Bathroom remodeling in Rhode Island usually opens a small wet room in a damp climate. Shore cottages have one bath and a window in the shower wall. Three-families stack the tub over a kitchen. Mill apartments hide the bath on an outside brick wall that sweats in August. Say whether you are chasing a leak or rebuilding a room that never really worked.
Plaster, hollow tile, and a fan that dumps into the attic are ordinary. Salt air and humid summers keep the casing wet if the fan does not leave the building. A stain on the ceiling below means the pan or the wax ring has already failed, and the new tile is not the first task. Cast-iron tubs on bouncy floors are heavy for the stair that has to carry them out. Look under the sink for the soft subfloor before you call the job a facelift.
Moving a toilet in a tight cottage can mean joists, a vent, and a crawl you do not want to enter in summer. Keeping the fixtures put is often the whole trick. A shower where a tub stood needs a pan that drains, especially in houses where the floor already slopes toward the hall. Access through a narrow hall changes how debris leaves. Say what must stay usable if this is the only bath.
Old galvanized branches and tired risers will disappoint a new shower head. Wells and old cesspools or septic systems in some communities change what you should put down the drain and how the vent should work. Mention them. A bath on an outside wall without heat will freeze a line that was moved into the cold bay. The pretty room will not fix a stack that gurgles.
Give the town, the floor, and what the ceiling below looks like. A slow drain, a moldy sill, or a fan that goes nowhere belongs in the first minute. Say if the house is a cottage, a three-family, or a brick block. Call the number on this page.