Bathroom tile installation in Macomb, MI
Precisely tiled bathroom floors, walls, and backsplashes for homeowners in Macomb and across Metro Detroit — from a single wall to a full room.
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This page covers bathroom floors, walls, and general tile work — backsplashes, wainscoting, whole rooms. The shower enclosure itself is shower tile installation. A tub surround without converting to a shower is bathtub surround tiling. A full master suite remodel is master bathroom tile.
What's involved
Bathroom floors
A bathroom floor gets walked on wet, barefoot, more than almost any other floor in the house — slip resistance isn't a nice-to-have, it's the actual job. Tile is rated for it with a DCOF number (dynamic coefficient of friction); a glossy showroom tile that looks great can be genuinely dangerous on a bathroom floor if that number is too low.
Large-format tile gives you fewer grout lines and a cleaner look; mosaic gives you more grip and lets a floor slope where it needs to. At the doorway, the floor also has to transition cleanly to the hallway — height, material, and trim all have to be planned, not improvised on installation day.
Walls, wainscoting, and wet walls
A full-height wall behind a vanity or tub gets tiled edge to edge; wainscoting stops partway up and needs a clean, level cap line the whole way around the room. Either way, the layout gets planned before the first tile goes on the wall.
Vanity backsplashes
A vanity backsplash is smaller than a kitchen backsplash but held to the same standard — tight cuts around the faucet and outlets, and a top edge that reads as intentional, not just where the tile happened to stop.
Working around plumbing and fixtures
Toilets, vanities, and light fixtures usually come off and go back on as part of the job, not around it — tiling around a toilet that never moved is how you end up with an ugly cut ring nobody wants to look at.
Layout planning: where the cuts land
This is the step that separates a bathroom that looks planned from one that looks installed. Before any tile is set, the room gets measured and dry-laid — figuring out, on paper or with chalk lines, exactly where every cut is going to fall before it's permanent.
Start tiling from a random corner and the math works out wherever it works out — which often means a thin sliver of tile, sometimes under an inch wide, on the wall you actually look at every day: the one facing the door, or the one behind the vanity mirror. It's structurally fine and visually wrong, and once it's grouted in, it's not an easy fix.
A properly planned layout starts from the center of the most visible wall and works outward in both directions, so any narrow cuts land in corners or behind the toilet, not front and center. It's an extra hour of measuring before the job even starts — which is exactly why it's the detail that gets skipped on a rushed job, and the one worth asking about before you hire anyone.
What does bathroom tile cost?
Bathroom tile cost swings on scope more than almost anything else — a single accent wall and a full floor-to-ceiling remodel aren't the same job. {{PLACEHOLDER: price range}}. Here's what moves that number:
- Room size — More square footage means more tile, more mortar, more labor hours.
- Floors, walls, or both — Tiling the whole room costs more than a floor-only or wall-only job, for the obvious reason that there's more of it.
- Tile size and material — Large-format porcelain typically costs less installed than marble or small mosaic, which takes longer to set.
- Demo of the old tile — Tearing out old tile or vinyl and finding out what's underneath adds cost that's hard to quote sight unseen.
- Fixture removal and reset — Pulling and resetting a toilet or vanity to tile properly around it adds labor beyond the tile itself.
- Substrate condition — A floor or wall that's out of flat costs more to bring into tolerance, and you usually can't tell until demo is done.
The only way to get a real number is a free, in-person estimate — Dervin looks at the actual room and prices what's really there, not a phone-call guess.
Bathroom jobs: before & after
Real before-and-after photos from finished bathroom jobs go here as they're added — the kind of proof worth asking to see before hiring anyone to tile your bathroom.
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Bathroom tile questions homeowners ask
How much does bathroom tile installation cost in Macomb and Metro Detroit?
Cost depends on room size, whether you're doing floors, walls, or both, the tile you choose, and what demo finds underneath. {{PLACEHOLDER: price range}}. The only way to get an accurate number is a free, in-person estimate.
Can you tile over existing tile?
Usually not recommended. Old tile can hide problems in the substrate, and tiling over it adds height that throws off transitions, doors, and fixtures. DGJ generally removes the old tile first — your estimate will tell you if your bathroom is an exception.
What tile size makes a small bathroom look bigger?
Larger-format tile with fewer grout lines tends to read as more open, especially when the same tile runs floor to wall with minimal transition. It's not a rule that fits every bathroom — DGJ can walk through the options for your specific layout during your estimate.
How long is the bathroom out of use during installation?
{{PLACEHOLDER: typical job duration}} A floor-only job goes faster than a full floor-and-wall remodel. Your exact timeline depends on scope and comes with your estimate.
Do you handle demo and disposal of the old tile?
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Do you supply the tile, or do I buy it?
{{PLACEHOLDER: tile supply policy}} Either way, you choose the tile — pattern, size, and material affect both the look and the cost, so it gets decided before installation is scheduled.
Do you tile both floors and walls, or just one?
Either — a lot of bathrooms are floor-only, and some get walls, wainscoting, or a full wet wall added. Scope is part of what you decide during your estimate, and it's the biggest single factor in the price.
What's the difference between this and a shower or tub surround job?
This page covers the room around the shower — floors, walls, and backsplash. The shower enclosure itself is a separate, waterproofed job (see shower tile installation), and a tub without a shower conversion is a bathtub surround. DGJ Tile & Marble can quote all of it together in one estimate.
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