Permitting & Compliance · Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL
Clean file, clear closing.
Permit filings, HVHZ product approvals, inspections and final sign-offs across Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, plus closing out the open and expired permits a previous owner left on the property. Filed through the Town's Building Division by a licensed general contractor, Lic. CGC1539072.
Permitting & Compliance in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
A small town desk, a countywide code.
Most permit trouble in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea arrives with the deed. A title search flags an open addition permit on a Bel Air ranch, pulled by an owner two sales ago. An appraiser asks about the enclosed carport on Poinciana Street that appears in no town record. A lender pauses a refinance on Terra Mar Island Estates because a dock, a boat lift and a whole-house generator went in with no inspection anyone can find. The house is sound. The seawall is fine. The file is the problem.
Filing runs through the Town of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Development Services Department, whose Building Division is staffed under contract by CAP Government. Drawings go up electronically, comments come back the same way, and inspections are requested online or by email against a daily cutoff. On top of the town sits the county's building code authority: the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals publishes the Broward amendments to the Florida Building Code, certifies the plans examiner and inspector on your job, and rules on disputed readings. Broward is also High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so every window, door and roof system needs an approved product with its anchoring detail attached.
Twenty-plus years of South Florida work and more than 150 remodels and additions, every one permitted and inspected, add up to an unglamorous specialty: reading other people's records. We order the permit history before quoting anything, open up what has to be seen, and bring in the licensed engineer, architect or surveyor a file calls for rather than pretending to be one. Flood elevation gets checked early on a barrier island, because crossing the substantial improvement threshold changes the whole project. Inspections are booked by us and met on site by the supervisor who ran the job. Nothing here runs on a shortcut.
Where we work in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Elsewhere in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.
What's included
What gets filed, and what gets fixed.
Some of this is filed before a project starts. The rest is filed because a previous owner left it undone. Both begin with reading the record.
The reroof that never finaled
Ordering the town's full permit history for the address, matching it against what is actually built, then reactivating, correcting or re-inspecting each one until the file closes.
Work that was never filed
Enclosed carports, added baths, swapped windows and garage conversions that never reached the town: drawn as built, engineered where structure is involved, inspected against current code.
HVHZ approvals and anchoring
Impact windows, doors and roof systems matched to approvals valid in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone and fastened exactly as the approval specifies, with the documentation attached.
Inspections, in the right order
Rough, framing and final called in a sequence the job can actually meet, with someone from PGX at the door when the inspector shows up, so the permit closes.
Repairs the report calls for
Concrete restoration, railings, waterproofing and electrical work that a milestone report or Broward's county safety inspection puts on an association's list, permitted and inspected together.
How we work
A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.
AFixed scope, honest pricing
A detailed written scope before we start — so the number you sign is the number you pay, and changes are decisions, not surprises.
BA superintendent on site, daily
Your project is run by someone whose name you know, who answers the phone, and who walks the site every working day.
CBuilt to code, warrantied in writing
HVHZ-rated products, inspected phases, closed permits, and a written warranty when we hand back the keys.
How it goes
From first walk to final walk-through.
Walk-through & estimate
We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.
1–2 weeksDesign & permits
Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.
4–10 weeksConstruction
Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.
Per scopeCloseout & warranty
Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.
1–2 weeksFAQ
Straight answers.
There is an open permit on my Lauderdale-by-the-Sea house and we close next month. What now?
What actually needs a permit in a town this small?
The contractor who pulled my permit is gone. Can PGX take it over?
Our oceanfront building has a milestone inspection report. Does PGX do that work?
What does it cost to clear an old permit problem?
Contact
Pull the record first
Give us the address, or the permit number if you have it. We will read the file and put the fix in writing, in English o en español.