Construction in Fort Lauderdale - Licensed & Insured, Written Fixed-Price Quotes
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Don't let a broken construction slow you down. Contact Groundwork Construction Co. of South Florida today and our experts will handle everything - from diagnosis to repair, quickly.
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What Our Customers Are Saying
"Found unpermitted work by the previous owner once he opened the wall. He stopped, explained the options and what each would cost, and let me decide rather than making it my emergency."
"He pulled the permits himself, scheduled every sub and ran the inspections. I made one decision a week and otherwise stayed out of it, which is exactly what I was paying for."
"The schedule he gave me at the start was accurate to within four days on a three month job. Anyone who has done a renovation knows how unusual that is."
"The finished work is exactly what we wanted. It did run about three weeks over, mostly waiting on a cabinet delivery that was out of his hands, though I would have liked more updates during that stretch."
"We lived in the house through the whole thing. He kept the dust wall up, cleaned every Friday, and made sure we always had a working bathroom."
Areas We Proudly Serve
Serving Fort Lauderdale, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We're based in the Fort Lauderdale area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you're nearby, we can almost certainly help.
At Groundwork Construction Co. of South Florida, we specialize in fast, reliable, and affordable construction services for homeowners and businesses.
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Construction Service Across the Fort Lauderdale Area
We Are the Fort Lauderdale Team for Groundwork.
When Frank Kessler's crews set an arch, the keystone got the glory - but Frank never let anyone forget what the arch stood on. "The stone up top gets its picture taken," he'd say. "The groundwork keeps it out of the dirt." Groundwork Construction was built for that half of the job: the company in the Keystone family that takes on the whole project - the kitchen gut, the new roof, the addition where the carport used to be - and owns every trade in it.
Same training, same parts, same pricing practice, and the same 730-Day Done Right Promise - delivered by people who live here.
Visit Groundwork →Part of the Keystone Family.
Keystone is a family of home-service brands held to one written standard, and Groundwork is the construction company in it. One promise stands behind every trade, in every town.
Expert Construction Repair and Installation Services
Every job on this list is handled by trained, background-checked technicians working to one national standard, priced upfront from a free estimate.
Whole-Home Remodeling
Every trade under one license and one crew boss. Demolition, framing, mechanical, finish work and the final walkthrough, all on one contract.
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Free Construction Estimates
We walk the project, scope it room by room and hand you one fixed itemized bid. The number does not move after the handshake.
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Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling
Cabinets, counters, tile and the plumbing and electrical behind them, sequenced so the room comes back together on schedule.
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Additions and Structural Work
Room additions, garage conversions and load-bearing changes, engineered and permitted, inspected and passed the first time.
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The material decides whether the work still looks right in five years. Here is what we build with, and what the cheap substitute costs you later.
Framing Lumber
Framing is the skeleton every finish detail hangs on. Wood that moves after the drywall goes up is what puts cracks in a corner nobody ever touched again.
We frame with kiln-dried lumber sorted on site, and we use engineered beams and headers where the span calls for one. Dry stock holds its dimension, so the wall stays straight after the house dries out.
Budget framing goes up in green lumber straight off the pile, crowns and all. It shrinks and twists for a year, and the movement telegraphs through as nail pops, cracked corners and doors that stop latching.
Structural Fasteners
Connections are where framing actually fails. In a coastal wind zone the fastener schedule is the difference between a code inspection that passes and one that does not.
We use hot-dip galvanized structural connectors and rated screws, sized and spaced to the engineered schedule, with every hole in the plate filled the way the manufacturer requires.
The cheap route is electro-plated hardware and common nails, with holes left empty because it is faster. The thin plating corrodes where it meets treated wood, and a half-nailed connector carries a fraction of its rated load.
Waterproofing Membrane
Behind every shower and every tiled wet wall is a membrane. It is invisible on the day of the walkthrough and it is the single thing standing between the tile and the framing.
We install a bonded sheet or liquid waterproofing membrane over the whole wet area, lapped into the drain and up the walls, and we flood-test the pan before a single tile goes down.
The shortcut is a sheet of plastic stapled behind the board with taped seams and no test. Water finds the staple holes, wicks into the studs, and the failure only shows up as a soft floor two years later.
Subfloor Panels
The subfloor decides whether a finished floor is silent or announces every step. It is also the cheapest place on a job to save money and the most obvious place to feel it.
We lay thick tongue-and-groove panels rated for the joist spacing, set in construction adhesive and screwed down on a tight pattern so the panel and the joist move as one piece.
Thin square-edge sheeting nailed down without glue leaves an unsupported edge between joists. The panel flexes, the nails work loose, and the floor squeaks along every seam.
Concrete Reinforcement
Footings, slabs and driveways all crack eventually. What is cast inside the concrete decides whether that crack stays a hairline or opens into a trip hazard.
We place properly sized rebar on chairs so the steel sits in the middle of the pour where it can do its job, tied at every intersection and lapped to the engineered length.
The fast method is a roll of light wire mesh dropped on the grade and pulled up by boot as the truck pours. Most of it ends up lying on the dirt, adding nothing at all to the finished slab.