mePermit™ walks you through every step of your Florida roofing permit application — answer the questions, upload your documents, and a licensed private provider reviews and stamps the package under Section 553.791, Florida Statutes. Elect inspections and the same provider performs those too.
A licensed firm that Florida law allows you to hire in place of the local building department for plan review, inspections, or both — Section 553.791, Florida Statutes. The provider reviews your submittal against the code and signs the determination. The building department still issues the permit and remains the authority having jurisdiction.
Yes, but far less. The department issues the permit and holds the file. What changes is who performs the review and, if you elect it, the inspections — and that the package reaching the counter has already been checked and stamped.
Permit documents reviewed and stamped by the private provider: $250. Without a private provider: $150. Commercial low slope review: $750 Tier One or $1,500 Tier Two, plus $150 for each deck after the first.
Inspections are charged per visit, not per inspection — $250 for a virtual visit and $400–$500 for an on-site one, set when the visit is scheduled. Several inspections on one visit are one fee. There is no subscription and no monthly charge.
The inspection is carried out live through a phone or tablet held by your employee on the roof. The inspector sees and hears the job in real time, directs the camera, and the photographs taken during the call become the record — each one stamped with where it was taken. It is the same inspection, by the same licensed inspector, and it produces the same signed report.
180 days from the day the building department issues it — which is why mePermit™ asks for that date with your first inspection request. Every inspection that passes then renews it for 180 days from the date of that inspection. A job that keeps moving keeps its permit.
Yes. A private-provider application requires the owner to sign a Notice to Building Official. Enter their email when you start and the system sends it immediately, so they can sign while you finish the application. It cannot be submitted until they have.
A residential submittal is completed and approved — it is not returned for corrections, because the system will not let a non-compliant one be finalised. Products, pressures and documents are checked as you enter them, and anything ineligible is refused with the reason at that moment.
Only a commercial submittal may be returned for correction. When that happens you are told exactly what is needed, you can answer the reviewer on the permit itself, and there is no second review fee.
Yes. Every permit carries a message thread between you and the reviewer. It stays with the permit as part of its record, and the reviewer's reply appears on your dashboard.
Miami-Dade and Broward — the High Velocity Hurricane Zone — covering every municipality in both counties. Coverage of the remaining Florida counties under FBC Chapter 15 is in development.
Licensed Florida roofing contractors. Registration verifies your DBPR license and your certificate of insurance, and both must be current before an application can be filed.
Create your account and start your first permit application — mePermit™ walks you through every step, a licensed private provider reviews and stamps the package, and the inspections are yours to elect.