Tampa, Hillsborough County — the Tampa Bay area.
Tampa is home base for R&SS Remodeling & Construction, and it shows in the work. A lot of the city's housing stock is concrete block built in the 1950s and 60s — solid ranches in West Tampa, Seminole Heights and Town 'n' Country that are now hitting the age where the kitchen, both baths and the floors all need attention at once, not one room this year and another room in three. That's the kind of job R&SS is built for: one insured crew that handles the whole remodel instead of a homeowner lining up a cabinet guy, a tile guy, a painter and a handyman separately and hoping their schedules line up. Rafael Sarmiento has years of experience running exactly that kind of job — tear-out to finish, framing to paint, without handing the house off between crews. Kitchens, bathrooms, floors, painting, framing and drywall, outdoor kitchens and lanais, even custom carpentry — it's all under one roof, so nothing gets lost in the handoff between trades.
Tampa's construction is block and stucco almost everywhere, from South Tampa bungalows to newer builds out toward the Temple Terrace edge, and that changes how paint and repair work has to be done. Hairline stucco cracks and old caulk lines don't take a quick rush coat — they need real prep, or the paint job looks fine for a season and then doesn't. The other constant here is the outdoor season: with heat and sun most of the year, a lanai, screened patio or outdoor kitchen isn't a luxury add-on in Tampa, it's often the room a family actually lives in. And because Tampa is one of Florida's strongest Spanish-speaking markets, doing the whole conversation — the walkthrough, the estimate, the daily updates — in Spanish isn't an accommodation, it's just how half the city already expects to do business. Whether it's a full exterior repaint in South Tampa or a new lanai off the back of a Temple Terrace ranch, the same crew shows up for the walkthrough, the work and the cleanup at the end — call or send a WhatsApp message and describe what the house needs. Free estimates, in person, with cleanup when the job's done.
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Knowing Tampa means knowing that not every house here is the same job. A 1950s block ranch in Seminole Heights has different bones than a stuccoed two-story near South Tampa or a newer place out toward Temple Terrace — different wall assemblies, different plumbing runs, different reasons the last owner's fixes didn't hold. Walking into a house already knowing it's probably block construction, probably original terrazzo or old tile under whatever's on the floor now, probably stucco that's been patched more than once, means the estimate is realistic on day one instead of turning into surprises once demo starts.
It also means knowing what actually gets used. In a city with this much sun and this many months of outdoor-friendly weather, a lanai or outdoor kitchen isn't an afterthought in the plan — it gets designed like the living room it's going to become. And in neighborhoods like West Tampa and Town 'n' Country, where a large share of homeowners speak Spanish as a first language, being able to run the whole job — walkthrough, contract, daily updates — in Spanish or English means nothing gets lost between what the homeowner wants and what gets built.
Areas we work in: West Tampa, Seminole Heights, Town 'n' Country, South Tampa, Temple Terrace edge.
Free estimate in English or Spanish — call or WhatsApp and tell us what your home needs, from one room to the whole house.
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