Flooring Contractor in Doral, FL - Garage and Shop Floors That Hold Up

The City of Doral Building Department is the office that decides, since it issues building permits for properties inside city limits and inspects the work. Its list of small permits names patio slabs, decks, fences and walkways, not floor coatings, so we check with the city before we start instead of guessing. If your job needs one, we handle our side of the paperwork and walk you through the part you sign, and any permit the county requires goes straight to Miami-Dade County.

Yes, if you're competent to do the work and meet the city's owner/builder exemption, which you certify by signing an owner/builder affidavit. The catch is that you then carry all the responsibilities and liabilities a contractor would. If our crew is doing the work, it usually makes more sense for the permit to sit with the contractor.

The city charges double permit fees for work done without one, and the work may have to be partly or completely torn out. The Building Department treats work done without permits or inspections as unsafe, and it could hold up the transfer of your property when you sell. A phone call to check costs a lot less than any of that.

Your price comes down mostly to the size of the floor, how much prep the slab needs and which coating system you choose, so I give you your own figure after I've seen the concrete. Old coatings, oil stains and cracks to repair add time and material, and a plain single color usually costs less than a metallic finish. If your job needs a permit and its value runs over $2,500, the city also requires a Notice of Commencement, recorded through the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts before it goes to the city.

For any permit a contractor submits, the contractor of record has to be registered with the City of Doral, and the Building Department checks the contractor's licensing and insurance when the permit goes in. So ask any contractor you're weighing whether they're set up to pull a Doral permit before you sign anything. We're licensed and fully insured, and I'm glad to go over it when I come out.

A Doral permit expires if work hasn't started and an inspection hasn't been approved within 180 days of issuance. Once work starts, it also expires if the job is suspended or abandoned for 6 months, unless an inspection is approved. It's worth having a start date in mind before a permit is pulled so nothing sits.