Bathroom remodeling in Mississippi starts when the floor by the tub is soft, the grout stays dark in humid air, or the fan has been soaking the attic. A pier-house bath and a slab bath do not hide water in the same place. Describe the floor under the room before you describe the finish you want.
On a Delta or older town cottage, every splash eventually reaches wood. The overflow gasket weeps, the joists darken, and a vinyl floor still looks presentable. Cast iron tubs stay put while the boards under them go. On a Hattiesburg or Tupelo slab, the same leak travels under the pan and shows up as a loose tile in the hall or a warm spot nobody can explain. Hollow tile is a clue. New grout will not fix a failed pan.
Fans that dump into the attic are common, and they make the roof look guilty. Insulation above the tub mats down, the deck stains, and a roof call gets scheduled for a bath problem. Small baths in mill and bungalow streets have almost no distance between the wet wall and an outside sill. A vanity tight to that wall feeds rot into the trim whenever the mirror fogs and stays fogged.
If the stack is cast iron and the supply is old galvanized, opening the wall is part of an honest job. A new surround on a rotten subfloor is a short story. Prairie clay movement can also crack a slab bath and open a joint that was tight last spring. Say whether doors in the house stick with the weather. That fact belongs in the same call as the soft floor.
Call with the town, the level of the bath, and what you can already see in the crawl, the basement ceiling, or the hall. Mention plaster, a slab, or piers you can get under. Say if the fan grille is black and the attic above it is damp. A Greenville pier bath and a pine-belt slab bath are not the same remodel. The trade needs the wet structure first. Call the number on this page.