St. Johns County
Renovating in Ponte Vedra Beach
Larger houses, higher finish levels, and an architectural review board in front of nearly every exterior change.
Housing stock
What we find when we open a wall here
1980s through 2010s houses on larger lots, many inside managed communities with covenants. Mostly slab-on-grade with tile or shingle roofs and stucco or fibre-cement exteriors.
What Ponte Vedra Beach does to a renovation
Architectural review
Most communities here require ARB approval for exterior changes before the county will issue a permit, and several restrict working hours and contractor parking. We prepare the submission package and track it, and we plan four to eight weeks for the review.
St. Johns County permitting
Different jurisdiction from Duval, with its own submission portal, fees and inspection scheduling. We hold licences and accounts in both.
Tile roofs
Tying an addition into a concrete or clay tile roof requires matching profile and colour and a careful transition detail. Matching discontinued tile is sometimes impossible and needs an honest plan.
Large single-level floors
Running one continuous floor across 2,500 square feet demands real flatness work. It is the largest prep line item we see in this area.
From the archive
Work we finished in Ponte Vedra Beach
2024A lanai enclosed and 2,700 feet of floor made flat
A screened lanai became a conditioned sunroom, and one large-format tile ran across the whole ground floor, which is a flatness problem before it is a tile problem.
$198,000 (sample figure) · 22 weeks
Reviews
What people in Ponte Vedra Beach said
They showed us the straightedge readings before quoting the floor prep. Seventy-one bags of levelling compound is not a nice surprise, but it was not a surprise.
Robert KavanaghPonte Vedra Beach · 420 sq ft enclosed, 2,700 sq ft of large-format tile
Same superintendent for twenty-two weeks. He walked the job every working day and the Friday photo update meant we never had to ask.
Greg HalvorsenPonte Vedra Beach · Single-level, 3,100 sq ft interior
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Ponte Vedra Beach questions
Questions
Working in Ponte Vedra Beach
Yes. Ponte Vedra Beach is 34 minutes from the shop, which is inside the radius we deliberately keep. It means a punch item gets handled the same week rather than waiting for someone to make the trip.
We do, as the licensed general contractor, and we carry every inspection in St. Johns County. We hold the licences and portal accounts for Duval, St. Johns and Clay counties.
Most communities here require ARB approval for exterior changes before the county will issue a permit, and several restrict working hours and contractor parking. We prepare the submission package and track it, and we plan four to eight weeks for the review.
Also serving
The other five areas
Start where every one of our projects starts
A two hour site visit, then a written budget band inside a week. No drawings, no deposit.