Cotuit · Village of Barnstable
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Cotuit 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 Cotuit home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Cotuit 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. Cotuit is a small village of old houses, and in houses like that the bathroom is usually a room that was converted rather than built.
Tile Work for Cotuit Homes
Cotuit is the westernmost village of the Town of Barnstable and the smallest of them, a compact old village on the bay with narrow lanes and a housing stock that goes back a long way. Many of the bathrooms here were fitted into rooms that were never meant to be bathrooms, in houses whose floors and walls settled generations ago. That makes layout as much of a question as material, and Tile of America works both out on site before quoting.
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 Cotuit. 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 Cotuit 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 Cotuit 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 Cotuit subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Cotuit 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 Cotuit and the surrounding Mid 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.
Most Cotuit bathrooms were carved out of rooms that started as something else, and the shower has to fit what the house allows.
In a village this old, bathrooms were added long after the houses were built. A pantry became a half bath, a bedroom was divided, a space under a stair was pressed into service. The plumbing went wherever it could rather than wherever it should.
That leaves real constraints. Ceilings slope, doorways are narrow, a shower has to sit where the drain already is because moving it means opening a floor over a room below, and the walls on either side are rarely square to each other. A layout drawn on paper without seeing the room will not survive the first morning.
The structure is the other half. Floors of this age are boards or boards with something laid over them, they have settled unevenly, and they move seasonally in a way that a rigid tiled finish does not tolerate without preparation.
So the job is planned in the room. Framing, deflection and levels are read on site, the floor is brought to a genuinely flat plane, the shower is built on Schluter Kerdi-Board, waterproof through the panel rather than coated, and a bonded membrane is detailed over every seam, corner and curb.
Permit requirements depend on the scope, and in Cotuit they are handled by the Town of Barnstable rather than by a village office.
First thing worth knowing: Cotuit is a village of the Town of Barnstable. There is no Cotuit building department, and permits come from the Town of Barnstable Building Division.
Tile replaced over a sound substrate is finish work and normally needs no permit. Once a drain is moved, framing opened, or plumbing relocated it does, and in an old house a shower rebuild usually involves at least one of those.
Cotuit sits south of Route 6, so the Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District does not apply here however old the house is. That district covers the north side of the Cape from Sandwich through Orleans and nothing on the south shore.
Settle the scope with Barnstable before anything is opened up. We pull the permit before the work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
Permits for this work are issued by the Town of Barnstable Building Division, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
In a house that predates everyone who has lived in it, the decisive work is making an old, settled, seasonally moving floor into something flat and stiff enough to carry tile, and doing it without raising the floor past what the original doorways allow.
It is the part of the estimate nobody photographs, and the only part that determines whether the job is still sound in ten years.
A foam-core panel with bonded waterproofing fleece, so the board itself is the barrier rather than a coating over cement board. It is also thin and light, which matters in a tight converted room where every inch is already accounted for.
Premium wet-area systemWaterproof through the panel core, then a bonded Kerdi membrane over every seam, corner and curb. Two independent layers, because the framing behind the wall of a house this old is not something you want to replace.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, board condition and movement, self-leveling needs, and finish height against original doorways, all read on site before a panel is cut.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Cotuit and the other villages of the Town of Barnstable. From Osterville and Marstons Mills across to Centerville, Hyannis, Mashpee and Falmouth, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners throughout the area.
Cotuit · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Cotuit and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Cotuit 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. Old village houses usually need the floor corrected and sometimes the layout reworked before tile, and that preparation is what moves the figure, so it is set after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. Cotuit is a village of the Town of Barnstable, so when a permit is needed it comes from the Barnstable Building Division rather than a village office. That applies once the work touches plumbing, moves a drain, or opens framing, which covers most shower rebuilds in a house of this age. We pull it before work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
That depends on what is under the floor, and it is one of the first things we check. Keeping the drain where it is costs nothing. Moving it means opening the floor, and in an old house that often means working above a finished ceiling in the room below, which changes both the scope and the price. We will show you both options and what each one actually involves before you decide.
Yes, and it is normal here. A settled floor is corrected with self-leveling or an overlay until it is genuinely flat, because tile laid on a slope that varies will crack where the movement concentrates. The real constraint is height: everything we add has to still clear the original doorway and meet the next floor without a lip, so that gets worked out before quoting rather than on the day.
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 Cotuit home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
