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Tremron Bathroom Remodeling: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide
If you’re holding a Tremron bath surround, shower pan, or paver-style bathroom product that’s cracked, delaminated, or no longer seating right, here’s the straight answer: a full Tremron-compatible bathroom remodel in West Palm Beach runs $9,000 to $28,000 installed, with the common mid-range master bath landing around $14,000 to $18,000. We stock Tremron-compatible substrates, trim profiles, and replacement pans on the truck for most service calls and can usually match your existing product within one to two business days. Most owners discover the failure the same way: a hairline crack at the pan lip that lets water wick into the subfloor, or a surround seam that’s pulling loose because the original setter skipped a moisture barrier in the Florida humidity.
We’re an independent West Palm Beach contractor, not a Tremron dealer or affiliate. That means we don’t have a sales quota tied to one product line. We match what you have, price it in writing, and install it so it holds.
Which Tremron Models This Applies To
Tremron doesn’t make a single “bathroom line.” Their core is concrete pavers and hardscape – but plenty of West Palm Beach homes built in the last 15 years used Tremron pavers or paver-style coping inside wet zones: walk-in shower floors, bath surrounds, curb caps, and even vanity toe-kick bases. If your bathroom has a paver-pattern shower floor or a textured concrete band running along the tub deck, there’s a good chance it came from Tremron’s Miami-Dade or Broward production runs. The compatibility gotcha: Tremron has changed their paver thickness specs over the years. Older runs came through at 60mm; current residential pavers are 50mm. If you’re replacing one cracked shower-floor paver, the new one needs to be milled down or you’ll have a proud edge that catches water and toes. We carry a paver saw on the truck for exactly that reason.
For surrounds and pans, Tremron-compatible trim and waterproofing components are what actually matter. The pavers themselves are simple. What fails is the setting bed underneath and the transition profile at the drain. OEM isn’t critical here – there is no “genuine Tremron shower pan” – but the substrate, slope, and drain flange have to be matched to the specific thickness of your existing material. Aftermarket equivalents from Fradon or Oldcastle often match Tremron’s color blends well enough that you can’t see the repair, and they’re what we use when a discontinued shade comes up. The rule we follow: match the age of the product, not just the name on the pallet.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Tremron Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing
- Water staining on the ceiling below the bathroom. This is almost always a leak at the shower pan perimeter or a cracked paver letting water through to the subfloor. The stain usually appears weeks after the crack does, which means you’re already into the framing by the time you see it.
- Loose or hollow-sounding pavers underfoot. A solid paver bed sounds flat and dead when tapped. If you get a hollow knock, the setting bed underneath has eroded or separated. In West Palm Beach, this happens faster because summer humidity keeps the bed from ever fully drying between uses.
- Efflorescence or white chalky residue at the grout lines. Minerals are being pulled through the bed. It’s not cosmetic – it means water is moving through places it shouldn’t, and the salts are degrading the grout from the back side.
- Cracks at the drain collar. The drain flange and the paver field expand at different rates. Without a flexible isolation joint, the pavers crack in a star pattern radiating from the drain. This is the number one repair we see in showers built before 2015.
- Musty odor that comes and goes with the rain. Florida’s water table is high, and moisture moves through the slab. If the original remodel didn’t include a proper capillary break or vapor barrier under the bed, you’ll get that swamp smell every time it rains hard.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
Here’s the real money, broken out the way we price it in West Palm Beach:
- Shower pan replacement (paver-style): $3,000 to $8,500 installed, depending on pan size and whether the existing drain can be reused.
- Full bathroom remodel with Tremron-compatible materials: $9,000 to $28,000. This covers demo to the studs, new waterproofing, new pan, surround or tile, fixture rough-in, and finish work.
- Surround repair or replacement: $1,200 to $4,000 when we can keep the pan and just rework the walls.
- Isolated paver replacement in shower floor: $400 to $1,800, including milling the replacement to match existing thickness and re-grouting the affected area.
What moves the number: whether the subfloor is rotted (it often is, once water’s been moving for six months), whether the drain needs to be repositioned to meet current Florida code, and whether we’re matching an existing paver color that’s been discontinued. Every scope we write in West Palm Beach includes a written line-item price before we start. No change orders at the door. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers the entire job in writing – if any part of the work fails inside a year, we come back and make it right at no charge.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely do two things yourself: identify the failure (which of the signs above you’re seeing) and shut off the water to the bathroom if you suspect a supply-side leak. After that, stop. Tremron pavers in a shower bed aren’t like floor tile – the bed underneath is engineered for slope, drainage, and load. Cutting into it without knowing the bed depth, the waterproofing layer, and the drain clamp configuration turns a $1,800 repair into a $12,000 subfloor replacement. Florida building code also requires specific slope tolerances (1/4 inch per foot on the pan) and a flood test before the finish goes back on. If the test isn’t done and documented, an inspector can flag it and you’ll be redoing the work anyway.
If you’re seeing cracks, hollow spots, or ceiling stains below the bathroom, call us at (728) 203-9809. We’ll send a uniformed technician to look at it, give you a written price, and tell you honestly if the pan can be saved or if you’re into a full redo. Straight number, full scope, no surprises after the invoice.
FAQs
A properly installed, properly sloped paver shower pan in West Palm Beach should last 15 to 20 years before the setting bed or drainage components need reworking. The Florida humidity shortens that window compared to drier climates because the bed rarely dries completely between uses, which accelerates erosion in the mortar. If yours is failing in under 10 years, the original setter likely skipped a step – most often the capillary break under the bed or the isolation joint at the drain. Call (728) 203-9809 and we’ll tell you what you’re actually looking at.
Yes, in most cases. We can cut out the damaged paver, mill a replacement to match the existing 50mm or 60mm thickness, reset it, and re-grout the seams. The repair runs $400 to $1,800 in West Palm Beach. What determines whether it’s a simple swap or a bigger job is whether the bed underneath has already eroded – if the paver was loose before it cracked, you’re likely into a pan replacement. We’ll know within the first 10 minutes of looking at it.
Plan on three to five working days for a shower pan replacement and seven to fourteen days for a full bathroom remodel in West Palm Beach. The timeline stretches when we have to pull permits and schedule inspections, which we do on every remodel – Florida code requires it and it protects your resale value. We’ll put the schedule in writing with the price, and if anything shifts, Curtis Lane calls you before it happens.
We stock the substrates, trim profiles, drain flanges, and replacement materials needed for most Tremron-compatible bathroom repairs, plus a paver saw for matching thicknesses on site. For specific Tremron color blends or discontinued shades, we source from Fradon and Oldcastle’s aftermarket lines and usually have what we need in one to two business days. If you’re unsure what you have, call (728) 203-9809 and we’ll help you identify it over the phone.
One more thing worth knowing: Curtis Lane learned the trade at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and has spent the better part of three decades running crews through everything from slab foundation work to full gut renovations. He’s been running jobs in West Palm Beach for years, including work along the Northwood Village corridor, and he keeps a small vegetable garden wherever he can claim space – mostly because it’s the one thing he can’t rush.
We also stock and install components for KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone products when a remodel crosses over into vanities and countertops. But if your issue is a failed Tremron bathroom installation, start by calling (728) 203-9809 for a free estimate. We’ll give you the straight answer, in writing, before any work begins.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner, Bradford Remodeling Co – West Palm Beach at Bradford Remodeling Co West Palm Beach, serving West Palm Beach and nearby areas.
