Pergolas in Hobe Sound, FL

Hobe Sound sits on the stretch of coast between Jupiter and Stuart, and its backyards run the full range we build for — golf-course lots in communities like Medalist and Loblolly, Intracoastal frontage, and the established neighborhoods off Bridge Road. Jupiter Pergola designs and installs custom motorized louvered pergolas, cabanas, and glass enclosures that turn Hobe Sound patios and pool decks into comfortable, all-season outdoor rooms.

Your Local Pergola Company Serving Hobe Sound

Hobe Sound is a short run up US-1 from our base in Jupiter, and we treat it as home territory. We take care of design, permitting, engineering, and installation to Martin County code, so your project is handled start to finish and built to last in the Treasure Coast climate.

What We Build

We build motorized louvered pergolas, retractable shades, aluminum pergolas, pool cabanas, outdoor kitchen covers, and frameless sliding glass enclosures — all custom-designed and professionally installed.

Hobe Sound is part of our Martin County service area. Contact us to get started.

Permitting in Hobe Sound — there is no town permit office

Like Palm City, Hobe Sound is an unincorporated community, not a municipality. There is no Hobe Sound building department. Every Hobe Sound permit goes through Martin County — the application, the review, and the inspections.

One local wrinkle worth knowing: the Town of Jupiter Island, directly across the Intracoastal, is its own incorporated municipality with its own review. If your address is actually Jupiter Island rather than Hobe Sound, the permit path is different — we handle both, and we confirm which one applies before anything is filed.

Locally, Intracoastal frontage and the lots close to the water are a more exposed wind condition than the interior golf communities, and the engineering reflects the actual site rather than a Hobe Sound average. Structures with lighting, heat, or a motorized roof need an electrical permit as well as the building permit; we hold both licenses and pull both.

One clarification worth having early: Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties are not in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone — that designation covers Miami-Dade and Broward only. It does not mean the requirements here are casual. Wind-borne debris provisions and full engineering still apply, and we design to them.

What your structure is engineered to

Every set we file with Martin County for a Hobe Sound address is engineered to the following:

• Code: Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), using ASD design method to ASCE 7-16 or ASCE 7-22
• Wind exposure: Category C
• Risk category: II
• Ultimate wind speed: our system carries a general structural evaluation up to 170 mph; your address gets its own site-specific number
• Resultant design loads: +25 psf gravity, −15 psf uplift, 33 psf lateral
• Roof loading: 5 psf dead, 20 psf live

What Martin County will actually accept

The county will not issue against a manufacturer’s general structural evaluation alone. A Hobe Sound permit needs a site-specific plan signed and sealed by a Florida professional engineer for your parcel — footing or slab, attachment condition, exposure — and that sealed set covers exactly one permit.

This is where quotes diverge without looking like they do. Two prices for “the same pergola” can be a permitted engineered structure and an unpermitted kit, and the paperwork is the only place you can see the difference before the inspector does.

Licensed to do the whole job

Jupiter Pergola, Inc. — Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1530171 and Certified Electrical Contractor EC13012123. We pull our own building and electrical permits.

Hobe Sound is part of our Martin County service area, alongside Stuart, Palm City, and Jensen Beach. Contact us to get started.