Pergolas in Tequesta, FL

Tequesta sits between the Loxahatchee River and the Atlantic, just across the river from our home base in Jupiter — which makes it about the shortest drive we make. From the Tequesta Country Club waterfront to Turtle Creek and the neighborhoods off County Line Road, Jupiter Pergola designs and installs custom motorized louvered pergolas, cabanas, and glass enclosures that turn Tequesta pool decks and patios into comfortable, all-season outdoor rooms.

Your Local Pergola Company Serving Tequesta

We are not a crew that drives in from Broward for the day. Jupiter Pergola is based minutes away in Jupiter, and Tequesta projects get the same start-to-finish handling as the ones in our own neighborhood: design, engineering, permitting, and installation, built for the coastal climate on this stretch of the water.

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.

Tequesta is part of our Palm Beach County service area. Contact us to get started.

Permitting in Tequesta — the Village runs its own building department

Unlike Palm City or unincorporated Jupiter addresses, Tequesta is an incorporated village with its own building department. A Tequesta permit goes through the Village of Tequesta, not through Palm Beach County. Contractors from outside the area routinely file in the wrong place and lose weeks finding out; working next door to the Village means we don’t.

Locally, the riverfront lots along the Loxahatchee and the homes near the inlet are a more exposed wind condition than the interior neighborhoods, and the engineering reflects the actual site rather than a Tequesta 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 the Village for a Tequesta 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 the Village will actually accept

No building department on this coast issues against a manufacturer’s general structural evaluation alone. A Tequesta 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.

Tequesta is part of our Palm Beach County service area, alongside Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens. Contact us to get started.