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Built for Florida homeowners and contractors

Find the permit path for your Florida project.

Answer a few questions and see the permits, documents, inspections, and official resources that may apply, before the work begins and before it costs you.

Check my project Check the $7,500 exemption

No account to start. Every result links back to the county's own words, checked by a person and dated.

New: Florida's $7,500 permit exemption (HB 803)

As of July 1, 2026, some single-family projects under $7,500 no longer need a building permit. The exceptions are where people get burned. See if yours qualifies in under a minute.

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How it works

Four steps, and you actually understand the answer

Step 1

Tell us where the property is

Confirm the county and the city or unincorporated area that actually permits the work. Your mailing city is not always the permitting authority, and that trips up a lot of people.

Step 2

Choose the project

Roof, fence, shed, pool, HVAC, solar, water heater, and more. Pick the work you are actually planning.

Step 3

Answer a few questions

A short, project-specific questionnaire narrows the result down to your situation instead of a generic answer.

Step 4

Get your checklist and the sources

See the likely permits, documents, inspections, next steps, and official contacts, each one linked back to where it came from.

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Permits should not be the reason your project stalls.

Across Central Florida, the same simple project can need a permit in one city and skip it in the next town over. We do the reading so you can plan the work, hire the right person, and avoid the red tag.

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Why you can trust the result

We don't guess. A real person checks the rule.

Permit information online is a mess of PDFs, portals, and pages that contradict each other. Our whole job is to sit with that mess so you don't have to, and to be honest when the answer is not clear.

A person, not a bot, reads the rule
Someone opens the city or county's own permitting page and reads what it actually says before it ever shows up here.
Every result links to the source
You can click straight through to the official page a requirement came from and check it yourself.
Each rule carries a verified date
Rules change. We stamp the date we last confirmed each one so you know how fresh it is, and we say so when we are not sure.