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Unilock Bathroom Remodeling: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide
Unilock bathroom remodeling in West Palm Beach typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 installed, depending on square footage, waterproofing scope, and whether you’re carrying Unilock pavers into the shower floor, vanity surround, or a full wet-room build. Most of our calls start the same way: a homeowner notices grout failing, water staining below the curb, or a Unilock paver that’s shifted and won’t sit flush. You want it priced honestly and matched to the right product line. That’s exactly what this page covers.
We’re Bradford Remodeling Co West Palm Beach, and we’re an independent contractor serving Palm Beach County. We install and work with Unilock materials, but we are not affiliated with Unilock and don’t claim to be a factory outlet. What we do claim is this: written pricing before work starts, brand-name materials with traceable specs, and a one-year guarantee on every completed project.
Which Unilock Models This Applies To
Unilock has two product categories that show up in bathroom work. The first is their Estate Series pavers, which people use for shower floors and accent walls; the second is the Artline Series, which has a flatter, more contemporary profile and fits tighter joints. There’s a real compatibility gotcha here: Estate pavers are thicker, typically 60 to 80 millimeters, and that extra height changes how your shower pan is sloped before tile or stone ever touches it. If a contractor treats Unilock pavers like standard 10mm tile, your drain line sits too high and the floor won’t shed water properly.
To identify what you have, look at the underside of a loose paver. Unilock stamps a series code and sometimes a mold number. If you can’t find it, measure the paver thickness. That single number tells us more than the color or pattern does. We also keep OEM Unilock product specs on file for our West Palm Beach jobs, and when a paver line has been discontinued, we source a quality aftermarket match with the same dimensions, depth, and joint tolerance. For bathroom use, we spec porcelain pavers whenever the Unilock line is no longer available, because porcelain holds up better than concrete in constant wet-and-dry cycles. That sub is something we document in writing before we order materials, so you’re never guessing what’s going underfoot.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Unilock Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing
- Grout keeps cracking along the shower floor. Pavers are thicker than tile and move differently as a system. If the mortar bed underneath wasn’t built to handle that depth, the grout becomes the first casualty.
- Paver edges are chipping near the drain. That’s almost always a pitch issue. Water pools in one low spot, saturates the joint, and the freeze-thaw cycle even in West Palm Beach’s climate causes microfractures along the thinnest edges.
- You smell mildew no matter how often you clean. Water is trapped behind or under the paver layer. It’s evaporating slowly inside the substrate instead of draining, which means the subfloor is holding moisture long after the shower dries.
- A paver rocks when you step on it. This is the symptom we hear most. A rocking paver means the mortar bed has developed a void underneath. If left alone, the paver will crack and the adjoining joint will fail.
- Staining or efflorescence on the paver surface. White mineral streaks aren’t just cosmetic. They mean water is traveling through the paver body and depositing salt on the surface, which means the sealer has failed and water is moving where it shouldn’t be.
If you’ve got more than one of these symptoms, call us. We’ll come out and tell you what’s root cause and what’s cosmetic. No charge for the estimate.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
Here’s the straight number for West Palm Beach work. A full bathroom remodel involving Unilock materials runs $9,000 to $28,000. At the lower end, you’re looking at a small hall bath where the shower pan and floor get re-sloped, new Unilock pavers installed, and existing fixtures reused. At the upper end, it’s a primary bath with a wet-room layout, full waterproofing under the paver system, new curb, new drain, and finish plumbing. The biggest cost drivers are the size of the wet area, whether we’re pulling up and rebuilding the substrate, and whether the original installer cut corners on the waterproofing membrane.
Our bid includes all materials, old paver removal and disposal, substrate assessment, membrane installation where required, paver setting with proper slope, sealing, and a written scope of work. It does not include permit fees, but we will pull permits when the job calls for it and line-item that cost separately. Every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work fails inside one year, we come back and correct it at no charge. That’s not a verbal understanding. It’s in writing, signed at job close.
DIY or Call Us?
There is not much about a failed Unilock bathroom floor that an owner should DIY safely. This is not a door hinge. The paver layer sits on a sloped mortar bed over a waterproofing membrane that protects the subfloor and whatever is below it. If you pull up a loose paver and chisel at the bed without knowing how the membrane was installed, you can punch a hole through it and turn a $2,000 shower pan repair into a $9,000 subfloor and ceiling repair for the room below. Once water gets under the membrane in a West Palm Beach slab home, it doesn’t dry out on its own. It travels.
What you can do safely is mark the loose or cracked pavers, take photos, and shut off water to that bathroom if you see active leaking. Then call us at (728) 203-9809. We’ll come out, look at what’s actually happening under the paver, and give you a written number before anything gets ordered. That’s the Bradford way: no estimate that changes when the job starts, no surprises on the back end.
FAQs
Installed over a properly sloped mortar bed with intact waterproofing, Unilock pavers in a West Palm Beach bathroom should give you 15 to 20 years before the sealer needs meaningful rework. The paver itself doesn’t fail early. What fails early is the substrate underneath it, typically because the original bed was too thin or the membrane was damaged at the drain collar. Heat and humidity in South Florida accelerate that failure, so if you’re seeing cracked grout inside ten years, the issue is the install, not the paver.
Yes, sometimes. If the void is small, the surrounding bed is sound, and the membrane is intact, we can remove the affected pavers, re-set them in a proper mortar bed, re-grout, and re-seal. But if the void is larger than the paver itself, or if we find water staining under the mortar, you’re looking at a full floor rebuild. We will not quote you a spot fix if we know it won’t hold. Call (728) 203-9809 and we’ll tell you which situation you have.
A small repair, like resetting three or four loose pavers, is usually a one-day job including dry time before sealing. A full shower floor rebuild with new membrane, slope correction, and paver installation takes three to five working days in West Palm Beach, depending on whether we need to accommodate inspection timing and humidity for proper mortar cure.
We keep common Estate Series pavers and porcelain equivalents in our West Palm Beach materials inventory, and we order the full Unilock catalog on a per-project basis. We also work with the same premium brand families we use on remodel work throughout the home: KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone when the bathroom scope goes beyond the wet area. If you need a specific Unilock color or profile, we’ll source it and give you the lead time in writing before we order.
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.
