Commercial Bathroom ADA Contractor in St. Petersburg
In-house carpenters, open-book Time & Materials pricing, and commercial permit experience — for multi-stall restroom build-outs, ADA retrofits, and accessible renovations across Pinellas County.
Does your commercial renovation actually require ADA-compliant bathrooms?
In St. Petersburg, almost always yes. Any commercial project pulled for permit must meet both the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design and Florida Building Code Chapter 11. Florida is one of four ADA-certified building-code states — and under the path-of-travel rule, up to 20% of your renovation budget can be required to bring restrooms and common areas up to current standards.
Revolution Contractors builds multi-stall restrooms, accessible lavatories, roll-in showers, and door-widening retrofits — with 20+ W-2 carpenters on payroll, open-book Time & Materials pricing, and a dedicated superintendent on every commercial permit.
Researching costs, ADA specs, and tax incentives first? Read the commercial bathroom remodel ADA cost guide.
What We Actually Build on a Commercial Bathroom ADA Project
We build multi-stall restroom build-outs in 3-6 stall configurations for restaurants, offices, retail, and medical tenants — sized to the clear-floor-space requirements in the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. Accessible lavatories: 34-inch max rim height, 27-inch knee clearance, 30-inch knee width, insulated supply and drain pipes. Grab bars in wood blocking — not drywall anchors — at 33-36 inches above finished floor (42-inch min side-wall, 36-inch min rear-wall, 1.25-1.5 inch diameter, 250-lb rated, 1.5-inch wall clearance). Doors widen to 32-inch clear at 90 degrees with lever hardware. Mirrors mount at 40 inches max to the reflecting surface; tactile Braille signage at 48-60 inches to the character baseline. Roll-in showers: 60" × 36" curbless pan sloped 1/4 inch per foot to a linear drain. Anti-scald valves are pressure-balanced or thermostatic per Florida Building Code Chapter 27, tempered to 120°F max.
Code backbone: FBC Chapter 11 — 2010 ADA Standards adopted by reference with Florida amendments — enforced through the St. Petersburg Building Department and Pinellas County Construction Licensing Board on a 3-5 week typical permit review for single-restroom projects, longer for multi-stall or change-of-use scopes.
Why Revolution, Not a Paper Contractor
20+ W-2 carpenters on Revolution's payroll — not a rotating subcontractor roster. That matters on ADA grab-bar work specifically: the bars have to hit wood blocking framed into the wall, not drywall anchors, and our carpenters set that blocking during rough-in so the bars are structural from day one. Time & Materials pricing runs on a 30% labor and 15% materials markup, open book, with weekly budget reports. One dedicated superintendent runs the project from pre-construction through final inspection — a single point of accountability, design-build.
T&M matters more on commercial bathrooms than on most project types. Per Jeremy Wharton, our owner: "A good rule of thumb is that any project going in for permit is going to have to be brought up to ADA standards for accessibility — that begins and ends largely with restrooms, common areas, and access to the building." And: "A lot of our commercial buildings are just as old as our houses, so there are some components of especially electrical and plumbing that will be question marks going into demolition."
Fixed-bid contractors pad those question marks into their initial number or fight over change orders when they surface. We price surprises at cost plus 30% on the next weekly budget report — not at project close. Call (727) 888-6161 to walk your space.
Who This Is For
Commercial property owners and multi-tenant building managers renovating a lobby, offices, retail floor, or dining room and just learning the path-of-travel rule may require bringing your bathrooms to current standards within 20% of your total renovation budget. Restaurant, retail, and office tenants doing a change-of-use build-out where ADA compliance is part of your initial architectural scope. As Jeremy Wharton puts it: "Most commercial remodel work is done when there's a change of use or a change of tenancy or ownership."
Condo HOA boards and downtown St. Pete high-rise managers renovating common-area restrooms — Revolution's condo high-rise experience translates directly to commercial common-area bathroom scope in downtown mid-rise buildings, where elevator reservations, HOA approval cycles, and no-noise-before-9am rules sit on top of the permit. Medical and dental offices where patient-bathroom compliance is non-negotiable and the path-of-travel rule applies to any exam-room or treatment-area renovation.
ADA scope often runs alongside fire and egress review on commercial permits — we've handled an egress retrofit where a field inspection flagged doors too narrow for the occupant load. Early review by a contractor with commercial permit experience beats a low bid.
Tell us the building type, current bathroom layout, and whether your renovation triggers path-of-travel — we'll walk the space, identify the ADA work required, and give you a clear T&M budget before anything starts.
Researching first? Read the commercial bathroom ADA cost guide.
