Floor Replacement, Start to Finish
Old floor out at the wall line. New floor sloped to drain.
This page walks the full replacement sequence we run on every Farmington floor: how we protect your walls and glass, what the substrate inspection covers, the waterproofing assembly, tile and grout choices that survive bare feet and shampoo, and the flood-and-flow tests before handoff. If your pan liner is sound, we keep it and prove it; if it's not, the pan page explains the rebuild.
- Surgical removal. Floor out to a clean wall line; sound walls and glass preserved.
- Substrate rebuilt. Sloped bed verified or re-poured — ponding is never 'normal.'
- Waterproofed assembly. Membrane lapped up walls and clamped at the drain.
- Full-coverage setting. No spot-bonding, no hollow tiles — ever.
- Epoxy grout standard. Stain-proof joints that stay clean under daily use.
- Tested handoff. Flow test to drain + walkthrough before final payment.
The Farmington floor rebuild
Floor systems we set across Farmington — grip, slope-fit and grout that lasts.
Farmington notes
The Farmington pattern: a 1980s fiberglass shower pan gone dull and flexy next to dated brass trim. Shower-floor and pan re-tiles outnumber full redos here, and buyers notice new shower floors first. Most Farmington replacements run day-one rebuild, day-two tile and grout: Farmington sellers refresh the shower floor and re-grout the walls before listing — it reads as a renovated bath in photos for a fifth of the price. Shower again 24 hours after grout — timed to the hour at walkthrough.
Common questions
We inspect every drain; clamping drains get cleaned and re-sealed, tired drains get replaced ($200–$600) while the floor is open — never tiled around and hoped about.
Cure times rule: base, membrane, setting and grout each need their hours. Rush them and you buy the next leak. Day one rebuild, day two finish.
Almost always — it stays protected in place or comes down into padded storage and goes back up. Replacement only if it's already failing.
Cut line at the wall base, surgical removal inward, walls sheeted and braced. It's the core skill of floor-only work — we do it daily.