Bathroom Remodeling • St. Augustine, FL
St. Augustine asks more of a bathroom than most Florida cities. Downtown and in Lincolnville there are wood-frame houses well over a century old, where the bathroom was an afterthought added long after the house was built. Across the Bridge of Lions, Anastasia Island and St. Augustine Beach hold mid-century ranches and cottages that have taken decades of salt air. Further inland, newer St. Johns County subdivisions have builder-grade baths that wear out fast under daily family use. Braga Remodeling remodels bathrooms across all of it in St. Augustine, FL — the worn shower comes out, the base is rebuilt over modern waterproofing, and the room is finished to suit the house it sits in.
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5.0 · 36 Google reviewsA St. Augustine bathroom rarely needs a bigger footprint — it needs honest work inside the one it has. We measure the room, say plainly what is sound and what is failing, and put the full scope in writing before any demolition starts.
Overview
The oldest homes come first. In the historic district and Lincolnville, many houses predate indoor plumbing altogether, so the bathroom is often a converted porch, a carved-out closet or a small addition — tight rooms where every inch was negotiated generations ago. A bathroom remodel there is about making that small room work properly: a shower that no longer leaks into a wood subfloor, tile that suits the age of the house, and storage planned into walls that were never designed for it.
Anastasia Island and the beach side are a different stock: 1950s through 1980s ranches and block cottages built with tile over mortar beds, membrane shower pans and cast-iron tubs. Those systems were durable, but after forty to seventy years of coastal humidity the pans, grout and subfloors reach the end together. Our demolition takes the room back to sound material so the pan and floor structure can be inspected, and the rebuild goes over a continuous waterproofing system instead of another buried membrane.
The newer subdivisions inland — along the SR-207 and US-1 corridors and toward World Golf Village — ask for something else again: fiberglass tub-shower units and stock finishes replaced with a real tiled shower and materials at the level of the rest of the house. Every part of the city gets the same treatment — a free in-home measurement, a written scope that says exactly what Braga handles, and a price fixed before work begins. St. Augustine is a regular run south from our Jacksonville routes through Ponte Vedra and Nocatee.
Historic homes respected
Small original baths, footprint kept
Subfloors inspected open
Wood-frame floors checked before tile
Coastal materials
Porcelain and sealants for salt air
Written scope first
Price fixed before demolition
Historic Homes
An old St. Augustine house tells you its history in the bathroom. Floors that slope a little, a tub that was plumbed in when the room was still something else, layers of tile and patch over the original boards. The risk in these rooms is hidden: slow leaks that have been feeding a wood subfloor for years, and shower bases built long before modern waterproofing existed. That is why our scopes open the floor and the shower base up for inspection before any new tile is discussed — what the moisture reached gets repaired or replaced, and the finding is photographed and agreed with you before the rebuild.
The finish work respects the house. Porcelain hex and smaller-format tile read right in a Victorian-era bath; larger porcelain suits the island ranches. Layout changes stay modest in historic homes — moving walls and drains in a century-old structure belongs to a different kind of project, and where a plan involves moving plumbing or electrical, we tell you at the measurement which parts Braga handles and which need a separate licensed trade (Braga does not do plumbing, electrical or structural work). Nothing outside our scope is assumed, and the written estimate lists exactly what Braga is responsible for.
The room is rebuilt, not re-planned on paper
Subfloor damage agreed before rebuild
Plumbing or electrical moves are a separate licensed trade
The Common Project
The most requested St. Augustine project is a tub-to-shower conversion in the primary bathroom: the original tub — used as a shower with a curtain for years — comes out, and a tiled walk-in shower takes its alcove, with a niche for bottles and a bench or corner seat where the footprint allows. In island cottages and older homes with a single bathroom, that conversion is planned around downtime, so the household is never left without a working shower longer than the scope says.
Where a house has two bathrooms, the usual pattern keeps one tub — for kids, guests and resale — and converts the primary. Guest houses and in-law spaces follow the same logic: a durable tiled shower, finishes that clean easily, and ventilation that actually dries the room between uses.
Straight answers
Braga Remodeling is a Jacksonville remodeling company at 4305 Napoli Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, phone (904) 520-1994. The crew remodels St. Augustine bathrooms — historic-home bath updates, shower pan rebuilds, tub-to-shower conversions and porcelain tile floors and walls — starting with a free in-home measurement and a written scope.
The shower pan and the wood subfloor under it. In historic and island homes, slow leaks at the drain and corners feed moisture into the floor structure for years before the tile above shows it. The durable fix is a shower base rebuilt over modern waterproofing, with the subfloor inspected and repaired while the room is open.
What We Build
Small original bathrooms in downtown and Lincolnville homes rebuilt inside their footprint: shower base renewed, subfloor repaired where moisture reached, and tile chosen to suit the age of the house.
Loose tiles at the shower floor or a stain on the ceiling below are the usual first signs. We open the shower down to the subfloor, replace what the water reached and build a new sloped base under a sheet or liquid waterproofing layer.
Popular in St. Augustine Shores and other 1970s–80s ranches where the hall tub is rarely used: the tub is removed and a tiled walk-in shower is built in its alcove. Details on the conversion page.
Anastasia Island and St. Augustine Beach bathrooms finished for salt air and sand: porcelain in the wet areas, mold-resistant grout, and exhaust sized to dry the room between uses.
In World Golf Village, Murabella, Shearwater and Palencia homes, the builder fiberglass shower or 12-inch floor tile is replaced with a tiled shower and a floor that matches the rest of the house.
Floor and wall tile over a prepared substrate — from small-format porcelain that suits a historic bath to large-format layouts in newer homes, with grout lines planned around the room's main sight lines.
Our Process
(904) 520-1994: your ZIP, the year the house was built, and whether it is the only bath.
We check the shower floor, the fan and the floor under the tub, and whether the house is on a slab or raised.
Each part priced in writing; anything hidden found during demolition is photographed and agreed before we go on.
Waterproofing, tile and finishes, then a walkthrough of the finished room.
Service Areas
ZIP codes 32084 (downtown, Lincolnville, North City), 32080 (Anastasia Island, St. Augustine Beach, Davis Shores), 32086 (St. Augustine Shores and the south side), 32092 (World Golf Village, Murabella, Shearwater) and 32095 (Palencia and the north side).
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Give us your St. Augustine ZIP code, the year the house was built and a photo of the shower. We will call to book the visit. Prefer to talk? Call (904) 520-1994 or email braga@bragaremodeling.com.
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