Every job below is one we do ourselves across Chaparral.
We'll sit down with you, look at your yard and your house, and figure out a layout that actually gets used instead of just admired. That means thinking through sun exposure, where the shade falls in July, and how you'll actually walk in and out of the house.
We dig and pour footings below frost depth, frame with treated lumber or steel, and build the decking on top to whatever material you've chosen. Every ledger board gets flashed where it meets the house, because that's the spot that rots a deck from the inside out.
Sagging boards, wobbly railings and cracked stair stringers all get the same treatment: pull it apart, find out why it failed, and rebuild that connection properly. Sometimes it's one joist. Sometimes the whole substructure has to come out.
Sun out here bakes the oils out of wood fast, and an unsealed deck will gray and start to splinter within a couple of summers. We strip, sand and reseal with a finish rated for high UV, and we'll tell you honestly how often it should get redone.
Composite costs more up front but doesn't warp, crack or ask for repainting the way wood does in this climate. We install it over the same properly-flashed framing as a wood deck, just without the yearly maintenance.
A railing that shifts when you lean on it is a post that's rotted at the base or was never bolted into solid framing. We reset or replace the post, tie it back into the joist properly, and build it to code height.
If your framing is still solid but the decking boards are cupped, splintered or just tired, we can pull the old boards and lay new ones without rebuilding the whole structure underneath. It's a faster job than a full rebuild and costs less.
A pergola or shade cover over an existing deck cuts the surface temperature enough that you can actually sit out there in August. We build them to tie into your existing structure or as a standalone addition.
Old decks that are rotted through, built without permits, or just in the way of a new project get torn out and hauled off. We'll check what's salvageable in the framing before we demo the whole thing.
Sloped yards or walkout basements often call for a deck that steps down in stages instead of one flat platform. We plan the stair runs and landings so the levels feel connected instead of like separate decks stacked together.
Four steps, and no surprises in any of them.
You tell us what you want doing, we look at what is actually there, and we ask the awkward questions early.
In writing, itemised, free. If something might add cost later we flag it now rather than at the end.
Same crew throughout. We cover your floors, keep the dust down and tidy up before we leave each day.
You point out anything you are not happy with and we fix it before the invoice, not after.
This is the ground we cover for deck work, give or take.
Questions that come up once a project actually starts.
Describe the problem and we will tell you what it probably is. No obligation.
