Bathrooms and custom tile showers, built from the waterproofing out.

A bathroom lives or dies on what you cannot see. The tile everyone compliments is sitting on waterproofing, slope, and backer board that either got done right or will announce itself through the ceiling below in a few years. Colton's crew builds from behind the wall out, so the part you see stays the part you see.

What the crew handles

• Full bathroom remodels: layout, fixtures, vanity, flooring, paint, trim
• Custom tile showers, from pan and waterproofing to the last bead of seal
• Tub-to-shower conversions
• Tile floors, walls, and backsplashes set level and spaced clean
• The repairs a bathroom hides: subfloor, backer board, past leaks

Tile work beyond the bathroom

The same tile crew handles kitchen backsplashes, entryways, laundry rooms, and floors anywhere in the house. Tile is unforgiving: a lippage you can catch a toenail on, grout lines that wander, a hollow spot under a corner. It is set right the first time or it is redone, and redoing it is expensive. That is why it belongs with a crew that does it constantly.

Working in a small bathroom?

Most Springfield hall baths are 5 by 7. Colton wrote a guide on small bathroom layouts that actually work: what makes a tight room feel bigger, which moves are worth the money, and which "space-saving" ideas cost more than they give back.