Provincetown · Outer Cape
Tile of America is a tile contractor based in West Yarmouth serving homeowners in Provincetown 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 Provincetown home actually requires.
Subfloor inspection, waterproofing, layout, and professional tile installation for Provincetown 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 Provincetown that means working in houses built close together on small lots, where the bathroom is often the tightest room in the building.
Tile Work for Provincetown Homes
Provincetown sits at the very tip of Cape Cod, where the housing stock is older and denser than anywhere else on the peninsula. Many homes date to the nineteenth century, sit on small lots a few feet from a neighbour, and have bathrooms fitted into whatever space the original floor plan allowed. Tile of America measures the room and the structure before any material is ordered, because in a house like this the layout decides as much as the tile does.
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 Provincetown. 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 Provincetown 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 Provincetown 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 Provincetown subfloors are corrected before the first row goes down.
Countertops
Quartz, granite, marble and porcelain slab countertops for Provincetown 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 Provincetown and the surrounding Outer 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.
Provincetown homes are old, tightly packed and closed up for much of the winter, which puts more on the waterproofing than the tile.
Provincetown is the densest housing stock on the Cape and the oldest, and its bathrooms show it. They were fitted in long after the houses went up: under a stair, into a dormer, carved off the end of a bedroom. Three feet by six is a normal Provincetown shower, and the room around it is rarely square to itself.
Small is the whole problem, and it runs against intuition. A big bathroom is mostly flat field tile, which is forgiving. A tiny one is nearly all edges: inside corners, outside corners, a curb, a niche, a bench, a threshold. Count the linear feet of change-of-plane per square foot of tile and a Provincetown bathroom has several times what a suburban one does, and every one of those is a joint the membrane has to be dressed into by hand.
Then there is the building. Houses here sit shoulder to shoulder, some on sand with barely a crawlspace, on framing cut before anyone published a deflection table. The floors move. Not dramatically, but enough to work a bond layer loose over a few winters in a room where there is no forgiving field tile to absorb it.
Which is why we price a Provincetown bathroom after standing in it. Deflection and framing get read on site, the shower is built on Schluter Kerdi-Board, waterproof through the panel rather than coated, and the membrane is detailed over every seam, corner and curb. Access is quoted honestly too: on a lot off Commercial Street there is often nowhere to park a van and no way in but through the house.
Permit requirements in Provincetown depend on the scope of the project, and most of the town also sits inside a historic district.
Tile set over a sound existing substrate typically does not require a building permit. The work is a finish replacement and nothing structural changes.
A shower replacement that includes a moved drain, altered wall framing, or other regulated work may require one, and that covers most full shower rebuilds.
Provincetown has one of the largest historic districts in the country and it covers much of the built-up part of town. Interior tile work is not what historic review is concerned with, but any exterior change or structural demolition that goes with a remodel can be, so it is worth asking before the scope is settled rather than after.
We advise every Provincetown homeowner to verify permit requirements with the Building Department before work begins.
Permits for this work are issued by the Provincetown Building Department, and the permit is pulled before the work starts rather than after.
Two quotes for the same Provincetown bathroom can look alike and describe entirely different work, because the part that decides the outcome is covered up before the tile arrives. In a room this size the panel behind the wall and the membrane dressed into its corners are most of the labour, and a nineteenth-century floor with any movement in it has to be made genuinely flat and stiff first.
There is also almost no room to work with. Building a floor up to carry tile adds thickness, and in a house where the doorways are already low and the ceiling slopes, that height has to come from somewhere. Thin, waterproof panels are not a preference here, they are what fits.
A foam-core panel carrying bonded waterproofing fleece. The panel is the barrier, not a coating brushed over cement board behind it, and it is thin and light enough to use in a room where there is no spare height or width to give away.
Premium wet-area systemThe panel is waterproof through its core, then a bonded Kerdi membrane goes over every seam, corner and curb above it. In a bathroom that is mostly corners, the second layer is not belt and braces, it is the layer doing most of the work.
Two independent layersDeflection, levelness, framing condition, self-leveling and finish height against the doorway it has to meet, read on site. In a Provincetown house the height you can add is usually the binding constraint, not the strength.
Quoted after site reviewTile of America is based at 15 Adams Rd in West Yarmouth and takes on tile work throughout Barnstable County, including Provincetown and the Outer Cape towns beyond the National Seashore. From Truro and Wellfleet down through Eastham and Orleans, we travel to complete shower, floor, backsplash and tile repair projects for homeowners across the region.
Provincetown · Cape Cod · Massachusetts
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Provincetown and across Cape Cod.
Tile of America provides a one-year written warranty on every installation in Provincetown 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. Small Provincetown bathrooms often sit at the upper end per square foot, because the cutting and the detailing take longer in a tight room than the area suggests, which is why the figure is set after we measure.
Tile set over sound existing substrate generally does not. A permit is required from the Provincetown 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.
Not usually. Historic review in Provincetown is concerned with what the building looks like from the outside, and a tile job inside a bathroom does not change that. Where it can matter is if the remodel also moves a window, changes an exterior door, or involves demolition that shows from the street. We will tell you plainly which parts of a scope might need review before you commit to it.
Yes, and in Provincetown that is usually the first thing we talk about. The town runs on a season, and almost every project here has a date it has to be finished by. We book work for the shoulder seasons and hold firm end dates where an arrival or a rental calendar depends on it. Parking and access on the narrow streets are part of that planning, not an afterthought.
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 Provincetown home rather than a figure guessed over the phone.
