Bathroom remodel and repairs in Plantation.

Frederick Peters planned Plantation in the 1930s and 40s around long acres, one-acre lots with two-thirds reserved for gardens and fruit trees, and the first houses went up on East Acre Drive. The city then grew fast from the 1970s through the 1990s and annexed west to Flamingo Road. Today it holds 42,120 homes: about 48 percent single-family detached, 8 percent townhouses, and 67 percent owner-occupied (Census ACS 2024). The 1980s built more of them than any other decade, 28 percent, with the 1970s close behind at 21 percent. That mix is my work list in a sentence.

• Bathrooms: a 1970s or 80s hall bath or primary bath is the most common call, and the one I quote most.
• Kitchens: the same houses carry original cabinets and a wall between kitchen and family room that people now want gone. Written quote after a visit.
• Drywall and popcorn ceilings: a 1980s ceiling that was never scraped, water-stained drywall under an old window, or a patch after the plumber. Small jobs, done neatly.

Two of its rules matter for my kind of work. The association is responsible for the roofs on the plex villas, and no one may go on any roof; and owners carry HO-3 or HO-6 insurance naming the association. So a ceiling repair or a door swap in a villa gets done from inside, and I never touch the roof. The Lakes of Jacaranda neighborhoods were built by Gulfstream Development and then Taylor Woodrow with J&J Builders; residents formed their own HOA in 1998 to take over. Jacaranda Lakes, built in phases from roughly 1977 to 1995 on cul-de-sacs around lakes, has an HOA too, and only its Enclave section is gated.

• Country Club Estates, beside the old Plantation Golf Club land that became the city's Plantation Preserve course in 2006, has homes listed from the 1950s and 60s: the oldest kitchens and bathrooms I see in town.

Water leaves town through the North New River, C-12 and C-42 canals and the Old Plantation Water Control District's system. Because the city is in the NFIP and the CRS, residents get 15 percent off flood insurance. The Engineering Department, at 954-797-2282, answers zone questions, and the county's 2024 flood maps are the ones to use.

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The city's Minor Home Repair and Housing Rehabilitation program funds code, health-and-safety, electrical and plumbing repairs and barrier-free installations for very-low, low and moderate-income owner-occupants; condos qualify for interior repairs only, and the city is clear that it is not for remodeling. Its CDBG side is administered through Broward County's Housing Finance Division at 954-357-4900. If your job is a safety repair, a door that won't lock or a bathroom a parent can no longer use, I'll write the itemized quote the application asks for.