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CGI Bathroom Remodeling: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide

CGI bathroom remodeling in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $9,000-$28,000 installed, depending on whether you’re refreshing a guest bath or reconfiguring a master with relocated plumbing. We stock and install CGI-compatible vanities, shower enclosures, and fixture systems, and we quote the full job in writing before any work starts. Most Fort Lauderdale homeowners first realize their CGI bathroom components are failing when the vanity cabinet face begins delaminating near the sink edge, or when the shower door track starts catching because the aluminum frame has shifted in the humidity.

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Which CGI Models This Applies To

CGI’s bathroom lines break into three series that matter for Fort Lauderdale replacements: the Builder Series (entry-level MDF-core vanities, common in 2015-2019 tract homes), the Designer Series (plywood-core with soft-close hardware, recognizable by the grey logo badge inside the door), and the Premium Series (solid wood frames, often paired with their glass shower enclosures). The critical compatibility gotcha is the hinge bore pattern: Builder Series uses a 35mm cup with 45mm center-to-center mounting, while Designer and Premium shifted to a 26mm mini-cup in 2020. We’ve seen homeowners in Victoria Park order the wrong replacement door because the series badge wore off and they measured only the overlay. Check the inside edge of the sink base for a stamped date code; anything pre-2020 with a 2.5-inch stile width is almost certainly Builder Series. We carry both OEM CGI doors and quality aftermarket equivalents from KraftMaid where the lead time on factory parts runs past what a single-bath household can tolerate. For countertops, CGI spec’d Silestone on Designer and Cambria on Premium in most Fort Lauderdale-area builds we encounter.

Signs Your CGI Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing

• Swelling at the sink cabinet base. CGI’s Builder Series used a particleboard core with thermofoil wrap that fails at the seam where the countertop meets the cabinet. In Fort Lauderdale’s humidity, that seam draws moisture; the core expands, the wrap bubbles, and the drawer above starts binding. We see this most in homes east of Federal Highway where the AC runs harder and the temperature swings stress the joint.
• Shower door rollers grinding or jumping track. The aluminum frame on CGI’s framed enclosures fatigues at the corner joints after five to seven years of daily use. Once the frame goes slightly out of square, the nylon rollers catch and the glass stresses against the gasket. Left alone, the glass can crack at the corner notch.
• Faucet handle loosening that retightening won’t fix. CGI’s OEM faucets used a plastic cartridge housing that crystallizes in hard water. Fort Lauderdale’s water runs moderately hard; the cartridge body cracks at the retaining tabs and the handle flops regardless of how tight you set the set screw.
• Vanity light fixture flickering or fixture base pulling from the wall. CGI spec’d shallow pancake boxes in many installs, and the MDF backing behind the mirror area loses screw purchase as humidity cycles. The fixture loosens, the ground connection gets intermittent, and you get flicker or a slight shock at the switch.
• Grout cracking in the shower floor with no obvious leak. CGI’s shower pans in the Builder Series were fiberglass with a thin gel coat. The pan flexes slightly under load, the tile above moves, and the grout cracks at the perimeter first. In Fort Lauderdale, the pan also expands and contracts with the slab temperature; we’ve found cracks radiating from the drain that the homeowner mistook for a simple regrout job.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

The spread on full remodels comes down to three things in Fort Lauderdale: whether you’re keeping the toilet and tub in place, whether the building department wants a wet-area flood test (Broward County does on any pan modification), and whether we find subfloor damage once the old CGI pan comes out. We put the number in writing before anyone picks up a pry bar, and under Clause 1 of the Haven Standard, that written price is what you pay. No change proceeds without a signed change order, which is how we’ve kept projects within a few percent of the agreed cost since 2007.

DIY or Call Us?

There’s a safe middle ground for CGI bathroom work, and then there’s the point where you need a licensed contractor. An owner can pull a vanity, measure the rough plumbing centers, and verify whether the replacement cabinet will clear the door swing. That’s useful reconnaissance. What goes wrong fast is the wet-area work. Removing a CGI shower enclosure means disturbing the waterproofing membrane at the walls and pan joint; if that membrane tears and you don’t spot it, you’ve got a slow leak into the slab that shows up as efflorescence on the living room baseboard six months later. The electrical work is equally unforgiving: Fort Lauderdale requires a permit for any new circuit, and the bathroom needs GFCI protection on every outlet. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection, and pass the documented photo record to you at final walkthrough. If you’re staring at swollen MDF and wondering how far the damage runs, call (754) 254-7676. We’ll scope it, photograph it, and put the repair price in writing before you decide.

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