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View all servicesLicensed general contracting and renovation in Pahokee — where the City’s permit checklists ask for the executed contract or signed invoice for the job, and a Notice of Commencement from $2,500.
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ScrollWe will tell you which of the City’s checklists your work sits on, and which documents have to be notarised, recorded or dated this month.
Pahokee’s permit checklists ask for the executed contract or signed invoice for the job — and for an owner acting as their own builder, the material quote or receipt. Very few municipalities ask to see the deal. It means the paperwork and the pricing have to be settled together rather than one trailing the other, which is a reasonable way to run a job anyway.
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The City’s pages are brief. Its checklists are not — there is one for windows and doors, one for shutters, one for a patio deck, one for a carport or shed, one for a fence, one for mechanical work and one for fire alarms, each listing exactly what to bring. Read the checklist for your job and most of the uncertainty about building here disappears.
Interiors and the services behind them, and the covered terraces, patio covers and decks that this City writes its own checklist for — run by one licensed general contractor, with the documents assembled before we file rather than after a rejection.
Start your projectEvery checklist we read carries the same line: submit a recorded or certified copy of the Notice of Commencement for projects $2,500 and above. Most municipalities we work in set that at $5,000, so a job that needed no recorded notice one county over may well need one here.
The window and door checklist states that on the building permit application both the owner or agent section and the contractor section are to be signed and notarised. Not one signature witnessed — both.
For contractor registration the City asks for General Liability insurance whose issuance date has to be for a current month and year, and which lists the City of Pahokee as certificate holder — plus either workers’ compensation cover on the same terms or a workers’ compensation exemption.
At the foot of its checklists the City prints: “Should there be any other requirements, our building officials will advise.” That is a fair thing to publish, and a good reason to open the conversation early rather than assume a checklist is exhaustive.
Five things about building in Pahokee that are not true of the city next door.
The window and door checklist asks for the building permit application signed and notarised by both parties, a Asbestos Notification Statement, a Window/Door Buck Affidavit, a recorded Notice of Commencement above $2,500, the executed contract or signed invoice, signed and sealed drawings, and product approvals or Notices of Acceptance for the units. And the sting in the tail: if the windows or doors are not impact rated, shutters are required — with their own product approvals supplied too.
The patio deck checklist asks for a survey copy showing the location of the patio deck and a set of plans including tie down details. A cover has to resist uplift, and the City wants to see how it is held down before it is built, not afterwards.
The fence checklist asks for one set of plans or drawings and the property survey, alongside the application, the Notice of Commencement above the threshold and the contract or invoice. A survey is the document that settles where a boundary actually runs, which is the whole argument a fence permit exists to prevent.
The City asks for an Agent Authorization form for any person, other than the qualifier, who will be submitting or picking up the permit. Sending an apprentice to the counter without it is a wasted trip.
Where the owner is acting as the builder, the checklists ask for a signed and notarised Owner Builder Affidavit and all required documents as listed on the form, and for the material quote or receipt in place of a contract. The route exists; it is simply documented as carefully as the contractor route.
The City lists an online permit portal alongside individually published forms — the AC change-out affidavit, asbestos notification, building permit application, contractor registration, change of contractor, notice of commencement, owner-builder affidavit, permit authorization, revision form, roofing application and right-of-way utility permit, plus the checklists.
A kitchen renovation from Elbaz Construction’s South Florida portfolio. The photographs record the rooms, not the address — nothing here is claimed as a Pahokee project.
The kitchen from the dining side, with the banquette in place.
The corner run, with the dishwasher integrated under the worktop.
The tall cabinetry housing the fridge and built-in oven.
Covered terrace and patio structures from Elbaz Construction projects — separate properties, shown as individual examples rather than as one job.
A survey showing the location of the deck, and plans including tie down details. Those two requirements between them cover the questions a covered structure actually raises in South Florida: is it where it is allowed to be, and will it stay there in a storm.
A patio cover running the length of a rear elevation, fans fitted.
A slatted cover over a newly laid terrace, jointing still open.
Posts set and braced, before the ground was closed around them.
A compact covered structure on its paved pad.
Being straight about the limits of what is published is more useful than a confident guess, and it is the difference between a page you can plan around and one you cannot.
Several municipalities nearby publish their inspection days, their booking cut-off and how far ahead to call. On the pages we read, Pahokee publishes none of that. So this page does not state an inspection schedule, and we would be suspicious of any contractor’s website that does. What we do is ask the department directly at the start of a job and build the programme around the answer they give for that job.
No fee schedule was read, so no permit fee appears anywhere on this page. The three money figures we do carry — the $2,500 Notice of Commencement threshold and the insurance and contract requirements — are rules the City states in its own checklists, not prices.
The AC change-out affidavit, the Window/Door Buck Affidavit, the Owner Builder Affidavit, the roofing application, and the shutters, carport and shed, mechanical and fire alarm checklists all exist and are published. We name them because the names are useful. We do not describe what is inside them, because we have not read them.
The department also runs planning and zoning — site plan review, zoning changes, variances and subdivisions under the city’s land development code. None of that code was read, so this page makes no claim about districts, setbacks or what may be built where.
Two extensions are published for building, planning and zoning, and the department is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at 207 Begonia Drive. For anything on this page that has moved since it was written, they are the authority and we are not.
Bathroom work on a different South Florida property, shown as its own job rather than folded in with the kitchen above.
The shower from the vanity side, once the glass was set.
Niches formed in the wall and lined with penny mosaic.
The mosaic wall in full, with the drain set below it.
Specific to this city, and in the order they actually bite.
Windows and doors, shutters, patio deck, carport or shed, fence, mechanical, fire alarm. Each one lists exactly what to bring, and reading yours removes most of the guesswork.
The threshold here is $2,500, lower than most of the county. It has to be recorded or certified, and submitted with the package.
On the window and door route the City wants both the owner or agent section and the contractor section signed and notarised.
The City asks for issuance in the current month and year, with the City of Pahokee named as certificate holder. A certificate from earlier in the year may not be accepted.
The executed contract or signed invoice for the job is part of the submission here — or the material quote and receipt if you are the owner-builder.
The City says so itself: “Should there be any other requirements, our building officials will advise.” Treat the published checklist as the reliable core of the submission and the department as the authority on the rest. We publish no fee figures, no inspection schedule and no review durations for Pahokee, because the City publishes none on the pages we read.
What owners in Pahokee ask first, answered from the City’s own permit checklists rather than from what is usually true elsewhere in Palm Beach County.
The deal itself. Every checklist we read asks you to submit the executed contract or signed invoice for the job — and, where the owner is acting as the builder, the material quote and/or receipt. Most municipalities want the application, the drawings and the approvals; this City also wants to see the agreement the work is being done under. In practice it means the scope and the price need to be settled before you file, rather than in parallel with the permit.
From $2,500, which is lower than most of the county. Every checklist carries the same line: submit a recorded or certified copy of the Notice of Commencement for projects $2,500 and above. If you have built elsewhere in Palm Beach or Broward and are used to a $5,000 threshold, this is the one to re-check — a job that needed no recorded notice there may well need one here.
On the window and door route, both. The checklist states that on the building permit application both the owner or agent section and the contractor section are to be signed and notarised. Where an owner is acting as their own builder there is also a signed and notarised Owner Builder Affidavit, with the documents listed on that form. It is worth booking the notary once and doing all of it in a single sitting.
Then you need shutters, and the paperwork for them. The City’s window and door checklist says it directly: if the windows or doors are not impact windows or doors, shutters are required — and you must provide the product approval or Notice of Acceptance for the shutters as well. The same checklist asks for signed and sealed drawings, product approvals or NOAs for the units themselves, an Asbestos Notification Statement and a Window/Door Buck Affidavit.
Yes, and the City publishes its own checklist for it. Alongside the application, the Notice of Commencement above the threshold and the contract or invoice, it asks for a survey copy showing the location of the patio deck and a set of plans including tie down details. Between them those two answer the questions a covered structure actually raises here: whether it sits where it is allowed to, and how it is held down in a storm.
Also its own checklist: the building permit application, an Owner Builder Affidavit if it applies, one set of plans or drawings, the recorded Notice of Commencement for projects $2,500 and above, the executed contract or signed invoice, and the property survey. The survey is the document that settles where the boundary actually runs, which is most of what a fence dispute turns on.
Registration, with insurance that is current in a specific sense. The City asks for General Liability insurance whose issuance date is for a current month and year, and which lists the City of Pahokee as certificate holder — plus either proof of workers’ compensation insurance on the same terms or a workers’ compensation exemption. That "current month and year" wording catches people out: a certificate that was perfectly valid when issued earlier in the year may still need reissuing for this counter.
Only with authorisation in writing. The City asks for an Agent Authorization form for any person, other than the qualifier, who will be submitting or picking up the permit. It is a small form and a wasted trip without it.
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. On the pages we read, the City publishes no inspection schedule, no booking cut-off and no review turnaround — unlike several of its neighbours. Rather than import somebody else’s practice and present it as local, we ask the department directly at the start of each job and build the programme around the answer we are given. If you see a contractor’s website quoting inspection days for Pahokee, ask them where it came from.
We do not publish them, because we have not read the City’s fee schedule and would rather quote nothing than quote something stale. The only figures on this page are rules the City states in its own checklists — the $2,500 Notice of Commencement threshold, the insurance requirements and the contract requirement. For fees, the Building, Planning & Zoning department is the authority.
Mostly, and the City is honest that it is not guaranteed. At the foot of its checklists it prints: “Should there be any other requirements, our building officials will advise.” That is a fair thing to publish. Treat the checklist as the reliable core of the submission, and open the conversation with the department early enough that anything extra is a small addition rather than a restart.
Not from a page. What we can do first is identify which of the City’s checklists applies, tell you what has to be notarised, recorded or reissued, work out what the survey and drawings will have to show, and ask the department the questions its website does not answer. Then we price against drawings — which is also, conveniently, the document this City asks to see.
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Send the scope and the address. We will come back with the checklist that applies and what has to be notarised, recorded or dated this month.
Where the City publishes nothing — inspection days, turnaround, fees — we will tell you that plainly and go and ask, rather than quoting you a number that came from somewhere else.
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Your details are with the Elbaz Construction team and we will come back to you, usually the same or next working day. If it is urgent, call (754) 236-0675.
Send us the scope and the address. We will identify the checklist that applies, tell you what has to be notarised and recorded, and price against drawings. Licensed, bonded and insured, CBC1265280.
