Tub to shower conversion in Boca Raton, FL.

Boca West's Arbor Lake village dates to 1977 to 1979; Century Village's buildings to 1979, with units of roughly 600 to 900 square feet where the bathroom is small and the tub takes most of it. A conversion in a room that size does more than any other change could: the 14-inch step is gone, the glass panel opens the room, and a bench fits where the tub's end wall was. A quarter of Boca residents are 65 or over, so blocking for grab bars goes into every wall I open.

• Royal Palm's homes from 1959 and the Old Floresta Mizner houses: cast-iron tubs cut out in pieces, plaster replaced with cement board, the drain scoped.
• Twenty-four percent of Boca units are in buildings of 50 or more; the riser shut-off and the service elevator go on the schedule.
• Century Village and the Boca West villages: your association's documents govern insurance and hours. The city publishes no approval-letter rule, so the village's is the one I follow.

Boca publishes its hardness, 65 to 80 milligrams per liter as calcium carbonate, 3.8 to 4.7 grains, at a pH of 8.0 to 8.5 with a chloramine residual, from a plant that pairs a lime-softening line more than 50 years old with a 40 million-gallon membrane process built in 2005. That is harder than the water in most of the Broward cities I work in, and it shows on glass and trim. So in Boca I spec differently: a factory protective coating on the shower glass, porcelain rather than natural stone on the walls, a thermostatic valve with a cartridge the plumber can swap in ten minutes, and a hand-held on a slide bar you can rinse the door with. None of it is exotic. It's just the right list for this water.

• The city adds no fluoride; whatever is in the water occurs naturally.
• A squeegee after each shower and a monthly vinegar wipe keep coated glass clear for years.

• Outside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone: if the job includes a bathroom window, it needs an approval meeting the local wind requirements, a standard Florida product approval or a qualifying Miami-Dade one.

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That changes the tub conversion math. It also changes the drive: Boca is about 35 minutes from Plantation and across the county line, so I come for a conversion, a walk-in or a full bathroom, and I group the visits, the quote, the glass measure after tile and the walkthrough, so you're never waiting on me.

• The glass is measured after the tile and takes about a week; hanging it is sometimes a short return trip.
• One year on the work, the Done Right Promise, 35 minutes away or not.