Completed work

Small buildings,
and how you reach them.

Completed Elbaz Construction projects across South Florida - self-contained buildings, their approaches and their interiors. Work of this size is where a site day, a delivery window and a neighbour’s patience matter most. Different properties; each caption says which.

Studio ADU living area with a grey sectional, round woven side table and a low timber console, lit by a skylight
Studio ADU seen across the kitchen range toward the sectional, framed prints and the bed beyond
Studio ADU interior with a grey sectional in the foreground and the bed set against the far wall beneath framed prints
Studio ADU sleeping area with a dark slat bed frame, white bedding and a small black bistro table beside a shuttered window
Studio ADU kitchen with white shaker cabinets, a dark navy tiled backsplash, stainless refrigerator and a white range
Vaulted studio ADU ceiling with an exposed dark beam, a skylight and a wall-mounted mini-split head above the kitchen
Studio ADU bathroom with a glass corner shower, mosaic shower floor, white shaker vanity with black pulls and wood-look plank flooring
Exterior entry door to the converted unit beside a wall light, with a concrete path and hedge alongside
Concrete walkway running alongside the unit between the stucco wall and a clipped hedge
Light stucco elevation of a converted unit behind young columnar planting and a timber walkway
Narrow side elevation with a concrete path running between the unit and a clipped hedge
Detached converted unit with light stucco walls and a dark fascia, seen across a lawn behind a row of newly planted columnar shrubs
White shaker kitchen with stainless appliances and a green tiled backsplash, seen from the living area
Bathroom with a navy hexagonal tiled shower behind a framed glass screen, brass fittings, a recessed niche and a white vanity
White vanity with drawers and a lit mirror beside a framed glass shower screen over navy hexagonal tile
Bedroom with mirrored sliding closet doors standing open beside a doorway through to the bathroom
Converted garage with grey stucco walls, a flat parapet roofline, a white-framed window and a panelled entry door with a glazed insert
Entry door of a converted garage with a wall sconce, a black steel handrail and a poured concrete step
Bathroom with a dark shaker vanity and white stone top, black tapware, a sliding glass shower door on a black track and marble-effect porcelain wall tile
Two-storey structure under construction on a compacted sand pad with a materials trailer alongside
White rendered two-storey elevation with large window openings glazed, standing on a prepared site
Steel-stringer staircase under a double-height glazed opening at drywall stage
Interior corridor at drywall stage with taped joints, unfinished floor and daylight from the far opening
Interior at drywall stage with a scissor lift positioned for high-level work

All photographs are of real Elbaz Construction work in South Florida. None was taken in Palm Beach Shores and none is presented as a Town-permitted project.

Narrow side elevation with a concrete path running between the unit and a clipped hedge
The side approach to a completed Elbaz Construction project in South Florida, photographed on completion. On a small island lot the route in - for people, materials and vehicles - is a genuine part of the plan.

Building here

A calendar,
then a contract.

Palm Beach Shores is a small barrier-island town, and its building rules read like a place where everyone can hear everyone else. The Town publishes construction hours that change with the season: from October through April the site day runs 8 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday with construction vehicles removed by 6 pm, and from May through September it runs 8 am to 6 pm with vehicles removed by 7 pm.

Read that carefully and there are two rules, not one. There is a working day, and there is a separate deadline by which the vehicles have to be off. A trade that finishes at six in season has still broken the rule if the truck is there at half past. That is a programme constraint, and it is the reason a Palm Beach Shores schedule is written differently from a mainland one.

  • Two seasons, two site days

    One hour longer in summer, one hour shorter in season - and Saturday is a working day in both.

  • Vehicles have their own deadline

    An hour after the work stops, in both seasons. Deliveries and plant have to be planned around it.

  • The Town’s own form, notarised

    The Town states it does not accept the County universal application, and that the permit application must be signed and notarised by both the homeowner and the contractor.

Talk through your property

Constraint and consequence

What the Town publishes,
and what it does
to a programme.

None of the below is a statement about your address. It is what the Town publishes about how work is permitted and carried out, and what each item means for planning a job here.

Concrete walkway running alongside the unit between the stucco wall and a clipped hedge
The approach to a completed Elbaz Construction project in South Florida. Where a town publishes a time by which construction vehicles must be gone, the route in and out becomes part of the method statement.

The site day is seasonal, so the programme is

An hour a day, six days a week, is meaningful over a long job. A schedule written in June and executed in January is a schedule that is quietly wrong.

Vehicles off, an hour after tools down

Two separate deadlines. Deliveries, skips and plant hire all have to respect the second one, not just the first.

Saturday counts

Both seasons run Monday to Saturday. That is more site days than many neighbouring municipalities allow, and it is worth using deliberately.

Your contract sets the fee

The Town asks for the proposal, quote or agreement between contractor and owner showing the valuation, and states this is how it determines the permit fee. The document you sign is a permitting document.

Both signatures, notarised

The permit application must be signed and notarised by both homeowner and contractor - and so must the Construction Site Management Acknowledgment Form. That means arranging a notary, not just an email.

Everyone registers, with the Town named

Contractors and subs must all register before commencing any work, filing current liability and workers’ compensation certificates with the Town of Palm Beach Shores as the certificate holder.

6 pm / 7 pm

the two deadlines by which construction vehicles must be removed - one for the October-to-April season, one for May to September

The same job, two seasons
ElementOctober - AprilMay - September
Site dayMonday to Saturday, 8 am - 5 pmMonday to Saturday, 8 am - 6 pm
Vehicles removed by6 pm7 pm
Usable hours per weekFifty-four, across six daysSixty, across six days
Best used forInterior work and trades that do not need daylightExternal work, deliveries and anything weather-dependent
What to watchShort days against a fixed handoverHeat, storms and the hurricane season
What does not changeBoth seasons include SaturdayBoth seasons include Saturday

Both are the Town’s published rules. The point is not that one is better, but that a programme has to know which one it is being built under.

Stills from the two completed units on this page. They illustrate the stages; they are not photographs of the stage named beside them.

How we run it

Eight stages,
written to the calendar.

The sequence we follow on a Palm Beach Shores property. It is built around which season the work falls in, because in this Town that genuinely changes what a week contains.

  1. 01

    Property and access

    What the address is, what is already permitted on it, and - unusually early - how materials and vehicles will actually reach it. On a small island lot with a published vehicle deadline, access is a design input.

  2. 02

    Survey and brief

    What you want, what the building will allow and what a survey finds, including what a previous owner did without a permit.

  3. 03

    Place the work in a season

    Which parts fall in the October-to-April day and which in the longer summer one. External and delivery-heavy work is planned into the season that has an extra hour, where the programme allows it.

  4. 04

    Price it, because the price is the fee

    The Town determines the permit fee from the proposal or agreement showing the valuation of the job. That makes an accurate, itemised contract a permitting document as well as a commercial one.

  5. 05

    Registration and paperwork

    Contractor and sub registration with the Town, licences and current liability and workers’ compensation certificates naming the Town as certificate holder - done before anyone is due on site rather than on the morning.

  6. 06

    Submit the Town’s own package

    The Town’s building permit application, notarised by both homeowner and contractor; two copies of plans, specifications and product approvals; the Construction Site Management Acknowledgment Form where the valuation is over $5,000; and a recorded Notice of Commencement where the thresholds require one.

  7. 07

    Construction, inside the published day

    Built to the approved documents, worked to the season’s hours, with vehicles off by the Town’s deadline. Deliveries are booked to land inside the window rather than at the end of it.

  8. 08

    Inspections and closeout

    Requests received by 3:30 PM the day before for the following business day, scheduled through the Town’s online system, then the permit is closed out rather than left open.

Approvals

What the Town asks for,
and who has to sign it.

Palm Beach Shores runs a small, direct building department: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, no appointment necessary, responsible for all building permits and inspections for construction within the Town. What it asks for is specific, and several items need more than one person to produce.

The two that catch people are the notarisation and the valuation. Both the homeowner and the contractor have to sign and notarise the permit application, and again the site management form. And the fee is not looked up - it is derived from the proposal or agreement you provide. That makes the paperwork a shared task rather than something a contractor quietly handles.

INFILLED VEHICLE OPENINGBATHKITCHENLIVING / SLEEPINGENTRY

Simplified sketch, for explanation only. It is not a permit drawing and not a plan of either project shown on this page.

From first call to closeout

  • The Town’s own application

    The Town states plainly that it does not accept the County universal application. Its form, not a substitute.

  • Notarised by both parties

    The permit application must be signed and notarised by both the homeowner and the contractor.

  • Construction Site Management Acknowledgment Form

    Required for job valuations over $5,000, with Ordinance 0-6-25, and also signed by both the homeowner and the contractor.

  • Two copies of plans and approvals

    Two copies of the plans and specifications and/or Notices of Acceptance.

  • The proposal that sets the fee

    A proposal, quote or agreement between contractor and owner showing the valuation - which the Town states is how it determines the permit fee.

  • Recorded Notice of Commencement

    Required where the job is over $2,500, or over $7,500 for mechanical work.

  • Contractor and sub registration

    All must register with the Town before commencing any work, with a registration application, the qualifier’s state or county licence, and current liability and workers’ compensation certificates naming the Town of Palm Beach Shores as certificate holder.

  • Inspections, day before by 3:30

    Performed Monday through Friday; requests must be received by 3:30 PM the day before to schedule for the following business day, through My Government Online.

The contract is a permitting document

In most places a quote is a commercial matter. Here the Town derives the permit fee from it, which is a good argument for an itemised, accurate document rather than a round number on a letterhead.

None of the above is a statement about your property. The Town of Palm Beach Shores Building Department determines what any specific address and scope requires, and requirements change. We confirm what your project actually needs before anything is filed. We publish no fees, because the Town publishes none - it derives them from valuation - and we do not summarise Ordinance 0-6-25, which we have named but not opened.

Cost and time

What moves the number,
and what moves the date.

No figures here, and in this Town that is more than a policy - the Town itself publishes no fee table, deriving the permit fee from the contract instead.

01

What moves the cost

  • The valuation in your agreement

    It is the basis of the permit fee here. An accurate itemised contract is worth having for that reason as well as every other.

  • Which season the work falls in

    An hour a day across six days is real. A long job that straddles both seasons has two different weekly capacities.

  • Access and delivery

    A small island lot with a published vehicle deadline needs deliveries planned rather than assumed. That is a genuine line in an honest estimate.

  • Exposure

    Salt and wind are harder on a barrier island than a few miles inland. The specification follows the site.

  • Structural alteration

    Openings, spans and load paths need engineering, and engineering needs to be in the drawing before it can be in the submittal.

  • What the survey finds

    On an older property what a previous owner did is discovered rather than declared, and has to be resolved rather than covered.

02

What moves the schedule

  • Getting both signatures notarised

    Two people and a notary. It sounds trivial and it is the step most likely to sit unfinished for a week.

  • Registration of every trade

    Contractors and subs all register with the Town, with certificates naming the Town as certificate holder. Started early rather than on the day.

  • Recording the Notice of Commencement

    Where the thresholds require it - over $2,500, or over $7,500 for mechanical work.

  • The 3:30 inspection deadline

    Every inspection on the job passes through it, the day before.

  • The season’s hours

    Fifty-four hours a week or sixty, depending on the date. It is the single most under-modelled number in a Palm Beach Shores programme.

  • Product lead times

    Ordering after approval is a date; ordering before it is a risk.

Owner’s guide

AS FOUND · GARAGEopen vehicle opening · bare slab · no envelopeCONVERTED · HABITABLEinfill wall · windows · entry · egress · insulated envelope · treated slab010203040506

Six things worth knowing
before work starts.

Not rules - the Town writes those. These are the things that most often change how a Palm Beach Shores project runs.

01

Ask which season your job lives in

October to April is an 8-to-5 day; May to September is 8-to-6. Over a six-month job that difference is weeks.

02

The vehicle deadline is separate

An hour after tools down, in both seasons. A truck still on the street is a breach even if nobody is working.

03

Book the notary once, for everything

The application and the site management form both need both signatures notarised. Doing them in one visit saves a fortnight of chasing.

04

Your quote sets your fee

The Town derives the permit fee from the proposal showing the valuation. An itemised, accurate document serves you twice.

05

Over $5,000 brings another form

The Construction Site Management Acknowledgment Form, with Ordinance 0-6-25, is required for job valuations above that figure.

06

Every sub registers, naming the Town

Certificates of liability and workers’ compensation must show the Town of Palm Beach Shores as the certificate holder. Chase them before mobilisation.

Studio ADU bathroom with a glass corner shower, mosaic shower floor, white shaker vanity with black pulls and wood-look plank flooring
A completed Elbaz Construction guest unit bathroom in South Florida, photographed on completion. Not photographed in Palm Beach Shores.

What it is like

Living with a project
on a published clock.

The honest version of the experience on a small island where the Town has written down when work may happen.

  • The day ends when the Town says

    Tools down on time and vehicles gone by the deadline, in both seasons. We plan the last hour of the day around the second rule, not the first.

  • Saturday is a working day

    In both seasons, and we use it - which on a fixed handover date can matter more than any amount of pushing during the week.

  • Deliveries are booked, not hoped for

    A small lot, a published vehicle deadline and neighbours close by. Materials arrive to a slot.

  • Paperwork needs you as well as us

    Two signatures, notarised, on more than one document. We will tell you well in advance rather than the day before.

  • One point of contact

    The same person from the first visit to the walkthrough. Design, permitting and construction sit in one company, so a reviewer’s comment does not wait on a hand-off between two firms.

  • Closeout is not optional

    Permits are closed out. An open permit stays with the property and reappears when it is sold, when it is someone else’s leverage.

Questions

Ask the
awkward ones.

Six categories. Pick one and the answers change.

Not answered here?

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The Town publishes two sets. From October 1 to April 30, Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 5 pm, with construction vehicles removed by 6 pm. From May 1 to September 30, Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 6 pm, with construction vehicles removed by 7 pm.

Because the Town regulates the vehicles as well as the work. Tools down is one time; the site being clear of construction vehicles is an hour later. A truck left on the street after the second deadline is still a breach.

Yes - both published seasons run Monday to Saturday. That is more site days than several neighbouring municipalities allow, and on a fixed completion date it is worth planning around deliberately.

Over a short job, barely. Over a long one it is an hour a day across six days, which is roughly a week of capacity every couple of months. A programme that ignores it will drift.

Detached converted unit with light stucco walls and a dark fascia, seen across a lawn behind a row of newly planted columnar shrubs
A completed Elbaz Construction guest cottage in South Florida. Not photographed in Palm Beach Shores. Work like this is done from the outside in, which is why a town that regulates the site day regulates something real.

Why Elbaz

What we will actually
put our name to.

  • Licensed, bonded and insured

    Elbaz Construction is a licensed Florida general contractor, CBC1265280. Permits are pulled in the company’s name.

  • We programme to the season we are in

    Fifty-four hours a week or sixty, depending on the date. A schedule that ignores that is a schedule that slips.

  • We get every sub registered before mobilisation

    Licences and certificates naming the Town as certificate holder, in hand rather than promised.

  • Design and construction in one contract

    The people who draw it are the people who build it, so a reviewer’s comment comes back to the team that can answer it.

  • We say what we do not know

    The Town publishes no fee table and no review duration, so neither do we. What a specific address and scope require is the Building Department’s to determine.

  • Permits closed out

    Every permit we pull is closed out at the end of the job rather than left open against the property.

No awards, no rankings and no numbers we cannot show you. Everything above is either public record or visible in the work on this page.

Reviews

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Tell us about the property

What helps on the first call

The address, roughly when the building was built, what you want to change, and when you would like it finished. That last one matters more here than most places, because the season decides how long a working week is.

What happens next

We check what is already permitted on the property, then survey it, and we write an itemised proposal - which in this Town is also the document the permit fee is derived from.

What you will not get from us

A permit fee quoted from a table, a promised review date, or an assurance of approval. The Town publishes none of those and neither will we.

Preferred contact method

We use your details only to respond to this enquiry. No lists, no resale.

Thanks — that came through.

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.

Plan the programme
around the season.

In Palm Beach Shores the calendar decides how long a day is, and your contract decides what the permit costs. Both are worth getting right before anyone mobilises. Start with a survey and a conversation about timing.

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Studio ADU kitchen with white shaker cabinets, a dark navy tiled backsplash, stainless refrigerator and a white range