Inspections, Across Every Type Florida Requires

Permit and construction inspections

• Private provider inspections under Florida Statute 553.791 — performed in place of the building department, scheduled around your crew rather than a municipal queue. Full detail here.
• Threshold inspections on qualifying structures, with the plan and reporting the statute requires.
• Special inspections — structural steel, concrete, masonry, soils, welding, post-tensioning and high-strength bolting.
• Progress and milestone construction inspections for lenders, owners and insurers.
• Reinspections without going back to the end of a queue.

Statutory and recertification inspections

• 40-year and recurring building recertification in the counties that require it.
• Milestone inspections under Florida Statute 553.899, Phase 1 and Phase 2.
• Structural Integrity Reserve Studies for qualifying condominium associations.
• Balcony, railing and walkway inspections, which is where recertification most often turns into repair work.
• Electrical recertification covering service equipment, feeders, grounding and life safety systems.

More on recertification and milestone inspections, including what the deadlines actually are and what happens if you miss one.

Insurance and property inspections

Florida’s insurance market has made these routine, and they are frequently the difference between getting a policy written and not.

• Four-point inspections — roof, electrical, plumbing and HVAC, in the format carriers expect.
• Wind mitigation inspections — documenting the features that reduce premiums, which on many Florida homes pays for the inspection many times over.
• Roof condition certifications and remaining useful life.
• Damage assessments after storm or water events, documented for a claim.
• Structural condition assessments and engineer’s reports where a carrier or lender asks for one.

Transaction and due diligence inspections

• Pre-purchase and pre-listing building assessments.
• Unpermitted work identification — walking a property specifically to find what was built without a permit, before it surfaces in a lien search.
• Commercial property condition assessments for buyers, lenders and investors.
• Open permit close-out inspections, paired with the permit work that follows.

The unpermitted work walkthrough is the one Realtors ask for most, and it is the cheapest version of a problem that otherwise appears eleven days before a closing.