FAQ
Child Care Build Questions
Written for operators and early learning groups.
The site, the age groups, and the capacity your model needs. We will tell you whether the building and the outdoor space can support it.
FAQ
Child care and early learning construction in Florida
- What caps licensed capacity?
- Usually outdoor play area.
- How is capacity determined?
- The lowest of all constraints, not the highest.
- Does storage reduce classroom capacity?
- Usable area excludes fixed obstructions.
- Why are infant rooms hard?
- Tightest ratios, most space and sanitation, least revenue per foot.
- Where does handwashing go?
- Immediately at the changing station.
- What should we check first on a site?
- Whether the use is permitted.
- Is child care always permitted?
- Frequently conditional, with real conditions.
- Do we need a commercial kitchen?
- Only if you cook. Provide the exhaust route regardless.
- Do restrooms cap capacity?
- Fixture counts scale with enrolment, so they can.
- Why does drop-off matter?
- Queuing onto the road becomes a complaint and often a planning issue.
- Can we use commercial finishes?
- Not where specified for licensing or safety.
- What is the simplest safety check?
- Look at the building from three feet off the floor.
- Is an inspection correction list normal?
- Yes. The program should absorb it.
- When should families be told the date?
- Well after the date the program supports.
- Is this regulatory advice?
- No.
Still not answered?
Call (954) 807-3208. Send the site and the capacity your model needs.
What we build
Infant Rooms
The room with the tightest staffing ratios, the most sanitation requirements and the lowest revenue per square foot.
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Toddler & Preschool Classrooms
The rooms that carry the business. Their area determines licensed capacity, and their layout determines whether staff can supervise.
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Outdoor Play
The outdoor requirement is frequently the binding constraint on licensed capacity, and it is the one operators check last.
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Kitchens
Whether the center cooks or serves prepared food changes the kitchen from a room into a regulated installation.
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Restrooms & Changing
Fixture counts scale with enrolment, and where they sit relative to the classrooms is a requirement rather than a preference.
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Entry & Security
Controlled entry, a reception that works at the morning surge, and a drop-off arrangement that does not block a road.
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Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.