Bathroom remodeling in Bradenton and Sarasota
Full remodels, tub-to-shower conversions and walk-in showers. Done by the owner and his crew, with the tile and the waterproofing handled in house — not handed to whoever was available that week.
(941) 241-2503Free estimates.
Run by Nelvin Rivera, who has spent 7 years in remodeling and does this work with his own hands.
We cover five counties. Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Englewood, Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda — and everywhere in between.
Nelvin Rivera with his family. Multiservices Belloso LLC, Bradenton.
The remodeling contractor you are actually hiring
“A bathroom is a small room where everything is connected to everything. That is why cutting corners in one spot shows up somewhere else six months later.”
Seven years in remodeling — four in pool work, three in home interiors — and Nelvin is on site every day of your job, not just the day he quotes it. That is the whole reason Multiservices Belloso exists: so the person who sold you the work is the person doing it.
This is the biggest kind of job a homeowner hands over, and most of the fear around it is not about tile. It is about a stranger disappearing mid-project with your deposit and your bathroom in pieces. Almost all of Nelvin’s work comes from past customers sending people to him, which only keeps happening if that never occurs.
The crew is Nelvin and his brother — the same two people from the first day to the last. Roofing and electrical are the two things we do not take on; everything else inside the house is work Nelvin has done with his own hands.
What a bathroom remodel includes
A guest bath refresh or a full gut down to the studs — and everything between.
Demolition and haul-out
Old tile, tub, vanity and flooring out, with the rest of your house protected on the way. Floors covered, doorways sealed, debris in our truck the same day rather than in your driveway for a week.
Showers and tub surrounds
Built from the studs out: backer board, waterproofing, then tile. Niches, benches, curbs or a curbless entry, sloped correctly so the water goes where it is supposed to go.
Floor and wall tile
Set flat, with the layout planned so full tiles land where the eye goes and cuts land where it does not. Grout and caulk finished the way they are meant to be, which is not the same thing.
Vanities, tops and mirrors
Set level, scribed to a wall that is never straight, and sealed at the backsplash. Medicine cabinets, mirrors, towel bars and accessories mounted into something solid, not just into drywall.
Drywall, trim and paint
Moisture-resistant board where it belongs, corners run straight, baseboard and door casing replaced, and the room painted in a finish that survives a steamy shower.
One crew, start to finish
The same people demo it, tile it, finish the drywall and paint it. Nobody is waiting on a subcontractor who is three jobs behind, and nobody gets to blame the last trade for how it looks.
A bathroom is one of five trades we run with our own crew. If your list is longer than one room, see everything we remodel — or go straight to flooring, painting or drywall and texture.
Tub-to-shower conversions and walk-in showers
The most requested bathroom job in this part of Florida, and it is not close.
Half the tubs in this area never get used. They sit there collecting dust in a guest bath, or they are the only option in a master where somebody is now stepping over a fourteen-inch wall every morning. Taking that tub out is usually the single change that makes a bathroom feel like a different room.
We pull the tub, rebuild the wall behind it properly, waterproof the whole shower area, and tile it. You can have a full glass enclosure, a half wall, or no door at all. A bench, a niche at the right height, a handheld on a slide bar, a second showerhead.
If this is about getting older in your own house, say so. There is a right way to do it that does not look like a hospital. A curbless entry you can walk or roll straight into, a floor tile with real grip instead of a polished one, blocking behind the wall so grab bars go into wood and not into hollow drywall, a bench at a height that works for you. Done at the same time as the remodel it costs very little extra. Retrofitted five years later it is a second demolition.
“Put the blocking in now. It is twenty dollars of wood today and a torn-out wall later.”
Waterproofing — the part you never see
Every failed shower we get called to look at failed behind the tile, not on it.
Tile is not waterproof. Grout is not waterproof. Water goes through both of them, slowly and constantly, every time somebody takes a shower. What keeps it out of your wall is the layer underneath — and because nobody can see that layer once the tile is on, it is the easiest place in the whole job to save a few hundred dollars.
That is why showers fail in year three. Loose tiles at the bottom of the wall, a dark line along the base that keeps coming back, a soft spot in the floor outside the shower, a musty smell nobody can locate. By then the fix is not regrouting. It is opening the wall.
We build showers with a proper waterproofing membrane over the backer board, corners and seams banded, the pan sloped to the drain before anything goes on top, and the joints where surfaces meet finished in caulk rather than grout, because that is a joint that has to move.
If we open your wall and find the last person did it wrong, you will see it yourself before we cover it back up.
Signs the last one failed
- Tiles that sound hollow when you tap them
- Grout that cracks back out after every repair
- A dark stain along the bottom row
- Soft or discolored floor outside the shower
- A smell that comes back after cleaning
- Paint bubbling on the other side of the wall
Small bathrooms, guest baths and condos
A small bathroom is not a small job. It is the same trades in a quarter of the space.
Guest baths, hall baths and condo bathrooms are some of our best work, and they are where planning pays off most. Every inch is accounted for, so the difference between a room that feels cramped and one that feels twice its size usually comes down to decisions made before anything is ordered — where the shower glass lands, whether the vanity floats, which direction the tile runs.
These are also the rooms people put off the longest, because they assume a remodel means the whole house is a construction site for a month. A single small bathroom that keeps its layout is usually the fastest project we do.
Condos come with their own rules — association approval, set working hours, and requirements about noise, elevators and how debris leaves the building. We have worked inside those rules plenty of times. Get your association’s requirements before you get quotes and everything downstream goes smoother.
Where small rooms are won
A curbless or low-profile entry, glass instead of a curtain, a recessed niche instead of a shelf, and a vanity that gives back floor space. None of it costs much more than the alternative. All of it is decided before anyone picks up a tool.
What a bathroom remodel costs
This is the number everybody wants first and the number nobody can give you honestly over the phone. Here is what actually decides it.
- Whether anything moves. The single biggest fork in the road. Keeping the toilet, sink and shower where they already are is one kind of project. Moving any of them means opening the floor, and that changes the number more than any tile you could pick.
- Tub, shower, or both. A tiled shower built from the studs is real labor — waterproofing, a sloped pan, layout, then the tile itself. It is usually the most expensive single element in the room.
- The size of the tile and the pattern. A large-format tile needs a flatter wall underneath and slower setting. Herringbone, a mosaic floor or a feature wall all take longer and waste more material than a straight layout.
- What is behind the walls. Nobody knows until demolition. Rotten framing under an old shower pan, a previous repair done badly, or galvanized pipe that should not be buried again. We quote what we can see and tell you honestly what the realistic unknowns are before you sign anything.
- The fixtures and finishes you choose. This is the part you control completely. The same bathroom, built identically, can swing enormously on the vanity, the tile and the faucets. We will lay out where the money actually shows and where it does not.
- How much of the house we have to protect. A guest bath off a hallway is straightforward. A master bath you reach by walking through carpeted living space means more protection, more containment and more cleanup every single day.
The estimate is free and the scope is in writing before anything is demolished — what is included, what is not, and what happens if we open a wall and find something. No deposit disappears into a job that never starts.
How the job goes
Step 1
We come look at it
Free, on your schedule. We measure, look at what is there, and talk through what you actually want out of the room before anyone talks about tile.
Step 2
Scope and price in writing
Line by line: what gets removed, what gets built, what you are choosing, and what is not included. Plus what happens if demolition turns something up.
Step 3
You pick the finishes
We tell you what each choice costs in money and in time, and where a cheaper option will not be noticed. You are never locked into buying anything through us.
Step 4
We build it
Demo, rough work, waterproofing, tile, finishes. You get told what is happening each day, and we walk the finished room with you before it is called done.
Where we work
We are based in Bradenton and our remodeling work stays within about an hour of it. A lot of these bathrooms have not been touched since the house was built, and out here that often means a garden tub nobody has filled in fifteen years taking up half the room.
Manatee County
Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Holmes Beach, Bradenton Beach
Sarasota County
Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Siesta Key, Longboat Key
Hillsborough County
Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, Valrico, Plant City
Pinellas County
St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Dunedin
Charlotte County
Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Rotonda West, Englewood
Questions people ask us
The ones that come up on nearly every estimate.
What does a bathroom remodel cost in Florida?
Anyone who answers that with a number before seeing your bathroom is guessing, and the guess is usually low on purpose. The same room can be two completely different projects depending on whether the plumbing stays where it is.
We measure it for free and put the whole scope in writing. When you compare quotes, compare what each one says about waterproofing and about what happens if demolition turns something up — that is where two estimates on the same bathroom go their separate ways.
What does a $10,000 bathroom remodel look like?
A budget in that range generally means keeping the layout exactly as it is — toilet, sink and shower stay put — and replacing what you see. New tile, a new vanity and top, new fixtures, paint, and a properly built shower in the same footprint.
What it does not usually cover is moving plumbing, enlarging the room, or a full gut where the framing turns out to need work. If your bathroom is small and the layout already works, that budget goes a lot further than people expect. We will tell you honestly what yours can and cannot buy.
What is the most expensive part of a bathroom remodel?
Two things compete for it. If the plumbing moves, that is almost always number one. It means opening the floor and it drags the whole schedule with it, which is why we look hard at whether your layout really needs to change.
If nothing moves, it is the shower. A tiled shower built from the studs is the most labor in the room: backer board, waterproofing, a sloped pan, layout, tile, then grout and caulk. It is also the element that fails first when somebody cheapens it, which is exactly why we do not.
Do I need a permit to renovate my bathroom in Florida?
It depends on how far the job goes. Replacing finishes in the same layout — tile, vanity, fixtures, paint — generally does not require one. Permits come in when the structure or the mechanical systems of the room change.
The exact line is drawn a little differently in Manatee, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Charlotte counties. We will tell you which side yours falls on at the estimate, so there are no surprises once the work starts.
How long will I be without the bathroom?
A straightforward remodel that keeps the layout usually runs one to two weeks. A full gut, or anything where plumbing moves and inspections have to be scheduled, runs longer — three weeks is realistic and we would rather say so now.
Part of it is simply waiting: mortar and grout have to cure, and pushing that is how tile jobs fail. If it is your only bathroom, tell us at the estimate. There are ways to sequence the work so you are not without one for the whole job.
Can you take out my tub and put in a walk-in shower?
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do. In most bathrooms the tub comes out, the wall behind it gets rebuilt and waterproofed, and a tiled shower goes in the same footprint — which usually means the plumbing does not have to move.
If it is about accessibility, tell us. A curbless entry, a floor tile with real grip and solid blocking behind the walls for grab bars cost very little extra while the wall is already open, and a great deal if they are added years later.
How are you different from the one-day bathroom companies?
Those companies fit an acrylic liner over what you already have. It goes in fast and it looks clean on day one. What it does not do is address whatever is behind the wall — and if the old shower was leaking, it is now leaking underneath a new surface where nobody can see it.
We take it back to the studs, look at what is actually there, fix it, and build the shower properly. It takes longer and there is no salesman in your kitchen the same evening. If your existing shower is genuinely sound and you only want it to look better, we will tell you that too.
Do you work in condos?
Yes, and a good share of our work is condo bathrooms. They come with their own rules: most associations require approval before work starts, set the hours crews can work, and have requirements about noise, elevator use and how debris leaves the building.
Get your association’s requirements before you get quotes. We will work to them, but they affect the schedule and the price, so it is better for everyone if they are known up front instead of discovered on day two.
Do I pick the materials or do you?
You pick. We will tell you what each choice means for cost and for the schedule — some tile takes longer to set, some vanities have long lead times — and we will point out where spending more actually shows and where it will not.
You are welcome to buy everything yourself. If you would rather we handle it, we can, but it is not a condition of hiring us and we are not hiding our margin in the material.
Do you speak Spanish?
Yes. Hablamos español. Call, text or send photos in either language and you will get an answer in the same one.
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