Wellfleet · Outer Cape
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Wellfleet with bathroom tile, shower tile, kitchen tile, floor tile, and backsplash tile installation across the lower Cape.
Every project starts with an on-site visit to review the subfloor, framing, and waterproofing before a quote is written, so the estimate reflects what the job in your Wellfleet home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Wellfleet homeowners.
About Tile of America
Tile of America is a licensed tile contractor based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth. Owner Marco Aurélio and his crew install bathroom, shower, kitchen, backsplash, and floor tile throughout Cape Cod. Every installation includes a one-year written workmanship warranty. In Wellfleet that covers both ends of the town, the antique houses up around the Center and the cottages out on the necks and down in South Wellfleet.
Tile Work for Wellfleet Homes
Wellfleet is really two towns stacked on top of each other. Around the Center and up toward Chequessett Neck there are captains houses and antique Capes on their original framing. South of there, out on Indian Neck and through South Wellfleet, the stock is mostly cottages and houses put up from the nineteen sixties onward, a lot of them built for summer and insulated for summer. A tile job behaves differently in each, so Tile of America reads the building before pricing the room.
Tile of America evaluates the subfloor condition, moisture exposure, and finish height requirements before any material is ordered. Every installation is built on substrates and waterproofing methods suited to the actual conditions of the home, not a standard template.
Tile
Showers, bathroom floors and walls, backsplashes and tile repair across Wellfleet. Shower assemblies are built on Schluter Kerdi-Board with a bonded membrane over the seams, corners and curb, because the barrier behind the tile does more work than the tile does.
Bathroom
Complete Wellfleet bathroom remodels, not just the tile. Layout, waterproofing, fixtures and finishes handled as one job, including walk-in shower and tub-to-shower conversions, so nobody is waiting on another trade to show up.
Kitchen
Full kitchen work for Wellfleet homeowners, from cabinets and counters through to the backsplash and floor. One contractor through the whole job, with the scope and the number in writing before anything is opened up.
Flooring
Porcelain, ceramic and natural stone through kitchens, entries and living areas, plus the subfloor preparation underneath it. Large-format tile needs a floor flat within a tight tolerance, so Wellfleet subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Wellfleet kitchens and bathrooms, templated on site and fitted to the cabinets that are actually there. Old tops removed and disposed of as part of the job.
Market ranges for Wellfleet and the surrounding Outer Cape towns, so you can size a budget before anyone visits. Every job is still measured on site, and the written scope is what the price attaches to.
| Work | Typical range | What moves the number |
|---|---|---|
| Shower tile, installed | $18 to $35 per sq ft | Size of the shower, tile format, and whether the pan and curb are rebuilt |
| Bathroom floor and wall tile | $10 to $25 per sq ft | Layout, how level the substrate is, and the amount of cutting around fixtures |
| Kitchen backsplash | $15 to $40 per sq ft | Tile format, outlet and switch cutouts, and whether an old backsplash comes off first |
| Heated floor, tiled | $15 to $35 per sq ft | Mat or cable system, floor area, and the thermostat location |
| Tile removal and demolition | $3 to $8 per sq ft | What is under the tile, and whether the substrate survives the removal |
| Full tiled shower, typical project | $3,000 to $9,000 | Everything above taken together, plus waterproofing, niche and bench work |
| Bathroom remodel, typical project | $9,000 to $34,000 | Scope, fixtures, and how much of the room is opened up |
| Kitchen remodel, typical project | $25,000 to $90,000 | Cabinets, counters, whether the layout moves, and the condition underneath |
Tile of America is registered with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs as HIC #220711 · CS-123907, which you can check on mass.gov. Work is supervised under CSL #CS-123907.
A Wellfleet shower is either going into a two-hundred-year-old house or a summer cottage, and the two fail in completely different ways.
Up around the Center and on Chequessett Neck the houses are old enough to have board subfloors and plaster, framing that settled generations ago, and bathrooms carved out of rooms that were never bathrooms. The floors there are rarely level and almost never stiff enough for stone without help.
South Wellfleet and the necks are the opposite problem. Those houses are newer and straighter, but many were built as seasonal cottages with light framing, wide joist spacing and minimal insulation. A floor like that can look perfect and still move more than ceramic tolerates.
Both end the same way if the preparation is skipped. The tile is not what breaks, it is the bond layer and then the waterproofing, and on the Outer Cape the first sign is usually a smell or a soft spot rather than a crack.
That is why a Wellfleet quote comes after we have been in the room. Deflection and framing are checked first, the shower is built on Schluter Kerdi-Board, which is waterproof through the panel rather than coated, and a bonded membrane is detailed over every seam, corner and curb on top of it.
Permit requirements in Wellfleet depend on the scope, and parts of the town sit inside a local historic district.
Tile going back over a substrate that is already sound is finish work, and it does not normally need a permit.
Once a drain moves, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated, it does, and that is most full shower rebuilds. The Wellfleet Building Department makes that call project by project.
Wellfleet has its own local historic districts rather than being part of the regional Old Kings Highway district, and they are concerned with what a building shows the street. A bathroom inside the house does not come into it. If a remodel reaches an exterior wall, a window or a door, ask first, because that is the point where review can apply.
Settle the scope with the Building Department before anything is opened up, and we will tell you which parts of a project are likely to need it.
Permits for this work are issued by the Wellfleet Building Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
The visible part of a Wellfleet tile job is the part that was never in question. What decides it is the panel, the membrane and the floor underneath, and those are chosen differently for an antique house near the Center than for a seasonal build out on Indian Neck.
It is a small share of the budget and the whole of the outcome.
A foam-core panel with the waterproofing bonded into it, so the board itself is the barrier rather than a coating over cement board. On the Outer Cape, where humidity sits high and houses are often shut, that distinction is the job.
Premium wet-area systemThe panel is waterproof through its core and a bonded Kerdi membrane covers every seam, corner and curb above it. Two separate layers, so a single failure has nowhere to go.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, framing condition, self-leveling and finish height against the next floor, all read on site. In Wellfleet that answer swings widely between an antique frame and a nineteen-seventies cottage.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Wellfleet and the Outer Cape towns along Route 6. From South Wellfleet and Eastham up through Truro and Provincetown, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners across the region.
Wellfleet · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Wellfleet and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Wellfleet and across Cape Cod. Covered workmanship issues are repaired at no charge, with no inspection fee.
The warranty is provided in writing before work begins, so you know exactly what workmanship protection applies to the installation.
“You cannot judge what is behind the tile. You can judge the people you trust to build it.”
What homeowners worry about
We inspect the structure before we quote, define the scope clearly and put one number in writing before work begins.
Marco is personally involved on every project, working alongside installers trained to follow Tile of America’s standards.
Waterproofing, substrate preparation and installation are treated as one complete system, long before the first tile is set.
Clear answers about tile installation, repairs, preparation, service areas, finishing standards, and licensing across Cape Cod.
Shower tile runs $18 to $35 per square foot installed, bathroom floor and wall tile $10 to $25, and a kitchen backsplash $15 to $40. A full tiled shower usually lands between $3,000 and $9,000. Wellfleet spans antique houses and light-built cottages, and the preparation each needs is what moves the number, so it is set after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. A permit is required from the Wellfleet Building Department once the work touches plumbing, moves a drain, or opens framing, which covers most shower rebuilds. We pull it before work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
Yes, and it changes the quote. Houses near the Center and up on Chequessett Neck are old enough to have board subfloors and framing that has long since settled, so the floor usually needs correcting before tile. South Wellfleet and the necks are mostly newer cottages, straighter but built light for summer, which can move more than they look like they would. We price what is actually there.
Yes, and on the Outer Cape that is normally the first question. We book shower and floor work for the shoulder seasons and hold firm end dates when a rental calendar or an arrival depends on it. Give us the date the house has to be ready and we will say plainly whether the scope fits.
Yes. Both ask more of the preparation than standard ceramic. Natural stone needs the right setting material and sealing, and some stone will show a reaction to the wrong cleaner for the rest of its life. Large-format tile needs a floor flat within a tight tolerance or the corners lip. We will tell you what your floor needs before you choose the material, not after.
One to two weeks for a standard shower rebuild, longer where stone or a complex layout is involved. Waterproofing has to cure before tile is set, which cannot be compressed. The day-by-day sequence is in writing before we start.
Yes. Tile of America is registered as a Home Improvement Contractor with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs under HIC #220711, and work is supervised under Construction Supervisor License #CS-123907. Both are public records you can look up on mass.gov before hiring anyone, and we encourage it.
If you are deciding which surfaces to tile, working out whether your current floor can hold new material, or wondering whether repair work needs to happen first, that is the right time to reach out. Tile of America visits the property before quoting, so the estimate reflects the actual conditions of your Wellfleet home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
