Plymouth · Massachusetts
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Plymouth 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 Plymouth home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Plymouth 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. Plymouth is over the bridge rather than on the Cape, and we travel there for tile and bathroom work the same way we do across Barnstable County.
Tile Work for Plymouth Homes
Plymouth is one of the largest towns in Massachusetts by area and its housing reflects that spread. There are antique houses downtown and through Chiltonville, dense older neighbourhoods in North Plymouth, and coastal stock out at Manomet, White Horse Beach and Cedarville, much of it former summer housing now lived in year-round. Tile of America is based in West Yarmouth and crosses the canal for this work, so the visit happens before the quote rather than instead of it.
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 Plymouth. 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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Plymouth 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 Plymouth and the surrounding South Shore 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.
Plymouth covers a lot of ground and a lot of eras, from downtown antiques to converted beach cottages at Manomet.
Few towns in Massachusetts have this range. Downtown and Chiltonville hold genuinely antique houses with board subfloors and plaster. North Plymouth is dense late nineteenth and early twentieth century stock built for mill workers. Out at Manomet, White Horse Beach and Cedarville the housing is largely twentieth century coastal, much of it built seasonal and since winterised.
Each of those fails differently. The antiques move seasonally across old boards. The North Plymouth houses have usually had several rounds of plumbing and flooring layered in. The coastal conversions have light framing and a moisture load they were never designed for.
What the coastal side shares with the Cape is exposure. A house a few hundred yards from the water at White Horse Beach deals with the same salt air and the same humidity as one in Plymouth, and it holds that moisture the same way when it sits closed for part of the year.
So the assembly is the one we use everywhere and the preparation is set by the house. Framing and deflection read on site, the floor brought to a single flat plane, the shower built on Schluter Kerdi-Board, waterproof through the panel, and a bonded membrane detailed over every seam, corner and curb.
Permit requirements in Plymouth depend on the scope, and the town has its own historic district commission covering defined areas.
Tile set back over a sound substrate is finish work, and it does not normally require a permit.
It does as soon as a drain is moved, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated, which describes most full shower rebuilds. The Plymouth Building Department makes that determination for each project.
Plymouth is in Plymouth County rather than Barnstable County, so none of the Cape arrangements apply here. The town has its own Historic District Commission with published guidelines covering defined districts, mainly around the historic centre. Like every historic district it reviews exterior change rather than interiors, so a bathroom raises nothing unless a wider project reaches an outside wall, a window or a door.
Confirm the scope with the Building Department before anything is opened up, and if the house is in one of the districts and the work touches the exterior, ask about commission review at the same time.
Permits for this work are issued by the Plymouth Building Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
With four centuries of building in one town, what sits under a Plymouth bathroom floor could be hand-cut joists and boards, a century of layered repairs, or light coastal framing built for summer. Each needs different preparation to carry a rigid finish, and getting that wrong is what cracks grout in the first year.
It is a small line on the estimate and the whole of the difference in how long the work lasts.
A foam-core panel with bonded waterproofing fleece, so the board itself is the barrier rather than a coating over cement board. On the Plymouth coast, where houses hold moisture and often sit empty part of the year, that is the layer doing the work.
Premium wet-area systemWaterproof through the panel core, then a bonded Kerdi membrane over every seam, corner and curb above it. Two independent layers, so one weak point cannot reach the framing.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, framing condition, self-leveling and finish height against the adjoining floor, read on site. In Plymouth the answer depends entirely on which era of the town the house belongs to.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and works across Cape Cod and over the Cape Cod Canal into Plymouth and the nearer South Shore. From downtown Plymouth and North Plymouth out to Manomet, White Horse Beach and Cedarville, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners throughout the area.
Plymouth · South Shore · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Plymouth and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Plymouth 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 Plymouth, the South Shore and 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. Plymouth covers everything from downtown antiques to coastal conversions, and the preparation each needs is what moves the figure, so it is set after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. A permit is required from the Plymouth 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 is a short run over the bridge rather than a special trip. What it does mean is that we schedule Plymouth work in proper blocks rather than in half days, so the crew is on site continuously once a job starts. We will tell you honestly at the quote whether the scope suits that, because a job that needs someone back for an hour at a time is not well served from West Yarmouth.
It changes what goes behind the tile rather than the tile itself. Houses that close to the water hold higher humidity, and many along that stretch were built as summer places and are now used year-round, which is a far greater moisture load than the original bathroom was built for. So the membrane and how it is dressed into the corners, curb and niche matter more here, and the floor usually needs correcting for framing that was specified for seasonal use.
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 Plymouth home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
