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Cambridge Pavers Bathroom Remodeling: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
Bathroom remodeling that incorporates Cambridge Pavers products in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 installed, depending on square footage, fixture grade, and how much of the existing waterproofing needs to be torn out. Most Cambridge Pavers bathroom projects in this market land between $12,000 and $18,000 when you’re replacing a tub surround, floor, and vanity in a standard 5×8 guest bath. The majority of failures we see aren’t the pavers themselves – they’re the substrate, the slope, or the sealant that was applied incorrectly by whoever did the first install. In Fort Lauderdale’s humidity and salt air, a paver floor that wasn’t sloped properly will show pooling water within the first year, and that’s usually when the call comes in.
Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To
Cambridge Pavers are most commonly installed as flooring and shower surrounds in South Florida bathrooms, and the compatibility question usually comes down to how the original installer set them. Cambridge’s smooth-finish pavers with a high coefficient of friction are the ones rated for wet interior floors – the textured or tumbled lines are too porous for standing water. If you’re working with a Cambridge paver floor in a Fort Lauderdale bathroom, you’ll need to know whether the original setter used a polymer-modified thinset rated for interior wet areas or exterior mortar, because that determines whether we can salvage sections or need a full tear-out. The paver thickness matters too: Cambridge’s 60mm pavers are common for patios, but interior bathroom floors should be the 30mm or 40mm profiles to keep finished floor height from climbing above the door threshold. We also work with homeowners who mixed Cambridge Pavers outside with a seamless transition into the bathroom – that’s a popular Florida look, and it comes with its own set of expansion joint requirements.
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Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing
- Water pooling in the same spot after every shower. This means the floor slope has settled or was never set to the required 1/4-inch per foot. In Fort Lauderdale, where humidity keeps surfaces damp longer, pooled water turns into efflorescence – the white chalky residue you see creeping across paver joints.
- Grout or joint sand crumbling along the edges. Interior bathroom pavers should be set with tight joints and sealed grout, not sand. If you’re seeing sand wash toward the drain, the original installer used exterior methods indoors, and the floor is breaking down from the joints outward.
- A hollow sound when you tap a paver. That’s a bond failure underneath – the paver has separated from the mortar bed. Tap around the floor with a broom handle; hollow spots mean water is getting under and the failure will spread.
- Dark stains blooming around the perimeter. In Fort Lauderdale slab-on-grade homes, moisture wicks up through concrete if a vapor barrier wasn’t installed before the paver bed went down. The darkening never dries, and it’s not a cleaning issue – it’s a moisture migration problem under the floor.
- Mold or mildew growing in the grout lines despite regular cleaning. Sealed pavers in a bathroom need re-sealing every 2 to 3 years in Florida’s climate. If the sealant has worn through, the pavers absorb shower water and organic buildup takes hold. This is usually a re-seal and joint repair, not a full replacement.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
A full Cambridge Pavers bathroom remodel in Fort Lauderdale – tear-out of the old floor, substrate correction, new paver installation, sealing, and finish work – runs $9,000 to $28,000. The spread comes down to three things: bathroom size, what we find when we pull the old floor, and whether you’re keeping existing fixtures or replacing them. A smaller guest bath with a 40-square-foot paver floor and no surprise substrate damage will sit near $9,000 to $12,000. A master bath with a walk-in shower, custom sink surround, and the need for a new mortar bed will push toward the top of that range. Here’s what the numbers look like:
- Cambridge Pavers flooring (materials): $2,500 – $6,000 depending on square footage and paver profile
- Demolition and disposal: $800 – $1,800
- Substrate repair and waterproofing: $1,500 – $4,000 – this is where Fort Lauderdale slab homes often need vapor barrier work
- Paver installation labor: $2,500 – $7,000 depending on layout complexity
- Sealing and joint finishing: $600 – $1,800
- Fixtures (vanity, shower hardware, lighting): $1,200 – $7,000 – we install Kohler, Moen, and Toto, and we can tie in KraftMaid, Cambria, or Silestone surfaces if you’re updating the vanity too
Every Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale project gets a written price before any work starts. Not a range, not a verbal estimate – a line-item quote that doesn’t grow at the end. And the work is covered by our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if anything isn’t right within a year of completion, we make it right at no cost to you. Call (754) 354-3720 to schedule a free estimate.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things on your own: tap the floor for hollow spots, look for pooling after a shower, and check whether grout crumbling is isolated or widespread. That tells you what you’re dealing with. What you shouldn’t do is pull up pavers yourself. Interior paver floors in bathrooms sit on mortar beds that are bonded to the slab, and pulling one paver usually cracks the surrounding bond. Worse, many Fort Lauderdale bathrooms from the 1980s and 1990s have their original waterproofing beneath the mortar bed – once you break that layer, water migrates into the slab and you’ve turned a $2,000 repair into an $8,000 substrate rebuild. The safe path is to have someone who knows paver systems in Florida’s climate look at it. We’ll tell you what we found, what it takes to fix it, and what it will cost – before we touch a thing. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll set up a free inspection.
FAQs
A properly installed and sealed Cambridge Pavers bathroom floor lasts 20 to 30 years in Fort Lauderdale, but the sealant needs reapplication every 2 to 3 years because of our humidity and hard water. The pavers themselves rarely fail – it’s the substrate and sealant that determine the lifespan. Call (754) 354-3720 to have us check whether your floor just needs a re-seal or something more involved.
Yes, isolated hollow spots can be repaired by removing and re-setting individual pavers, and worn sealant can be stripped and reapplied without replacing any material. But if more than 20% of the floor has bond failure or the waterproofing underneath is compromised, a full replacement is the honest call. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll tell you which side of that line you’re on.
A standard paver floor replacement in a Fort Lauderdale bathroom takes 5 to 7 working days including demolition, substrate work, installation, and sealing. Full bathroom remodels with shower surrounds and fixture changes run 10 to 14 working days. We’ll put the timeline in your written quote so you know exactly what to expect.
We source Cambridge Pavers directly through our supplier relationships and coordinate delivery to match your project schedule, so you don’t have to arrange trucking or storage. We also work with KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone for vanity and surface components if your bathroom remodel goes beyond the floor. Call (754) 354-3720 and we’ll pull availability for your specific paver profile.
If your Cambridge Pavers bathroom floor is pooling water, hollow, or growing grout mold in Fort Lauderdale, don’t wait until the substrate fails. Call Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale at (754) 354-3720 and schedule a free estimate. We’ll send a technician whose name and photo you’ll have before they arrive, give you a written price before any work starts, and back the finished job with our 365-Day Done Right Promise. We are an independent service provider and not affiliated with Cambridge Pavers.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
