Boca Raton, Highland Beach & Delray Beach
Your tub becomes a walk-in shower. In one day.
We pull the tub in the morning and you shower in a finished bathroom that night. No demolition, no dumpster, and no grout to scrub ever again.
- On site 4 to 8 hours
- Licensed & insured
- No grout, ever
Michael Chen measures the job and Michael installs it. You won’t meet a salesman, and no crew you have never spoken to turns up at your door.
Panels against tile
Tile is a beautiful material. It is the wrong one for a shower in South Florida.
That is not a dig at tile setters, and Michael has laid plenty of it. It is what happens to a porous joint after a few thousand hot showers in coastal humidity.
- Time in your home
- TileOne to two weeks, and your only shower is out of service for all of it.
- PanelsOne day. Usually 4 to 8 hours on site, and you shower that night.
- Demolition
- TileFull tear-out. Jackhammer, a dumpster on your driveway, silica dust pulled through the air handler and into the rest of the house.
- PanelsNone, in most bathrooms. Panels go straight over tile that's clean and solid.
- Keeping water out
- TileGrout is porous by nature. Every joint in the wall is a path into the cavity behind it.
- PanelsNo grout anywhere. Tongue-and-groove joints, and trim that seals the corners and edges.
- Mold
- TileGrout and silicone lines grow black mold in this humidity, usually behind the surface where you can't see it until it smells.
- PanelsNothing absorbent for it to grow in.
- What you do every year
- TileReseal every 12 to 18 months, and scrub in between with chemicals that wear out the seal you just paid for.
- PanelsSoap, water, a cloth. No resealing, ever.
- Ten years from now
- TileGrout darkens unevenly, tiles work loose, and spot repairs never quite match the originals.
- PanelsA UV top coat, so the veining doesn't yellow the way old acrylic does.
When panels are the wrong answer
Panels need something solid to go onto. If a wall has already gone soft from a long-running leak, that has to be opened up and repaired first, and no panel will fix it by covering it. Michael checks for this during the estimate and will tell you if your bathroom needs that work before anything else happens.
The work
Bathrooms Michael has finished.
These are his own photographs, taken on his own jobs. Nothing here came out of a stock library or a manufacturer’s brochure.
Tub out, shower in
No grout lines anywhere on that wall, because there are no tiles on it. The grab bar is screwed into blocking we set behind the panel, the threshold is low enough to step over, and the door slides instead of swinging into the room.
Corner enclosure
Frameless glass, a recessed niche for bottles and a bench built into the corner. The bench is the detail people ask for after they have tried shaving their legs standing up.
The same bathroom, from the door
Rain head overhead and the valve on the side wall rather than under it, so you are not reaching through cold water to turn the thing on. Small decision, and you notice it every single morning.
Pick your look
Eight finishes. Same one-day install.
The panels are printed in high definition, so the veining has real depth instead of the flat repeat you get on an acrylic tub surround. Michael brings physical samples to the estimate, because a finish never looks the same in your bathroom light as it does on a screen.
Venecia Gold
Soft gray veining with a warm gold thread running through it. This is the Calacatta look most people picture when they say marble, and the gold picks up brass or champagne-bronze fixtures instead of fighting them.
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Built to be used
The decisions that matter at seventy.
A shower can be waterproof, fast to install and still be a bad shower to use. These are the parts nobody puts in a brochure, and they are the parts you live with.
Talk it through with MichaelThe step goes away
A tub wall is fifteen to eighteen inches of smooth, wet porcelain, and it is the highest single step in most houses. What replaces it is a threshold you step over rather than climb, or no threshold at all if the floor allows it.
Grab bars into wood, not drywall
A grab bar in a drywall anchor holds until the day somebody actually falls on it. While the wall is open we screw solid blocking between the studs, so the bar is anchored into timber and will take a grown adult going down hard.
A bench, if you want one
Built in while the walls are apart, not bolted on afterwards. It is the difference between showering and sitting down to shower, and it is the thing people tell us they use most.
Shelves you can reach standing up
Recessed niches set at chest height. Nobody should be bending to floor level for the shampoo in a wet shower.
The valve on the side wall
Not directly under the head. You turn the water on and wait for it to run warm without standing in it, which sounds small until you have done it every morning for a winter.
How it runs
Three things happen before the day. Then the day is one day.
Before the day
At your pace. Nothing is ordered until you have a price in writing.
10 minutes
Tell us what you have
Three questions on this page, or call and describe the bathroom. What is in there now, roughly how big it is, and what you want instead.
30 minutes, free
Michael measures it himself
He checks the wall behind your tile is solid, takes the measurements, and leaves the finish samples with you to look at in your own bathroom light. You get a fixed written price before anything is ordered.
Your date
Panels ordered, day booked
Cut to your measurements. You get one specific day, not a two-week window and a phone call the night before.
The day itself
One visit, 4 to 8 hours on site.
Morning
Tub out, walls prepped
Floors and the doorway get covered before anything else. The tub comes out, the plumbing moves for a shower valve and drain, and the wall behind it is made flat and true so the panels sit properly.
Afternoon
Panels up, trims sealed
Panels are cut and locked together, then the corners and edges are bedded and sealed behind trim. Niches, the bench and grab-bar blocking all go in at this stage.
Before we go
Tested, and the mess leaves with us
Fixtures back on, drain and joints tested, every scrap of debris into the truck. Michael walks the finished shower with you and tells you exactly when it can be used.
Start with the three questions, or skip them and call Michael at (561) 306-1483.
Get my free estimateFor landlords and flippers
The unit is showable that evening.
A dated tub-shower combo is the first thing a tenant photographs and the first thing a buyer negotiates down. Tile means two weeks of an empty unit with the mortgage still running. This is one day, and the bathroom stops being the reason people walk.
Asked most often
Three questions, answered before you call.
Answered by Michael Chen, Owner & Master Craftsman.
How long does it actually take?
- One day. We're on site 4 to 8 hours and you can shower in your own bathroom that night. The same job in tile runs one to two weeks, and your bathroom is out of service for all of it.
Do you have to tear out my old tile?
- Usually not. If the tile or backer board behind your tub is clean, dry and solid, the panels go straight over it. That's what gets rid of the dumpster, the silica dust and about a week of noise. If a wall has gone soft from an old leak, I'll tell you at the estimate and we repair that first.
Is it really waterproof with no grout at all?
- Yes. The panels lock together with tongue-and-groove joints and every corner and edge is sealed behind trim, so there's no porous line anywhere for water to get behind. Nothing to reseal, and nothing for mold to grow in.
Anything specific to your bathroom is a two-minute phone call rather than a guess.
(561) 306-1483Free, no obligation
Three questions. Then Michael calls you back.
Not a call center, not a scheduler, and not a commissioned salesman with a folder of finance options. The person who rings you is the person who will be in your bathroom.
- Where we work
- Boca Raton, Highland Beach & Delray Beach, and the Palm Beach County communities around them.
- What happens to your details
- They come to Michael and stop there. Never sold, never passed to a lead broker.
Would you rather just talk to someone?
(561) 306-1483Call or message any time and we will get back to you.
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