Bourne · Upper Cape
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Bourne 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 Bourne home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Bourne 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. Bourne is the one Cape town on both sides of the canal, and we work all of its villages.
Tile Work for Bourne Homes
Bourne is the gateway to the Cape and the only town with land on both sides of the canal, which makes it less a single place than a group of villages: Buzzards Bay, Sagamore and Sagamore Beach, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Cataumet and Bournedale. The housing is mostly year-round and more modest than the Cape average, a lot of it built between the nineteen fifties and the nineteen nineties, with older stock in the village centres and waterfront pockets. Tile of America prices the house rather than the postcode.
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 Bourne. 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 Bourne 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 Bourne 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 Bourne subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Bourne 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 Bourne and the surrounding Upper 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.
Bourne is mostly year-round housing, which means its showers have had steady daily use for decades rather than a few weeks a summer.
Unlike most of the Cape, Bourne is lived in all year. The houses are family houses, the bathrooms get used every morning, and the shower that is being replaced has usually done twenty or thirty years of real service rather than sitting idle for ten months at a time.
That changes what we expect to find. Slow failures have had time to develop. A membrane that was marginal when it was built, a mortar bed that cracked early, a drain assembly that has been weeping gently into the subfloor since the nineties: none of that is visible until the tile comes off, and all of it is common in a house with this much use behind it.
The upside is that the framing is usually ordinary modern framing and straightforward to work with. The question is rarely whether the floor can carry tile, it is how much of the substrate under the old shower is still sound.
So a Bourne job is quoted with the removal treated as a real part of the scope, not an afterthought. Once it is open the substrate is repaired rather than covered, the shower is rebuilt on Schluter Kerdi-Board, waterproof through the panel, and a bonded membrane is detailed over every seam, corner and curb.
Permit requirements in Bourne depend on the scope of the project, particularly where plumbing or framing is involved.
Tile set back over a sound substrate is finish work, and it does not normally need a permit.
It does once a drain is moved, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated, which covers most full shower rebuilds. The Bourne Building and Inspection Department makes that determination for each project.
On historic review, Bourne is simpler than its neighbour. The Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District covers the north side of the Cape from Sandwich through Orleans, and it starts at the Bourne town line rather than taking Bourne in, so there is no district design review to deal with here. The town has a Historical Commission, and interior work does not come before it.
Confirm the scope with the Building and Inspection Department before work begins. We pull the permit before the work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
Permits for this work are issued by the Bourne Building and Inspection Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
On a house that has been lived in continuously, the interesting question is not whether the floor is strong enough. It is what the last thirty years of daily showers did to the substrate behind and beneath the old one, and how much of it has to be rebuilt before anything new goes on.
That is why the removal is priced as work rather than waved through, and why the figure firms up once the room is open.
A foam-core panel with bonded waterproofing fleece, waterproof through the board itself rather than through a coating over cement board. On a shower that will take daily use for the next thirty years, that is the layer that has to last.
Premium wet-area systemWaterproof through the panel core, then a bonded Kerdi membrane over every seam, corner and curb. Two independent layers, which is exactly what the old shower being replaced almost certainly did not have.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, framing condition, self-leveling and finish height against the adjoining floor, read on site, plus an honest look at how far any old leak has travelled.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Bourne and all its villages on both sides of the canal. From Buzzards Bay and Sagamore across to Pocasset, Cataumet, Sandwich, Falmouth and Mashpee, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners throughout the area.
Bourne · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Bourne and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Bourne 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. On a long-used year-round shower, how much of the old substrate has to be rebuilt is what moves the figure, which is why it is set after we measure and firmed up once the room is open.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. A permit is required from the Bourne Building and Inspection 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.
No. The district runs along the north side of the Cape from Sandwich through Orleans and begins at the Bourne town line rather than including Bourne, so there is no district design review here. Bourne has a Historical Commission, but an interior bathroom does not come before it in any case. Your permit question is simply a building-department question.
It is a common finding here and it is better to plan for it than to hope. Once the tile is off we can see how far the water travelled, and the answer ranges from replacing a section of backer to replacing subfloor and sometimes a joist. We price the known scope up front and tell you the range for what might be behind it, then show you what we find before any extra work is agreed. Nothing gets covered over.
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 Bourne home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
