As-Built Drawings for Florida Properties

When you need as-builts

• Unpermitted work — a lanai enclosure, a garage conversion, an addition or an interior alteration that was built without a permit and now has to be legalised.
• Expired or abandoned permits — where the work was completed but never inspected or closed, and the department needs to know what is actually there.
• Older buildings with no record set — the original drawings were never microfilmed, or the department’s records were lost.
• Closings — a title search turns up an open permit or unpermitted square footage and the deal stalls until it is documented.
• Insurance and claims — a carrier needs documentation of the structure as it stands.
• Tenant build-outs — you cannot design a new layout into a space nobody has drawings for.

How we do it

Someone goes to the property and measures it. Dimensions, wall locations, ceiling heights, structural members where they are visible or can be reasonably established, electrical and plumbing where the permit scope requires it, and photographs throughout.

That becomes a drawing set that documents the building as it exists. Where the permit requires it, one of our engineers evaluates the work and certifies it — and where the work as built does not comply, we design the remediation rather than pretending it does.

As-builts are usually step one, not the whole job

On unpermitted work the as-built package is the foundation of an after-the-fact permit. The sequence is normally: measure and draw, engineer evaluates and certifies, remediation designed if needed, permit filed, inspections carried out, permit closed.

We do all of those steps, which matters mostly because nobody has to be handed off between four firms while a closing date approaches.