Building in Palm Beach Gardens, garden city rules and all.

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Free wind-mitigation & energy walk-through with every roofing or window estimate

Palm Beach Gardens homes carry two costs that never appear on the estimate: the insurance premium and the July power bill. Before you spend a dollar, we walk the property as a certified energy rater — checking your openings, roof, attic and ducts for both the wind-mitigation credits you may be leaving on the table and the cooling-cost and comfort gains an upgrade would actually deliver. In a city where a 1970s block house and a 2000s golf home need almost opposite advice, that walk-through is the difference between buying the right work and buying the popular work. No other contractor here pairs a licensed general contractor and a certified energy engineer in the same person. Every job also carries a written one-year workmanship warranty.

What We Build in Palm Beach Gardens

Every service, one accountable team

• Impact windows & doors — WBDR-compliant, insurance-credit ready, ARB-friendly frame colors
• Roofing — re-roofs, repairs & storm work in tile, shingle, metal & flat
• Home remodeling & additions, including pre-1978 lead-safe renovation
• Kitchen & bath renovations — kitchens and baths
• Concrete restoration — driveways, slabs, pool decks & association building repairs
• Fencing, gates & property lines within community standards
• New home construction on infill and Avenir-area parcels
• Demolition & land clearing with a Bobcat T740 and grapple

Know Before You Build

One city, its own building department

Palm Beach Gardens is simpler than the western communities in one important way and harder in another. Simpler, because if your address is inside the city limits there is exactly one building department: the City of Palm Beach Gardens Building Division at 10500 N Military Trail, reachable at 561-799-4210. Applications go through the city’s own online self-service permitting portal, the city has adopted the universal county-wide building permit application form that replaced the old separate residential, commercial, sub-permit and revision forms, and a permit fee estimator is published so you can price the approval before you file. Inspections are scheduled directly with the city.

Harder, because the city limits are not where most people think they are. North county addresses blur across Palm Beach Gardens, unincorporated Palm Beach County, North Palm Beach, Juno Beach and Jupiter, and a mailing address is not a jurisdiction. Filing with the wrong office does not get you a polite correction — it gets you weeks. We confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel record before we write the estimate.

One more thing worth knowing before you list or buy: the city runs a paid open-permit request process, and an open permit left behind by a previous contractor is one of the most common reasons a north-county closing stalls at the last minute. Old permits for a water heater, a re-roof, a screen enclosure or a pool cage sit quietly on a property for years until a title search finds them. If that is where you are, say so on the first call — closing out someone else’s abandoned permit is a specific job with a specific process, and it is one we do. For roof and window work Florida requires a licensed contractor to hold the permit and be present at final inspection. We do both, every time, and we do not hand you a homeowner permit to sign so someone else can dodge the responsibility.

The Garden City

The tree code is real, and it is not a formality

John D. MacArthur announced this city in March 1959 and it was incorporated that June — roughly four thousand acres of dairy pasture that he intended to turn into a garden city for fifty-five thousand people. He wanted the name Palm Beach; the state said no; “Gardens” was the compromise and then it became the plan. Millions went into waterways, contoured terrain and mature pine and shade trees before the houses arrived, and the city has defended that canopy ever since. It keeps a City Forester inside the Development Compliance and Zoning Division whose job is to make sure development preserves the look and feel of a garden city.

For a homeowner, that means the city regulates removing trees and palms — and regulates pruning too. Being on your own property is not by itself the answer. Most people meet this rule sideways, on a job that had nothing to do with landscaping: a roof tear-off that needs limbs out of the way, a crane set for equipment, a driveway pour that runs through a root zone, a screen enclosure that cannot be built without taking a palm. “We had to trim it to get the truck in” is not a defense, and a contractor who cuts first and asks later leaves you holding the code violation after the truck is gone.

We plan canopy clearance, staging and equipment access during the estimate, and we pull the right approval before the work rather than after the complaint. Where a project genuinely does need vegetation gone, our land clearing division handles selective clearing, brush and debris removal and hauling with a Bobcat T740 and grapple, and our demolition crew handles structural tear-outs, failed screen enclosures and interior gut-outs ahead of a remodel — scoped in the permit, not improvised on site.

Two Approvals, Not One

The architectural review board comes first

In most of Palm Beach Gardens the city is your second approval, not your first. PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman’s Creek, Frenchman’s Reserve, Eastpointe, Mirasol, Evergrene, Alton and Avenir all run their own architectural review, and the board generally has to sign off on anything visible before the permit is worth filing. Roof tile profile and color. Shingle color. Window and door frame finish. Garage doors, exterior paint, driveway material, fencing, gates, screen enclosures, generators and where the equipment pad sits. Some of these communities tie club membership to ownership, and their standards are correspondingly specific.

The failure mode is always the same and always avoidable: material gets ordered against a selection the board has not approved, the board meets on its own calendar rather than yours, and a four-week project turns into a ten-week project with a driveway full of tile nobody can install. We prepare the ARB submittal — product data sheets, Florida Product Approval numbers, color and profile selections, elevations where they are wanted — and we build the review window into the schedule instead of pretending it does not exist. Then we permit through the city once the approval is in hand.

We also sit on the other side of that table. The owner holds Florida Community Association Manager license CAM34850, and the company’s property management division works with boards and associations across the county. Knowing how an architectural committee actually reads a submittal — what gets approved on the first pass and what gets sent back — is worth more to your schedule than any promise about crew size.

Local Housing Stock

From MacArthur’s first plats to Avenir

Palm Beach Gardens grew in distinct waves, and you can read them off the work each house needs. The city reached about 1,800 residents in a little over a year, passed 6,000 by 1970, and doubled again through the 1970s — RCA had arrived in 1960 with a couple of thousand jobs and the PGA of America made its home here from 1965, so the early neighborhoods were built for people who worked here rather than wintered here. Those 1960s and 1970s homes are single-story concrete block, modest, and now well past their original roofs, windows and insulation. They are also the homes where the pre-1978 lead-safe rules apply to any renovation that disturbs painted surfaces, which is exactly why our EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm status matters more in this city than in a newer one.

The 1980s through the 2000s brought the golf and country-club build-out — PGA National, BallenIsles, Frenchman’s Creek and Eastpointe, then Mirasol, Evergrene and Frenchman’s Reserve. Barrel tile roofs, large glass areas, pool decks, screen enclosures. Those homes are now cycling through second roofs and tile repairs, kitchen and bath renovations, pool-deck and driveway concrete restoration, and the window replacements their insurers are pushing hardest on. Tile is the recurring conversation here, because a tile roof can be twenty-five years old and structurally fine while its underlayment — the part actually keeping water out — is finished. We inspect free and tell you honestly whether it is a repair, a lift-and-relay, or a full re-roof, and we document it in the form your insurer asks for.

The newest communities — Alton, and Avenir out on the western side, which opened in 2020 — are still largely warranty-age. The work there is finish work: summer kitchens, built-ins, flooring, additions, fencing, screen enclosures, and getting all of it past an active architectural review board. Different decade, different house, different scope. What does not change is that the same licensed contractor who walked the property writes the estimate and signs off at final inspection.

East of the Ridge

Salt air, wind speed, and the east–west gradient

Palm Beach Gardens stretches from the Intracoastal to the western edge of the county, and the code does not treat both ends the same. All of it sits inside the Florida Building Code’s Wind-Borne Debris Region, so replacement windows and doors must be impact-rated or shuttered no matter where in the city you are. But the design wind speed is assigned by address and rises as you move east toward the water, and exposure category adds a second layer — a home fronting open water or a wide golf fairway is treated differently from one inside a wooded interior street with houses on all sides. Product that passes on one street can be under-specified three miles east. We check the address and the opening sizes rather than quoting a package and hoping.

Then there is salt. In the eastern part of the city, salt-laden air goes after metal continuously: roofing fasteners, drip edge and flashing, window and door hardware, screen enclosure frames, railings, light fixtures. The expensive part is that corrosion usually shows up at the fastener rather than at the material the homeowner shopped for, so a roof can look perfectly sound from the street while quietly losing its attachment. On coastal-side work we specify corrosion-appropriate fasteners, flashing and finishes rated for a marine environment — and we say plainly when the cheaper package will not survive the location, which is a conversation worth having before the estimate rather than at year six.

Associations & Condo Buildings

Milestone inspections, and the work that follows

Palm Beach Gardens has a substantial stock of association-governed and multi-story residential buildings, and Florida law now puts them on a clock. A milestone inspection is required for condominium and cooperative buildings three stories or more, by December 31 of the year the building turns thirty, and every ten years after that. The inspection itself must be performed by a Florida-licensed architect or engineer. That is not us — and any contractor who offers to perform your milestone inspection is telling you something you should listen to.

What we do is the work that comes out of the report: structural and concrete restoration, spalling and balcony repair, roofing, waterproofing and building-envelope work — scoped, sequenced and priced so a board can actually present it to owners. Reports have a way of landing as a list of findings with no plan attached, and the gap between “the engineer found this” and “here is what we are doing about it, in what order, across which budget years” is where boards lose months.

The owner holds Florida Community Association Manager license CAM34850 alongside the general contractor and roofing licenses, so reserve realities, phasing, and owner communication are familiar ground here rather than an inconvenience. If you are a board member reading this before a budget meeting, our property management division is the other half of the same conversation.

Insurance & Energy

Lower premiums, lower bills

In Florida, storm hardening and energy efficiency are the same conversation, and in Palm Beach Gardens the right answer depends entirely on the era of your house. In the 1960s and 1970s block homes the money is usually in the attic — insulation, duct sealing and air sealing, on houses built to a code that barely mentioned any of it. In the golf-community homes the money is usually in the glass: large west- and south-facing window and slider areas pouring heat in all afternoon, where impact glazing does double duty as storm protection and heat control while qualifying for wind-mitigation credits. Because the owner is a Florida Class 1 Energy Rater and RESNET-certified HERS rater licensed for blower-door testing, we measure what your specific house is doing instead of selling everyone the same package — see how these upgrades can also lower your energy bills. Start with the home energy audit guide, the impact window insurance guide, or the summer cooling-cost checklist if you want to see what we look at.

Financing is available through our partner Renew Financial’s RenewPACE program, designed for energy and storm-protection upgrades like impact windows and new roofs. Ask us about eligibility.