Bathroom remodel in Coral Springs, FL.

It added more than 35,000 people a decade through the 70s, 80s and 90s, and 73 percent of its housing dates from those three decades, with the single biggest cohort, almost a third, from the 1980s (Census ACS 2024). That makes the typical Coral Springs bathroom an original from 35 to 45 years ago: a one-story house with a hip roof, a fiberglass or tiled tub alcove, a cultured-marble vanity top and an exhaust fan that gave up during the Bush administration.

• Family city: a quarter of residents are under 18 and households are the largest in my service area, so the bathroom I'm asked for most is a hall bath that two kids share, with a tub that stays and a second sink if the wall allows.
• Single-family town: only about 11 percent of units are in buildings of 20 or more, so condo logistics are rare here. HOA subdivisions are the norm instead.
• Eagle Trace, Heron Bay, Wyndham Lakes: guard-gated golf communities from the late 1980s to 2001 with master associations and sub-HOAs. Maplewood and Ramblewood are the 1970s and early-80s originals.
• Several water utilities: the city's own lime-softening plant serves most addresses, with North Springs and Coral Springs Improvement Districts and Royal Waterworks serving others. Which one you're on depends on your street.

What they sell is an acrylic liner or composite surround fitted over the old alcove in a day or two, usually at a kitchen-table visit with financing. What I build is a real tiled shower on a waterproofed pan, in 7 to 10 working days, with a bench, a niche and any tile you like, at a fixed price from me. In a 1980s house whose tub alcove has never been opened, I'd rather see what's behind the wall than seal it in.

Inside the house, nothing about the zone changes the tile work.

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This is unusual and worth saying plainly: the city's Owner-Occupied Home Repair Program offers eligible low- and moderate-income owner-occupants up to $65,000 as a deferred loan forgiven over fifteen years, and its barrier-free track names bathroom and kitchen retrofitting and mobility improvements specifically, for homes valued under about $679,000. Broward County runs a county-wide barrier-free track too. If that might be you, call the city at 954-344-1114 and I'll write the itemized quote the application needs.