Bathroom remodeling in St. Louis is usually a small wet room in a brick house or a stacked bath in a multi-family building. One stack serves more than one floor. A valve leak becomes the ceiling below. A roof or parapet leak stains the top-floor bath and looks like plumbing until you notice it only rains indoors during storms. Start with the path. Humidity does the rest, swelling the room and feeding a fan that may end in a joist bay.
Plaster, a narrow door, and a short tub set the layout. Mortar-bed tile hides a tired pan. A surround that gapes dumps water into plaster that then falls in sheets. The shutoff at an old stop may not stop; the real valve may be at a shared stack. If closing your water closes another unit, say that first. A bath window on an outside brick wall rots the stool and takes wind-driven rain at the sill.
Leak from above, leak in the stack, fan, and full rework are different jobs. A sewer smell after a hard rain can mean the lateral is overwhelmed, which is a plumbing fact that shows up in this room. Mention it, and do not treat it as a fixture choice. If you only need a valve, keep the call there. Waterproof the wet wall before the mirror. Moving a drain in a brick building is the large decision.
Access is the stair and the door. Dust is a neighbor problem. Debris has to leave a tight lot that may already be full of fallen limbs. Vintage joists may be notched. Say so if you know. Do not open a wall for a remodel while storm water is still entering above. A garden bath at grade may also take window-well water. That is drainage, and it belongs in the first minute.
Name the floor and whether another unit is already stained. Say storm leak or stack leak. St. Louis brick holds damp and shows it late. Call the number on this page.