Seventy years of other people's work.

Wilton Manors filled in fast after 1950, and the paperwork did not always keep pace. The Island City's concrete-block ranches have absorbed seventy years of work from owners, handymen and contractors of wildly different habits. So the carport that quietly became a bedroom in Coral Estates, the Florida room glassed in over on Middle River Manor, the service panel upgraded off the books, the dock or lift added behind a Jenada Isles house all land in one category. The house looks finished. The city's file says the job never ended, and a title search will find it.

Permits are issued by the Construction Services division of Community Development Services at 2020 Wilton Drive, filed through the city's online permitting portal on the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application, with a Notice of Commencement where the work calls for one. Broward then adds a layer above the city: the county Board of Rules and Appeals writes the local amendments your plans examiner applies, certifies the inspector who walks the job, and issues the formal reading when a code section is argued over. Every inch of the county is High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so glazing, doors and roofing travel with approved products and their anchor details.

PGX Builders Group has twenty-plus years in South Florida behind it and more than 150 permitted, inspected remodels and additions delivered, which in practice means we have read a great many of other people's files. We pull the history on the address before quoting anything, open up what has to be seen, and bring in the engineer, architect or surveyor the record demands instead of pretending to be one. On the river side we look at floodplain exposure early, because a deep renovation can cross into substantial improvement. The supervisor who ran the work meets the inspector. We do not sell shortcuts, and there are none to sell.