Walk-in shower in Weston, zero entry.

Half of Weston's housing was built between 1990 and 1999 and another 23 percent in the 2000s (Census ACS 2024), nearly all of it under the one master plan that started with Windmill Ranch and Country Isles in 1984. Weston also has the largest households of any city I work in, 3.16 people, with more than a quarter of residents under 18, so the zero-entry shower here is often for a grandparent in a house full of kids. Where the primary bath sits decides the build. Downstairs on the slab, I either recess the shower footprint for a linear drain or use a tile-top linear drain that sits nearly flush and needs less concrete work. Upstairs on a framed floor, which is common in Weston's two-story homes, I recess the subfloor between the joists and the shower floor finishes level with the bathroom, no concrete cut at all. Either way the pan is flood-tested for 24 hours before a tile goes on, which is what keeps the ceiling below dry.

• Weston Hills: 2,133 single-family homes between two 18-hole courses, a master association and six sub-associations. Savanna, listings show, is about 2,800 homes and townhomes from around 1999 to 2000; The Falls shows homes from 1996.
• Bonaventure, the 1,300-acre community annexed in 1997, is where Weston's condos are, building by building; a condo deck is never cut, so there the zero entry is a raised floor.
• Tile floor to ceiling, a bench poured into the pan, niches, grab-bar blocking, and 3/8-inch frameless glass measured after the grout.

Weston Hills' master association oversees architectural modifications across its community, and the roads and common areas inside gated neighborhoods are the association's private property. For a walk-in shower that means gate passes for my crew and the plumber, a parking spot for the work truck, trash hauled out rather than left at the curb, and working hours the neighbors can live with. Bring the documents to the first visit and I'll build the schedule around them. In Bonaventure, water questions go to Sunrise, not Weston Public Works, so the shut-off is coordinated with the right office.

The city's 2024 report found no lead service lines anywhere in its area and counted every line installed after January 1989 as lead-free. For a walk-in, soft water means frameless glass and a tile-top drain stay clean with a squeegee, and the only fight is humidity, which a ducted exhaust fan sized for the room wins.