The yard is half the house.

Pompano Beach back yards earn their keep. Houses in Harbor Village, Avalon Harbor and Garden Isles sit on wide canals with ocean access through the Hillsboro Inlet and no fixed bridge in the way, so the dock is not decoration and the boat quietly sets the scale of everything behind the house. Beachside in Hillsboro Shores and along Briny Avenue the constraints invert: salt spray, wind exposure and a rear lot line that ends sooner than anyone wants. Either way the outdoor room gets used eleven months a year, so it has to be built like one.

Exterior work in Pompano Beach pulls in more agencies than anything indoors. Docks and seawalls need a Broward County Environmental Resource General License before the city will issue, plus a city engineering permit carrying its own piling, framing and decking inspections alongside the building permit, and state or federal sign-off on some scopes. The city's tidal flood barrier rules set a minimum crown elevation of five feet NAVD88 and cap it at five feet ten inches, so the wall has a floor and a ceiling. Pergolas need product approval or sealed engineering, driveways get engineering inspections, and trees near the work need a permit and a protection plan.

We build exteriors to interior standards, because weather is a harsher inspector than the city. The gas, water and power feeding a summer kitchen get permitted and inspected, not buried under a paver and forgotten. Pergola footings are engineered for uplift and detailed at the attachment. Terraces are pitched so water leaves the house instead of collecting at the slab edge, and hardware within reach of the water is specified for salt service. Fixed scope in writing, daily supervision, and a site swept clean every evening, because the neighbors did not sign up for your project.