Centerville · Village of Barnstable
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Centerville 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 Centerville home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Centerville 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. Centerville is ten minutes from the shop, which means a site visit before quoting costs nobody a day.
Tile Work for Centerville Homes
Centerville is a village of the Town of Barnstable, and it covers more ground than most people expect: the old village centre along Main Street, the cottage neighbourhoods behind Craigville Beach, and the year-round streets around Wequaquet Lake. A good share of the housing near the beach started as a summer cottage and has been lived in year-round for decades now. Tile of America is based in West Yarmouth, a short run up the road, so the structure gets looked at properly 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 Centerville. 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 Centerville 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 Centerville 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 Centerville subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Centerville 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 Centerville 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.
Much of Centerville was built for the summer and is now lived in all year, and the bathrooms are where that shows first.
The neighbourhoods behind Craigville Beach and off Old Stage Road are full of houses that began as seasonal cottages. Light framing, wide joist spacing, small bathrooms, and in plenty of cases a slab or a shallow crawlspace underneath rather than a basement.
Winterising happened later and happened piecemeal. Insulation went in, heat went in, and the bathroom carried on being the bathroom. What changed is the moisture load: a shower used a few weeks a year became a shower used twice a day in February, which is a completely different demand on the same assembly.
Around Wequaquet Lake and in the older village centre the picture is different again, with genuinely old houses and board subfloors in the mix. The village is not one housing stock, so it is not one quote.
What does not change 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 in Centerville they are handled by the Town of Barnstable rather than by a village office.
This is the part worth knowing first: Centerville is a village of the Town of Barnstable, so there is no Centerville building department to call. The permit comes from the Town of Barnstable Building Division.
Tile set back over a sound substrate is finish work and does not normally need one. Once a drain moves, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated it does, which covers most full shower rebuilds.
Centerville also sits south of Route 6, which puts it outside the Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District entirely. However old a house in the village centre may be, district review is not part of the picture here.
Confirm 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 village with this much converted cottage stock, 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 slab, a crawlspace and a basement 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 where a seasonal-era bathroom is now in year-round use.
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 Centerville that means establishing whether you are over a slab, a crawlspace or a basement first.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Centerville and the other villages of the Town of Barnstable. From Hyannis and Osterville to Cotuit, Marstons Mills and across the Mid Cape, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners throughout the area.
Centerville · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Centerville and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Centerville 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. Converted cottages often need the floor corrected before anything is set, and that preparation is what moves the figure, so it is settled after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. Centerville 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. We pull it before work starts and the number goes on your paperwork.
Mainly the moisture load and the floor. A bathroom used for a few weeks a year tolerates an assembly that daily winter use will find out, so we build the waterproofing for how the house is actually lived in now. The floor is the other half: cottage framing tends to be lighter and more widely spaced than tile wants, and that gets corrected before anything is set rather than discovered afterwards.
It affects what goes behind the tile more than the tile itself. Houses near the water hold higher humidity, and a lot of them still sit empty for part of the year with little air movement, which is exactly the condition that finds a weak detail in a shower. So the membrane and how it is dressed into the corners, curb and niche matter more here than the surface you can see.
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 Centerville home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
