

Florida State Certified Residential Contractor — CRC1332966, licensed and insured.
30+ years of remodeling craftsmanship — bathrooms in every condition Florida can produce.
NARI Certified Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeler — a certification specific to exactly this work.
A five-year workmanship warranty, in writing.
Family owned and operated. You’ll deal with the same people from the estimate to the last piece of trim.
We protect your home. Drop cloths down, work areas sealed off to contain dust, and the site cleaned every day — you still live here while we work.
We answer afterward. A warranty part, or something that got knocked in a move: you call us, we handle it.

We measure our own work by five questions, and we’d rather you hold us to them: did we meet your expectations, are you thrilled with the result, were you pleased with the experience, would you use us again, and would you recommend us to your friends?

Choosing a Bathroom Contractor: A Homeowner’s Guide

Useful whether or not you hire us. Bathrooms are where the gap between a good contractor and a cheap one shows up soonest.

In Florida you can look up any contractor’s license and its status in about a minute, and you should. An unlicensed contractor means no permit, no inspection, and no recourse when something fails — and it becomes your problem when you sell the house and the work was never permitted. Ours is CRC1332966.

Ask any contractor how they waterproof a shower, and what they’d do if they opened your wall and found damage. A good one has a specific answer and it takes them a minute. A vague answer here is the single most reliable warning sign in this trade, because it’s the part nobody checks.

A real proposal shows what’s included, what’s an allowance, and what isn’t in the price at all. A single lump-sum number isn’t a proposal — it’s an invitation to argue later about what it covered. Compare bids on scope, not just on the total.

Is it the person you’re talking to, their own crew, or whoever is available that week? Ask who the day-to-day contact is when something needs a decision. In a bathroom the work moves fast, and a decision that waits three days for a callback stalls everything behind it.

Anyone can promise a fast schedule; the question is who’s still answering the phone in year three. Ask what the warranty covers, how long it lasts, and get it in writing. Ours is five years on workmanship.

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The in-home estimate is free and there’s no obligation. We’ll look at the room, talk through what you want, and tell you honestly what it takes.

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What Drives the Cost of a Bathroom Remodel

We’re not going to put a number on this page, because any contractor who quotes your bathroom before seeing it is guessing — and the guess is always low. What we can do is tell you honestly what moves the number, so you can think about your own budget before we ever meet.

Whether the plumbing moves. Keeping the toilet, sink and shower where they are is the single biggest saving available. Relocating them — especially drains, and especially on a slab — means opening the floor, and that’s real money. It’s why the layout conversation comes first.
How much tile, and which tile. Floor-to-ceiling costs more than a wainscot, large-format costs more to set flat, and intricate patterns, mosaics and niches are labor as much as material. Tile is usually the biggest single line, and the one with the widest range.
The level of fixtures and cabinetry. A stock vanity and a stock faucet, or custom cabinetry and a designer fixture package — same layout, very different total. This is the part you have the most control over once the room is designed.

Two other things worth knowing: older houses cost more, because what’s behind the wall is unknown until it’s open, and a written allowance for tile and fixtures is how a good estimate handles selections you haven’t made yet. Ours are written down, not verbal.

Our in-home estimate is free and it’s detailed — line items, not a lump sum. If your budget and the bathroom you’re describing don’t match, we’ll say so at the estimate rather than three weeks into a project.

Tub, Shower, or Both?

It’s the question we’re asked most often, and the honest answer is that it depends on the house, not on the trend.

Converting a tub to a shower is the most common request we get, and usually the right call for a primary bathroom. Most people stopped using that tub years ago, and the space buys a genuinely larger shower — room for a bench, a niche that isn’t an afterthought, and a glass panel instead of a curtain. If mobility is any part of your thinking, a walk-in or curbless shower is also far easier to use than climbing over a tub wall.

Keeping a tub makes sense more often than people expect. If you have small children or grandchildren who visit, you want one. And most buyers still expect at least one tub in the house — so if this is your only one, think about the guest or hall bathroom before you commit. Keeping a tub in a secondary bath and converting the primary to a big shower is the combination that satisfies almost everyone.

Both, in one room, works when the room is genuinely big enough — and looks cramped and half-hearted when it isn’t. We’ll tell you honestly which one yours is. A freestanding tub needs real clearance around it to look the way it does in photographs.

What matters more than the choice itself is that it’s made early. Tub and shower plumbing sit in different places, so this is a layout decision, not a fixture decision — changing your mind after rough-in is expensive.

Up North for the Summer? Come Home to a Finished Bathroom.

A tremendous amount of our work happens in the off-season, while seasonal residents are up north. An empty house is the easiest place to remodel a bathroom well — especially the only one on that floor, and especially while tile is curing.

Many Palm Beach County associations restrict renovation work to the off-season too, and the rules vary building to building. We know those calendars and plan your project around them.

Hand us the keys and we’ll send progress photos as the work moves. You come home to a finished bathroom.

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Bathroom Remodeling Across Palm Beach County

Boca Raton · Boynton Beach · Delray Beach · Gulf Stream · Highland Beach · Juno Beach · Jupiter · Jupiter Farms · Lake Park · Lake Worth · Loxahatchee · North Palm Beach · Ocean Ridge · Palm Beach County · Palm Beach Gardens · Royal Palm Beach · Tequesta · Wellington · West Palm Beach

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