Orleans · Lower Cape
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Orleans 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 Orleans home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Orleans 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. In Orleans that means knowing which side of Route 6 a house sits on, because north of it the exterior work answers to a historic district and south of it it does not.
Tile Work for Orleans Homes
Orleans sits at the elbow of the Cape with water on both sides, Cape Cod Bay at Rock Harbor and the Atlantic at Nauset. The housing runs from antique Capes in East Orleans and around the village centre to post-war and later building out toward Skaket and South Orleans. Route 6 also draws a real line through the town for anyone remodelling, because everything north of it falls inside the Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District. Tile of America settles both questions, the structure and the review, before pricing a room.
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 Orleans. 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 Orleans 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 Orleans 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 Orleans subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Orleans 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 Orleans and the surrounding Lower 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.
Orleans has antique houses and modern ones in roughly equal measure, and the shower detail that matters is different in each.
In East Orleans and around the village the houses are genuinely old. Board subfloors, plaster walls, framing that settled long before anyone wrote a deflection standard, and bathrooms fitted into rooms that started life as something else. A floor there is usually out of level and usually not stiff enough for stone as it stands.
Out toward Skaket and South Orleans the building is newer and the framing is straighter, but a lot of it was put up for seasonal use and insulated accordingly. It needs less correcting and more attention to how the room dries out.
The shared risk is the part nobody sees. Movement in the floor opens the bond layer, the grout follows, and the waterproofing is the last thing to give. Sitting between two bodies of water, Orleans bathrooms carry a humidity load year-round that keeps any weak detail working.
Both cases get the same build and a different amount of preparation. Deflection and framing read on site, the shower set on Schluter Kerdi-Board, which is waterproof through the panel itself, and a bonded membrane detailed over every seam, corner and curb above it.
Permit requirements in Orleans depend on the scope, and everything north of Route 6 sits inside the Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District.
Tile replaced over a substrate that is already sound is finish work, and it does not normally need a permit.
It does as soon as a drain moves, framing is opened, or plumbing is relocated, which describes most full shower rebuilds. The Orleans Building Department makes that determination project by project.
On historic review, the line is geographic and worth knowing before you plan a wider remodel. The Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District covers the part of town north of Route 6, and the town also has an Orleans Historical Commission. What historic review examines is the exterior, so a bathroom inside the house raises nothing. Where it bears on a job is a new window, an exterior door, or demolition that shows from the road.
Confirm the scope with the Building Department before anything is opened up. If the house is north of Route 6 and the work reaches an exterior wall, that is the point to ask about district review as well.
Permits for this work are issued by the Orleans Building Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
The tile is the part of an Orleans bathroom that was never really in doubt. What separates two quotes on the same room is the panel behind the wall, the membrane over it, and how much work the floor needs first, and in a town this split between antique and modern stock that varies more than almost anywhere on the Cape.
Small money against the total. All of the difference in how long it lasts.
A foam-core panel with the waterproofing bonded into the board, rather than a coating brushed over cement board behind the tile. With water on both sides of Orleans and humidity to match, that is the layer doing the work.
Premium wet-area systemThe panel is waterproof through its core, and a bonded Kerdi membrane goes over every seam, corner and curb on top of it. Two independent layers, so one failure cannot reach the framing.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, framing condition, self-leveling and finish height against the adjoining floor, all read on site. In Orleans the answer is a different one in East Orleans than it is off Route 6.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Orleans and the surrounding Lower and Outer Cape communities. From Brewster and Harwich to Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners across the region.
Orleans · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Orleans and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Orleans 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. Orleans runs from antique houses to modern builds, and the preparation an older floor needs is usually what moves the figure, so it is set after we measure.
The permit comes from the Orleans Building Department once the work touches plumbing, moves a drain, or opens framing. Tile over a sound substrate generally needs nothing. On historic approval: the Old Kings Highway district covers the part of Orleans north of Route 6, and it reviews the outside of a building, not a bathroom. It only becomes a question if a remodel reaches an exterior wall, a window or a door.
Usually, and it is worth saying plainly because it changes the number. East Orleans and the village have genuinely old houses with board subfloors, settled framing and floors that can be out of level by a noticeable amount across a small bathroom. That gets corrected before tile or the grout cracks within a season. Newer building toward Skaket and South Orleans generally needs far less.
Yes, and in Orleans it comes up on most jobs. We book shower and floor work for the shoulder seasons and hold firm end dates where a rental calendar or an arrival date depends on it. Tell us when the house has to be ready and we will say whether the scope fits before you commit to it.
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 Orleans home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
