Bathroom Remodeling · Tampa Bay

Bathroom remodeling in Tampa Bay.

Seven bathroom jobs below. Pick the one that sounds like yours. Each page tells you the same three things, including the one most companies leave out.

Every page answers these three

01What actually decides the price

02How many days you lose the bathroom

03When we would tell you not to do it

Priced by written scope, never by the hour.

Pick the job that sounds like yours

Seven services

If two of them sound like yours, that is normal. Say so on the walkthrough and the written scope covers both under one price.

A finished bathroom remodel representing the range of work Maplex Services scopes

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What a bathroom costs in Tampa Bay

Three things move a bathroom from one range to the next, and they are the same three every time. No starting-at number, because the only number worth anything comes after the walkthrough.

·Does anything move: toilet, vanity or shower

·Is the wall behind the tile still sound

·How far the tile goes up

·One closed price, written, after a real walkthrough

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

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Master bathroom

The room where the words “while we are in there” cost the most. The written scope says where the job ends, and what a change would add, before anyone starts.

·The whole room as one written scope

·Shower, tub, vanity and lighting in a single plan

·Changes priced in writing before they happen

·Milestone payments tied to stages you can see

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Compact bathroom finished with a vanity and porcelain tile carried up the wall

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Small bathroom and guest bath

The smallest bathroom in the house is the hardest one to price. Everything sits within six feet of everything else, so moving one thing moves three others.

·Every fixture measured against the real door swing

·Tile carried up the wall to make the room read larger

·Ventilation named in the scope, never assumed

·One trade at a time, because nobody can work around anybody

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Finished walk-in shower with large format porcelain tile where a bathtub used to sit

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Tub to shower conversion

Where the old tub drain sits decides whether this is a four day job or a cut in the slab. We settle that at the walkthrough, before the price, not after demolition.

·Old tub, surround and tile removed and hauled away

·Drain position checked before the price, not after

·Waterproofing membrane with every seam banded

·Glass panel or door set and sealed

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Walk-in shower with a low curb, a matte black grab bar, a hand shower on a slide bar and a two-panel sliding glass door

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Walk-in shower, low curb or none

No curb on a Florida slab means either the floor comes down or the bathroom comes up. We tell you which one your house needs before you fall in love with a photo.

·Low curb, or curbless where the floor allows it

·Pan built to fall correctly toward the drain

·Blocking for grab bars set before the tile goes on

·Slip rating of the floor tile named in the scope

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

Shower walls in waterproofing membrane with every seam banded before tile

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Shower replacement

Showers fail behind the tile, not on it. If the waterproofing is gone, new tile over the same wall buys you about two years and hides the real problem.

·Old tile out, board replaced where it is not sound

·Waterproofing membrane, seams and corners banded

·Niche formed and waterproofed with the wall, not after

·Photographed at that stage, before the tile hides it

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

A replaced bathtub with a tiled surround in a finished bathroom

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Bathtub replacement

Getting the old tub out is the part nobody photographs. On an older Florida build it often leaves with a piece of the door frame, and that belongs in the scope before it happens.

·Old tub removed and disposed of

·Subfloor and framing made sound underneath

·New tub set level and supported as specified

·Surround tiled or panelled, then sealed

Priced by written scope, never by the hour

What decides the price →

One bathroom, four stages, nothing skipped.

A guest bathroom in New Port Richey, Pasco County. The second photo is the one no company puts on a website, because you never see that layer again once the tile is on.

Photographed on the job, not staged. Plumbing and electrical portions performed by licensed trades.

Bathroom demolition with the wall studs exposed and the old floor tile still down — 01 Demolition
Walls open. This is where a bathroom tells you what it has been hiding.

Shower walls covered in waterproofing membrane with every seam and corner banded — 02 Waterproofing
Membrane on the board, every seam banded. The layer you never see again.

Large format porcelain tile being set on the shower wall over the waterproofed board — 03 Tile
Large format porcelain, set on a wall that was made sound first.

The finished bathroom with the tiled walk-in shower, mosaic pan and new floor — 04 Finished
Handed over after a walkthrough together, not after an invoice.

The same five steps on every bathroom above.

01Walkthrough of the real space

02Written scope, item by item

03One closed price

04Milestone payments

05Final walkthrough together

Never hourly, never a verbal number. Serving Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties.

See a sample scope document