Yarmouth · Mid Cape
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners across Yarmouth 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 Yarmouth home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for homeowners in Yarmouth Port, South Yarmouth, West Yarmouth and Bass River.
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. Yarmouth is the home town, so a site visit before quoting is a short drive rather than a scheduling problem.
Tile Work for Yarmouth Homes
Yarmouth runs the full width of the Cape, from Cape Cod Bay down to Nantucket Sound, and the housing changes completely as you cross it. Yarmouth Port on the bay side holds the oldest stock, the captains houses and the half Capes along Route 6A. South Yarmouth and Bass River are a mix of year-round neighbourhoods and converted summer places along the river. West Yarmouth, where the shop is, runs from the Route 28 corridor out to the Great Island and Englewood Beach shoreline. Tile of America works in all of it, which is why the structure gets read before a number is written.
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 Yarmouth. 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 Yarmouth 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 Yarmouth 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 Yarmouth subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Yarmouth 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 Yarmouth 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.
Yarmouth is four villages with four different housing stocks, and a shower behaves according to what is under it rather than which town it sits in.
On the bay side in Yarmouth Port the houses are genuinely old. Board subfloors, framing that has moved for two centuries, floors that are nowhere near a single plane, and the occasional surprise once a bathroom floor comes up. Nothing about that is a problem, but none of it can be assumed either.
South Yarmouth and the Bass River neighbourhoods are a different century. Post-war and later, more slab and shallow crawlspace than full basement, and a good number of places built for the season and lived in all year since. That last part is what matters in a bathroom: a shower used a few weeks a year became a shower used twice a day in February, and that is a different demand on the same assembly.
West Yarmouth runs from the Route 28 corridor out toward Great Island, close enough to the water that humidity sits in the building for much of the year, and plenty of houses there stand empty for part of it with no air moving through them. That is exactly the condition that finds a weak detail in a shower.
What does not change across any of it is how the build is done. Framing and deflection are read on site, the floor is brought to a single flat plane, the shower is set 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 Yarmouth is one of the towns where the answer also depends on which side of Route 6 the house sits.
Tile set back over a sound substrate is finish work and does not normally need a permit. Once a drain moves, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated it does, which covers most full shower rebuilds. Permits come from the Town of Yarmouth Building Department, which issues all building permits and performs the inspections, and the town runs its permitting through the OpenGov system.
The part specific to Yarmouth is the historic district. The town has its own Old King's Highway Committee, and by its own description the district extends from Route 6 to Cape Cod Bay under Chapter 470 of the Acts of 1973. Yarmouth Port sits inside it. South Yarmouth, Bass River and West Yarmouth, all south of Route 6 on the Nantucket Sound side, sit outside it.
For interior tile work that distinction usually makes no practical difference, because the committee reviews exterior construction and alterations rather than what you do to a bathroom. It starts to matter when a project reaches an exterior wall, a window, or anything visible from the street, and on a Yarmouth Port house that is worth establishing before a scope is finalised rather than after. The committee meets the second and fourth Monday of the month.
Confirm the scope with the Town of Yarmouth before anything is opened up, and on the bay side confirm whether the committee needs to see it. 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 Yarmouth Building Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
In a town with this much variety in its housing, the thing that decides a tile job is almost never the tile. It is whether the floor is stiff enough and flat enough to carry a rigid finish, and what sits under it, because a two-hundred-year-old board subfloor in Yarmouth Port, a slab in South Yarmouth and a crawlspace in West Yarmouth each behave differently through a Cape winter.
A small part of the estimate, and the part that determines whether you do this once.
A foam-core panel with bonded waterproofing fleece, so the board itself is the barrier rather than a coating over cement board. The right answer whether the bathroom is in a captains house or a converted summer place.
Premium wet-area systemThe panel is waterproof through its core and a bonded Kerdi membrane covers 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, all read on site. In Yarmouth that starts with establishing whether you are over board, slab, crawlspace or basement.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth, inside the town, and takes on tile work throughout Yarmouth and across Barnstable County. From Yarmouth Port on the bay side to South Yarmouth, Bass River and West Yarmouth on the sound, and out to Hyannis, Dennis and Barnstable, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners throughout the area.
Yarmouth · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Yarmouth and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Yarmouth 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. What moves the figure here is the preparation, and that varies more inside Yarmouth than between most towns, so it is settled after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. Once the work touches plumbing, moves a drain, or opens framing it does, which covers most shower rebuilds, and the permit comes from the Town of Yarmouth Building Department. We pull it before work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
It depends which side of Route 6 you are on. Yarmouth has its own Old King's Highway Committee, and the district runs from Route 6 to Cape Cod Bay, so Yarmouth Port is inside it while South Yarmouth, Bass River and West Yarmouth are outside it. The committee reviews exterior construction and alterations rather than interior bathroom work, so for most tile projects it does not come into it. If a project reaches an exterior wall or window on a bay-side house, we establish that before the scope is finalised. The committee meets the second and fourth Monday.
All four villages: Yarmouth Port on the bay side, and South Yarmouth, Bass River and West Yarmouth on the sound. The shop sits at 15 Adams Rd inside the town, so every one of them is a short drive and a site visit before quoting costs nobody a day. South Yarmouth and West Yarmouth each have their own page if you want the detail for your village.
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 is based in the town and visits the property before quoting, so the estimate reflects the actual conditions of your Yarmouth home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
