Remodels built for the historic core and the 170 mph coast.

Why Us

The only West Palm Beach remodeler who is also a certified energy engineer

Randolph Scott Bell is the only Palm Beach County contractor who is also a certified energy engineer, and he inspects every West Palm Beach remodel himself. A downtown-adjacent city with a 170 mph design-wind exposure and a stock of pre-code historic homes is exactly where that combination earns its keep: while the walls are open for a remodel, we specify the insulation, air-sealing and opening details that keep the house both code-compliant and comfortable for decades. Every job carries a written one-year workmanship warranty.

What We Build

Remodeling for the whole house

• Whole-home renovation
• Room additions
• Structural changes & load-bearing wall removal
• Hardie board & siding replacement
• Kitchen & bathroom remodeling
• Rotten wood & termite damage repair

Permitting & Wind Load

The City's own EPL/Civic Access portal

West Palm Beach is an incorporated city, the county seat, not unincorporated county — it runs its own Development Services Department, Building Division, separate from the Palm Beach County Building Division that governs unincorporated Loxahatchee. Permits, plan review and inspection scheduling all move through the City's digital EPL (Enterprise Permitting & Licensing) platform, via its customer-facing Civic Access portal. A licensed contractor must hold the permit and be present at final inspection on any remodel touching structure, electrical, plumbing or mechanical systems; we submit and track the application ourselves rather than leaving the portal to a homeowner mid-project.

A remodel that adds square footage, enlarges a window, or cuts a new door into an exterior wall creates a new opening — and per the FBC 8th edition / ASCE 7-22 ultimate design wind speed map (Risk Category II, Exposure C, 3-second gust), the coastal core of West Palm Beach, downtown and the Intracoastal-adjacent neighborhoods, sits in the 170 mph band, the top tier the county carries anywhere. We confirm the exact contour for your parcel and spec a Florida Product Approved unit rated to it before we ever quote the opening.

Historic Districts & Communities

El Cid, Flamingo Park, Old Northwood & Southland Park

We remodel homes across El Cid, Flamingo Park, Old Northwood Historic District, Southland Park, Grandview Heights, the SoSo/Prospect Park area, and West Palm Beach generally. The first four carry a designation the others don't: they are City of West Palm Beach Historic Preservation districts, and the City's Historic Preservation Board must sign off on anything a remodel changes on the outside of the house — a new window, an addition's footprint against the street, a roofline change — before the building permit can close. Purely interior work, a kitchen gut or a bathroom rebuilt inside the existing envelope, generally stays out of that review entirely.

Grandview Heights, SoSo/Prospect Park and West Palm Beach's other neighborhoods follow the City's standard permitting track with no historic board involved, unless the individual property carries its own private HOA. We identify which track your address is on before we put a permit set together, not after a submittal bounces.

Proof

Real permitted work, honestly labeled

We don't have a confirmed whole-home-remodel project in West Palm Beach yet, and we won't claim one. What we do have is a real, permitted structural job in the city: in Randolph Scott Bell's own words, “This is a concrete restoration project we had to do with a permit in West Palm Beach. The permit was pulled through the Palm Beach County Building Department.” That's a beam and lintel repair, not a remodel, and we're not going to dress it up as one. For home remodeling specifically, we lead with the credential stack: Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1528750, EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm #NAT-F122701-2, and BBB A+ accreditation. There is no West Palm Beach Business Tax Receipt on our confirmed list, so we don't claim one.