Fort Lauderdale property work often involves more than choosing the nearest trade. A waterfront repair, occupied-building restoration or buried-service investigation needs its own brief and responsible project contact. Start with the existing property record and identify what will be retained, altered or replaced before asking contractors to price different interpretations of the same job.
Company information reviewed 2026-10-30. See individual profiles for sources.
Use the property history to organize the first enquiry
The city supplies permitting records and inspection services through Development Services, with digital applications in LauderBuild. Older permit searches have a specific record-number convention. For renovation work, retrieving the relevant record can help the owner frame questions about past alterations without assuming those records describe every hidden condition. Give specialists the documents relevant to their stage and ask what still requires investigation.
Seawall Construction · Dock Building · Dock Repair
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
Company location page offers dock repair, seawall construction and dock construction across these named communities. Coconut Grove is a neighborhood, not an independent municipality.
Flat sawing, wall sawing and core drilling offered to residential and commercial customers. Page expressly says entire state of Florida. Bare labels Charlotte, Manatee and Hillsboro not converted into city or county claims.
Allstate Restoration advertises radon testing, mitigation and follow-up monitoring. Its locations page names Florida communities it serves; mitigation credentials have not been independently verified.
Foundation Repair · Concrete Lifting · Crawl Space Encapsulation
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
City-specific pages substantiate lifting in all three locations. Near-me text in a provider page title is not keyword-volume evidence. Opened Tampa service page explicitly describes encapsulation system installation and lists served places. Groundworks company, retain existing ownership cluster.
Florida location page offers horizontal directional drilling and daily work in the three recorded South Florida counties. Farther Florida markets are retained only as conditional general coverage, not unrestricted city matches.
Scope note: Statewide mobilization is advertised for commercial work; confirm scope and scheduling for distant projects. A displayed corporate document number is not treated as a verified contractor license.
Scope note: Statewide mobilization is for commercial projects.
Dosdourian provides foundation underpinning, slab jacking and concrete lifting for Fort Lauderdale properties, addressing settlement and unstable support soils.
Hydro-digging page names the four cities. CIPP page explicitly describes municipal sewer rehabilitation in the same cities. General capabilities extend across Florida.
Foundation Repair · Sinkhole Repair · Concrete Lifting
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
Foundation Services of Central Florida offers foundation underpinning and sinkhole remediation. Its related Stable Soils brand provides concrete lifting and soil stabilization; the brands are conservatively grouped because they share a published contact number.
Dedicated combined service page confirms both concrete scanning and private underground utility locating, with explicitly named Florida markets. Miami utility page independently confirms Miami service.
Scope note: Agree the survey scope, detection limits and reporting requirements for your project. A street address was not established from the reviewed company pages.
Seawall Repair · Seawall Construction · Dock Building · Dock Repair · Boat Lift Installation
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
Hydros offers new seawalls, seawall repair and restoration, dock construction and repairs, piling work and boat lift installation. Residential and commercial waterfront projects are advertised.
ICS Project Group repairs balconies, walkways, slab edges and structural concrete on condominium and commercial buildings, including repairs following recertification inspections.
Scope note: Industrial/commercial field cleaning; residential acceptance not established. Advertises Florida service, but a Florida headquarters is not established.
Homepage confirms residential/commercial sinkhole solutions and encapsulation. Crawl page confirms CleanSpace installation and named cities. General advertised coverage accepted for confirmed services.
Scope note: No standalone crawl space cleaning; debris removal only where needed for installation. Does not service sump pumps installed by others; replacement and subsequent maintenance available. Part of Thrasher Partners.
Dedicated resurfacing page expressly names Orlando through Miami service cities. Full-service company describes plaster, quartz and pebble finish installation and startup.
Scope note: The advertised office has not been independently confirmed as a staffed showroom or yard. Residential work is supported; commercial acceptance is not established.
R. Butler Pools and Decks offers pool resurfacing and restoration, including fiberglass and plaster surfaces. It also advertises pool repairs and deck renovation.
Ross Services offers pool resurfacing and complete pool remodeling, alongside deck and patio work. The company advertises Fort Lauderdale and broader South Florida service.
Shenandoah offers polymer foundation stabilization and concrete slab lifting, with a dedicated Fort Lauderdale service page. It identifies itself as a licensed Uretek affiliate.
Dedicated installation page confirms generator installation across North and South Florida. Named places are from the company service-area list on its site, applied to the confirmed service.
Service-area page explicitly lists cities for foundation service and repair. Daytona left unnormalized. Site uses both Stable Foundations and Stable Foundation Solutions branding; one record retained.
Seawall Repair · Seawall Construction · Dock Building
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
Service page states it designs and builds seawalls and docks and specializes in seawall repair, reinforcement and cap replacement. Main page body and company service-area navigation name these markets.
The Dock Experts offers new dock and seawall installation with in-house engineering and permitting support. The old Jacksonville-specific URL now leads to a broader service-area page.
The Foam Guys raises settled slabs and foundations using polyurethane injection, with helical or marine piles available where deeper support is appropriate.
VacRite Environmental Services offers hydro excavation, daylighting and utility exposure. Its excavation coverage is broader than some of its other environmental services.
Crawl Space Encapsulation · French Drain Installation
Advertised coverage: Fort Lauderdale
Watershield Solutions offers crawl space encapsulation using vapor barriers, sealing and dehumidification as part of its moisture-control work. French drain installation and repair alongside waterproofing services; company advertises Florida service.
Where can I start looking for previous work records?
Fort Lauderdale provides property-record information through Permitting Services. LauderBuild also supports permit searches, which can help organize an enquiry about earlier alterations.
Why might an old permit number return no result?
LauderBuild instructs users to add the PM- prefix for permit records created before October 4, 2019. Follow that search guidance before concluding a record is absent.
Should every contractor receive the whole project brief?
Provide the overall objective plus its particular scope. A marine contractor and a concrete investigator need different details but should understand shared interfaces.
Does a record replace a current site assessment?
No. Treat historical documents as starting information and ask the specialist to identify conditions that remain unverified.